Ann's Snack Bar: WSJ's Beefy Prose
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But the outstanding hamburger experience I found in an odyssey of several months and thousands of miles was at Ann's Snack Bar, a justifiably renowned little diner on a broken-down industrial stretch of highway. Miss Ann, as habitués call her, is a woman of commanding style and ready banter. She works alone at her grill, patting each ample patty lightly as she sets it down. Her masterpiece, the "ghetto burger," is a two-patty cheeseburger tricked out with bacon that she tends closely in a fryolator...Then Miss Ann dusts your almost-ready patties with "seasoned salt" tinged red from cayenne pepper. It looks like a mistake, too much, over the top. But when you get your ghetto burger in its handsomely toasted bun envelope, you regret doubting the lady for one second. The big burgers stand up fine to the spice. This is the next level in burgerhood. And it just barely fits in your mouth.
Gridskipper said: "Really, Ray, "and it just barely fits in your mouth," that's the way you're gonna end it? It looks like a mistake, too much, over the top."
But it sounds good to us here at (incli)NATION! (and thanks for the pic because really, that's what this post is all about...
The Best Burger [WSJ]
Ann's Snack Bar
via Gridskipper
