Hamburgers Were Better When People Ground Their Own Meat [Past Perfect]

There's a scene in The Life and Times of Augie March where Augie is sitting on the side of the road (or is it a railroad track?) with a group of hobos eating hamburgers. Saul Bellow describes the burgers as burnt on the outside and so rare as to be ice-cold in the middle. It's probably because of how young and impressionable I was when I read that book that this is the platonic ideal of a hamburger to me. More »

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