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Texas Hamburger For Lunch

Spring Chicken
Spring Chicken Posts: 10,255
edited November -0001 in EggHead Forum
For some reason I can't get "Texas" out of my head. Everywhere I look there's images of the Lone Star State. So it's only natureal (or moderately strange) that I'm beginning to think of the shape of my food and how it could be enhanced if only it was in the shape of Texas.

So it came as no surprise when I wanted a hamburger in the shape of Texas for lunch. No problem...

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I had some meat leftover and decided I would try something totally different. I call it a "PollyLop." No reason other than I felt like it.

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After the bamboo skewers came out I inserted straight pretzel sticks to hold it by while licking the Dizzy Pig Cowlick flavor off the meat.

First attempt was a little salty but otherwise very good and very different.

Might try 'em again in Plano.

Spring "Always Thinking" Chicken
Spring Texas USA
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  • hornhonk
    hornhonk Posts: 3,841
    Please do, Leroy! :P
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  • Tweety
    Tweety Posts: 455
    Where did you get the Texas shaped pans? That is too cute. Please do these in Plano! ;)
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  • hornhonk
    hornhonk Posts: 3,841
    Texas shaped burgers " hilarious"? Get a rope! :angry:
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  • Spring Chicken
    Spring Chicken Posts: 10,255
    Thanks... Just having fun at some cow's expense.

    Great idea, but some countries wouldn't take kindly to making burgers out of their holy pets.

    Then there's the matter of issing off some nut with an ancient AK-47, or mis-aligning disputed borders, or my "I don't want to" attitude.

    Oh, and I learned that Africa was a continent in the 3rd grade, unlike all those idiots on Jay Leno's "Jay-Walking" segment. I can even locate it on a globe.

    Spring "Jay-Walkers Aren't Very Smart" Chicken
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  • kmellecker
    kmellecker Posts: 332
    Very creative...must have been one BIG burger!!
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  • hornhonk
    hornhonk Posts: 3,841
    I'm only kidding, Tweev! ;) BTW, Ontario looks Like Italy on steroids :woohoo:
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  • Mickey
    Mickey Posts: 19,768
    Dear Sping "no moss growning under his beak" Chicken:
    Is it the meds? Is it having Judy around all the time?
    Hell, bottle it and sell it and be the worlds richest Chicken.
    You are on a roll my friend.
    Salado TX & 30A  FL: Egg Family: 3 Large and a very well used Mini, added a Mini Max when they came out (I'm good for now). Just given a Mini to add to the herd. 

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  • Village Idiot
    Village Idiot Posts: 6,959
    Did it squirt oil ? :laugh:
    __________________________________________

    Dripping Springs, Texas.
    Just west of Austintatious


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  • Spring Chicken
    Spring Chicken Posts: 10,255
    I'll show you the secret in Plano.

    Here's a hint... start with Texas Beef. It sorta takes on the shape on its own. The rest is just trimming off all that is not Texas.

    Same with the buns. You're in for a heap of trouble if you try using Mississippi buns with Texas burgers LOL

    The PollyLops were also going to be Texas shaped but I fizzled out. The burger did me in.

    Spring "Secrets Revealed Real Cheeeep Cheeeep" Chicken
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  • Spring Chicken
    Spring Chicken Posts: 10,255
    And just where do rich chickens get treated like first class citizens? KFC??? Not! Chicken Ranch "Si!"

    Why do I feel like I'm rolling UP hill?

    See you in Plano.

    Spring "Gathering No Feathers" Chicken
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  • Carolina Q
    Carolina Q Posts: 14,831
    I've had burgers the shape of Wyoming before. Wendy's.

    I hate it when I go to the kitchen for food and all I find are ingredients!                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

    Michael 
    Central Connecticut 

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  • Spring Chicken
    Spring Chicken Posts: 10,255
    Oilwell... You just gave me another idea... Thanks.

    No oil but I did hit heavy grease.

    Spring "Greasy Burgers Are The Gooder Ones" Chicken
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  • Boilermaker Ben
    Boilermaker Ben Posts: 1,956
    hornhonk wrote:
    I'm only kidding, Tweev! ;) BTW, Ontario looks Like Italy on steroids :woohoo:

    I dunno, hornhonk. I've stared at it, and squinted at it, looked at it sideways, and even through 3D glasses, and to me Ontario looks nothing like Jason Giambi.
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  • Spring Chicken
    Spring Chicken Posts: 10,255
    Me too, but then I learned to cook my own.

    Spring "Cheeeep Cheeeep Burgers Done Real Cheeeep" Chicken
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  • Grandpas Grub
    Grandpas Grub Posts: 14,226
     
    Alright Leroy. The burger I understand but that's a lot of work getting the bun to fit. Texas-R-Us at the Chicken Coop.

    Pretty dang good looking. I have to ask, does it come with a big taste too.

    GG
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  • Spring Chicken
    Spring Chicken Posts: 10,255
    Thanks Ken. Hope you're up to snuff (Lots of folks don't have a clue as to what snuff is).

    Yes, it was a lot of work but like most Egg-cooking, it's also fun. I could take some serious shorter cuts next time.

    The bread is a different story. Took all of five seconds to do that. But next time I'm thinking of making it from scratch.

    Wonder how popular Texas would be if it was flipped upside down?

    Spring "Shape, Shape, Shape, Location, Location, Location" Chicken
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  • Spring Chicken
    Spring Chicken Posts: 10,255
    I know 'zactly what you mean, hopefully without issing anyone off.

    Spring "North American, North American" Chicken
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  • Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker
    Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker Posts: 3,743
    it's amazing that people even think there is such a defined thing as a "continent".

    you'd think tectonic theory, and enlightened, less-euro-centric attitudes would have by now prevailed

    nope. some folks still split Europe off and call it a continent, while greenland almost always gets glommed on to either The Americas" or "North America"

    i don;t think geologists/geographers even use the word "continents" in their work other than maybe colloquially.

    much like people getting pissy re: pluto being a "planet" or not. everyone but the people actually studying this stuff seems to care.
    :laugh:
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  • Grandpas Grub
    Grandpas Grub Posts: 14,226
     
    I got to looking harder, well I put my glasses on, and saw the secret of the buns, but it is real hard to tell.

    Mentally I am really up to snuff. My body still feels like I have been in the dryer for way too long. BTW I've been wondering how's the pain in the a.. I mean knee.

    Kent
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  • Spring Chicken
    Spring Chicken Posts: 10,255
    We often forget that every utterance by humans is somewhat flawed, if only because it is their version of the truth. But most of what we learned and know to be true, even when flawed, is but a means of communicating in a meaningful way.

    It's easier to say "North America" than to describe all the technical makeup and positioning of all that sticks up out of the water when describing the 'continent.' (Yes, I understand that there's some 'continent' under water too).

    In other words we do it for "convenience."

    But one day in the future we will rid ourselves of the incumberances associated with relaying verbal information.

    But what do I know? I just play here.

    Spring "A Small Speck On A Small Planet" Chicken
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  • Spring Chicken
    Spring Chicken Posts: 10,255
    Great to hear you're on the mend. I assume someone notified the cemetery to stop digging. LOL

    Knee is coming along good. But I'm told that it could take as much as two years before I'm fully healed. Meanwhile, I'm pondering having the other one done the week after Plano. I think it will be much easier from the start.

    As for the Texas bun, I used a Texas cookie cutter.

    Spring "Cookie Cookie Lend Me Your Texas Comb" Chicken
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  • Clay Q
    Clay Q Posts: 4,486
    DP & Meat on a stick and the State of Texas shrunk down to the size of a hamburger....party food both ways!
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  • Spring Chicken
    Spring Chicken Posts: 10,255
    You'd think someone from the Texas Tourist Bureau would contact me about promoting Texas to people who eat meat.

    Spring "NOT A State Employee" Chicken
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  • Spring Chicken
    Spring Chicken Posts: 10,255
    Thanks. No, it was actually smaller than a regular size bugger, although about an inch thick.

    It was just an Eggsperiment to see if it would even work. It did, and well, but I can surely improve the process the next time I do it.

    As for flavor, it was the same as any really good burger off the Egg.

    Spring "Fill In The Space With Hamburger" Chicken
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  • Boilermaker Ben
    Boilermaker Ben Posts: 1,956
    It's been 30 minutes, and no retort from stike...I think you rendered him utteranceless. Miracle worker. ;) Best work since God separated the continents from the...oh nevermind.
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  • Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker
    Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker Posts: 3,743
    "conventional wisdom" is an oxymoron, maybe :evil:
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  • cookn biker
    cookn biker Posts: 13,407
    I love it!! Down to the bun....hahaha
    My state is easier to form. :);)
    Molly
    Colorado Springs
    "Loney Queen"
    "Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it."
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  • Beli
    Beli Posts: 10,751
    My dear friend, you are very creative lately......thank God Texas is a BIG state.......lots of meat in that burger.......btw got your mail will get back to you
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  • Spring Chicken
    Spring Chicken Posts: 10,255
    Yea, Beli... Don't know what's gotten into me lately. All I see is Texas this and Texas that. Maybe I should see a doctor. My luck he would be a graduate of the University of Texas and he would get my brain thinking "Longhorns."

    I just don't know if I can make a single serving Longhorn Pineapple Upside Down Cake LOL.

    Spring "Don't Mess Around In Texas" Chicken
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  • elzbth
    elzbth Posts: 2,075
    My my. You come up with the most clever of ideas! Love the Texas burger...now if you could just grow texas shaped onions - ala Texas 1015's :laugh:
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