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I haven't eaten a real burger in 8 months. :( Screw you guys. :mad:

I have at least discovered the Turkey Burger isn't all bad. But it's just not the same.
 
I never realized Seattle had so many good burger joints. Burger Master and Kidd Valley are probably the two best chains up here. Kidd Valley is great- not too diverse a menu, but everything they make is good (even the fried mushrooms), and they have Walla Walla sweet onion rings and fantastic shakes. I also can't believe no one has mentioned Dairy Queen yet- pretty good burgers and good ice cream and desserts. There's a lot of what DaveH mentioned here too. Avoid ten-dollar hamburgers with "California" in the name whenever possible. For some reason that kind of gawdawful fusion crap is pretty popular here.

Jeremy
 
CODE 3 said:
Where in Eastern Wa? Spokane?

Best burgers in my spot of Southeastern Washington is Wendys, Jack In The Box, or my favorite, a local old fashioned burger joint called 'Majors'. red Robin does burgers right as well, but it is a sit down nine dollar affair.

Wish we had Carl's Jr. closer, or even an In 'n Out.
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Spokane Valley...ever tried Dick's? it's a tradition here...downtown on Division and 3rd.
 
But I have tried a kangaroo burger that I made myself. Pretty good, but I can't get the seasonings quite right. Kangaroo tastes great with a suitably spicy plum sauce...

Cheers, Acolyte.
 
The few buffalo burgers I've had have been delicious. I had a longhorn burger in Wyoming once that was also very good- quite a bit more flavor than ordinary beef.

I can't believe I left Red Mill out of my great Seattle burger joint post. I should have my head examined. The Fatburger in Redmond is good also. Where else can you get a fried egg on a double bacon cheeseburger?

Jeremy
 
Nebraskan trying to lose 770 pounds to stay alive

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - A Nebraska man who once weighed more than half a ton has lost 321 pounds in a Sioux Falls hospital, with a goal of losing another 450 pounds.

Patrick Deuel, 42, of Valentine, weighed 1,072 pounds when he was admitted to Avera McKennan Hospital eight weeks ago. Deuel, who is just under 6 feet tall, is on a 1,200 calorie-a-day diet.

He wants to lose at least another 450 pounds or more in the next year and a half to two years. He is being supervised by a team of eight doctors.

"If we hadn't gotten him here, he'd be dead now," said Fred Harris, Deuel's lead doctor.

Deuel said he knew he had to act. The former restaurant manager has been bedridden since last fall and hadn't been out of his Nebraska home for social reasons in seven years.

Heart failure, thyroid problems, diabetes, pulmonary hypertension and arthritis - the physical effects of obesity - were robbing him of life. Deuel needed an oxygen machine to breathe and help just to roll over in bed.

A group known as the League of Human Dignity helped arrange for Deuel to be driven to a local livestock scale, where he could be weighed.

Twenty-one percent of U.S. adults are obese, defined as at least 30 pounds overweight, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That's almost twice as many as in 1990.

Deuel and his wife, Edith, said they knew he was dying early this year but that it took months to find a hospital and get him to it.

"I got scared because I couldn't help him anymore, and I didn't know who would help him," Edith Deuel said. "His body was just so sick, he was just hanging on by his fingernails."

Avera McKennan was the first to accept him. Harris said Deuel's care could cost millions of dollars, much of which the hospital may have to cover.

Deuel couldn't fit into a standard ambulance, so medical officials found one in Denver that has a special gurney and ramps. At Avera McKennan, workers joined two beds for Deuel.

High-fat, high-calorie foods and sedentary lifestyles play a big role in obesity.

Deuel tried many diets. Even now, he sometimes longs for his favorites: pizza and burritos.

http://www.aberdeennews.com/mld/aberdeennews/news/9363794.htm

maximus otter
 
Maximus, thanks for the sobering reminder. Every time I eat a burger 'n fries, I can't help but think about the clogging that my arteries are undergoing. Given that, here's a shameless plug: for all interested in keeping their weight in check, take a look at the "Exercise Invitational" thread here in Community forums. :D
 
Thanks for the heads up, heavy lift ambulance business might be a good one to get into. :p
 
Anybody ever had a gallbladder attack? I had my first after an all you can eat excursion at a Chinese buffet. Worse pain I'd ever felt in my life. Ended up getting the gallbladder removed. Bad diets like mine eventually catch up to ya.
 
Thanks for the heads up, heavy lift ambulance business might be a good one to get into.
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There was an article maybe six or eight months ago in the Portland Oregonian Newspaper about how local emergency services cope with seriously obese patients. And yes, they do have special ambulances.

Not to long ago, here on bf.c, I recounted a few of my experiences many years ago working for a hospital maintaining x-ray and other equipment. I don't know about now, but at that time, some twenty years ago, the table limits on most of those machines were about 350lbs. Our hospital, on the other hand, was a veterinary hospital and did a lot of large animal business. So, we had modified the tables on our equipment. We had the first and, at the time, only CT scanner in the world that could scan a live horse. It was on old clunker of a machine, a decade-old Ohio Nuclear DeltaScan 50FS surplused by a local human hospital and modified by us. On several occations, we had human patients who had to come to our veterinary hospital, enter through our "large animal emergency entrace," sign away every right they had to anything, and be scanned on our unique (and not FDA-approved) obsolete CT scanner because they would doubtlessly have broken the table on the nice new one at the regular hospital. We had people brought in for simple X-rays because they were so huge that the equipment at the regular hospital could not accomodate them. And the ultimate indigity of all of this: we filed our case files by species, bovine, equine, canine, feline, etc. Human cases were filed under?: large animal, exotic.

So, think about this next time you feel a bit lazy about going to the gym: you could end up with a medical file at a veterinary hospital!
 
RunsWithKnives said:
Spokane Valley...ever tried Dick's? it's a tradition here...downtown on Division and 3rd.
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Dick's was awesome. I fed the whole family including my 6'5"(and still growing) nephew for only $25. There were 9 of us. Great food for a great price!!
 
The food is great and it's a fascinating place where you see downtown businessmen standing next to grungy street people ordering burgers, and the folks taking orders do it all by memory, nobody writes an order down...Damn I'm hungry for a double whammy now!
 
I remember reading on yahoo news a week or so ago that some guy in Wisconsin just ate his 20,00th big mac since 1975. He is about 6' tall and weighs around 180lbs. I guess life style plays a very important part in obesity.
Time for a Hungry Man TV dinner, bag of chips and a couple of beers. CSI is starting. :D
 
RunsWithKnives said:
Anybody ever had a gallbladder attack? I had my first after an all you can eat excursion at a Chinese buffet. Worse pain I'd ever felt in my life. Ended up getting the gallbladder removed. Bad diets like mine eventually catch up to ya.
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Yes I have...once about 22 years ago. I had been chugging Mickey's Big Mouths malt liquor that had been slightly skunked. There was this horrific pain radiating around my mid torso for about 15 minutes, and I was doubled over. After "relieving" myself of the gall, finally, all seemed cool after that.
 
I had ostrich burgers once, bought them on a farmer's market. Very, very lean. OK. but nothing special.

Lamb burgers are nice.

Andrew.
 
Lousiest burger I ever ate was at a Whattaburger here in town. Sheesh was that thing nasty! It was like eating card board. I bought two of em cause the lady that took my order said they were real good but I only ate about a 1/3rd of the first one and threw out the rest of it and the second one too.
The best burger I can remember ever eating was at a place called Kosmo Burger near Hill AFB in Utah.
That place knew how to make a great hamburger!!
 
I'm sure the BK ANUS burger is vile, I stopped eating at burger king in 1991. The worst however would have to be Top Hat. Top Hat was a small chain that was a White Castle wanna be. The buildings even looked the same. Here is the gross out part. When you open a can of alpo dog food, you know that smell that comes out? That is exactaly what a Top Hat hamburger smelled like.

I remember in College some friends and I were going somewhere one night during the winter of '90 or '91 and a couple of the guys wanted to stop at Top Hat on the way. With the windows all rolled up, that dog food smell filled the car. It was still there the next morning.



Drew
 
STUART, Fla. -- A dramatic rescue ended tragically in Stuart, Florida, a rescue so difficult firefighters say they have never seen anything like it.

It happened late Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning at the home of a 600-pound woman who was having trouble breathing. Rescuers went in not knowing how difficult it would be to get her out. 40-year-old Gail Grinds was literally stuck to her couch and had to be removed surgically at the hospital.

Authorities estimate she had been on the couch anywhere from two to five years.

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Using planks, they loaded the woman on to the trailer, still attached to the couch. Removing her would be too painful, since her body is grafted to the fabric. After years of staying put, her skin has literally become one with the sofa and it must be surgically removed.

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Grinds was taken to the Martin Memorial hospital where doctors removed her from the couch, but she died in spite of all the attempts to save her life.
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My, my. That's one for the medical books: a sofaectomy.
 
RWK,

I had my gall bladder removed as soon as I hit thirty. I'm not sure why. It just acted up one night and I decided to take it out while I had insurance. My diet was pretty good and I was in pretty good shape. Still am.

NOTHING beats a homemade burger. All you need is 85% lean (leaner than that and it won't be juicy enough). Put some salt and pepper and pepper in it, and mix well. (Preferably sea salt and hand ground pepper.)

[Do not salt the burgers while cooking because they will shrink too much.]

Press patties wide and thin, to allow for shrinkage. Find a good quality burger roll, preferably from a local baker.

Cook patties on grill to desired level, melt one slice of deli-sliced American cheese and serve on toasted bun with fine diced onion and ketchup.

That's it. Nothing fancy, just a high quality burger.
 
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