Hamburgers Were Better When People Ground Their Own Meat
There ’s a scene in The Adventures 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 trace the Warren E. Burger as burnt on the outside and so rare as to be ice - dusty in the middle . It ’s probably because of how unseasoned and impressionable I was when I read that book that this is the platonic nonsuch of a hamburger to me ....