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Pork Burgers


That's it.  I am done with this here stupid pandemic.  It is not the wearing of the mask, the stress of the unknown, or the lack of groceries (still) at the store that has wore me down.  It is the inability to go get a decent meal.  What I wouldn't give for a local fast food joint burger right now.  Ugh.  

What is worse, there is not a single pound of beef burger in the freezer.  There is ground chicken, ground pork, ground turkey, various chicken and pork sausages which could be taken out of the casing for simple ground meat but there is not one package of ground beef.  How can I fulfill my burger craving without beef.  Good thing I have meat and can just swap beef with pork or turkey or chicken.  Pork burgers on the pit.  Yum.

Modifications Made:
Ground pork was made the same way as Homemade Burger Patties were made.

Scaled for Likability: Good
Poor pork burgers.  What you were lacking was beef flavor.  Were you juicy?  Yes.  Were you tasty?  Yes.  Would you be made again? Yes, if there was no beef available.  

Pork burgers in the past were flavored heavily with aromatics such as apples and they were great.  Today, the pork burger was simply served as my favorite beef burger would be: mustard, meat, cheese, pickles, lettuce, bun.  Nothing fancy, just the staples.  Good, yes.  Best burger ever, no.  Burgers are really hard to classify as a No, Thank You or a Fail in my book.  They would have to be something crazy like banana inspired. Besides, since I decide what is being cooked I would never made a banana burger anyways.  Gross, bananas.

Burger today is better than no burger anyday!

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