HiFi giant steak-cheese-sub

ok, maybe this thing is not a cheeseburger, lets get that out of the way.
However! We got TONS of ugly meat, gratuitous amounts of cheese, as much mayo as you could ever not want but still love, onions, some peppers, all wedged between two pieces of leathery carb so i'd say its close enough.

The bubbly stuff on the front end you ask? probably some cheese-mayo mixture. This beast soaks trough a paper plate and two layers of thick wax paper faster than a broken whisky bottle, its sorta incredible. It probably looks the same on the way out too! Oh yea, and its SO GOOD. And its huge - better take a fork and eat half of the meats before touching that thing with your hands.

The proud people of Hi-Fi really know what they are doing here. Everything is prepared just in front of your eyes from probably sorta fresh ingredients. You can watch the cheese melt into the pile of meat-onion melange while wondering if you should order spaghetti just to see what the 'pasta-magic' machine looks like in action even if it looks like the water in there has been doing its job for a while and is so starchy it would solidify if ever left to cool down.

Um so, verdict: tasty!

One Cake Two Cake!

If you check out the link to the right, you will see Laura's new baking/food blog, One Cake Two Cake. A girl can't live on cheeseburgers alone!

Craigie-on-Main: The fancy-schmancy burger.

Well, we finally did it. The core members of the Boston Cheeseburger Society walked the .4 miles down Main Street from our general residence in order to try what we hoped to be the classy burger to end all classy burgers: the delicious, gooey and barbecue-y cheeseburger from Craigie on Main that you see pictured to the left. I am not sure what you call exactly what they did with those onions you can see peaking out from underneath the toasted bun, but whatever it was, it was exactly the right thing to do to those onions you can see peaking out from underneath the toasted bun. You have to order the burger at the bar, but that's not so bad because the bartenders are friendly and will make you fantastic drinks while you wait (the Improper Bostonian recently named Tom Schlesinger-Guidelli as best mixologist in the Boston area).

And that pile of crunchiness next to the burger? Sweet potato fries. Superb.

Other members of the BCS: please discuss.

Laura Cake!

This post is formally to announce the official changing of the name of the Bacon / Cheeseburger Society to the Boston Cheeseburger Society.

Stay tuned for Laura Cake's new blog, which will entail delicious looking cakes.

Five Guys, Dedham

Sometimes you can decide to ignore the fact that you have a ton of work piled up, take a 12 mile drive to the middle of nowhere just to get burgers and it still being a good idea.

The reason for this is the Five Guys Burger joint in Dedham. The burgers are huuuge, the meats are just perfectly juicy, there are lots of toppings to choose from and they have unlimited (they have frigging truckloads of those stacked next to the door) peanuts that you peel and devour by yourself.

I dont know if it was the drive there and all the buildup, but this stuff was so good that it felt appropriate that afterwards i felt like i was about to give birth to something.

And the waitress will probably hit on you, too!

It sure isn't the fanciest joint in town, but you gotta hand it to them -- they do make a good cheeseburger. Recently discovered that for $4, you can get a cheeseburger and fries during Happy Hour (between 5-7, Mon-Thurs). That is unheard of in Central Square, and, I believe, cheaper than McDonald's (which is right down the road and will, I'm sure, be reviewed at a later date).

Not a huge fan of the "club" scene at night, but this blog is not about dancing, it's about burgers.

The Econo-burger

Gotta hand it to Phoenix landing, a four dollar cheeseburger for happy (including fries beeyotch!) makes for a fantastic stop on the way home from work. Burger was, admittedly, greasy but, overall, an excellent pub burger. The darkened wood paneling really completes the ambiance of a great place to plan further debauchery.

For the record, liss totally stole my opening line.

Edit: DID NOT.

The original source of the Cambridge food coma

Now, it may be the Lower Depths that caused us to form the Bacon/Cheeseburger Society. However, it's really the Miracle of Science that inspired us to be such avid Cambridge cheeseburger connoisseurs.

Some of us (ahem, Chris, ahem) claim that the burgers are a bit too "frou-frou" -- and I will admit, they do come on a bit of a fancy bun for my general tastes. However, the fact remains that MoS will be one of my true hamburger loves for the rest of my life. It has several features that I would be hard pressed to forget.

• It is located pretty much across the street from a) my home and b) my place of work.
• The home fries exemplify one of the greatest ways this side of the Mississippi to prepare potatoes.
• The cheeseburgers may be served on frou-frou buns, but they are juicy and delicious.
• Speaking of cheese, you do always have the option of several cheeses including (I believe) cheddar, pepperjack, and bleu.
• It's got that Cambridge feel.

For this reason, I believe it deserves to be the second post of the BCS. Also, Jak once tried to explain to me 2-photon microscopy or some such nonsense there (FINE...and yes, and I do know the difference). Damn astrocytes.

Inaugural post -- The Lower Depths, part 1

BCS. You may think we're referring to Course 9, when in fact we are referring to the inauguration of a new way of thinking according to the Bacon/Cheeseburger Society.

For our first adventure into the underworld burger culture of Boston and the surrounding areas, we ventured across the river to the Lower Depths Tap Room. Some highlights:

• The meat. Is cooked. In bacon grease. Need I say more?
  
• $1 Fenway Hot Dogs. You do have to pay an extra dollar for each topping, but in my humble opinion, they are perfect with just a thin line of ketchup.
• The Quesadilla Burger. How had one of us not thought this up before? A delicious, bacon-grease-infused burger wrapped in a tortilla with guac and all the cheesy goodness you would expect. Brilliant.

So, our cursory and hastily planned first experience went well. We shall of course be reporting back with future visits to one of the reasons we began the BCS in the first place.