Here’s another “view” of my burger, shown above:
This is news?
I have been documenting my quest to find delicious burgers in out of the way unusual non-chain restaurants in the countryside around the Portland, Oregon area. My forays into the wilds aren’t quite a perilous as those undertaken by Frodo in his quest, but they are fun. Sure when I want to eat a good burger out there’s Dick’s Primal Burger but that is on a busy street in Woodstock, a suburban section of Portland. You can get an excellent beef burger (one of mine below). You can also get a wild boar or venison burger. Mostly, I want to discover new outside of the built up suburbs of Portland where you get to some beautiful countryside.
There are lot’s of Killer Burger restaurants around and they always seem busy, though I’ve never had one of their burgers. I have had a burger from the one of nearby Burgerville places which is always crowded figuring it had to be good. It wasn’t. I was the worst burger I’ve ever had. Anyway, why bother getting a burger nearby when I can use my broiler and make an excellent burger cooked exactly the way I want it with a $3.00 half pound pub burger from Fred Meyer?
One of my pastimes is exploring the countryside an hour or two drive from where I live. In addition to seeing the beautiful countryside and the small towns I find along the way and I like discovering new, and often unusual restaurants where I often try the featured hamburger.
I am always on the lookout for unique restaurants off the beaten track which are frequented mostly by local residents like the Scream'n Chicken (in Gaston) and Carlton Corners in Carlton. Most recently I found The Hitch'n Post in Molalla. (See my photos of all of them and more here along with photo essays about my other trips here.)
I don’t always order a burger when I eat out on my journeys. For example it makes no sense to drive Vancouver, Washington and eat at a restaurant on the Columbia River which specializes in fish and order beef. Here’s the delicious lemon caper halibut I had a few days ago.
There are more photos of my drive to Vancouver and then west along the Columbia River to The Bridge of the God and back to Portland here.
Most recently a real treat came in Molalla when I decided to eat lunch at the Hitch'n Post Cafe (reviews on Yelp). This is a very small restaurant with no pretense of being deliberately made to look rustic because it seems to have been pretty much untouched inside for decades. This is a real cowboy town known for its rodeos. Click here to enlarge photo
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About Molalla, read:
How a 'Hillbilly Brigade' saved an Oregon town from raging wildfires
Another unusual restaurant I came across is located in a gas station in Carlton. I ordered the Critter Burger with sweet potato tots.It is a 1/2lb patty consisting of a mixture of wagyu beef, elk, bison, and wild boar (hormone and antibiotic free) topped with blue cheese crumbles, caramelized onions, fresh tomatoes, lettuce and a dijonnaise spread with a side of clam chowder. (Click to enlarge image)
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Here’s a chili burger (lower right) from the Scream’n Chicken in the tiny town of Gaston located in the beautiful wine country of Oregon. (Click to enlarge)
I have no quibbles with the millions of people who go to places like McDonalds for a quick meal. But Trump can have a hamburger made exactly the way he wants. His taste in food is said to be “two Big Macs, two Filet-O-Fish, and a chocolate malted" (what, no fries?) coming in at 2400 calories. From RawStory: Corey Lewandowski, once wrote that on the candidate's airplane, "there were four major food groups: McDonald’s, Kentucky Fried Chicken, pizza, and Diet Coke.”
Consider, not only he could have any kind of burger made to order but he could even have a meal delivered from a local restaurant with excellent burgers.
What does this say about his personality? As a therapist who has written about Trump’s malignant narcissism I’d like to shoehorn this “culinary” habit into the list of indictions he has this dangerous disorder but I’ll be generous and chalk it up to merely a personality quirk rather than pathological rigidity or even paranoia about being poisoned or sickened by food.
Addendum:
I don’t own these:
Hal’s Bar and Grill, Pittsburg
Hal’s Kitchen Burgers in Winnipeg
Hal’s Hamburgers in Pendleton, Oregon
Hal’s Drive-In in Sedrow-Woolly, WA
Hal’s Steakhouse in Atlanta
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