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The Swine and Cheese

Appears in
The Great American Burger Book: How to Make Authentic Regional Hamburgers At Home

By George Motz

Published 2016

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John T. Edge, friend and Southern food scribe, was the first to point me in the direction of the Squealer. “There’s this place South of Houston,” he told me years ago. “It’s just a roadhouse, but they make great burgers. You should check it out, and they grind bacon right into the patty!” Indeed they did, and I wasted no time getting to that roadhouse. When I arrived at Tookie’s Hamburgers I met my first bacon burger. My burger universe had been turned upside down.

Back then (more than a decade ago) grinding bacon into a hamburger patty was unheard of. These days it seems everyone is trying their hand at bacon burgers like the Squealer. I’ve recently seen them at restaurants in most major cities with names like the Piggie and the 50/50; even celebrated chef Sean Brock has his own very popular version.

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