The Real Slugburger Recipe From 1917! | Week's Burger | Ballistic Burgers

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00:10 About the Slugburger
01:26 Prepping the meat
01:40 Forming the patty
03:42 Deep Fried Burger
04:45 Building the Slugburger
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[BallisticBurgers]

No offense on my mispronunciation of Corinth.

[mrpink]

My grandmother was Betty Francis Weeks and John Weeks was her uncle. A little inside info: there was several versions of this but originally it was beef and potato flake but if beef wasnt available it was pork, chicken blood and potato flake. The chicken blood added some mineral quality to the pork so that it would taste more like beef and helped to keep the mix from being overly dry It was always cooked in beef tallow.
I think its important to understand that this was fast food poverty style, which a lot of times was made with what was available.

[jmjnkins]

My father had a farm on the Tombigbee river in Tishomingo county Mississippi. He had four kids that lived in Memphis tennessee with our Mom. Every weekend in the summer he would come and get us and we would have to travel through Corinth. There's a place called burrogh's, it's a drugstore with a soda fountain and an ice cream shop and we would beg him from the time we left Memphis to the time we hit the Corinth (about 80 miles away) to go to Burroghs. Our deal was, if we stopped at slug Burger and we ate all of our meal then we could go to Burrogh's afterwards for ice cream. Those were good, simple times, I remember them fondly. I still live in Memphis and this will be the weekend I go on a road trip with my daughter to Slugburger and Burroghs thank you for your video.

[Cleaver-ckzb]

As someone from Corinth MS the Slug Burger is an old favorite. My friends and I would stop in and get several each after a weekend motorcycle ride at the joint along highway 72.

[SerenitynPeace]

Slug burgers are just what you said. In order to make ground beef last (because it was extremely expensive) people would add different items (like potato flakes) to make the hamburger last longer. The recipe your speaking of John got it from German immigrants. I'm not sure people used different meats, I would have to research deeper. All depends on the price of said meats.
There really is no right or wrong way of making burgers back then.
The depression made it difficult for all. So recipes differed from home to home.
Thank you so much for doing this recipe! I really enjoy foods of the depression era. Considering we could be going through one of our own the way things are going...

[GumboGalahad]

Mustard, pickles and onions are all I require on a burger so this looks right up my alley. I will have to try this recipe one of these days.

[BabyBackManiac]

I love the attention to detail and historical accuracy. You are definitely the best "Burg-tritional Anthropologist" on youtube!

[charleshodgdon]

So was it originally cooked in lard or tallow?

1. Tallow adds a beef flavor.
2. Tallow is more often used for frying.
3. Tallow solidifies when cooled.
4. Lard has a neutral flavor.
5. Lard is more often for pastries.
6. Lard has a tendency to remain soft when cooled.
7. Lard is rendered pig fat.
8. Tallow is rendered beef fat.

There is more to each of those points, but this is the basics.

[jakubjungle]

the Hamburger Cart in Miamisburg, OH has been serving mini slugs from a 5x5 cart for like 90 years. It's a similar recipe but PERFECTED. Probably my favorite burger on the planet.

[sittynine]

I was born in Corinth (properly pronounced “caahr-reinth”) and lived there till I was 12. Boy did this bring back memories of growing up there and eating them at the White Trolley diner and Borrum’s Drug Store on the town square and seeing the old guys whittling piles of cedar shavings at the Slugburger Festival...

[slaughterhound]

My mother's whole side of the family is from right around Corinth, so I've eaten many slug-burgers through the years. My family members still talk about one of the best places to get a slug-burger back in the day, it was a very small diner known as Mrs. Rich's after its proprietor, which was located next to the bus station in Corinth. It has been gone many many years now, although the building is still there. My uncle said that Gray's Meat Market sold the best slug-burger meat, and that Mr. Gray that ran it had been given the original recipe from the man who came up with it, I'm guessing he meant Mr. Weeks. Unfortunately Mr. Gray has since passed away and his butcher shop has closed. You can still buy prepared slug-burger meat at some of the local supermarkets in Corinth, but I don't believe any of the big national chains sell it at their locations in the town. Most people in my family say that the best restaurant in Corinth for slug-burgers is the White Trolley, a traditional, classic diner where almost all the seating is made up of stools at the long counter. If you're ever passing through Northeast Mississippi, Corinth is a nice place to stop and spend a day, a lot of historic sites there and in the surrounding area.

[firewalker]

Well here in Booneville, MS just 19 miles south Of Corinth . We have the slug burger which is mostly made of pork, soybean flour. Then we have what called Dough burger aka pool hall burger it is made from Beef with filler mostly corn flakes cereal or some folks mix wheat flour, beef and water. They mostly use a flat top that has some standing oil. They do smash it down and some adds some oil on top of it before they flip it. Majority of the burgers do come as we call regular which is mustard, pickle and onion on the bottom of the bun. They would use the top of the bun to help carry the patty from the cooking surface. Also we got what you called Dressed burger which is Mayo, lettuce and tomato. Growing up I use to walk to Weeks café and get a regular burger for dime and dressed for fifteen cents. We can still get them and you can buy the slug burger mix meat at our local grocery store of go to the near by meat market.

[gitgeronimo]

This is one I’ve never heard of. You definitely make the most accurate recreations, and I always appreciate that!

[pclarin]

Grew up in Corinth, Mississippi. Pork lard. Mustard and onion. Maybe pickles if you are up town.

[billtully]

I ate a slug burger at The White Trolly in Corinth, MS. It was made with pork sausage. A great burger!

[baritonewoman]

I first heard about slugburgers while reading Cook's Country magazine recently. Their recipe come from Bourrom's Drug Store in Corinth, MS, and had ground pork extended with cornmeal. I tried it, garnished with sliced raw onion, mustard and dill pickles like they do. Delicious!

[heatherprestwood]

The Busy Bee Cafe in Cullman has been making slug burgers since 1915. 😋 I just had one from CF Penn’s in Decatur today too! I need to try this recipe.

[beatmasterbossy]

Although not traditional, try adding crushed wavy potato chips... or kettle chips. Regular lays are too thin.

It's awesome.

Fry your bun with butter.
Mustard, onion, pickle.

[Brendan.Wheatley]

I love the amount of research you do before even attempting to cook it, great channel with great content, cheers Greg!

[zackpalmer]

Yup i have to say this is very accurate because Mr Willie Weeks is my 2nd cousin and he was still running the weeks dinner in Booneville Mississippi until he passed away in 2020.
i used to go eat there almost everyday when i was a kid