A burger that's 50% bacon?! - A 1UP classic from February 27, 2012

Good Monday morning my friends, I trust you had a good weekend. I spent the weekend out with my gals. As you can imagine we visited the Happiest Place on Earth. No, it's wasn't Tijuana Mexico! Then we checked out a hamburger joint that had gotten a lot of buzz recently. Slater's 50/50 has a few locations in the southland. We visited the one in Anaheim.

We started off with the Appetizer Sampler and Slater's Vampire Dip. The sampler had a bit of everything and a special dip to go along with it. The restaurant is famous for its liberal use of bacon on everything. The ketchup for example with the sampler had bacon ground up in it. The Vampire Dip was amazingly good, garlic and cheese but I don't think any bacon. The burgers are what put them on the map. They are famous for having a high ration of bacon to ground beef in the burger, 50% of each type of meat to be precise. You'd think the meat would be super salty but it wasn't. When you order a burger they as what size you want, 1/2 pound, 2/3 pound or a full pound. Mind you this is the weight after cooking!

I had the 50/50, my lil gal had the Old Timey and the missus had a Peanut Butter and Jealousy. The three were amazing burgers, mine had guacamole and a fried egg on top. Of course I believe that any food can be made better with a fried egg on top. Now we have to visit the other location in Huntington Beach and see how it compares. These weren't the best burgers I've ever had but they were still very good. If you are ever in the area and are looking for some great eats I'd suggest visiting Slater's 50/50.

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Baby's Badass Burgers, genuine LA Food PR0N! - A 1UP classic from August 26, 2011

Hello friends, it looks like this was a bad week to start up the community challenge. We’ve had a lot on our collective minds with Deuce Ex 3 out and dare I speak too early of Game of the Year? Not to mention plenty of the community members are up at PAX. So how about we push things back on the Community Challenge another week?

Not to leave you without some news this weekend I did want to mention something great food in the LA area, I dare to say that it qualifies for genuine Food Pr0n!

Food trucks are big in LA, the more unique the better. Sometimes it doesn't hurt to do one thing well all while having a gimmick. In this case it's a big pink truck that belongs to Baby's Badass Burgers. They make amazing burgers and were voted by the Food Network as the best burgers in LA during an episode of Food Wars.

The former landlords of our work building had sold the property to new owners and to say thanks for being such good tenants they hired the truck to come down and give us free burgers for lunch. I tried the "All American Girl" which was their traditional cheeseburger as well as the "Other Woman" which was a blue cheese and grilled onion specialty. Both burgers boasted a half-pound of the freshest beef ever. Would I say they were the best burgers I've ever had? It wouldn’t be so hard to say these were. Mind you I've had burgers all over the city as well as in Orange County, the only one that came close was the burger at Steakhouse 55 at the Disneyland Hotel.

If you ever visit Downtown LA and are on the lookout for an amazing burger then make sure you keep Baby's Badass Burgers in mind. They are on Twitter like the other great food trucks that make the city their home. Have a great weekend and hello to my friends at PAX!

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