The Mississippi Slugburger - How to Make America's Strangest Hamburger - Food Wishes 

I love potato in soft tacos, but prefer onion filler in my hard tacos.

I add in pre cooked brown basmati rice as it remains firm, has a nutty flavour that melds well with beef. I can stretch 1 pound of ground beef to feed 4 people and leftovers for lunch all round. It’s also a lot healthier.

great idea!!

It's the same thing with making sausage, people will talk about how something's 100% meat, but sometimes, those fillers that are added in are what make it better, whereas just meat can be a little boring and homogenous.

When my Mom makes tacos, she grates a half a potato and half an onion. There’s something about the taste and texture that’s amazing.

That mention of fried bologna took me back... I loved fried bologna & onions, on white bread, with a dash of mustard! You took me back six decades in an instant!

I like mixing in corn and onion into my taco meat to stretch it a bit.

Did u grow up in the Great Depression?

Did the fried bologna thing more than a few times growing up. We also did chicken wings, which sounds odd today, but back in the day before the hot wing craze went nationwide, wings were one of the cheapest parts of the chicken.

I'm more than a little interested in what homemade syrup was.

That actually sounds pretty good! Thank you for sharing :)

I make my meatloaf with oats, it's pretty nice especially since my wife is gluten intolerant

I mean, it might be delicious, but the minute you add binders to the blend, you're making meatloaf, not a hamburger.

@@SentientPickle That's ridiculous. A loaf is a shape. By your definition, meatballs and many types of sausages are meatloaf.

@@SentientPickle I agree! But I DO enjoy the crusty edges on a meatloaf!

Weirdly one of my favorite meals is meatloaf made with oatmeal. I tried it at our local hot spot and it's crazy good.

@Rob B is just

@Rob B We called that cow patties as well but we used to go to the diner for slug burgers

We used oats or crushed saltines. I remember going to restaurants and seeing burgers described as 100% beef with no filler.

My mom in south LA used saltines too. Just having hamburgers was a treat!

I do this with ground turkey and dried cranberries-thanksgiving burger

Thats kinda brilliant. Those mixes last forever too.

I do that too. Poultry stuffing instead of bread crumbs

Helps if the stuffing is blended more

$3 for a box of filler or $3 for another pound (or half a pound extra these days). Thats not smart.

Let us know how it turned out

I would also like to know

Yes, please tell us the results.

That's really rolling the dice, but you got lucky. IT COULD HAVE BEEN SQUAB.

@@hxhdfjifzirstc894 squab is delicious!

If you're going to add filler Id say use onions.

Oh my god ur being so dramatic lmfao prices only go up buddy boy take a level 100 Econ class before u start makin boomer comments

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@@tynj4173 more like Putin

@@kg7219 You clearly don’t understand the severity of the recent inflation problem. The total amount of dollars in the us economy jumped from 16 trillion to 24 trillion since Joe Biden took office. I’m in my 20s and think anybody who still uses the word “boomer” in 2022 is cringy af

No matter what you mix in, it's still more real meat than ANY fast food burger.

@@hxhdfjifzirstc894 This is mostly a lie, you know that, right? Fast food burgers are real meat. They just get processed more.

@@hxhdfjifzirstc894 what do you think is in fast food burgers?

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I’m not sure I’d call it historically high inflation but it’s high nonetheless!

Wow! I’m from Alabama and my grandmother made these too. I just thought it was something unique to my family.

C.F. Penn Hamburgers in Decatur, Al was known for their version of these.

Gah! I'm from WA, so I thought of the same thing. So relieved to find out the actual reason.

Corinth Mississippi is where the slug burger is so famous. I tried one there at the instance of my aunt and uncle. I couldn't eat it because of the name and the fact that I didn't know how it was made. Ironically, I make my burgers and meatloaf just like the video except I don't use quite the amount of bread and I add an egg to hold it together. Meatloaf I just add diced onions and of course salt and pepper. Topping is a mixture of ketchup, mustard and brown sugar. I believe meatloaf needs to be made simply.

@@norinesloan4735 Oh, Corinth, No wonder I'd never heard of a slugburger. That's way up north and I'm all the way down on the coast.

My family is Norwegian and Swedish and we have something similar but we stuff the sausage/ potato/onion mixture into a sewn bag and boil it not make a sort of boiled meatloaf and served with butter on top it’s so good!!

That's an interesting way to get potatoes into the kids.

Yes, by a man named John Weeks who came from Chicago. One of his descendants (Willie Weeks) was still running a cafe selling them in Booneville until he died a few years ago.

I experienced the slugburger at Bourrum's several years ago. Very tasty. That and those buy 'em by the dozen hot tamales from the little drive-up place (forgot it's name) were highlights of our time in Corinth.

That festival sounds lit :D

fried pickles are from Mississippi? They've taken right off in Canada. Like seriously i imagine almost every bar with snacks has fried pickles on the menu (always dill). I always thought it was something we invented. Not because of some sense of patriotism (canada is empty and cold) but because we have disgusting snack food habits. When i lived near detroit i loved eating in the states because of how much you guys change food to fit different areas and cultures. In canada usually the more popular restaurants have just found a new tricky way to add butter and people primarliy patronize diners that cook homestyle food, or fast food chains.

@@zachweyrauch2988 Nobody really knows exactly where, only that they are a Southern U.S. thing. Wikipedia says they were popularized first in Arkansas.

If you are interested, look for the channel "The Wolfe Pit". He started out long ago as a BBQ channel, but for the last year or so he has been running a series of "Eating on a budget" meals, which are great if you are short on funds, and good in any case.

I second the wolfe pit, he's also very good about showing what is a good deal for the money and what is an expensive boondoggle at the dollar tree. He's super nice too

@@lwilton thank you, I’ll check it out!

Me too-all the way mustard and pickles!

Same here. Never cared much for ketchup on my burger, but mustard and pickles are a must!

I'd love to see that recipe...tacos and potatoes are two of my favorite things.

@@a2ndopynyn it's a little bit labor intensive. You run medium-sized potatoes through a food processor until the pieces are the size and shape of rice. Add approximately 1/2 cup per pound of 80% meat or so. You can play with that. The secret recipe is actually in the joy of cooking, I think the 1965 version? But I think almost any homemade taco seasoning will do. The secret ingredient is anise. Add about a 1/4 a cup of dried onion. Has to be dried. This is retro. Some cracked black pepper, cayenne or chili flakes..sweet paprika turns it reddish, potato just kind of melts into the burger. You don't even know it's there. I think that's it. That's pretty close. I make it up in batches on the stove and throw it all in a electric roaster to keep it warm. It's better if it can sit a day. But it doesn't have to.

I think you mean fer-ESH-Lee minced potato.

@@ConstantCompanion Hey, thanks! I'm not sure I could avoid having liquid potatoes using a food processor, but the side of the box grater used to make finely shredded cheese should work just fine. I will check this out!

Yup! Also Jane Brody (NY Times Food) in her cookbook a wonderful recipe for 1/2 the beef tacos. Shredded new potatoes. The easiest and best way I made tacos for family

Yeah, I'm curious to try this one. I lived in Corinth for about 12 years and could NEVER get ANYONE to divulge a recipe because I was a "Yankee" (I'm a Floridian, but go figure). Nothing I've ever tried comes close to a White Trolley Slug, and finding Soy Grits is a pain.

Where are you from?

That’s how I make meatballs.

@@mrsean1999 Sacramento CA

You always write whole books.

​@@dr.heidenreich3953 who's buying half a book?

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Sounds really good-thanks for sharing!

his prison loaf is yummy ... and similar high-in-filler premise (and a hilarious video)

They are still $1.09 each.

We always use oatmeal for our meat loaf. Do try it - it's fantastic.

Nowadays you get 20 nickels for only a buck!

Tried that but the patty tended to fall apart. However, since I love onions I would slice a 3/4 inch thick slice and grill that along with the patty. Worked pretty well. Cheers.

@@justinbailey6515 Should work if you grate the onion and then squeeze out the onion water.

From someone allergic to things in the celery and onion family, it's nice NOT to see onion in everything. ;) Bet a 1/4 cup total of chopped mix-ins like onion or ham, or whatever you love to eat, would work here. Recipes are like music, take it, and make it your own. (Chef John would come up with a good one-liner! Lol.)

For real depression era recipes, try Grandma Feral's channel.

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what does being from Mississippi have to do with anything lol

That Okla Onion Burger that Brian made today did look pretty good, didn't it?

Oh yeah, with mustard and pickles!

I grew up in a salt free family, yeah, Americans use WAY too much salt.

My parents used saltines & onions. It’s the only way I knew how to grill burgers before you could buy Patty’s & what’s amazing to me is that my kids much prefer these over the pre made patty’s. 😀

What is that?

@@mackenziedrake a dough burger? 😍 I'm happy to explain.

I am sure he appreciates knowing you are not a big fan……..

@@tonymarselle8812 lol. I'm not a big fan of his voice but his recipes are spot on. I know that when I perform them it will be the best

and another variation that's still called slugburger that has the meat cut with mashed soybeans and corn meal. Also from the northeast MS area, I was living in Ripley MS when I encountered them. Lots of soy farms in that area, so the beans were super cheap, especially if you were a soy farmer yourself. :) there's dozens of variations on this i'm sure. everyone's gotta make due somehow when money's tight.

Slug burger are pork. Dough burgers are beef. And everyone I know just uses flour for both.

Excellent point and bacon grease falls into the spirit of stretching the dollar and lots of flavor..

Yes oh yes!

@@phyllisholmes2120 bacon grease is worth its weight in gold in my kitchen..

Yup I noticed that too!

The food prices are global.

@@truth4004 Add an 's' to Canny's "Gov't" and their sentence still holds true. 😆

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Same thing happened to me almost 10 years ago 🤣

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I'm chill with the emojis, too.

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@@KomboEzaliTe really? I don't see a link. But it actually IS a generic sort of response.