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The Boston Burger Crawl: 10 Weeks, 10 Burgers, ONE BEEFY SUMMER.

Sunday, April 18th, 2010

Summer is coming. And with summer comes changes. While the sun shines and Krotus slumbers, we students go temporarily from poor souls, paying through the nose to work our asses off, to temporarily productive members of society, instead receiving modest compensation for working our asses off. Additionally we find ourselves without psets, being nearly free of a need to be productive after work hours or on weekends. And this year, I say we celebrate that freedom, celebrate it in classical American style … by stuffing our faces feel of grease and fat!

Now, many of you are probably destined for other shores this summer. I respect this fact. I also envy the access that some of you will find you now have to In-N-Out Burgers. To you, I bid you order a Double-Double and think of those of us without, but you need read no further.

I, however, like many others of you, am remaining in Cambridge. I, like less many others of you, will be living and often eating at pika. In my time thus far interacting with pikan foodstuffs, I have gained a new appreciation for nutrition and the delicious taste possibilities of the vegetable. Sadly, I have often found unfulfilled my deep, instinctual need to reacquaint myself with an old friend… the burger. I suspect I will have this affliction this summer as well.

Being thus motivated and noting that my for once non-zero income will allow me to expand my horizons beyond the Pour House, I thus finally propose an idea long floating in the back of my mind:

THE BOSTON BURGER CRAWL!!!!

The vision is simple: food-mobbing a different greater boston burger joint each week(end).

Details thereafter become fuzzy. Tentatively the idea looks something like this:
June 4 – Cambridge Brewing Company
June 11 – UBurger
June 18 – John Harvard’s Brew House
June 25 – Boston Burger Company
July 2 – Four Burgers
July 9 - Mr. Bartley’s Burger Cottage
July 16 – The Field
July 23 – Sullivan’s
July 30 – Eagle’s Deli (see also,http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Eagle’s+Deli)
August 6 – Flat Patties

With the time for each mob circa 7 or 8pm.

However, while this is my vision, I am open to suggestions:

  • Is Saturday better than Friday? Is some week night better still?
  • Is one of these places utterly not worth it? (With the exception of CBC, I have never been to any of them.)
  • Is there a burger place you’ve been dying to try or an old favorite you’d like to share? (I personally forwent some of my favorites like South Street or Charlie’s in favor of new unknown burgers)
  • Particular ideas about scheduling?
  • Think we should have t-shirts?

Let me know.

If you will be in town this summer and find yourself interested in joining in my celebration of all things burger or french fry, please blanche yourself onto LIST:burgers

I would also be interested in seeing if we could turn out some reviews for our friends over at HowToGAMIT.

Note: If you don’t share my fascination with the burger (or your burger’s come in less meat-full) you are still warmly invited to join in on the mob and order other things (where they exist).

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TL;DR food-mobbing a different burger place in Cambridge/Boston every week this summer. Interested? blanche yourself onto burgers@

BURGERS BURGERS BURGERS BURGERS,
~Donald