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- Burgin’ Timewarp: Cheeburger Cheeburger
The other day I had a chance to stop in and try a burger at Cheeburger Cheeburger in Northville. Though I believe its namesake is borrowed the famous SNL sketch, it has no affiliation with the Horny Billy Goat Tavern in Chicago from which the skit was originally based.
Inside is a clean and well designed [...]
- Metonymy and the Media: Food Fight
Food Fight playfully crafts the epic odyssey of twenty-first century warfare using animated food stuffs. Instead of Germans vs. Jews, Matzo fights Brats, etc. etc. It’s amazing how the imagery and meaning of war changes when the soldiers are replaced by hamburgers.
For the bits and pieces that might be hard to decipher, there’s [...]
- Kitsch of the Day: Anthropomorphism in New Mexico
Though it isn’t quite Mr. Taco, that meat filled shell that tap danced its way into my heart, Dandy’s Burger sign takes a very close second. Burgers and top hats? New Mexico, you should be proud to have such an amazing sign.
- Burgin’: Bill Thomas’ Halo Burger
We members of the Spicy team love all things delicious. We’re “foodies” if you will. As such, one of our favorite past-times is something we lovingly call “Burgin’”, defined by Urban Dictionary as “experiencing the ferocious need for a huge, gnarly burger”. We couldn’t have said it better ourselves.
In the first of what will undoubtedly [...]
