Despite the recent inventions of hamburger ice cream, hamburger blintzes, and hamburger hamburgers, the pure hamburger is still the tastiest unit of food. Experience an edible classic with today’s Groupon: for $10, you get $20 worth of custom-built gourmet burgers, vegan and vegetarian treats, and frosty handspun shakes at The Counter.
The Counter’s customizable concept for its beefy creations was crowned as one of 20 Hamburgers You Must Eat Before You Die by GQ. Choose from a clipboard-bound menu of more than 312,120 possible combinations of ingredients. Start with the protein and pick among vegetarian-raised beef, ground-turkey burgers, grilled chicken, and veggie burgers made in-house from 11 different vegetables. Adorn patties with edible accessories including horseradish cheddar, grilled pineapple, and succulent chandelier earrings before adding a final touch of English muffin, traditional burger bun, or a daringly bun-free bowl of greens. Custom-built burgers start at $8.79 for a third-pound patty. If you're overwhelmed by choice, go with one of The Counter's signature burgers, such as The Unique Veggie with mixed baby greens, roasted red peppers, sprouts, onion, and dijon-balsamic dressing ($8.79), or try the tidally-locked burger of the month. Hand-spun shakes ($4.95) and sweet-potato fries ($4.59) round out the meal.
Customization is the key to burger bliss, and when the ingredients are treated with such love, admiration, and respect, each bite dances on your tongue like a young, beefy Fred Astaire.
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The Groupon Guide to: Great Moments in American Hamburgery
To put your mouth in the mood for a bite of grilled greatness, here are American history's most memorable hamburger moments:
December 11, 1620: Just as winter seems its bleakest, the starving Pilgrims find relief when they stumble upon an underground hamburger mine.
July 4, 1776: Infamous traitor Benedict Arnold betrays America by forgoing the traditional hamburger for a chicken sandwich at Benjamin Franklin's Fourth of July barbecue. Benedict was later punished by having his face appear on America's least popular currency, the dollar bill.
August 13, 1948: The House Un-American Activities Committee identifies Communists by challenging witnesses to finish an entire hamburger while drawing a portrait of Joe DiMaggio in less than one minute.
June 26, 1963: President Kennedy gives his famous "Ich bin ein Hamburger" speech before pledging to beat the Russians in the race to send a hamburger to the moon.
November 11, 2011: Hamburger suffrage.
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