Astronaut cooks have made numerous attempts to wrangle hamburgers into space-ready meals, from dehydrated-pickle disks to vacuum-sealed burger bottles. Enjoy what our starry-eyed brethren never can with today’s Groupon: for $5, you get $10 worth of signature burgers, fries, and soft drinks at Steel Trolley Diner in Lisbon.
Winner of multiple awards, Steel Trolley Diner's succulent stable of signature burgers ($6.29 each) is enhanced by symphonic sauces and fresh-cut fries ($1.20 extra). The Marley burger bathes a patty in Jamaican jerk sauce and orange-chipotle mayonnaise, and the Elvis burger derives its flavor from the same bacon, peanut butter, and banana-jam recipe the King used as shampoo. The eatery's kitchen craftsmen traditionally mold each burger's midsection with a half-pound ground-beef patty but will gladly supplant meaty disks with a vegetarian Boca burger, tasty turkey burger, grilled chicken breast, or a printed-out photograph of a burger for no extra charge.
One of the few original 1950s burger joints that are still standing, Steel Trolley Diner provides an ideal venue for Baby Boomers to reprise old hoop skirts, leather jackets, and Model-T costumes. Patrons can rehash Cold War anxieties at a cozy leather booth or scrutinize Happy Days anachronisms while sitting on one of the counter's upholstered stools.
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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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