I think this is a southern thing. Paula Deen made her burger with ham and an a fried egg on top....it actually looked good...
When I was a kid, we would drive out from Iowa every summer to Cape Hatteras NC.
One year, we stopped somewhere in NC, at a roadside diner. I ordered a hamburger.
How was I supposed to know it would be made from ground
ham? (Hamburgers in Iowa were made from ground beef....the way they are supposed to be!)
It was in July, beastly hot, no AC in those days....and I got so sick...
Years later, when I got married, we always had to go to the sister-in-law's house out in Grand Island NE, if we came back to NE for Christmas. It was their tradition that she make her
fabulous ham loaf for Christmas Eve dinner....it was mandatory to eat it. Yep....and I would get
..... to which she took great offense.
Her ham loaf should be illegal in all
57 states!!
As much as I love Paula Deen's recipes...there is no way I will ever eat a
hamburger again.