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Of course we love our mom & pops, and our favorite burger joints around the country are pretty much all independently owned, but there are certain times in life - overnight layovers, hungover Sunday mornings, all-day shopping trips at the outlets - that the only options around are the chains.

We've come across our fair share of dumb kitchen tools. From the Microwave S'mores Maker to the Fat Magnet , we almost don't even bat an eyelash when faced with completely worthless, totally unnecessary, space-hogging kitchen tools.

Whether you're grilling a standard beef burger, a bison patty, a chicken breast or even a humble portobello mushroom cap, it's time to move beyond the basic adornments of ketchup and a slice of cheese.

Now that I'm a true road warrior - I can't count the number of times I've driven from Denton, Texas, to Santa Fe in the last year - I'm becoming an expert on what to eat along the way.

"It's like really gross that I always crave this burger." My best friend Brianna offers this disclaimer before she takes her first bite of a cheeseburger.

There's some fancy food being served in the stadium during this year's College World Series.

It's time for another round of The Food Lab. Got a suggestion for an upcoming topic? Email Kenji here , and he'll do his best to answer your queries in a future post.

Until last week, you could get the T-Rex Burger - a cheeseburger featuring nine quarter-pound patties and nine slices of cheese - at just one Wendy's location in Manitoba, Canada.

In this space, I've frequently shown how GMO fear mongering plays out in the media.

An irate customer was caught on camera angrily teaching a fast food drive-thru employee about the difference between a regular hamburger and a cheeseburger.

The fries were on the dry and cardboardy side Price: YouCanHasCheeseburger, $7; Burgermeister, $9; fries, $1.50/$4 With the opening of their brick and mortar store on 4/20, Brunch Box expanded out of Food Cart Alley on the corner of SW 5th and Stark, offering Portlanders another place to get their mitts on budget-friendly and hunger satiating grub, ... (more)

IT'S A Knockout legend Stuart Hall was jailed for 15 months yesterday after sexually abusing 13 schoolgirls - and could be out in just six.

Americans often eat on the run. We hit the drive-thru and munch lunch while driving or grab a wrap to eat while running errands.

'There is no CHEESE in hamburger!' Belligerent customer caught on video tearing shreds off poor Wendy's drive-thru cashier over wrong order The vile man curses, points and bangs his fists as he abuses the drive-thru cashier who isn't visible in the video The appalling display comes after Florida woman Taylor Chapman made a 'surveillance video' of ... (more)

This has been an absolutely insane few weeks in fast-food news. First it was the employees licking taco shells and guzzling Frosties , then it was the customers going insane and threatening to blow up Dunkin' Donuts from Mars over a Strawberry Coolatta.

Let it rain, let it rain, let it rain! Starting tonight, Union Bar and Grille in Boston's South End kicks off Beer & Burger Mondays with $10.50 burgers and a $6 craft beer special.

Archie McPhee has released two new 12-sheeted books of unusual gift wrapping paper: Creepy and Meat Parade .

Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today not to mourn the nine-patty T-Rex Burger, but to celebrate its life.

I've been working on a Food story about burgers that go beyond the usual ground beef patty topped with cheese.