America's Most Controversial Burger!!! Beef, Cheese, Obama!

With evidence gathered through both our ears and our mouths, I'd have to say the real creator of juicy Lucy was the last time you saw me leaving Vietnam traveling for the first time since the pandemic began. turbulence turbulence Now after 13 years of living in Asia I'm going back to the US to my home state of Minnesota and I'll do my best to blend in Where's your handkerchief? is this the poster with stars I'm being a patriot you're being patriotic right now you, my countryman, what is that man in this series? We're exploring Minnesota's Twin Cities, the neighboring municipalities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul with a population of over 3 million, a shocking number considering winters here are not for the faint of heart.

I remember when I came for the first time. in November December was brutal today we are heating things up with a

burger

but not just any

burger

since the show started I haven't shown as much of the US as I would like people outside of the US might not realize that American food is quite broad those same people always think of one food when they think of American cuisine Calvin open your glove compartment hamburgers hamburgers wait I have one here too why do you have one there? I have them everywhere strategically placed around the van, I mean, SUV, this is a pretty typical American burger situation here we have a bun we have meat we have

cheese

that's all you need is those three things, but if they are intolerant to lactose I don't put them accept any type of intolerance racial intolerance gender intolerance dairy intolerance is not great a burger absolutely has to have

cheese

but where we are going today they take cheese to a whole new level it's not just about more cheese, it's is about where they put the cheese Ready, I'm ready, come on, this date is famous for having ten thousand lakes for giving birth to the musician prince and for inventing one of the

most

iconic hamburgers in the US, one that had never been before tried, juicy Lucy, but what is a juicy Lucy? a melted-core burger a bubbling cascade of cheese that will quell your dietary aspirations in a single bite, but this burger comes with some baggage a long and

controversial

battle over which establishment was actually the first to produce this meaty beauty, the matchbar and the 5th club. they claim to be the original today detective calvin and gumshoe sunny will get to the bottom of this meaty mystery first we're going to visit the 5-8 club to hear their side of the story quick note that's my friend calvin he speaks english and vietnamese so we can realize the interview in any language.

Which one would he like? Let's go to English in 1928 at the height of prohibition this bar originally opened as a speakeasy serving beer and spirits illegally very good once prohibition ended the 5-8 club became a full on. full-fledged restaurant, but its golden age began in the 1950s with the introduction of the juicy lucy, it takes talent to make it, you must eat the burger, you must have the right amount of velveeta cheese without velvet, oh I thought that He had broken the sofa. How hard is it to make a juicy Lucy? We head to the kitchen to find out, so we're here at 5 8.

We're going to make the American juicy preparation. Start with a quarter-pound 80 20 mix. Do you have your meat? from Vietnam because I was in Vietnam and they had some meat from us. Each burger is topped with 1.5 slices of American cheese, but you can also order yours with blue, pepper jack or Swiss cheese, and we offer two other burgers that we'll put cheese on. on top cheese inside and cheese on top you thought about putting the cheese underneath too and calling it sunny calvin thanks for putting my name first it's your program the next step is where the magic happens up uh patty right on top we use the tom make sure it's sealed well you have than pinch it, that's the secret moment to hit the grill, cover the meat for a moment to keep it moist and off the heat, ready to prepare the burger, start with the base bun, a few slices of pickle. hot burger and top it with a little bun hat, serve it with fries and a diet coke, if you're watching your calories, this is our first meal together on American soil, this is crazy, this is going to be amazing, memorable , epic, sorry.

Eating a French fry, would you say epic? Okay, it's going to be so epic. This is very interesting because I was in the kitchen, they put a big ball of cheese in the middle and then it looked like a hat or something, but somehow through cooking. maybe when you press it becomes a very simple field no, no, no, flat, and you have to forgive him, English is his first language, let's take a big bite and then I don't know, we could burn ourselves with the cheese, cheers, cheers, that the bread is so soft. and it just wraps it like a glove of warm bread that well seasoned meat wow, good meat excellent meat I didn't even put cheese on mine, but look at this, it's starting to squeeze out a little bit, my second bite is going to be like this. full of cheese, oh it's so satisfying, you get this really satisfying, velvety, cheesy creamy cheese, but not white velvet in your mouth.

If it was up to me I would put cheese on top, yes I agree when I say juicy Lucy, I'm thinking of you. I'm going to eat a lot of cheese. This is probably fine for

most

normal people. We're not normal, yeah, we're not normal and I have to get high on everything in life, whether it's Jack Daniels, food or Jack Daniels. I want this to get me high, but for me that will require another layer of cheese that they serve here on the menu, but this is something that has been around for almost 100 years, this is history, what we are eating right now.

We are taking a bite out of the past with this legacy and I swallowed it. Our stomachs are half full and we have half the story. Club 5a has won numerous awards for their

beef

cheeseburger over the years, but does that mean they were the first? a bar just a few miles down the road doesn't think so well. I only have one story and it came directly from Matt Bristol himself. In fact, I met him. That bar and grill received its name when Matt Bristol became its owner in 1954, shortly after opening. He claimed to have cooked the first famous melted core hamburger one afternoon.

It was a little slow. He and some local customers were at the bar having a beer. As the story progresses, a customer requests a cheeseburger sandwiched between two burgers. Matt made it himself when he took a bite, he said wow that's a juicy spicy Lucy, oh we have a name and a title, as word of mouth spread and demand increased they decided to put this new dish on your menu and when the menu arrived, it was spelled incorrectly I love the idea that you know there was a mistake and you say, uh, I wanted to do that, yeah, with the unique spelling bar it reminds your customers that if it's spelled correctly, You may be getting a blatant scam and they prove it. with every burger that leaves your kitchen, this is how we make our juicy Lucy's flat burger, American cheese that combines burger with burger, slowly tightening the meat to intertwine, which seems somewhat familiar, but the similarities end here, here they are using a little lighter burger these burgers are freshly ground every morning using their own meat grinding technology what is their blend is a20 we don't give my fat to meat ratio stop asking here the meat is stuffed with just one slice of American cheese and American cheese. just cheese, I think it's a credit to the original owner and our current owners that we didn't change a thing, why ruin a good thing as far as sealing, there's no pinching here, we call it squeezing and we've hired squeezers.

Juicing is an art and it can take months to train a novice juicer, we only take out stacks of 25, one or two stacks at a time because we want our burger to be a little cold, if you make it too hot we would make the burger go off the line square and that's it. What we want next is not to grill this squat flat surface adjacent to the bar in view of all who enter, it's the kitchen, this roaring three-foot piece of steel is where the flavor is produced. The layers of salty meat and onion char and sizzle as they transform into this.

The establishment's iconic offering may seem a little messy to some, but Barack Obama would disagree. A few years ago I was told that Obama came here to eat a juicy Lucy. It was a very strange day for us, sad and extremely happy because the morning of President Obama's visit Matt Bristol passed away from smoking non-smoking lung cancer four and a half hours later President Obama came in and then everyone came in and said what did he eat? president

obama

so we call it the

obama

special for other restaurants where obama didn't eat they can't have an obama special they could have a sunny special two grilled cheeses with a juicy lucy at halftime for construction of the burger, the base bun is covered with pickles, then caramelized onions and finally the burger if I'm honest we've already had one yes you lose yes but I'm ready for one that's even juicier and it looked like this it's oh oh this is the bun it has some spring is like steaming and warming from below I can feel the steam, the heat of the burger and you know this is the perfect hand sized burger, yes it's a little smaller than the last location but I like it, I like the size, it's not too much, so they use half a kilo. burger which then caramelizes better the other one was very thick and almost steamed.

I can't get into this burger it just oozes out like a volcano yeah so there's just a very thick layer of melted cheese not a layer it's like he wanna try to get it out don't expect it it's basically like liquid melted cheese mixed together with a little fat from the meat. If I squeeze this as hard as I can, I could probably get it on the camera lens, but we're not going to do that. I'm not making that boom, that's what I've been looking for. When you bite into it, you want to inhale that cheese that you are inhaling as necessary.

You want to create a suction block around this area. I made a tutorial. Once there was no food involved, it was strange. It's on onlyparents.com. This time I got hit with an onion. It just has a deep, savory, satisfying goodness. The aroma here, the moment you walk into this place, you know this is going to happen. be a big hamburger oh I thought you were talking about my body odor because I'm asking you not to talk about my body odor we're not going to talk about it now it's funny so we don't have to talk about it you I'm saying it smells good, it's tasty and Guess what friend, I still have leftover cheese, do you think?

Yes, with this burger if you put cheese on top, I think it's too much. This is not fanciful. It is not elevated. They are not putting foie gras. or avocado mousse, this is really the best ingredient, simple preparation and I love it, this is like good honest food, well made, kudos to the chef, good job guys, but now Calvin, the hardest part of our trip to Now, we need to go out and decide which burger. was our favorite calvin sunny today we had two different burgers that faced each other in an epic battle of who is the juiciest of all the lucy that guy liked I want to know who you think created the original based on the evidence we discovered today I think the creator of this juicy lucy was matt's match barn, it really was just a good homemade burger and for me that's the story in itself, for me it's not that easy, there's a lot to like about both locations today first of all. five, eight o'clock, real old, that's really cool, second, they're making juicy lucy, but they're making new, fun, innovative things, you can get a blue cheese, you can get pepper jack, that's right, so you have a matchstick and for For me, it's the flavors I feel, it's what people tasted decades and decades ago with evidence gathered through both our ears and our mouths.

I would have to say that the real creator of juicy Lucy is at Matt's bar. The final answer is now. What if the other restaurant is going to get mad? Do you think being an influencer doesn't require millions of fans? All you need is this t-shirt, entertain and inspire at your own pace, don't be an influencer, be a micro influencer, get your t-shirt. now I'm excited to be here and I'm excited to be here with you oh that's sweet we'll probably get it out of the way okay I've never understood people who eat wait look we're not that smart now are we?

Thanks so much guys, cool, oh I don't know, what were you thinking? This is our first meal together in the US, in fact we ate last night. There can only be one original juicy Lucy and that is here, here. I will buy it, of course, you will buy lunch. I won't buy much. Thank you so much for watching today's video and many thanks to Calvin from Fkn Deliciousness on YouTube. He flew here from Vietnam and now you have to fly. Back right, I mean I took a one way trip, wait do you have to go or can you stay?

What do you want?Do you want me to stay? You will be in the league. Let us know in the comments below. should calvin leave a sticker right now no just stay i don't really care what you guys say that's it for this thank you so much for watching see you next time oh wait oh shoot i did the wrong thing . I gave the go ahead I'm useful it's long we can do it again we're out of time can you go that way?