The edible piece of history that is the spiritually Oklahoma-owned Onion Burger dates back to the Great Depression, with many conflicting accounts as to who did what and where it was done still in contention; but one thing that everyone can agree on is, for the most part, it was an folic acid-heavy savior that filled hungry stomachs in a time of greatest need.
It was such a ground beef-breaking sandwich that for the past thirty-one years, the small town of El Reno has celebrated not only the Onion Burger, but the bad-breath culture that has grown around it, starting with the Annual Burger Day Festival. While, yes, it’s a day of family fun that cumulates in a great offering of the world’s largest onion burger to the salivating crowd, there is so much more to be explored, as I nominally did this past Saturday...