The recent BP oil spill has stoked the inner environmentalist within metal’s followers. Phil Anselmo’s recent interview gives a brutally honest picture of how the region is hurting. Some high-profile metal celebrities recently joined in the BP boycott as well. The Nuclear Assault video for “Critical Mass” immediately comes to mind. “Another oil spill!” sounds so chillingly real.
Kuma’s Corner makes light of this situation with the Environmental Disaster burger in the same month that BP announced they stopped the leak. The Environmental Disaster burger is a 10 oz. beef patty swimming in alligator sausage, crawfish, and okra-accented gumbo, like a huge tar ball in the bayou. The burger was juicy and its slight saltiness helped balance out the gumbo’s bite. The gumbo filled up a bowl lined with a good helping of white rice. The alligator sausage was not as gamey as I expected. It was actually comparable to the gourmet sausages at nearby Hot Doug’s. I had to skip the crawfish because of my shellfish allergies. The okra lost its crunch after being submerged in the gumbo, but did not lose its flavor. A layer of fresh scallions provided crisp relief from the submerged ingredients. The burger did not come with fries, which would have been a welcome addition to soak in the gumbo. A light beer, preferably a Belgian White like Allagash, would ease out the heat and any possibilities of heartburn. I suggest eating this burger at night, when temperatures have dropped. Just like the Gulf Coast’s oppressive humidity, it makes you sweat buckets. Hydration during consumption is encouraged.
This was probably one of the most claustrophobic yet addictive burgers I’ve had, to the point it makes me angry just to think of the oil spill. Hopefully every restaurant in America puts Hayward and Co. on their blacklist.
Front page photo by Dave Martin/AP
Burger photo blurred due to heat at Kuma’s
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Carm occasionally sacrifices his arteries for the sake of this column.
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sounds excellent, never had alligator before.
I’ve always imagined Kuma’s is full of people taking pictures of their burgers/meals with their camera phones; too tasty and beautiful to forget
Flickr bears that out. See, e.g.,
http://www.flickr.com/groups/kumascorner/pool/
i had this beast twice before the month was over and it was gone… i usually don’t care for the Kuma’s burgers that don’t actually involve a bun – but this one was awesome
Ever since Alex left, it seems like all Kuma’s does is churn out joke burgers like this (c.f. the Blagojevich). I’m not in Chicago anymore, so maybe I’m just not hearing about the good, metal-themed specials anymore. But I miss excellent monthly specials like the Nachtmystium.
Adam, i think you’re just reading or hearing about the burgers that get more mainstream press – the Blagojevich was huge on that front. but really, that and this one are about the only ones I can think of they’ve done that aren’t still based around a band. hell, you can probably just look at Carm’s reviews on here and see that. I love Alex as much as anyone and miss him around there, but Luke and the rest of the crew still do a damn fine job.
If they could have replicated that iconic photo of the bird covered in brown filth it would have been a T-UP.
http://image3.examiner.com/images/blog/replicate/EXID33986/images/bird_w_oil%281%29.PNG
hey, t-rocc!
glad to hear that you’re still enjoying Luke’s work – It was Cam’s post about the Rush burger that added to my skepticism. The Sigh did look fantastic, though.
yeah, the Rush burger was kind of goofy, i’ll give you that. but i think they might have done that just to piss Frank off.
You can’t eat crawfish?! Man, that is a crisis.
Pestilence!
They should have dedicated this one to Gojira
It totally aggravates me that the “Led Zeppelin” is not called the Carcass or Cannibal Corspe. If you know the ingredients, you’d agree a name change is in order!
Meh, Personally I am not a gumbo fan since I don’t like white rice, craw fish or okra. Though I would take a gatorbuger on a nice kaiser roll… Delicious.