The Slater's 50/50 Buffalo Buffalo Burger Is Buffalo On Top Of Buffalo On Top Of More Buffalo

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Slater's 50/50
It's National Burger Month! In OC, there's no place better to celebrate than Slater's 50/50, which brought us monstrosities such as the Donut Burger, the 100% Bacon Burger and a burger so hot you needed gloves and a waiver.

This month, the Slater's folks went all in once again with the Buffalo Buffalo Burger. The tangy stack features seasoned ground bison (aka the American buffalo) nestled on a bed of shredded celery and carrots. All that's topped buffalo sauce-infused sharp cheddar cheese, grilled onions and jalepeños, and then smothered with housemade buttermilk ranch and Frank's RedHot dressing.

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Mad Meat Men: Come Eat Our (Boar) Meat

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Occasionally, and as a direct result of an OSHA investigation, the management of this blog unchains me and gives me a few hours of liberty; I like to spend it with a group of carnivores known as the Mad Meat Men.

A little while back, eight of us went in on an entire boar from Da-Le Ranch in Lake Elsinore, and it's time to make a little room in the freezer; we're having a boar feast this Sunday at 6 p.m. at Picnics Kitchen in Costa Mesa.

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Slater's 50/50's New Menu Items Will Make You Drool (Fritos Crunch Burger! Beer Cheese Fries!)

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Slater's 50/50
Slater's 50/50, the restaurant that's caused many weak souls to ditch their diets and never look back, has done it again. And in this round, instead of bringing us one new jaw-dropping, in-your-face monstrosity, they're bringing us several. Get ready to drool.  
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[W/PHOTOS] What Burger Will Grow Mold First: McDonald's, In-n-Out, or TK Burgers? An Experiment

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LP Hastings
Let the games begin

Many of us have heard this rumor: that if you leave a McDonald's hamburger out, indefinitely, it will never go moldy.

Plausible enough, right? The average McDonald's meal is filled with more mystery than the average show on Coast to Coast AM, right? Its nutritional value is so dismal we'd be better off eating cardboard, right? So, it would make sense that something so fake, so artificial, and so full of preservatives would not be able to house mold.

So, we at the Weekly, being as eager to jump on the McDonald's-hating bandwagon as everyone else decided to put this rumor to the test. Being the mature and reputable media organization that we are, it seemed that our results would somehow be more accurate. We would join the ranks of amateur experimenters like the staff at Refinery29 and good ol' Morgan Spurlock in our quest for more trash talk on fast food. Except, we decided to take things a step further. We decided to test McDonald's moldabilty against our local favorites--In-N-Out and TK Burger. Surely, these meals made from "real" ingredients would spore before our eyes. The results follow, and promise to be surprising, shocking, disgusting, and childhood-destroying, but most importantly, informative.
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Death By Breakfast: Slater's 50/50 Introduces The Donut Burger

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Slater's 50/50
It's official. They're trying to kill us. Slater's 50/50 has already bestowed upon us the following monstrosities: The 100% bacon burger. A tower of fried chicken and pancakes. A burger so hot you need gloves and a waiver.  

Now, for those who still have heartbeats, there's The Donut Burger, a 50/50 patty topped with American cheese and a sunny-side-up egg sandwiched between two giant glazed donuts. It's part of the restaurant's new breakfast menu, served every Saturday and Sunday from 9 a.m. to noon until Dec. 30. Oh, dear God.   

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Pizza Russian Roulette Is One Hilariously Messed-Up Eating Game

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It looks like your typical pizza pie. Nothing out of the ordinary--tomato sauce, cheese, pepperoni and crust. That is, until one unlucky victim takes a bite.

Pizza Russian Roulette is a game of odds. One slice is loaded with ghost pepper sauce and super-spicy oil. Whoever happens to pick up that slice is guaranteed tears and a rough night in the bathroom. Everyone else: Feel free to point and laugh.  

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VIDEO: Three Stupid Reporters Eat One of the Nation's Spiciest Burgers


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Courtesy Slater's 50/50

Michelle introduced us to the monstrosity that is Slater's 50/50's "50 Alarm Burger" last week. It was heralded by the infamous mini-chain as a burger so hot you need to wear gloves and sign a liability waiver to eat it. The burger consists of a fire beef patty with sliced jalapenos, three-alarm Colby Jack cheese, beer battered habanero peppers and ghost chili bacon spread on a brioche bun. Yeah.

So we here at the Weekly wondered just how spicy this beast is. Well, we tried it and instead of writing about it, we decided to film it so you could see our reaction. Three of us were up for the challenge: Calendar Editor Erin DeWitt, Managing Editor Nick Schou and myself. 

As a point of reference, I just barely learned how to stomach Flamin' Hot Cheetos and on the other side of the spicy spectrum, Nick says he has the ghost chili immunity gene and eats ghost chili tacos from Taco Asylum in Costa Mesa on a weekly basis (and adds their ghost chili hot sauce on top).

When we went, there were no gloves and no liability waiver. It does make it sound intimidating though.

Is it really that bad? Press play to find out. 


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Jason Quinn Hosts A Burger Eating Challenge, Featuring A 'Shit-Ton Of Foie'

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PhilGorgeous via FoodBeast
What foie gras ban? 

This Saturday, Aug. 11, the bird is back at The Playground in Santa Ana, where Jason Quinn will be assembling a beast of burger for 10 brave guests. The Shut The Duck Up Burger will feature a doubled version of the famed, off-the-menu Playground burger--Wagyu chuck and dry-age ribeye torchon patty, Tomme de Savoie and maple-bourbon onions--topped with, as the chef puts it, a "shit-ton of foie." Six ounces of the super-fatty liver delicacy, to be exact.   

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And the County Said Oink: PigOut 1.0 This Sunday

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What exactly is your pork tolerance limit? Could there be a dish where bacon does not fit in somehow? Is it truly possible to get the ham sweats? Come to Newport Dunes Resort on Sunday and find out.

As Anne Marie said back in June, local kitchen man Amar Santana and orange-scarved food impresario Bobby Navarro are teaming up with pretty much every chef and bartender you've heard of in Orange County to put on PigOut 1.0 this weekend, a pork-centric festival featuring 15 separate dishes by such OC luminaries as Dee Nguyen (Break of Dawn), Greg Daniels (Haven), Alessandro Pirozzi (Cucina Alessà, Mare) and Matt Molina and Emily Corliss (Pizzeria Mozza).

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Slater's 50/50's New Burger Is So Hot It Requires Gloves And A Liability Waiver

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Slater's 50/50
After jolting the country with the 'Merica Burger, the monstrosity made of 100% ground bacon, the folks at Slater's 50/50 didn't know how they would ever outdo themselves. 

Then they had an idea. 

They'd simply turn up the heat. 
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