Illinois ballpark serves Luther Burgers

by Nick Vagnoni, Posted Mar 10th 2006 @ 10:07AM

As if a day of ballpark food like chili dogs, nachos and beer wasn't enough to wreck you, GMC Stadium, home of Sauget, Illinois' Gateway Grizzlies (of the Frontier League) serves a bacon cheeseburger on a Krispy Kreme doughnut. This blockage on a bun is better known to some of you as a Luther Burger, named after the late Luther Vandross. I recall rumors of this burger making the rounds on the internet a few years ago. Snopes confirms that it is, in fact, a real thing and it hails from Mulligan's, a bar in Decatur, Georgia. The details of how it became associated with the sultry crooner are cloudy—some say he invented it, others say it was just a favorite of his. At any rate, Grizzlies fans can apparently order one up from the GMC Stadium concession stand. They call it "Baseball's Best Burger."

Filed Under: Food Oddities, Trends, Ingredients, Chefs & Restaurants, Restaurants
Tags: america, beef, burger, donut, doughnut, gmc stadium, krispy kreme, luther burger, midwest cities, oddities

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3-10-2006 @12:10PM tr said... that is such an utterly strange combination...that I MUST TRY! i bet it's great, one of those things that you think would never work, but does.

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3-10-2006 @2:32PM Jimmy said... This culinary abomination was featured on an episode of The Boondocks cartoon on Cartoon Network several weeks ago.
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