Mario fans, make your own 1UP Mushroom Burger with tips from momo! at Instructables. This particular burger has a veggie mushroom patty, but you can get the same effect with meat. The spots on the bun are mozzarella cheese! Link -via Laughing Squid

Yummy Pockets Hamburger – $9.45

Summer is nearly here.  Are you still searching for that perfect hot weather accessory? Treat yourself to the new Yummy Pocket Hamburger from the NeatoShop.  Who can resist this deliciously funny pouch and keyring combo!  Your friends will be drooling over this little item.

More Yummy Pockets available.

Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for all you  Wallet & Coin Purse needs!

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This cute little double hamburger is not a Big Mac -or even a burger! It’s a cheeseburger macaron, made with cookies and fondant. Ladybird x, who made it, calls them “Little Macs.” See the process of making them at Diary of a Ladybird. Link -via The Daily What

Modernist Cuisine

Take the book’s hamburger. Prepping the lettuce and tomato requires a vacuum sealer. The cheese is restructured—heated with ingredients like carrageenan and cooled in a mold—for a gooier texture. And making the burger itself requires hand-grinding the beef and using half-cylinder molds to catch the strands and gently form the patties.

Get a closer look at the burger at the Wall Street Journal’s interactive feature. Link to article. Link to hamburger. -via Nag on the Lake

Sally Davies took pictures of a McDonalds burger and fries for 137 days, and the pictures never changed. It wasn’t the first such experiment, but could it be replicated under normal conditions? Some say a Happy Meal will last forever, but YouTube member GitEmSteveDave had very different results. You can skip the first minute if you’re in a hurry.  -via Breakfast Links

New York artist Sally Davies bought a plain hamburger Happy Meal from McDonalds. She didn’t eat it, but took pictures of it every day -for 137 days so far. The project will likely continue at least until the meal starts to look different. Link -via Cynical-C

The award-winning chef used a specially designed grill with a built-in forklift mechanism designed to flip the oversized culinary creation.

Reader says it took six hours to cook the behemoth of a burger, starting off with a patty weighing 139 kilos. The grilled patty was then nestled in a 48-kilogram bun, dressed with lettuce, cheese, tomatoes, red onions, pickles and barbecue sauce.

The event also raised $8,500 to benefit a camp for burn victims. Link -via J-Walk Blog

Channeling a Star Wars metaphor, Stephen Van Worley imagined a McDonald’s empire in black with pockets of rebellion within by its seven largest competitors:

By far, the largest pocket of resistance is Sonic Drive-In’s south-central stronghold: more than 900 restaurants packed into the state of Texas alone.  Sheer density is the key to victory!

The rebels already have the numbers – over 24,000 locations in total – but they’ve divided and conquered themselves by strict adherence to the peacetime principles of brand identity and corporate structure.  This is war, and for the sake of self-preservation, all must be sacrificed!  Kings and Queens: get used to hanging with the common folk.  Tone down the sarcasm, Jack.  And everyone, please, stop yanking Wendy’s pigtails!  Y’all need to work in harmony to succeed with the winning strategy: an Alliance!

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This has got to be the yummiest bed EVAR! Behold the Hamburger Bed (technically it’s a cheeseburger, but who cares?) which comes complete with an oversized bun duvet, as well as tomato and pickle slice pillows.

Link (yes, the bed has its own Facebook page) – via CrunchGear

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