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1goddess come on ,
A good fried livermush sandwich with mustard and onions .
W oW ~~what a great sandwich

MetalFan: folks' fascination with that little hamburger was because of the fact that Mickey D's wasn't around back then!

can't be any worse than that freakin livermush stuff...god that stuff is nasty...no matter how you cook it or even if you don't...nasty...

I will never understand some peoples fascination with those burgers. I thought they were nasty. But, that's just my opinion.

huh-Thank you so very much. I don't read the Record so I missed that write up. My pawpaw use to call them Smithey Burgers, now I know why. You know, just thinking about it, someone should write a book on Nike, such an interesting character.

mym - those stories should answer your question as well. It is a complete write-up on the GWBurger

The following is from "The Record" and it has the ingredients listed. In another story written by the record, it says that sausage was never used. This list of ingredients does not mention sausage either.

http://www.therecordofwilke...
Now to the recipe. And, to me, the surprise. According to Dee (Lovette) Berrong, each batch was mixed in a large dishpan. It was simple; flour, chili powder, yellow soy grits, sage, food coloring, and five pounds of ground beef . From each five pounds of beef, over ONE HUNDRED patties were made up, by hand, to be fried on one of the two big, flat grills in about 3/4" of pure lard.

I remarked to Dee that not since the Good Lord blessed that little boy's loaves and fishes had so little food been stretched so far. "But what about the bread?" I asked. I had thought that every bakery in Western North Carolina would bring their day-old (read that stale) bread to the Goodwill Store for their "breadburgers." "If you wanted to make Hazel Byrd Laws mad, just go in there and ask for a breadburger!" Dee said. They wouldn't tell you what WAS in them, but all the ladies at the lunch counter would quickly tell you what WASN'T.

Eating a Goodwill hamburger-you just had to be there. I have been thinking for days how to describe it. There is no way. It was just different from anything I have ever eaten, or seen, for that matter. As you stood at one of the windows to be waited on you could see piles of patties, already cooked: some brown, some yellowish gold, some burned black, stacked against the windows. As ordered, one, two, three, or ten patties were dragged back into the grease to heat up again. Plain, or mustard and slaw-these were your only choices. If you ordered them to go, the grease was soaking through the bag before you ever left the store.

Despite the many years that have passed, Blevins still remembers the recipe for Goodwill burgers.


http://www.therecordofwilke...
After listing the ingredients, she said that totally submerging the patties in hot grease was an important step in proper preparation and added that the sparse condiments (slaw and mustard) should never be altered.

�I�d turn them (the patties) once and mash them a little to flatten them out,� Blevins said. �That�s the way we always made them. There wasn�t any sausage or fish or anything else in them.�

thank you all very much

I am just wondering, does anyone know where the goodwill burger came from? I mean its story, because I heard of them all the time as a kid but never heard what or who started them.

Bushman posted this on the GoAshe site:

Bushman
Posted 01:13 am, 03/18/2008

These from GoWilkes ,,,
Goodwill burgers 1
1 pound of breakfast sausage (canned Beverly Brand)
1 pound of hamburger meat
1 large onion finely chopped
1 cup of bread crumbs (any kind...buns, sandwich bread etc...)
salt & pepper to taste
mix thoroughly ..pat out in hamburger shape, fry in wesson oil
til done. serve on hamburger buns with mustard and slaw.
Enjoy!
GOODWILL BURGERS 2
1/4 lb. ground beef
3 hamburger buns-wet and pinched into small pieces
1/2 tsp. sugar
1 tsp. chili powder
2 tbsp.cornmeal
2 tbsp. flour
1/4 cup oatmeal
mix well fry in oil makes 4-5 burgers

Sage is required in the goodwill burgers also. The oringinal receipe does not call for sausage. Call the record . They did the story on a lady that used to work at the Goodwill years ago.

several versions in the recipe section you just gotta look thru a bunch
to find them

I Hope this will Help:

12 Hamburger buns
1 1/4 lbs. Hamburger meat
1/2 lbs. Sausage
1 1/4 Cups Soy Bean Flour
1/2 Cup of Flour
1/2 Tsp. Salt and Pepper
1/4 Tsp. Baking Soda
3/4 Tsp. Baking Powder

Soak Hamburger buns with warm water until soggy.
Mix with meats.
Add dry ingredients.
Mix well
Make 25 burgers
Fry with peanut oil.

Mom31, google "goodwill burger" (with quotation marks) and you will find a link to goash where bushman posted two recipes. Hope that helps.

I have it some where, I will have to find it , but you could always call The Record. They did a interview on a lady that worked at the Good will Store and she gave the re ipe for the burgers

There was a thread like this several months ago and there were several recipes that were posted but I can't remember them. If I run across one I'll let you know.

If anyone knows the recipe for goodwill bugers please post or email me recipe thank you