Celebrating Life, Liberty, and Patriotism through meat. Lots of meat.

About the Event

This year's Fatty Burger Independence Day Celebration of Gluttony will take place on Saturday, July 5, 2008! Of course, the festivities will unofficially begin sometime Friday for those inclined to come early.

As always, it starts when you're hungry, and ends when you can't stuff another bite in your mouth. We expect to fire the grills up by about 11 AM. We usually stop cooking by 7 or 8 PM.

As usual, there will be nightly games of Texas Hold 'Em every night that we have enough players.

What's in a Name?

I'm occasionally (er, frequently), asked what in God's name a "Fatty Burger" is. Since I tire of explaining it, here we go: 

Long ago, at the first Fatty Burger (before I'd even been to a Fatty Burger), the only thing on the menu was pre-formed Philly Gourmet-brand "beef" patties. They were probably 63% lean meat on a good day. 

The legend goes that one original FB attendee tossed one on the grill, and forgot about it for quite a while. Like a couple hours. When the small, charred hockey puck of a meat patty was discovered later, someone remarked "Wow, that was a Fatty Burger!" 

The rest is glorious, meat-loving history.

Guest Policy

For those unfamiliar, the Fatty Burger guest policy is as follows:

If you've ever been to a Fatty Burger celebration and we didn't kick you out, you are invited back for life. Bring yourself, bring your significant other, bring your friends, bring the kids. If you know anyone who has been to a Fatty Burger celebration, you are invited. Do understand that the party is mostly a bunch of drunken nerds trying to find ways to hurt ourselves through engineering projects, but it's all in good fun and we welcome other revelers!

If you have no idea who I am or what I'm talking about, please don't show up at my house expecting food, beer, or to rob me. That's not cool.

Also, anyone coming from out of town, or anyone who just doesn't feel like driving home from our place in the sticks can feel free to crash at any point during the weekend. Rooms, beds, couches, blankets, pillows, and floor are on a first-come, first-served basis.

Menu

As always, the menu is a tribute to meat:

Massive Burgers!
Dry-Rubbed Ribs*
Tastey Steak*
Grilled Chicken
Sausage and other tube meats
Hot Dogs - for the kids
Potato Salad
Roasted Veggies
And of course: The Sauce!

*Note that for Fatty Burger 2008 we may be trying to roast a whole pig. In that case, the ribs and steak will be offset by, you guessed it, a whole pig!

Mmmm... Beer

As always, we will have a variety of delicious microbrewed beer and cider available. I do not anticipate any homebrew, once again this year. I suck.

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