So after two weeks and over 900 + miles (back and forth to Mississippi and Tenn) we have completed the "SlugBurger Trail"
It's been great and I have learned a lot about "Slug Burgers" from the history to different styles and even found out there are other "Slug Burgers" out there but by different names and different states.
In Tenn they use mostley pork but add a little beef and use flour and corn meal and spices. Flat top seems to be the prefered way to cook them.
Mississippi they make them with pork, soy flour and white flour with spices. Deep fried and flat top to cook them
Alabama (with exception of Dismal Cavern) they make them with a mixture of beef, white bread, flour and spices.
Dismal Cavern is owned by the same folks who own Borroum's Drug Store. The burgers are as close to one another as you can get. There the perfect Mississippi Slug Burger
Best way we found to have them is Mustard, Onion & Pickel
Now due to to amount we were gonna eat we bought one burger cut in half and rated each one. Our favorites were from Alabama since they used beef, but most of the Miss ones were really with one exception The Butcher Block and to be as honest as I can they were horrible. As Kimmie's PawPaw would say "If you feed one to a dog it would have to lick it's butt to get rid of the taste" It was so bad we took one bite and trashed it. It was mushy and tasted like it was left out overnight.
Alabama's rated this way....... (side note, we prefered beef over pork)
Dubb's would be our first choice along with Penn Burgers (soon to re-open) followed buy Dismal Caverns, Willie's, then Busy Bee
Mississippi rated....
Borroum's Drug store (10 out of 10) then B.J's ( first started the tour) Then front Street Snack Bar, Latham's Hamburger Inn, Jonnie's Drive In, White Trolly Cafe and then The SlugBurger Cafe.
Tenn ended up like this....
Rockabilly Cafe, Brenda's Cafe, Pat's Cafe, Hope's cafe, Fat Cat's Cafe Then Wink's
All were good, but cornmeal gives a funny texture and flavor vs soy flour or white flour/bread. But Tenn's Slugs were not our favorites.
We both had a ball doing the four trails Ala (1) , Miss (3) and Tenn (1) and like I said we learned a lot ate well had a great time
and look forward to visiting these burger joints again.
Now we are looking into the next trail to go on!!
Pictures are going to be posted as soon as I get them uploaded and info of each place