Best Burger in America?

a writer, Raymond Sokolov, of the wall street journal wrote an article about his "journey to find a perfect burger" and he found it at "a justifiably renowned little diner on a broken-down industrial stretch of highway" in Atlanta, Ga.

click here for the link to the article.

So my friend told me about the article and this supposed burger utopia and we decided to investigate...after finding the directions, we began to prepare our own journey to Ann's Snack Bar. To make a long story short, the place was a shack, literally, and in the middle of a hood a$$ area...the writer delicately left this part out. no problems though but you could've easily drove past if you weren't paying attention or in disbelief that the place was "Hamburger Hamlet". if you read the article you might get the impression that this place was a holy and sacred place for burger eaters as if there was a beam of light coming from the sky or something...but in reality it is far from the truth.

now this isn't the traditional or conventional eating establishment and the best way for me to describe this place is like....well its like waiting at the barbershop, the anticipation and expectation. Ann, the 150 yr old lady who cooked and ran the place, could only serve 6-8 people at a time and when we had arrived there were at least 14 ppl ahead of us. we got there around 2:30pm and i think we left around 5-ish...yeah we waited almost 2 hrs to get a burger...

sadly, the anticipation of waiting was better than the burger itself. the burger was huge as hell...look at the pics...and it was sloppy. i tapped out before the half way mark b/c i was literally tired of trying to eat that thing. the burger....it was aight, i personally think cookout burgers are better...obviously Sokolov didn't stop by there on his way to Ann's place.

here are a few pics from that day...oh yeah the burger i choose was ironically named "The Ghetto Burger"...i got the combo...it came w/ fries and some bangin a$$ lemonade...

ann's snack bar

ann and her boo (?) preparing our "Ghetto Burger"


the burger may not look big but use the things in the pic, such as the fork or ketchup bottle for size comparisons...

xan's accident...


wall of fame???

maybe its on a scale of 80?

i was done...

by this pt my ~itis was starting to set in but before i layed down for a nap i had to...yup u guess'd it...use the restroom...