Slugburgers In Corinth

Last month when we were in Corinth, we had lunch at Borroum’s Drug Store – it’s thought of as *the* place for a slugburger there. Ah, really I love it because it first opened in 1865 and is Mississippi’s oldest drugstore and soda fountain!

The boys – all of them – really enjoyed it too!

Their menu explained slugburgers:

“Slugburgers are a mixture of ground pork, soy flour, and spices. The mixture is flattened into a patty and deep fried in vegetable fat. The patty is placed on a hamburger bun with garnish of mustard, pickle, and onion.

Developed during the Depression when money was scarce and so was meat, slugburgers were made with a mixture of beef and pork, potato flour as an extender, and spices, then fried in animal fat. Mrs. Weeks, credited with creating one of the first, found the ‘burgers’ were a way to make meat go a little farther at the family hamburger stand.

Selling for a nickel, sometimes called a slug, the imitation hamburgers became known as slugburgers.”

…and since it’s a soda fountain, I got a *real* cherry Coke! I even let Shug have a little sip – he’s never had any kind of soft drink (and won’t again for ages) but since 95% of everything both babies eat at home is organic/antibiotic-free/pesticide-free/no added growth hormones/etc etc etc (thank you Whole Foods), I figure one sip of cherry Coke now that he’s 2-1/2 years old will not undo all the good we’ve done…

…and that was a good cherry Coke!

The boys split a sandwich and Av and I both had – of course – the house specialty, slugburger:

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