Growing up in San Diego in the late seventies early eighties, we often visited a local Bob's Big Boy restaurant. One of our favorite things to order was the Brawny Beef burger with steak fries and a side of Bob's blue cheese dressing. The fries and the dressing I can still readily find, but the famous Brawny Beef seems to be lost to history. Every 6 months or so I search the Internet hoping I will come across it. I haven't found it of course, but what I have discovered is that there are others out there searching for this recipe as well. I'm starting this blog in the hopes that with the collective power of the Internet we can pool information on this elusive Burger.
The Bob's Big boy chain is not one unified entity but rather loosely organized, with regional differences. From what I have gathered so far, the Brawny Beef was unique to Southern California.
The Brawny Lad is not the Brawny Beef!!!
The menu reads
The Brawny Beef
A generous portion of ground beef seasoned
with chopped onions and spices with crisp
lettuce and a special sauce on a custom
baked bun
Are the onions mixed and cooked into the beef or just a condiment on top? Is the seasoning just the Bob's Big Boy Seasoning you can buy in the little brown bottles? Is the special sauce just burger sauce or tarter sauce or?
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