Photo: Back Yard BurgersBlack & Bleu
Blackened beef with crumbled blue cheese and bacon. The pungent cheese and smoky bacon stand up to the spice rub, and red onion keeps it sharp. Rich and bold, and a good pick if you already like blue cheese burgers.
The story
Blackening is a Louisiana technique with a known inventor. Paul Prudhomme, who opened K-Paul’s Louisiana Kitchen in New Orleans in 1979, served his first blackened redfish in the spring of 1980: fish coated in Cajun spices and seared in a white-hot cast-iron pan until the crust turned almost black. It caused a national craze, so much that Gulf redfish were overfished and catching them was largely banned in 1988. The same spice crust works on beef, and blue cheese is the classic cooling partner for it.
What’s inside
Make it at home
There is no copycat of the Black & Bleu yet. Until there is, these recipes on the site come closest to it, judged by what goes into the bun.
- Shares beef, bacon and cheese
TOP 3McDonald's Big Tasty (Copycat) - Shares beef, bacon, cheese and a double stack
Peter’s Triple Bacon Burger - Shares beef, cheese and a double stack
McDonald's Daily Double (Copycat) - Shares beef, cheese and a double stack
Big Beef Blopper
Similar burgers at other chains
Built around the same things as the Black & Bleu.- The Counter · beef, bacon, blue cheese and cheese
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Lafayette - Dairy Queen · beef, bacon, cheese and a double stack
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About Back Yard Burgers
Lattimore Michael opened the first Back Yard Burgers in Cleveland, Mississippi, on 21 March 1987. The name sets the tone: Black Angus beef, flame-grilled so it tastes like a cookout in someone’s back yard. The first restaurants were drive-thru only, and franchising started a year later.
Only a handful of restaurants remain, in Mississippi, Tennessee, Florida and Illinois. At its peak in 2007 there were 179.
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