Photo: Back Yard BurgersClassic
The burger the chain was built on: a third-pound flame-grilled patty with lettuce, tomato, red onion, pickles and all three condiments. It is exactly what the name promises, a cookout burger with proper char marks. Nothing fancy, and that is why it works.
What’s inside
Make it at home
There is no copycat of the Classic yet. Until there is, these recipes on the site come closest to it, judged by what goes into the bun.
- Shares beef and a double stack
Whopper (Copycat) - Shares beef
McDonald's Quarter Pounder with Cheese Deluxe (Copycat) - Shares beef
McDonald's McFeast (Copycat) - Shares beef
McDLT
Variations
The Classic, taken somewhere it was never meant to go.
Similar burgers at other chains
Built around the same things as the Classic.- Halo Burger · beef and a double stack
Double QP Burger - Sonic Drive-In · beef and a double stack
SignatureSuperSONIC Double Cheeseburger - Jack's · beef and a double stack
SignatureBig Jack - Burger Street · beef and a double stack
SignatureDeluxe Hamburger
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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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