Photo: Carl's Jr.Guacamole Bacon Burger
A West Coast burger through and through. Guacamole, bacon and pepper-jack pile onto the charbroiled patty with lettuce, tomato and red onion, and the cool, creamy guac takes the edge off the salty bacon and peppery cheese. It is rich and a little messy, and it tastes like California in a way the chain’s other burgers do not.
The story
Almost every avocado eaten in the world descends from one tree in California. Rudolph Hass, a postman in La Habra Heights, planted a seedling in the 1920s, failed to graft it over as intended and found his children preferred its fruit; he patented the tree in 1935. The Hass variety took over because it travels and ripens well, and it turned avocado from a local curiosity into a Californian export. A chain founded in Los Angeles in 1941 putting guacamole on a burger is not a trend, it is home cooking.
What’s inside
Make it at home
There is no copycat of the Guacamole Bacon Burger yet. Until there is, these recipes on the site come closest to it, judged by what goes into the bun.
- Shares beef, bacon, avocado and heat
Peter’s Fuddruckers Burger - Shares beef, bacon, heat and cheese
Dean’s Breakfast Burger from Supernatural - Shares beef, bacon and cheese
TOP 3McDonald's Big Tasty (Copycat) - Shares beef, bacon, heat and cheese
Cheesy Bacon Ranch Burger Sliders
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About Carl's Jr.
Carl Karcher and his wife Margaret borrowed $311 against their Plymouth in 1941 to buy a hot dog cart in Los Angeles. By 1945 they had a drive-in barbecue restaurant in Anaheim, and the burger chain that grew out of it still cooks its patties over an open charbroiler rather than a flat grill, which gives them the backyard-grill stripes and smoke that define the menu.
More than 1,000 US restaurants and locations in over 20 countries, from Mexico to Japan and Australia.
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