Olive Burger
The one Flint people bring up first: a QP with The Works and a layer of sliced green olives. The olives make it salty and briny in a way that sounds odd until you try it, and then the plain QP seems to be missing something. Most mid-Michigan burger places have their own version. If you only order one thing at Halo Burger, order this with a Boston Cooler.
The story
The olive burger is a mid-Michigan speciality, and its roots go back to the Kewpee chain that Halo Burger grew out of. The most likely birthplace is Weston’s Kewpee Sandwich Shop in Lansing, an hour west of Flint, in the 1920s, where a burger was topped with an “olive sauce” of chopped green olives and mayonnaise. Around Lansing it is still a standard order. Halo Burger, which inherited the original Kewpee stand in Flint, calls itself the home of the Olive Burger, and its version piles sliced green olives on top.
What’s inside
Make it at home
There is no copycat of the Olive Burger yet. Until there is, these recipes on the site come closest to it, judged by what goes into the bun.
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Zachariah's Shack Burger
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About Halo Burger
Halo Burger began as the very first Kewpee: the hamburger stand Samuel Blair opened in a boxcar-style wagon on Harrison Street in downtown Flint in 1923, the start of a chain that grew to more than 400 restaurants. When the Kewpee trademark owners demanded a full franchise arrangement in 1967, the Flint operator, Bill Thomas, refused and renamed his restaurants Bill Thomas’ Halo Burger. The original building was torn down in 1979 to make way for University of Michigan–Flint parking, but the chain carried on around Genesee County.
A small group of restaurants in Flint and Genesee County, Michigan.
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