Photo: MEATliquorDead Hippie
The burger that made MEATliquor’s name. Two patties fried in mustard, so the flavour cooks into the crust, with American cheese, the secret dead hippie sauce, lettuce, pickles and diced raw onion. It is messy, tangy and deeply savoury, the London answer to an In-N-Out Animal Style burger. Hold it with both hands.
The story
This burger came off a van. Yianni Papoutsis ran the MEATwagon around London from 2009, cooking American roadside-diner burgers at a time when the city’s idea of a good burger was a thick patty on brioche with chutney. The mustard-fried patties, processed cheese and diced raw onion were a deliberate correction, and a cult formed around them. When MEATliquor opened near Oxford Street in 2012 the queues followed, and London’s burger scene has been arguing about smash versus gastropub ever since.
What’s inside
Make it at home
There is no copycat of the Dead Hippie yet. Until there is, these recipes on the site come closest to it, judged by what goes into the bun.
- Shares beef and cheese
Big Mac Taco - Shares beef and cheese
Big Mac Hot Dog - Shares beef and cheese
Croissant Big Mac - Shares beef and cheese
Baguette Big Mac
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SignatureGourmet Supreme Steakburger with Cheese
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About MEATliquor
MEATliquor started life as a burger van. The MEATwagon cooked American-style burgers on the London street-food circuit, built a cult following, and in 2012 turned into a permanent restaurant near Oxford Street: dark, loud, covered in graffiti-style art and serving cocktails in jam jars.
A handful of restaurants in London and other UK cities.
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