AM Hucks: WSJ Plays Catch Up, Praises Hudson’s

Raymond Sokolov of the Wall Street Journal didn’t mean to dis Hudson’s Hamburgers when he set out on his coast-to-coast adventure to find the best hamburger in America. He simply hadn’t heard of the historic Sherman Avenue establishment that’s celebrating its centennial this year. As a result, he ballyhooed lesser burger places in print, including: Miller’s Bar in Detroit; Mr. Bartley’s Burger Cottage in Cambridge, Mass.; Red Mill Burgers in Seattle; and Slow’s Bar BQ in Birmingham, Ala. And was besieged by hundreds of Americans who protested that their fave joint offered equal or better burgers. No one, however, presented a better case for a second opinion than Dr. Tom Gumprecht and six others who lobbied for the Huddyburger. As a result, Sokolov traveled eight hours by air and another by car to belly up to the Hudson’s Hamburgers counter with Drs. Ann and Don Gumprecht and Dr. Larry Garvin and his wife, Patricia . In his WSJ article Saturday, “Best Burgers: Readers weigh in,” Sokolov acknowledges Coeur d’Alene briefly as “a gorgeous town.” Then he gets down to the crucial business of analyzing Hudson’s fare: “The Huddyburger is certainly the best $2 burger in creation. I liked the double burger, but the plain burger was even better. The Platonic ideal of burgerdom. It’s the burger Dr. Ann orders, with pickles but no onion. She eschews the secret pink sauce and the ketchup, opting for hot mustard. I tried it that way and was converted.” Of course. (Huckleberries Online will link to Sokolov’s stories this morning.)

Story: Best Burgers: Readers weigh in /Raymond Sokolov, Wall Street Journal
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