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Bushman
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Posted 5:48 am, 10/23/2008
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Thanks Daddy P I hunted that story but could'nt find it .Thanks for letting us know .
Everybody tells it a different way and I had read the story but could'nt remember the details.
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Daddy P
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Posted 12:29 am, 10/23/2008
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Since this recipe is for over 100 people you could divide by the number of people you are making for. My head would explode if I tried to do that so I'll leave it to the math people. 
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Daddy P
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Posted 11:53 pm, 10/22/2008
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Here's the article you were looking for. The ingredients are for a huge batch so it would be tough to make for a few people.
Now to the recipe. And, to me, the surprise. According to Dee (Lovette) Berrong, each batch was mixed in a large dishpan. It was simple; flour, chili powder, yellow soy grits, sage, food coloring, and five pounds of ground beef . From each five pounds of beef, over ONE HUNDRED patties were made up, by hand, to be fried on one of the two big, flat grills in about 3/4" of pure lard.
http://www.therecordofwilke...
Goodwill burgers revisited�
By KEN WELBORN
Record Publisher
The response to our story about Ada Blevins and her many years working behind the counter at Smithey�s Department Store got me thinking about those old �bread burgers� myself because some things just cannot be replaced.
We may hate to admit it, but, when lost, some things are lost forever. Now, I'm not talking about change. Many things change, and often for the better. Such as digital calculators. I have a calculator in my pocket that cost about $6. The first digital calculator I remember was on my brother T. A.'s desk at Northwestern Security Life Insurance Company when they were located in the old Swofford's building on Ninth Street in North Wilkesboro. It was about the size of a cigar box, and cost, back then in 1972, over $800.
The $6 calculator in my pocket will do more, do it faster, and is about the size of a credit card. There is a long list of things that change and technology have made much better, smaller, faster, cheaper. Computers especially come to mind. That is fine, and progress is fine, but sometimes (apparently after you hit 50), things come to mind that just aren't there any more. It will make you long for a simpler time-a time when a "hamburger" was a dime. Wait a minute. I know what some of you are thinking-a ten cent hamburger-"I remember that." I'm not talking about just any ten cent hamburger here, it is the hamburger that was ten cents when everyone else's was already a quarter.
In 1960, the streets were two-way in North Wilkesboro, and more business was conducted on B Street (now Main) than anywhere in the area. Then as now, B Street (Main) ran to Tenth Street. But then, when you turned onto Tenth, it was something of a different world. A bit rougher area, if you will. There were places that my mother, Cary, told me I had best avoid. Amy's Cafe, the Ideal Grill, and Beech's, she said, "sold b-e-e-r," and I was NOT to go in them-for any reason. (I don't remember my mother ever saying "beer" as a word-she always spelled it out.)
Then there was the "Goodwill Store." The Smithey's Goodwill Department Store, on the corner of Tenth and D Streets, started, I understand, in 1906 by Nike Smithey (now operated as Smithey's of North Wilkesboro by Clyde Holland, in the same location). Smithey's Goodwill store had something for just about everyone-shoes, clothing, groceries, even farm supplies. It also had a lunch counter.
And, what a lunch counter it was.
Just inside the D Street entrance to the store was a corner walled in with screens that raised and lowered, and where meals were prepared for people shopping, workers from the American Furniture plant next door, or just a kid like me looking to stretch his lunch money. This was always the place everyone could afford to eat. They served hotdogs; and sandwiches of bologna, liver mush, or fish; and hot vegetable plates. But what they were known for, and what they prepared by the thousands upon thousands was "hamburgers."
Yes, "hamburger" has to be in quotation marks at least part of the time, because this sandwich was really like nothing I have ever seen (or tasted), before or since. Ground beef is the traditional ingredient in a hamburger, but, by the time those ladies finished loading up a dishpan, no cow would have ever recognized it. The exact proportion of the ingredients seems to be a matter of some controversy, but what the ingredi-ents are will be revealed here. My primary source of information is Dewitte (Dee Lovette) Berrong. There is only one Dee, and that is probably just as well. A veteran of both Second Street Hill and Hinshaw Street, I don't know if Wilkes County could handle two of her. She can be as hard as flint, and can out-cuss any sailor that ever took shore leave. Dee also has a heart of gold which is as big as all outdoors, and was as good a neighbor as I could have ever asked for my parent to have. Her sons John, a little younger than I, and Joe Don, a little older, shared many adventures together. Some, like Halloween balloons at "Goat" Canter's house we all laugh about. Some we are still scared to tell her about. As a young woman, Dee worked at Smithey's. She worked all over the store, and remarked to me about some of the people she remembered. It was interesting to hear the names of folks whom I remember being at the store; Coiet Dyer from the Men's Department, and Ralph Shoemaker, father of my friends Colin and Ron. Others, like Maurice Walsh, later the Postmaster of North Wilkesboro; Tom Whittington, my neighbor on Hinshaw Street;, and Jack Reeves, brother to Hoyle (who has pulled me out of ditches ever since I "learned" to drive); I never realized worked there.
Now to the recipe. And, to me, the surprise. According to Dee (Lovette) Berrong, each batch was mixed in a large dishpan. It was simple; flour, chili powder, yellow soy grits, sage, food coloring, and five pounds of ground beef . From each five pounds of beef, over ONE HUNDRED patties were made up, by hand, to be fried on one of the two big, flat grills in about 3/4" of pure lard.
I remarked to Dee that not since the Good Lord blessed that little boy's loaves and fishes had so little food been stretched so far. "But what about the bread?" I asked. I had thought that every bakery in Western North Carolina would bring their day-old (read that stale) bread to the Goodwill Store for their "breadburgers." "If you wanted to make Hazel Byrd Laws mad, just go in there and ask for a breadburger!" Dee said. They wouldn't tell you what WAS in them, but all the ladies at the lunch counter would quickly tell you what WASN'T.
Eating a Goodwill hamburger-you just had to be there. I have been thinking for days how to describe it. There is no way. It was just different from anything I have ever eaten, or seen, for that matter. As you stood at one of the windows to be waited on you could see piles of patties, already cooked: some brown, some yellowish gold, some burned black, stacked against the windows. As ordered, one, two, three, or ten patties were dragged back into the grease to heat up again. Plain, or mustard and slaw-these were your only choices. If you ordered them to go, the grease was soaking through the bag before you ever left the store.
I always enjoyed those burgers, but my favorite memory is from childhood. In 1960, I took a paper route for the Greensboro Daily News. On Friday and Saturday, I would collect from my customers. Back then, there was a service station (notice I didn't say gas station) on every corner. One of them, NW Gulf, was operated by my brother T. A., at the time I had my paper route. On Saturdays, he would work a big crew from dawn till dusk washing cars. A time or two when I went by to say hello on Saturday, T. A. would ask me to run down to the Goodwill and get him a "breadburger." (Sorry ladies, that's just what everyone called them.) He would give me a dime to pay for it and a nickel extra for going after it. Before long, I had a Saturday lunch route-I would fill the basket of my bicycle with burgers for ten cents each, financed with newspaper collections, then go to NW Gulf, Brown's ESSO, Main Street Gulf, John Culler's Service Station, and a few more I cannot even remember the names of. It was a great little sideline: Buy for a dime, sell for fifteen cents, and all those guys at the service stations loved it, because they were always too busy to leave for lunch.
I never stopped eating Goodwill hamburgers as long as they made them (the lunch counter closed in 1997). I would sometimes pick up a couple of bags of them and bring to the offices of Thursday Magazine (predecessor of The Record). I remember Perry and Wanda Dishmon would eat them, Joyce (Joines) New-man loved them, and lots of people weren't even willing to look past the greasy bag. Once, while standing in line to buy hamburgers, I noticed a familiar face behind me. Junior Johnson, decked out in bib overalls, retired from racing and now raising children, was waiting to order a Goodwill burger. He said he had been eating these burgers for as long as he could remember-but knew better than to ask for a "breadburger."
There is still much discussion as to the exact ingredients in the famous Goodwill "hamburgers." If you talk to Dare Greene, Ada Blevins, Lillie Holmes, or Dee Berrong, you will end up with four variations. Nothing was written down or measured, just some of this, and some of that until it looked right. And right they were. If you ever tasted one, you never forgot it. I loved those burgers, but I also miss the feel that went with them. The feeling you got when you went into the only place in town where the farmer and the banker and the little boy with a paper route stood in the same line, for the same thing-a ten cent "hamburger" like no other.
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Bushman
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Posted 10:43 pm, 10/22/2008
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I have been searching the old copies of the JP and the Record .The best I can tell this is the original recipe .
The lady said the toppings never changed just Mustard ans Homemade slaw.
The lady that posted this recipe said it was the Original recipe..
Real Goodwill Burger
2 1/2 Pounds Hamburger
1 Dozen buns
1 Cup Soy Flour
1 TBS Sage
1 TBS Chili Powder
1 Cup of Flour
1 TSP Salt
1 Onion minced fine
Run water over buns and squeeze out water
Then mix all ingredents together.
Make into patties and fry in 1 inch deep cooking oil.
Serve on bun with slaw ,mustard .
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Bushman
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Posted 11:34 pm, 10/19/2008
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These are the recipes that have been posted on gowilkes over the last 3 years.I just copied and pasted them .I have no idea if they are correct to original.
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scooby52
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Posted 8:43 pm, 10/19/2008
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that is some of the ing. but some of them did not go in the hamburgers i used to watch my mother make them in the late 40's or early 50
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Daddy P
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Posted 3:12 am, 10/18/2008
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You can get the for sure real one at the office of The Record. They ran the original in their paper after interviewing one of the ladies who cooked them.
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Bushman
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Posted 1:04 am, 10/18/2008
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Smithy burgers
1 lb. hamburger
3 hamburger buns wet and pinched into small pieces
1/2 tsp sugar
1 tsp chili powder
2 tbsp corn meal
2 tbsp flour
mix well fry in oil makes 6 burgers
The lady that posted this recipe said it was the Original recipe..
Real Goodwill Burger
2 1/2 Pounds Hamburger
1 Dozen buns
1 Cup Soy Flour
1 TBS Sage
1 TBS Chili Powder
1 Cup of Flour
1 TSP Salt
Run water over buns and squeeze out water
Then mix all ingredents together.
Make into patties and fry in cooking oil.
Serve on bun with onions ,mustard ,catsup.
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SOLITAIRE
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Posted 10:30 pm, 10/17/2008
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Hey, let me know how these turn out for you . . . I work @ Mazzie's on 2nd st. and sell the things & I can't even get the receipe! [btw - I don't think this is it ]=)
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KKLOWE
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Posted 8:05 pm, 10/15/2008
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Bushman
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Posted 10:37 pm, 10/14/2008
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Goodwill burgers 1
1 pound of breakfast sausage (canned Beverly Brand)
1 pound of hamburger meat
1 large onion finely chopped
1 cup of bread crumbs (any kind...buns, sandwich bread etc...)
salt & pepper to taste
mix thoroughly ..pat out in hamburger shape, fry in wesson oil
til done. serve on hamburger buns with mustard and slaw.
Enjoy!
GOODWILL BURGERS 2
1/4 lb. ground beef
3 hamburger buns-wet and pinched into small pieces
1/2 tsp. sugar
1 tsp. chili powder
2 tbsp.cornmeal
2 tbsp. flour
1/4 cup oatmeal
mix well fry in oil makes 4-5 burgers
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KKLOWE
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Posted 9:01 pm, 10/14/2008
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DOES ANYONE HAVE THE RECIPE FOR GOODWILL BURGERS, I HAVE BEEN WANTING TO MAKE THEM FOR MY KIDS.
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