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High Velocity again at noon. Whoops! no beer until 12:30
in Georgia! But I noticed Mighty Mo on the menu. For those
who are not familiar with this delight, it's a precursor
of the Big Mac, invented at the Hot Shoppes, Bill Marriott's
first hospitality venture. So I ordered one. The one I
recall was a nice fistful of flavors, 35 cents. This one
was $14, a 4000% increase in 50 years. 

--mm
MIGHTY MO
cat: sandwiches, nostalgia, delicious
serves: 4

- For the sauce
1/4 c ketchup
1/8 c Heinz chili sauce
1 ts A-1 sauce
1/4 ts Worcestershire sauce
2 drops Tabasco sauce
1/4 c pickle relish
1/2 c mayonnaise
- For the burgers
1 lb ground beef
Lawry's seasoned salt
Freshly ground white pepper
- To assemble
2 Tb soft margarine
8 sesame-seed hamburger buns
4 sl American cheese
1/4 hd shredded iceberg lettuce
8 bread-and-butter pickle chips

To prepare the sauce: Combine all the sauce ingredients well.
Refrigerate until needed.

To prepare the burgers: Preheat a grill or broiler. Divide
meat into eight portions, and shape each portion into a thin
patty 4-6" in diameter. Season to taste with Lawry's
seasoned salt and white pepper.

Spread margarine on top and bottom of four buns, and on the
bottoms of four additional buns; reserve the four tops without
margarine for another use. Lightly toast buns, and set aside.

Grill hamburgers on one side, flip, and top four of them with
one slice of cheese. Grill to taste, then remove from heat.

To assemble: Spread 2 ts of Mighty Mo sauce on bottom of each
of four buns. Top sauce with some shredded lettuce and a burger
without cheese. Top with the additional bun bottom, and spread
with 2 more ts of sauce. Top with a cheeseburger patty, and put
two pickle chips on top of cheese. Add top of bun. Serve with
french fries.

Adapted from: "Marriott Hot Shoppes Cookbook"
(Parsons, Friedmann & Central, 1987)
NY Times 10-6-99

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The original was 2 little 2-or-3-oz patties, squishy with
sauce. This one was two regular-size half-pounders (I am
guessing that they were out of the little guys, either that
or the Sunday cook was unfamiliar with the specifications).
It was a sizable sandwich, and I was right filled up, even
though the sauce was just a smeary presence on the bottom
bun, and there was still no beer. I was all set to order my
brewski, it being about time, when my high school buddy,
whom I haven't seen in a decade or more, and with whom I
was supposed to have dinner, rang me - she'd come back from
her retreat early, and could she pick me up? No beer. I
got the check, hustled out front, and M shortly was out
there in her little Prius, just as sweet and lovely as
when I'd met her 44 years ago.

She's married and has 4 kids, so there's no question of,
you know, that, not that there ever was, but it was just so
wonderful to see her and catch up on the last 10 or 15 years
since we'd seen each other and talk about, well, pretty much
the same things that we talked about when we were finding
ourselves.

Went home and chatted with her husband and their youngest
son (now in high school), and played with Maggie, the
black goldoodle, and then she and he and I took me to the
botanic gardens, which is making a big thing (and righfully)
of its orchid collection. There is a temporary offering that
combines glass artifacts with the flowers, very intriguing.
Following that, we visited the Georgia Daffodil Society
show, which was intriguing in its own way: I could never
figure out how to judge such things - county fairs, and the
like, where one daffodil (or potato!) looks to the untrained
eye just like the next. I talked to one of the judges, and
when I said that I judged music competitions, she said, now
[i]that's[/i] a tough job. I demurred.

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