Friday, February 26, 2010

The Shuster Burger

Hate to brag but seriously, my dad makes the best burgers ever!  If you don't believe me, just ask anyone who has ever had one.  Every summer my mom and dad make roughly 60-80 of them for camp staff at Beulah Beach, this doesn't include other various groups that visit during the summer.  In order to make 60+ Shuster burgers (the name derives from my family's last name - Shuster), you must employ assistants.  There is a little notecard that has the directions on how to construct the ever-so-famous burger.  Each assistant is assigned 1-2 jobs on the assembly line.  Those involved are definitely paid for their remarkable work by a Shuster burger of course...and usually some fresh pie from a local shop in the Vermilion area.  Anyhow, this year for Christmas my siblings and I received this gift from our dad. 

Isn't this awesome?  My dad started out as an art major in college.  Every year my mom and dad do something uniquely homemade for each of us at Christmas.  I knew my mom had been on the search for some of my dad's original artwork from college.  Much to my surprise and delight, each of us received this in a frame.  I proudly display this in my kitchen and have had various people comment on it.  You might be thinking, "Cara, are you sure you want to share this?  Are you letting out a famous family secret?"  Believe me, I am not concerned.  There is no possible way for you to truly replicate the delicacy of this special treat.  You can go ahead and try though but there is more to this the construction of this burger than the order of ingredients...it is the love of a father who has a love for the craft of the Shuster Burger.

1 comment:

Doug and Miriam said...

Cara, this is great! I had the honor of eating a Shuster burger in 1999! I remember that they had been delivered to some of the staff (I was a counselor that summer). The unfortunate thing was that we then had a severe thunderstorm warning and we had to get all the kids to the basement of the hotel. We accidentally left the burgers up in the lobby, so a couple of us counselors snuck upstairs to get them! Yumm!