Dixie Fried

Tucker's Tavern, New Orleans, a sports bar that sells a variety of stuffed deep-fried cheeseburgers. The concept alone of the deep fried cheeseburger is award-worthy and I was sold at the mere mention of it. However, the burgers are every bit as good as you'd hope they would be. They're not big bready chicken fried steak affairs either. There are several varieties to choose from and the ingredients of each are mixed into the ground beef which is then pattied, battered, deep-fried, then covered with more cheese. The end result is a hamburger with a scruptuous crunchy crust. I ordered the Big Tuck, which has bacon in it and is slathered in barbeque sauce. OH... MY... LORD was it good! Unfortunately, many of our party had consumed a goodly amount of alcohol the previous evening and were hung over and dehydrated, so the burgers wound up doing the gut bomb on some of them. A few Tylonols and a long visit to "the terlet" worked wonders for them, though.