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He's lost a wife because of flipping burgers but gained another one because of it. His own three children – Adam now taking the reins of the diner – were born into the smell of onion burgers and have diner blood running through their veins. And it's all thanks to the Oklahoma fried onion burger, which rose from the scarcity of the Great Depression, thus earning the quaint nickname of the "Depression Burger".
During America's Great Depression in the 1930s, hamburger meat was expensive. In the small community of El Reno, a dreamer named Ross Davis and his father opened the Hamburger Inn, scoring a prime location along the brand-new famed Route 66 highway right as the economy shattered.
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We have a 12ft convection oven for the rising and baking of the bun, a 10ft circular grill for the burger that 'flips' and cooks the burger to perfection," said Ford
Last year, The El Reno Main Street sold out of burgers for the first time in history, not counting the thousands of burgers cooked by Sid's, Johnnie's Hamburgers and Coneys and Roberts. "It's an incredible weekend," said Ford. "El Reno is where the fried onion burger originated. It's been passed down from generation to generation, and we have perfected it to the best."
