I'll Take Mine With Mustard

Always the biggest meal of the year, Thanksgiving has come and gone.  With it the tons of fruit salad, green bean casserole, cornbread dressing, turkey and gravy will lie low until next November.  Don't get me wrong, I really like all that food but for once would it be possible to break with tradition?  I am a Texan through and through and Texas was not built on green bean casserole, turkey and dressing, it was built of beef.  So why not serve hamburgers for Thanksgiving and dispense with all those hours in the kitchen.  Besides a burger is easier to handle while setting in front of the TV while watching the national pass time.
 If I had my way, the hamburger would be the official meal and certainly the sandwich of Texas.  Burgers give those who consume them the liberty to choose their topping from guacamole to sauerkraut and everything in between.  No one has to fill guilty because they didn't try the green bean casserole or fruit salad on the Thanksgiving table.  Do as Burger King commands " Have it your way".  Not recognizing the burger as our state identity would be an act of self estrangement.  The state's leading University mascot is a walking burger not some feathered fowl gobbling it's way across the 40 acres.
I was like almost everyone else in America on Thanksgiving, packing my plate full of fruit salad, green bean casserole, cornbread dressing, turkey, gravy  and I loved ever last morsel.  But before the second largest meal of the year rolls around  I'll be setting under a Christmas tree at Dan's Hamburger in Austin Texas ordering a large all the way with mustard burger.  I'll even throw an order of hand cut fries on the plate.  I don't want anyone to think I don't like variety or tradition.