For a long time, burgers felt like a big-brand conversation. McDonald’s. Burger King. The usual suspects.
Quick, familiar, everywhere. Convenient, but rarely memorable.
Arkansas reminded me that burgers don’t have to come with a drive-thru script. Sometimes they come from a small, family-run spot where the grill has seen decades of use and nobody’s trying to reinvent anything. Just beef, cheese, heat, and muscle memory…