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Go 'Bobbing for Burgers' at the National Hamburger Festival

If, like the little old ladies in those Wendy's commercials, you ever wondered, "Where's the beef?," the answer is in Akron, Ohio. The city will be bombarded with delicious beef when its hosts the fifth annual National Hamburger Festival on July 17 and 18. The city claims to have invented the beloved sandwich, though in the 2006 Hamburger Hearings, an online vote declared Seymour, Wisconsin, as the burger birthplace by a narrow margin.

There's lots of ground beef and buns to be had at the fest—which saw more than 25,000 burger lovers last year—so you Hamburglars will get your fill. Twenty restaurants will flip more than 50 different burger varieties and compete for titles, including best creative burger, best cheeseburger, best veggie burger and best burger toppings/special sauce.

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A Little Hip-Hop History with Your $1 Hamburger?

When you want a recession-friendly meal, you probably don't head directly to a museum. No, museum food just makes us think of $13 nicoise salads and the like.

But the Hollis Hip-Hop Museum is neither your typical museum or your average eatery. OK, museum is a bit of a stretch, seeing as how it is located entirely inside the Hollis Famous Burgers restaurant in Queens. While it might not supplant MoMA or the Met as New York's cultural epicenter anytime soon, it does have hundreds of items of hip-hop memorabilia, with a special emphasis on native sons of Queens, including a tribute to RUN-DMC's Jam Master Jay, who lived five blocks from the museum before he was shot and killed in 2002.

The museum has enough street cred that Darryl McDaniel (the DMC of RUN-DMC) turned out for its grand opening last week. And we like the pricing: $1 burgers and free admission. Beat that, MoMA!

Related Stories:
· Putting Together a Hamburger, a Neighborhood and Hip-Hop [NYTimes]
· Museums Travel Coverage [81]
· Recession Restaurants coverage [Jaunted]

Photo: [NYTimes]