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well it's time for the Texas pugilist
burger of the week and this week we're
in downtown Nederland at a burger joint
I'm told is the boss the boss burger the
first time you walk into this legendary
local eatery it doesn't take long for
owner Joe Oates to give you a hearty
welcome at your service
live in your face it's safe to say he's
a bit boisterous are we on our go it one
wild and crazy guy sit back down for a
minute okay we all love him to death so
you wouldn't be me if I wasn't me I say
it's dinner and a show with Joe you know
Mary is his partner in life years ago
shoes that made him honor at my first
wedding in 1989
okay well the Lord does work in
mysterious ways I knew she was going to
be the one but we had a motorcycle
accident our first our second the second
week dating we took that we took the
bike and ran it off and slid it off into
a ditch into a muddy ditch and she said
chalk this off to the bucket list
together they started boss burger out of
a trailer but decided to make it a
destination and down down coming here
the last year every day is kind of like
a six-year-old at Christmastime for me
born on the East Coast
Joe has come a long way over the years
after spending the majority of his life
offshore cooking for fishing vessels and
offshore rigs in the Gulf you get
compliments by 45 guys three times a day
and a good job and I'm getting paid to
do what I like to do which is cook but
when he came back to shore 100 proof
women in 90 proof whiskey it sounds
really good Joe didn't really have a
place to call home eventually he got his
life together
thanks to faith friends and food there
was a time in my life if I walked into
police station they want to take my
furniture and today I walked down into
the police station and they want to have
their picture taken with me
definitely he's the crazier one I'm the
one that has kind of calmed down good
people with good motors and obviously
good food he has a big heart and I think
it shows Joe is very passionate about
food and we're here for a burger tough
with of all things apples snap lisanna
burger man it just don't sound right so
what would convince someone to try a
burger like that Joe's got a pretty good
argument the one constant in the world
that will keep a man in Everlast and
ignorance this contempt prior to
investigation but like the great Rodney
Carrington said there's things you can
try and there's things you don't try and
you try ice cream Who am I to say no so
we start with prime rib and chuck roast
butcher shop fresh we got it last
Thursday your hamburger patty was still
walking across the field making patties
once we got our half-pound patty Joe
throws it on the grill one last little
patty together you want to give it a
shrinkage since you are not so fancy bun
is toasted we're not artsy fartsy
straight up just a regular bun the star
of the show is the burger it's not that
once it's cooked Joe's own recipe known
as the Berkley sauce is busted out so
here comes the Berkley sauce is it
Berkeley sauce now this is our maple
favorite bacon granny smith apples sue
yellow onions pure maple syrup and
that's it well it's the only chance I'll
ever get to go to Berkeley so let's go
to Berkeley let's go to Berkeley all
right so here's the Berkeley freshly
ground beef with that Apple bacon
Berkeley sauce and cheese a simple
burger with an incredible topping we've
never seen on the Texas bucket list so
we will go ahead and close up that
burger and go in for a Berkeley bites
turns out this burger is the Apple of
mine an incredible combination of
flavors with that sweet apple and that
savory bacon mix it in with those onions
mixing together with a freshly ground
beef and the buzz don't worry about it
because it's all about what's in here
it's one of the best burgers right for
the biggest sometimes it's Apple five
sometimes it's burger one thing's for
sure it's all good
we used to ward off some third time in
your review but it is very good burger
while Joe might have a seedy past boss
burger has ripened his life and he's
making the most of it
I've never belonged to anything you know
now I've got a girl we've got a house a
couple of dogs a business I belong to
some motorcycle organizations the
Chamber of Commerce a couple of churches
we drive down to town and people honking
and we oh my god well because a
hamburger
whoa for a burger that's the boss in
Nederland the Berkeley at boss burgers
is well worth of stuff hazzah Texas
bucket list
we love boss burgers we're partial here
in Nederland but yes it is a good
bargain you hackmore the place of Janis
Joplin and Joe us
and now for your Texas listening
pleasure
here are the powell brothers with coming
home
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