Exciting Day with KUTV 2-News & Executive Chef at Dixie State College

February 16, 2013

Ladd Egan, announcer with KUTV 2-News and World's Oldest Hamburger

Ladd Egan, with Mike Stephen, cameraman, spent Friday morning, filming the World’s Oldest Hamburger in its native habitat and recorded the story about it's inception.

13 Year-old Burger with
six competitors only 2 days old.

Mike commented that in his 10 years of filming stories, this was the “craziest” he’d ever done. I have to say it was just a hoot being filmed and interviewed by these two professionals. It should be a really fun story to watch. They even had me find the original “coat in the closet” where this burger stayed undiscovered for the first couple of years.

After a couple of hours at my home, we took off to the University to visit with Head Executive Chef Paulo Blaser. He called this burger a mummy and loved that it survived so many years. He had never seen a burger this old! He called the Big Mac tin the burger’s “sarcophagus” and said the burger had literally mummified, and could last longer than the receipt, wrapper or paper-sac it was stored in.

Ladd, Mike and Chef Paulo then went into the Red Rock Café on campus and filmed students encounter with the mummified... 13 year old hamburger. Their reactions and comments were hilarious! Some students touched the burger, most flinched and some even ran away from it. A few were brave enough to pick it up and smell it. No one wanted to taste it. I hope they have enough time to show a lot of their reactions on 2-News, hopefully next Tuesday. Some of the reactions were so ridiculous; they may not make it on the show. Ladd and Mike said they would take some of the extra recordings and put a short YouTube together... we might see later as a tag to the show.

Egan said this will most likely hit the national CBS affiliates nationwide over the next few months, and possibly get world-wide exposure. So will the Today Show be next, who knows. The World’s Oldest Hamburger would love a trip to New York, Russia, or a city near you. Would you like to see this in person, write a comment and let us know. If we come to your city, maybe you could be invited to see it up close and personal… maybe live on TV. Leave your comments.