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MARIECLAIR.co.uk- According to the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition, the government’s guidelines of 2,000 calories a day for women and 2,500 for men are too low. People could eat 16 per cent more – around 400 calories – without putting on weight, they say.

The new guidelines, which are subject to consultation before becoming recommendations, were the result of researchers reassessing how fat is burned off after exercise.

This is great news but what was stopping us before??? Thanks for making us feel better about ourselves…I should speak for myself.  Thanks! -BB

BurgerBets is coming live to you from sunny San Diego this week!  If you didn’t already know, “Baby Burger” lives here.  If you don’t know who that is, scroll down and look for the retarded looking kid scarfing down a burger as if he were some sort of animal.  He just said he thinks he can “spike it on me” in beach volleyball.  Hmmmmmmmmm.  Don’t you have to not be retarded to know how to spike?  Thats what I thought.  Theres a better chance of LobstersClaw not #2ing himself this weekend than Baby Burger doing any sort of spiking.  Anyway, because I have to go to breakfast/beach/bar, I am gunna keep this short, as always home team in CAPS:

PEOPLE.com- Is it just me or is Kim getting bigger and bigger?  I mean her butt has always been huge looks like it needs its own parking spot these days.  I think she might be dipping her toes into too many Carl’s Cheeseburgers.  Maybe she is the next in line to follow her fellow socialite cohorts Paris Hilton and Audrina Partridge.  Believe me, I would not be dissappointed to see Kim in a bikini mowing down a burger but she needs to cut back on the sesame seed buns and special sauce.  Take it easy Kim and start looking into Veggie or Boca burgers rather than Whoppers.  Your backside is turning into a new Sonic franchise.- BB

THELEAFCHRONICLE.com- #3. Feed your belly and make today your lucky day by defeating Cheeseburger Charley’s “General,” a monstrous eating competition involving 2.5-pound burger with all the fixings, a large order of fries and a 20-ounce drink to wash it down. Eat it all in 30 minutes or less and you’ll become a Cheeseburger Charley’s five-star general. Cost to compete is $22.66, and you’ll find Cheeseburger Charley’s and “The General” at 1780 Tiny Town Road.

Full list of 13 Things to do

Of course eating a cheeseburger made the list of 13…was there any doubt???

Here is my list of 13 things to do on Friday the 13th, New York City Style;

Burger Boy’s Top 13 (Friday the 13th) things to do

1.  Cafe Cluny (West Village)- Late breakfast…Cafe Cluny Burger

2. Pommes Frites (East Village)- Authentic Belgian Fries…Any Fries & Dipping Sauces (choose wisely)

3. Big Nick’s (Upper West Side)- Zapata Burger…cheddar cheese, bacon and guac

4. Prime House (Gramercy)- Post up at the Bar…Classic burger with Gruyere

5. Rare (Murray Hill)- Fries Basket, Lollipop wings and Murray’s Cheeseburger

6. Peter Luger’s (Brooklyn)- Sit down for lunch (only time burger available)..Luger-Burger

7. PJ Clarke’s (Midtown East)- Bernaise burger and side of Fried onion strings

8. Yerman’s (Queens)- Irish Nachos and Pizza Burger

9. JG Melon’s (Upper East Side)- Bacon Cheeseburger, double order of fries, Sam Adam’s (8 of them) and apple pie

10. Dumont (Brooklyn)- Cheeseburger, side of Onion Rings and a Magic Hat #9

11. Balthazar (Soho)- Cheesburger and a Maker’s and ginger or Grey Goose and Soda

12. Zaitzeff (Financial District)- Kobe Beef Burger

13. Croxley Ale’s (Lower East Side) 10 cent wings,  a pint and Chipotle BBQ Burger

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NYPOST.com- I ate every hamburger in the Meatpacking District. Or almost every one — to any restaurant I missed, my insincere apologies. But let’s just say the best under-$10 burgers

I tried over two weeks in the scenester-trampled zone were at Bill’s Bar & Burger, one month old, and at Hector’s diner, 40 years old.

They share the MPD title in the low-priced field, even if that offends oracles who’ve proclaimed Bill’s as having the greatest burgers since man first trod the downtown earth.

The best burger costing more than $10 was the Standard Grill’s. It was also my favorite of all 11 MPD burgers I put to the one-strike-and-you’re-out test. That means I tried each specimen once. Eateries will whine that it’s unfair to judge burgers on a single eating.

I’d like to be the judge of that…You would think that the Meatpacking District would be known for its Burgers per capita (hence the meat) but believe it or not this is not a NYC melting pot of great burgers.  Don’t get me wrong, there are some great spots to dine, drink and dance in the area but not historically known for its perennial powerhouses of burger shrines.  I recently posted up at Bill’s Bar & Burger and liked some things but also had some doubts about the burger meat itself.  What about Gansevoort 69? No mention of that…Past burger Babes would not be pleased about that.  More to come…  – BB

NEWYORK.GRUBSTREET.com- With P&B up and running, Fresh-N-Fast aims to be the next entrant into the patty pageant. Heath Wolfson, a onetime nightclub promoter and owner who is now CEO of a chain of tattoo shops, Tattoo Nation, has teamed up with Igor Beyder, a finance guy, to open the first of what they hope will be many takeout joints. The first is due to open November 23 in the Flatiron. If the name and branding remind you of something, it’s probably not by accident. “In terms of the quality and consistency of the product, I would compare us to an In-N-Out,” Wolfson says. “We hope to have the same type of following.”

To get there, Wolfson is using a secret LaFrieda blend as well as “special sauce” that sounds similar to Shake Shack’s. The four-ounce patties, which are never frozen, are cooked medium on a flattop and served with American Jack on Martin’s potato buns (what else?). Also on the menu are fries, cheese fries, and vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry shakes.

Fresh-N-Fast, 111 E. 23rd St., nr. Park Ave. S.

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NYTIMES.com- WHEN Jenny Kirsten, a producer for the Food Network, went on her first date with Jason Beberman, a chef at Dressler in Brooklyn, they didn’t splurge on a multicourse dinner with wine pairings. Instead, they went to the Rusty Knot, a West Village bar that teeters between dive and chic, for picklebacks: a shot of whiskey with a pickle juice chaser. They split a gourmet chicken liver sandwich — with bacon and red onion marmalade — followed by a couple of Tecates with salt on the rim, and then played the free jukebox.

“We can cut the burger and share the fries, and make a date-night toast,” Ms. Kirsten said. She sighed contentedly. “I’m too in love for my own good.”

Let’s just cut to the chase.  There a two key take-aways from this article.  #1, The Rusy Knot is a sick little spot and a must to stop in and have a cocktail.  Whether its a can of Tacate with salt and lime, a Maker’s on the rocks or a shot of Patron this Miami condo cicra 1970’s vibe is perfect to escape the winter cold.  #2, Tator Tots are so underrated its scary.  They are such a great complinment to a big juicy burger.  Maybe falling just short of the french fry in terms of sides, the tator tot has some serious street credit and a great tot would give the french fry a run for its money.- BB