In honor of National Burger Heritage Awareness Month, our favorite Internet travel buddy Gridskipper opted to run a post lauding the awesomeness of Washington's hamburgers. We have no quarrel there; they are awesome, and we feel it completely appropriate to exalt their bovinity. Hmm. Bovinity. Where have we heard that word before? Bovinity, bovinity, bovinity, bovinity...

But Gridskipper's list is certainly respectable — incorporating true burger all-stars like Colorado Kitchen and Tallula — even if it does buy into the whole organic "Kobe" beef is the sign of greatness thing. Their roundup also provides a good scope of Washington's burger cost scale, from Elevation and Five Guys to Morton's and Palena, but stays at the high end of quality. I'd add to this list the burgers at Busboys and Poets, Chef Geoff's, and the burger at Nanny O'Brien's in Cleveland Park. Commenters to the Gridskipper post nominated the burgers at relative-unknowns Angles in Adams Morgan and Trusty's in Southeast (I'm at Trusty's all the time, but the burger can't match the most-delicious-hotdog-ever that they serve there).

Since I'm already dealing out a little bit of Colbert-style "truthiness" snark, I'll also point out that Amanda Kludt—the post's author and the site's Assistant Editor—totally thieved the photo to illustrate the post. We thought the image looked familiar, and indeed it was one from our own food section editor emeritus, Scott Reitz, taken as part of his "In Search of Bovinity" series linked above. According to Scott, Gridskipper never asked him if they could use the image, despite it being marked as "all rights reserved" in his Flickr photostream. He didn't seem to mind too much, but we know all too well that the appropriate-image-use issue is one that our commenters are keen to debate regardless of a photographer's stance on a particular photo's use. We figured that problem would have been fixed over at Gawker Media, given the firestorm at Flickr that Gawker sibling Consumerist caused earlier this year, but we guess not.

Creative Commons-appropriate raccoon photo from Michael Scheltgen.