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'It's just an awesome burger': Maconites enjoy the first day of Macon Burger Week

Last year's champion, The Library Taphouse and Kitchen, says they took inspiration from a popular children's tale for their burger with three kinds of pork.

MACON, Ga. — It's Burger Week in Macon. Restaurants across town are showing off their best burgers; at the end of it all, you get to choose the winner.

The Library Taphouse and Kitchen was last year's Burger Week champ. 

This year their burger features a beef brisket short rib patty topped with smoked pork belly, American cheese, fried pickle spears, crispy chicken fried bacon and a housemade Jack Daniels bacon jam. 

Kitchen Manager Lorenzo Johnson says they took inspiration from a popular children's tale for the burger with three kinds of pork. 

"We're sticking with the theme of our restaurant being the Library and last year we won with the Bernstein Burger so we're keeping the theme with books so we named this one The Three Little Pigs," he said. 

Johnson said coming up with the idea for the burger was a collaborative effort. 

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"I sat down with the Executive Chef Reggie Perkins and we just came together to think about different things, something that could be different and something that may not have been offered in the years previous," he said. 

Johnson said it's the best feeling when people enjoy something you help create. 

13WMAZ talked with people at the restaurant on Monday morning as they got the first bites of the Three Little Pigs Burger.

"It's a lot on there but it comes together well," customer Laneisha Bradshaw. 

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The Library was her and her husband's first Burger Week stop.

"It's just like all meeting together for me. I can't really point out one thing without saying I taste the other thing. It's just an awesome burger," Cory Bradshaw said. 

When we talked to other customers, they 

Don't forget to get your Burger Week passport stamped when you give these burgers a try. If you visit five or more, you can get entered in a prize drawing. 

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