She placed a small griddle outside her house in the middle of the road and began selling them.

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They would throw balls of meat onto the griddle and go smash, smash, smash, smash, it was the quickest way of cooking a burger.

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Nowadays they smash their balls of ground beef prior to cooking, storing their flattened patties in-between waxed paper in a chiller drawer beneath the griddle until an order comes in.

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The smaller children, smelling the ghee cooking on the griddle, crowded around, watching the brown sugar melt, and finally even the older girls came in, though they stood haughtily to one side.

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