Route 66: Hamburgers so savory, they can make you cry

Route 66: Hamburgers so savory, they can make you cry

EL RENO, Okla. — The air downtown smells of grilled onions, wafting from the flat tops of three Route 66 restaurants that have helped give this small town about 25 miles west of Oklahoma City a distinct culinary identity. They’re called fried onion burgers. Plenty of places put onions on burgers. Few have been doing it as long, or as well, as they do here. “They’re not like any burger,” said Lyndsay Bayne, 48, the city’s public information and m…