Building a Burger

Meanderer

Meanderer

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How to Build the Perfect Burger, According to Chefs ...​

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Gaer said:
Does anyone have that big of mouth? For any of them? Wow!
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This is exactly the question I have when I have seen these on the menu. How does anyone manage to get the thing into their mouths?

When I was a kid in the early and mid 1960s, the nuns used collect money from each of us in class so that the next day they would go buy McDonald's hamburgers and fries for us to eat. Those hamburgers were small by adult standards, but perfect for a kid's mouth. One thing that stands out that I recall was that these came with both mustard and ketchup and a pickle or two and that was it. Very simple and very inexpensive. I think we only paid around 50 cents to get one hamburger and a little box of fries.

I also recall around that time that my dad, who worked at Lockheed (later became Lockheed/Martin) in Burbank, CA, went out to lunch with co-workers at some restaurant that had fancy burgers. All he did was complain about it because the hamburger cost $3. Now, a burger that is probably not as nice costs around $10-12. He was cost conscious and took a brown bag lunch most days, just as I started doing as prices for lunch became prohibitive.

Really, I don't understand going out for a burger because if we make them at home, it is a lot less expensive and we can pile on whatever we want.

Tony
 
tbeltrans said:
This is exactly the question I have when I have seen these on the menu. How does anyone manage to get the thing into their mouths?

When I was a kid in the early and mid 1960s, the nuns used collect money from each of us in class so that the next day they would go buy McDonald's hamburgers and fries for us to eat. Those hamburgers were small by adult standards, but perfect for a kid's mouth. One thing that stands out that I recall was that these came with both mustard and ketchup and a pickle or two and that was it. Very simple and very inexpensive. I think we only paid around 50 cents to get one hamburger and a little box of fries.

I also recall around that time that my dad, who worked at Lockheed (later became Lockheed/Martin) in Burbank, CA, went out to lunch with co-workers at some restaurant that had fancy burgers. All he did was complain about it because the hamburger cost $3. Now, a burger that is probably not as nice costs around $10-12. He was cost conscious and took a brown bag lunch most days, just as I started doing as prices for lunch became prohibitive.

Really, I don't understand going out for a burger because if we make them at home, it is a lot less expensive and we can pile on whatever we want.

Tony
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Dear husband enjoys my homemade burgers way better than fast-food burgers, because he says the ones I make, he knows how they're made, and what goes in them, and who made them, but they're less greasy, more flavorful, and everything I put into them is fresh.

Restaurants can keep their $20 burgers.
 
Hand on heart, I've never eaten a burger, nor KFC chicken or Burger King or any other fast food offering. The only time that I have ever been into such a place was on a trip to The States back, maybe in the early 90's. My wife and I went into "Wendy's" just for the experience.
"What," I thought, "could they not mutilate?" Chicken, that's what. I ordered chicken. What I got was a carpet burger. Looking at the expression of disgust on my wife's face, I copied her and pushed the meal around on my plate to look like I had eaten some, honestly, it was gross. We left, and that's the nearest we have ever come to fast food.
 
I had a homemade cheddar cheese burger with lettuce and tomato for lunch. No bacon, though.

In my 20s, I could eat two double-meat Whoppers plus large fries in one sitting. And I wasn't overweight, but I did have a job where I burned a lot of calories, so that plus the youthful, fast metabolism burned it off. It wasn't until I hit 40 or so that I had to start watching what I ate.
 
Watching different food shows we see people stacking stupid numbers of addons and claiming the burger is one of a kind when all it is a poor excuse for a gourmet burger. As others have pointed out you can't get your mouth over some of them. Does that make them delicious? Some pizza shop owners are doing the same thing with pizzas. Gimmicks all of it.
 

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