When is a Hamburger a Hamburger?
Written by Confusion support on October 14, 2008 – 5:49 pm -
My lady friend likes plain hamburgers. That’s it, just plain hamburgers, as in nothing on them, no ketchup, no lettuce, no cheese no pickles, and not even a bun. But she will accept the bun as that is easy enough to remove. So any time her and I are at a fast food drive-in we order a plain hamburger for her. This becomes one of the most traumatic experiences you will ever encounter.
You would not believe the number of idiots who foul this up! It’s as if, ordering a plain hamburger with nothing on it is one of the oddest requests ever heard of. In the ‘old days’, all hamburgers came plain and you asked for what you wanted on it. Now, much to my dismay at times, and especially my friends, hamburgers come with everything on them and you have to ask for what you want removed. Apparently to teenage workers this is as confusing as life can possibly be. Teenage employees are completely confused as to what a hamburger is. When in the restaurant and face to face with them asking for a completely plain hamburger, they stand dumbfounded and utterly confused as to how to make one!
I have a slightly different problem than my lady friend. Why does Wendy’s, and other restaurants, put mayonnaise on all their hamburgers? I don’t want mayonnaise! Why do they assume everyone must want that? It’s fattening and disgusting to me. Ok…the hamburger itself is fattening as well, but I don’t want this extra crap on it that I find disturbing. So every time I have to ask them to hold the mayonnaise or I have to ask the waitress if their burgers have mayonnaise on them. Of course about 25% of the time they screw it up, and then I have to send it back. How many hamburgers are being disposed daily because no one is sure what a hamburger should have on it?
As well, when did cheese become part of a plain hamburger! My lady friend who likes the plain hamburgers many times receives her order with nothing on it but cheese. Cheese on meat is not a plain hamburger! What cooking instructor is teaching these people?
There apparently is some confusion as to what a ‘hamburger’ actually is, and the terminology between hamburger and cheeseburger is getting blurred also. Since now the definition of hamburger is varied depending on the restaurant, we all have to ask for the list of what is on the hamburger because simply ordering a ‘hamburger’ predisposes you to a potential cacophony of topping, many of which you might not like. I never knew ordering a hamburger would become so stressful.
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October 21st, 2008 at 9:42 am
My personal food pet peeve is celery. Seems that, with soup in particular, many cooks think that celery enhances flavor. Well, it doesn’t enhance it for me. I’ve never liked celery, and when people find this out, they are often prone to say something like “but why, it has no taste,” which usually leads me to wonder why one would eat a food with no taste. Kind of takes all the pleasure away, unless you just enjoy that stringy consistency. Anyway, I’ve learned to tolerate celery over the years, but I doubt I’ll ever like it. And I’ll always wish that fewer recipes called for it, or at least that fewer cooks found it enhancing.