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What do you get when you literally cross a hamburger with a hotdog? Hamdog!
posted by ardgedee (111 comments total) 8 users marked this as a favorite
 
Nope.
posted by Going To Maine at 3:08 PM on September 21, 2016 [1 favorite]


No.
posted by Artw at 3:12 PM on September 21, 2016 [1 favorite]


Nyet.
posted by spitbull at 3:12 PM on September 21, 2016 [1 favorite]


Yes
posted by beerperson at 3:15 PM on September 21, 2016 [23 favorites]


Wait, no
posted by beerperson at 3:15 PM on September 21, 2016 [46 favorites]


.
posted by griphus at 3:16 PM on September 21, 2016 [8 favorites]


It says a great deal about the depths to which Australia has sunk that this monstrosity is actually not the most embarrassing thing going on with us right now.
posted by His thoughts were red thoughts at 3:16 PM on September 21, 2016 [17 favorites]


Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.
posted by sourcequench at 3:18 PM on September 21, 2016 [32 favorites]


I've read "the buns are made of people", and the story got a lot more interesting.
posted by lmfsilva at 3:18 PM on September 21, 2016 [2 favorites]


Nah.
posted by beerperson at 3:20 PM on September 21, 2016


It says a great deal about the depths to which Australia has sunk that this monstrosity is actually not the most embarrassing thing going on with us right now.

Probably the only part of the country not made up of masses of spiders.
posted by Artw at 3:20 PM on September 21, 2016 [1 favorite]


They realize you can just split the hot dog in half and set it on top of the burger, using a normal bun, right?
posted by InfidelZombie at 3:21 PM on September 21, 2016 [4 favorites]


It's unclear which parts contain liquid cheese, and in what quantities. FAIL!
posted by blue_beetle at 3:22 PM on September 21, 2016 [3 favorites]


Probably the only part of the country not made up of masses of spiders.

Well, you need to fill those hot dogs with something...
posted by His thoughts were red thoughts at 3:22 PM on September 21, 2016 [3 favorites]


It's unclear which parts contain liquid cheese, and in what quantities. FAIL!

Is... is liquid cheese a real thing?
posted by His thoughts were red thoughts at 3:24 PM on September 21, 2016 [2 favorites]


I give you the Food Wishes Hot Dogage! It's mostly just a hamburger.
posted by phlyingpenguin at 3:26 PM on September 21, 2016




I HAZ THIS DOEZ IT COUNT?
posted by lalochezia at 3:32 PM on September 21, 2016 [11 favorites]


When I label this as "gag food" the double meaning is fully intended.
posted by GuyZero at 3:33 PM on September 21, 2016 [3 favorites]


I'm wondering what to eat right now, and a hamdog with onion rings would be perfect! Too bad I'm not in Australia.
posted by TedW at 3:34 PM on September 21, 2016


Hamdog, hamdog, you're a hamdog
You can give it to me when I need to come along
Hamdog, hamdog, you're my hamdog
And, baby, you can turn me on.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 3:34 PM on September 21, 2016 [4 favorites]


Hamdog sounds like the name of a shitty football player who is always getting heckled. "You can't even get a first fucking down Hamdog! HAMDOG YOU SUCK!"
posted by supercrayon at 3:41 PM on September 21, 2016 [8 favorites]


Vegans, you can get the same effect by putting tempeh and tofu in the same bun.
posted by kozad at 3:42 PM on September 21, 2016 [10 favorites]


Why hamdog, there's not ham in either a hotdog or a hamburger?

Why not hotburger. Way more sexy.
posted by bitdamaged at 3:43 PM on September 21, 2016 [15 favorites]


A hamdog by any other name…
posted by Going To Maine at 3:45 PM on September 21, 2016


I prefer my dogs with mustard, and my burgers with ketchup. This contraption is not helpful.
posted by monospace at 3:45 PM on September 21, 2016 [1 favorite]


Needs deep frying.
posted by Wordshore at 3:47 PM on September 21, 2016 [3 favorites]


THIS IS NOT A PLACE OF HONOR
posted by Rhaomi at 3:49 PM on September 21, 2016 [39 favorites]


I would like two hamburgers with a hotdog in between so I can get pumped and then eat.

I hereby patent the double hamdog.
posted by srboisvert at 3:51 PM on September 21, 2016 [1 favorite]


7-11 used to sell hot-dog shaped hamburger things from the roller grill... thing.

That's what I expected when I clicked the link.

I am not disappointed, as this seems like a tastier alternative, but... the execution is all wrong.
posted by SansPoint at 3:59 PM on September 21, 2016


If not for the connotations, maybe a hamsces: six hot dogs punched through the center of a hamburger, which binds the whole together.
posted by Going To Maine at 4:05 PM on September 21, 2016 [5 favorites]


Oh, I just remembered. There already is a Hamdog: and it's much more glorious in it's wrongness.

goes back to eating his kale and baby spinach salad
posted by SansPoint at 4:07 PM on September 21, 2016 [4 favorites]


honestly i see no problem with this other than the difficulty of bun manufacturing and i would like to eat one, please
posted by burgerrr at 4:18 PM on September 21, 2016 [2 favorites]


They realize you can just split the hot dog in half and set it on top of the burger, using a normal bun, right?

A high school friend would create unspeakable things with the splitting-hotdogs approach, sandwiches with layer after layer of hot dogs and the cheapest processed cheese and tater tots and family pets if they passed too close, the sort of comestible a Shoggoth might make as a midnight snack in the Eternal Midnight and consume through its manifold orifices.

I'm sure he would find this mouth-watering.
posted by XMLicious at 4:18 PM on September 21, 2016 [4 favorites]


lalochezia: risky domain name on that link
posted by idiopath at 4:29 PM on September 21, 2016


Why hamdog, there's not ham in either a hotdog or a hamburger?

No dog either.

You hope.
posted by His thoughts were red thoughts at 4:34 PM on September 21, 2016 [2 favorites]


I now want to go to Burger King and order a chili cheese hot dog and a Whopperito.

1. Discard hot dog bun.
2. Place chili dog inside whopperito.
3. Feel so good about eating something so, so bad.

(Whopperito is about the only guilty food pleasure I indulge in. I don't know why I love them, but I've had about one a week over the last month.)
posted by a non mouse, a cow herd at 4:42 PM on September 21, 2016 [2 favorites]


someone is going to fuck this thing and post the video online, aren't they

also

PATENTED

howwhydafuq
posted by Foci for Analysis at 4:48 PM on September 21, 2016 [1 favorite]


Am I the only one that thinks this looks like a winged sanitary napkin? Nothing wrong with sanitary napkins, but it's not a good look for food.
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 4:49 PM on September 21, 2016 [10 favorites]


I had expected something ridiculous but this meat propeller exceeds all expectations, really.
posted by feloniousmonk at 4:49 PM on September 21, 2016 [1 favorite]


I feel like the participants of this thread would appreciate This is Why You're Fat, for more pure food horror like the nightmare that is the pizza cake.
posted by His thoughts were red thoughts at 4:49 PM on September 21, 2016 [1 favorite]


someone is going to fuck this thing and post the video online, aren't they


In my comment directly above yours, Foci for Analysis, I was very close to saying "2. stick the weiner in the whopper" and then remembered... internet.
posted by a non mouse, a cow herd at 4:54 PM on September 21, 2016


I just want to let all you haters know that I intend to favorite every positive comment regarding the hamdog until I run out of favorites or fall asleep, whichever comes first.
posted by TedW at 4:54 PM on September 21, 2016 [7 favorites]


Well that's all the proof I need to know Trump is taking the White House.

A world that can make Hamdog, is a world that can make Trump because we are so bereft of spirit that we have taken some of our greatest successes and merged them into terrible failures for the sake of pretending we are progressing.

*walks off stage and turns off the lights*
posted by MiltonRandKalman at 4:55 PM on September 21, 2016 [2 favorites]


Well that's all the proof I need to know Trump is taking the White House.

But the hamdog is Australian.
posted by Going To Maine at 4:56 PM on September 21, 2016


But the hamdog is Australian.

It clearly has wings and will spread like Zika.
posted by MiltonRandKalman at 5:06 PM on September 21, 2016 [1 favorite]


Just a pale imitation of the Weenieburger.
posted by davelog at 5:06 PM on September 21, 2016


But the hamdog is Australian.

Yes, and Australia is beset by hard-right, racist, homophobic, climate change-denying 'conservatives' right now.

Coincidence? I think not.
posted by His thoughts were red thoughts at 5:09 PM on September 21, 2016


honestly, my most hamdog meal of late was a torta cuvana/cubana from a taco truck, and it was delicious.
posted by Going To Maine at 5:14 PM on September 21, 2016


Worthless, you can get the same experience simply buying a hamburger and hot dog separately. We had the articulated wimpy bender as part of a burger decades ago, and that at least provided a novel mouthful.
posted by lucidium at 5:19 PM on September 21, 2016


Seth Brundle: [typing] If secondary element is hot dog, what happened to hot dog?
Computer: Fusion.
Seth Brundle: [typing] Assimilation? Did hamburger absorb hot dog?
Computer: Negative. Fusion of hamburger and hot dog at molecular-genetic level.
posted by kurumi at 5:40 PM on September 21, 2016 [9 favorites]


Probably the only part of the country not made up of masses of spiders.


I thought it was well known that 8 of the 10 most venomous sausages in the world are found in Australia.
posted by GenjiandProust at 5:41 PM on September 21, 2016 [5 favorites]


Burp

I blame you MetaFilter. I blame You.
posted by a non mouse, a cow herd at 5:43 PM on September 21, 2016 [3 favorites]


Ladies and Gentlemen, the time has come to destroy Austria. We all knew it would come to this.
posted by the uncomplicated soups of my childhood at 5:53 PM on September 21, 2016 [1 favorite]


If the Hamdog is descended from hotdogs, why do hotdogs still exist?

Checkmate, atheists!
posted by BungaDunga at 5:54 PM on September 21, 2016 [17 favorites]


Ladies and Gentlemen, the time has come to destroy Austria. We all knew it would come to this.

OH NOOOOOOOOOO
posted by Going To Maine at 5:58 PM on September 21, 2016


The bun is what makes this a hamdog instead of just a hamburger with a hotdog on top. I approve of everything about it but the mayonnaise and probably the portion size.
posted by asperity at 5:58 PM on September 21, 2016


What do you get when you literally cross a Hamburger with a hotdog?

"A Wiener fight"
(Maybe it's only funny in bad German)
posted by mattamatic at 6:01 PM on September 21, 2016 [1 favorite]


Replace the buns with Twinkies and I'm there
posted by beerperson at 6:02 PM on September 21, 2016


7-11 used to sell hot-dog shaped hamburger things from the roller grill... thing.

A friend of mine, probably 12 or 13 years ago, bought something called a Burger Pipe at a casino snack bar in Las Vegas. It was a terrifying horror for a lot of reasons, but mostly because it looked like a turd on a bun. A turd with ketchup and onions.
posted by uncleozzy at 6:06 PM on September 21, 2016


You ain't nothing but a hamdog cryin' all the time. Well, you ain't never caught a wombat, you ain't no friend of mine.
posted by ChuraChura at 6:06 PM on September 21, 2016 [3 favorites]


Amazing Hot Dog in Verona, New Jersey used to sell the "hotburger hamdog":
A Circular CLASSIC filled with your choice of Coleslaw, our Own Homemade Chili, Baked Beans, Sauerkraut, Cheez Whiz, OR Guacamole, Served on a Hamburger Bun.
(Cite: mid-2006 Internet Archive menu capture)

You can see pictures of it here.
posted by Songdog at 6:09 PM on September 21, 2016


I feel that this is like the old apocryphal story of NASA spending millions of dollars on a pen that writes in zero gravity, while the Soviets just used a pencil. This time the Aussies spent all this effort engineering a hotdogburger hybrid, where an American would have just eaten a hot dog AND a hamburger.
posted by dudemanlives at 6:10 PM on September 21, 2016 [4 favorites]


Or as I call it, Tuesday night dinner.
posted by dudemanlives at 6:11 PM on September 21, 2016




I ate a hotdog and hamburger combination back in 1972. It was at a Wimpy Bar.
posted by unliteral at 6:28 PM on September 21, 2016


If not for the connotations, maybe a hamsces: six hot dogs punched through the center of a hamburger, which binds the whole together.

Three Hot Dogs for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne.
One Dog to rule them all. One Dog to find them,
One Dog to bring them all and with the Burger bind them.
posted by DoctorFedora at 6:37 PM on September 21, 2016 [4 favorites]


Australia is the king of Instagram-ready food. Every week some new pop up is making Nutella burger thinkshakes or Vegemite cronuts or Adrian Zumbo Skittle cream or something. And we also love fetishizing American food, hence all the places modeled on American diners.

There's no way this can be grosser than a 'normal' Australian hamburger: a very thin meat patty with beetroot, bacon, lettuce, tomato, and fried egg. Or grosser than a 'normal' Australian hotdog, which is some kind of grey mush.
posted by Charlemagne In Sweatpants at 6:44 PM on September 21, 2016


There's no way this can be grosser than a 'normal' Australian hamburger: a very thin meat patty with beetroot, bacon, lettuce, tomato, and fried egg.

The first time I encountered beet on a burger was a real WTF? moment, but it actually has a good taste, much better than the cardboard tomato slice that most places here use. And fried eggs on burgers is never wrong.
posted by Dip Flash at 6:49 PM on September 21, 2016


The worst thing is that there are apparently laws against cooking burgers medium rare! It's a crime against burgers! Luckily the gap has been filled by lots of overpriced retro burger bars.
posted by Charlemagne In Sweatpants at 6:55 PM on September 21, 2016


I see a lot of negative comments from Americans. Why? Not enough aerosol cheese? It's not deep fried enough? It doesn't come with a rifle?

You have to clean up your act a bit before you can laugh at other people's gross food.
posted by adept256 at 7:05 PM on September 21, 2016 [3 favorites]


We Do What We Must Because We Can.
posted by indubitable at 7:15 PM on September 21, 2016


I was hoping that a Circle Pup was involved somehow, but no such luck.
posted by queensissy at 7:19 PM on September 21, 2016


It's ... beautiful *wipes away patriotic tear*

All you haters can suck it. Australia is so a real country! And now we have the food to prove it!
posted by um at 7:25 PM on September 21, 2016 [2 favorites]


I see a lot of negative comments from Americans. Why? Not enough aerosol cheese? It's not deep fried enough? It doesn't come with a rifle?


It's lunchtime here in Australia. Go to your nearest Harry's Cafe de Wheels and order either a Dog de Wheels (chilli, cheese sauce, meat, mushy peas and gravy on a hot dog) or just a meat pie with mashed potato and peas. Then tell me how much better Australian food is.

Or just spread vegemite on toast.

Or go to Bunnings (Home Depot, but probably smaller) for a 'sausage sizzle' (a sausage on a slice of white bread, with a bit of tomato sauce). They're served during elections, and eating one on a hot dog bun is considered a gross affectation.

For desert, have a Nutella cronut, Nutella milkchake, Nutella gelato, or any of the other fancy desert concotions that lead to people lining up for hours at gelato shops. And tell me American food is gross.

(I've lived in both places, Australia has a great food culture but so does America, and Australia seems to exalt really disgusting peasent food like 'fairy bread' too. But Australia is still, in no way shape or form, a 'real country')
posted by Charlemagne In Sweatpants at 7:44 PM on September 21, 2016 [1 favorite]


The possibilities are endless....

enchilatdog
burrgerito
hotaquitog

Or perhaps, like a more decadent bageldog, the hotdog in a donut...the hotdognut
posted by Existential Dread at 7:48 PM on September 21, 2016 [2 favorites]


No, I think I'll just grab some sushi from that place next to Ozgur's kebabs. Or some pho. Or a burrito. Or maybe something Nepalese. One nice thing about multiculturalism is we get all the good food from everywhere. A lot of Somali restuarants have opened over the past ten years.

But Australia is still, in no way shape or form, a 'real country'

I don't get it. Is this a joke? It's not funny.
posted by adept256 at 7:54 PM on September 21, 2016


This is why we need a nuclear-armed New Zeeland.
posted by Chrischris at 8:03 PM on September 21, 2016 [1 favorite]


And to connect this thread to C. Martin Croker memorial I bring you:

Beef log beef log what a treat
A hefty hunk of processed meat
Dipped in mustard, oh what joy!
I'm a jolly beef log boy

Hot and spicy, mild or plain,
I even eat the cellophane.
I might share some with my dog,
'Cause we both love beef log.
posted by Existential Dread at 8:04 PM on September 21, 2016 [2 favorites]


If a meat pie from Harry's Cafe de Wheels is good enough for Anthody Bourdain it's good enough for the Holy Roman Emperor #itsarealcountry
posted by um at 8:17 PM on September 21, 2016


When he first pitched it to the judges on Shark Tank in 2015, he described eating the dish as a "party in your mouth". The judges laughed

The judges and the naysayers above should reconsider their anti-tasty-fun approach to life, because a party in your mouth is exactly what this sounds like
posted by middleclasstool at 8:30 PM on September 21, 2016


I don't get it. Is this a joke? It's not funny.

No, it's not a joke. Hating on Australia is just his thing.
posted by His thoughts were red thoughts at 9:03 PM on September 21, 2016 [1 favorite]


Disappointed it's not a burger with the lot with a sausage on it.
posted by Joe Chip at 9:31 PM on September 21, 2016


I ate one of those 7-11 burgerdogs once. ONCE. *shudders*
posted by xedrik at 9:46 PM on September 21, 2016


On the American Shark Tank someone would have bought it. Probably the guy with the basketball team.
posted by notyou at 10:02 PM on September 21, 2016 [1 favorite]


My internal dialog here before clicking was "there's no possible way that could be a literal cross between the two because even though I happily acknowledge that 'literal' can operate as an intensifier you clearly meant 'literal' in the literal sense and there's just no way so I'm going to prepare to comment snidely about it" and boy is there egg on my face now.
posted by invitapriore at 10:23 PM on September 21, 2016


Anyway, I would eat this if it were topped with that Burger King Mac n' Cheetos abomination from a while back
posted by invitapriore at 10:24 PM on September 21, 2016


I don't get it. Is this a joke? It's not funny.
No, it's not a joke. Hating on Australia is just his thing.


Not to mention that his idea of an "Australian" hamburger owes more to the … things … found in the saddest of going-broke food-court McDonalds, or something from a trendy Camperdown hole-in-the-wall where they really want to sell vegeburgers except no-one would buy them so they use a meat patty who's true function is to be used as a "McDonalds Pickle" (i.e. picked off and thrown in the bin as soon as possible rather than eaten).

And he's missing the distinction between traditional sausage sizzle "sausage in a bread slice", and the true Australian hot dog. Which, in its finest incarnation, involves a (ahem!) meaty weiner, deep-fried before being finished off on the hotplate, on a toasted bun, with a dry-ish kimchi relish or simply sliced tomato & shredded lettuce, purchased from a place run by a family called Kim or Tran who bought the shop from the original greek "George" after which it's still named.

(Ate plenty of good street & takeaway food in Adelaide over the last few days, all of which beat the pants off anything I've ever had in the city & trendier parts of Sydney or Melbourne. Brisbane street food too is becoming more homogenised and hipsterised as all the little family places get gentrified or pushed out by neighbours with pretensions of gastropubbery, so it's nice to know there's some places where it'll linger for a while longer…)
posted by Pinback at 11:25 PM on September 21, 2016 [2 favorites]


There are some great hybrid burgers around here - the teriyaki chicken burger, the Korean fried chicken burger, Dean's Diner's 'Greece Lightning' - haloumi and tzaaki. And there are fun hybrids like kimchi tacos and Vietnamese burritos.


But There's no way a place in Camperdown would go broke selling vegeburgers, considering the lines around the block when Lord of the Fries arrived in Sydney. It's vego/vegan territoryAnd the most popular burger place in Camperdown, Mary's, serves big, thick patties. The 'hipster' burger places (do you include Neil Perry's Burger Project, which serves you amazing burger and frieds for $15) got popular because all those quaint family hole in the walls serve 'burgers' that are, again, a thin patty covered in a bunch of muck toppings.

Which is mandated, thanks to the very real ban on medium-rare burgers in Sydney.

All jokes aside, Australia has an amazing foodie and coffee culture, and someday I'll put together an FPP about smashed avocado and other breakfest innovations. Some of the best restaurants in the world are in Sydney and Melbourne, and I can get a different cheap, fantastic meal every day of the week in Sydney. But the default Australian burger doesn't deserve the name 'burger'.
posted by Charlemagne In Sweatpants at 11:37 PM on September 21, 2016 [1 favorite]


Am I the only one that thinks this looks like a winged sanitary napkin?

Suggested pairing: Blue Kool-Aid
posted by Sys Rq at 12:17 AM on September 22, 2016 [5 favorites]


Coincidentally, I have patented a hamburger-hotdog using a cronut as a bun, called a hamdogcrow.
posted by a lungful of dragon at 12:35 AM on September 22, 2016 [2 favorites]


But what if you could turn your hotdog into an octopus?

Then you're an anime schoolgirl making a lunchbox for your childhood friend, who you've been in love with since forever but always were too chicken to tell him and now some crazy hair colour hussy is going to come and steal him so your only hope is a harem ending.
posted by MartinWisse at 12:52 AM on September 22, 2016 [3 favorites]


Coincidentally, I have patented a hamburger-hotdog using a cronut as a bun, called a hamdogcrow.

Dude. That should clearly - CLEARLY - be rightfully called a 'cramdog'.
posted by His thoughts were red thoughts at 1:38 AM on September 22, 2016 [4 favorites]


I'm pretty sure a cramdog is a species of bivalve found in Southern New England.
posted by GenjiandProust at 2:59 AM on September 22, 2016


> But Australia is still, in no way shape or form, a 'real country'

To be fair, the United States of America isn't a country either. It's an aggregate of unicellular symbiotic lifeforms that feeds on the unwary.
posted by ardgedee at 4:15 AM on September 22, 2016 [2 favorites]


I'm so angry about this. If they can't get their act together to actually embed the hotdog sausage inside the burger patty before cooking, why should we afford them any respect?
posted by ambrosen at 4:34 AM on September 22, 2016 [4 favorites]


A "transporter accident" hotdog?
posted by indubitable at 4:56 AM on September 22, 2016 [4 favorites]


I've only just gotten over my outrage for spray on tea and then this happens. It's election year, people, this may be my breaking point!
posted by like_neon at 5:19 AM on September 22, 2016 [1 favorite]


We're through the puking-glass here people!
posted by blue_beetle at 6:25 AM on September 22, 2016 [4 favorites]


Did no one else watch The Cosby Show as a kid? This has been a thing for 30+ years.

If Cosby-aversion makes that untenable, just check out this recipe instead.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 7:23 AM on September 22, 2016


Finally, a chance to use one of my favourite, but little used abbreviations:
*ahem*

OMGWTFBBQ
posted by LegallyBread at 7:43 AM on September 22, 2016


The bun is then also filled with lettuce, tomato, pickles, cheese, mustard, tomato sauce and mayonnaise.

What? WHAT? Hell no!
posted by Splunge at 8:25 AM on September 22, 2016


okay but is a hamdog a sandwich
posted by HighLife at 9:04 AM on September 22, 2016 [3 favorites]


TBPH this makes me want to move there and eat this all day long. Because I know the person who created this is so guileless I can trust that their land is free of all oppression and fear. Do not @ me thanks.
posted by Potomac Avenue at 9:15 AM on September 22, 2016 [1 favorite]


Or perhaps, like a more decadent bageldog, the hotdog in a donut...the hotdognut

Now that'd be the dog's bollocks, to be sure.
posted by Dysk at 10:23 AM on September 22, 2016 [3 favorites]


This is one of those ideas that is so painfully obvious and brilliant that I'm actually mad at myself for not thinking of it first.
posted by TurkishGolds at 12:15 PM on September 22, 2016


This talk of rejecting Aussie burgers is nonsense.
A giant burger on a bun with bacon, egg, cheese, onion, tomato, lettuce, beetroot and bbq sauce is a tremendous food. When I first understood a McDonalds 'junior burger' wasn't a mistake, but how Americans thought a basic burger was constructed was when I understood marketing could sell anything.
Growing up it was a Greek man who sold me my burgers. Now almost all the milkbars near me are run by people born in China. I have no doubt in another generation it will be north Africans or Iraqis. The cheap take-away is the traditional launch pad for new immigrants, before their kids go on to be dentists and engineers and the founders retire. But the burgers stay awesome through all this.
And if you aren't getting the onions on a sausage sizzle, I mean really!
posted by bystander at 2:57 PM on September 22, 2016


Is... is liquid cheese a real thing?

No whey dude.
posted by BrotherCaine at 4:18 PM on September 22, 2016



This talk of rejecting Aussie burgers is nonsense.
A giant burger on a bun with bacon, egg, cheese, onion, tomato, lettuce, beetroot and bbq sauce is a tremendous food. When I first understood a McDonalds 'junior burger' wasn't a mistake, but how Americans thought a basic burger was constructed was when I understood marketing could sell anything.
Growing up it was a Greek man who sold me my burgers. Now almost all the milkbars near me are run by people born in China.
And if you aren't getting the onions on a sausage sizzle, I mean really!


It's strange, because I ate in Greek diners as a kid, and they're totally different from Australian diners.

It's in the patties. American burger patties are thick and juicy, so they don't need anything other than cheese, lettuce, tomato, mustard and ketchup (sorry, 'tomato sauce'). Maybe the odd pickle or onion. But Australian patties are about 1/4th the thickness, so they need to pile up all that other stuff, so it becomes more of a salad sandwich than a burger. Check out any of the 'hipster' burger places like Burgers by Josh, Burger Project, etc for an approximation of American burgers and you'll see what I mean.
posted by Charlemagne In Sweatpants at 4:29 PM on September 22, 2016


Surely a "Frank N. Burger". What a missed opportunity to celebrate the two German cities where America's two finest meat-based culinary exports originated, while paying homage to Mary Shelley's cobbled-together monster and evoking Tim Curry's hot groin. Come on!
posted by guy72277 at 6:09 AM on September 23, 2016 [5 favorites]


Good morning, MeFites, from the Motherland.

It is 4:51 in the morn, and I am awake with what appears to be a case of indigestion. And pray, why is this so, you may be asking? Well, it is because yesterday evening I attended the Goose Fair in Nottingham (so named because geese used to be herded and sold there), and consumed ... you guessed it. And this being England, it was not just any old Hamdog, but a 'Gourmet' Hamdog.

It tasted as you would pretty much expect. Like taking alternate bites between a Hamburger and a Hotdog. It was okay, though perhaps a little overcooked tasting. Which is why I'm looking at a clock saying 4:54. Would I again? No. There are many other foods in the world worth trying for the first time, and this one isn't worth repeating.

Then again, it may not have been the Hamdog. I also consumed the local speciality: mushy peas (send complaints about the signage to management, not me), and a close-up.

I also looked at, but did not try, Sloppy Joes Philly Steak and Cheese, Corn on the Cob, waffles, chocolates and more, and catering of distinction.

Calories were burnt off with games of poo, and various other rides.

There were also, of course, cocks on sticks.
posted by Wordshore at 9:07 PM on October 7, 2016 [2 favorites]


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