In majorca a table full of Germans did it.
Last night a man at pub quiz did it . Now a lady next to me in a restaurant is doing it.
It’s just plain wrong.
Rant over.
Problem isn’t the burger, it’s the over-stuffed roll/bap it’s served in. Once you add bacon, onion rings, peppers, cheese and some random green stuff it’s too big to eat from the hand without stuff squirting out the sides.
Whilst in Canada in 2000 I tried to outdo my Canadian friend who’d asked for an ‘overloaded 1/2 pounder’ by asking for a ‘double overloaded’ one.
Now, I can eat but when it came I thought, ‘ohh shiit, what have I done’
It was either a knife & fork job or really really messy hands/face/shirt/table/floor.
*it was in roadside eatery near Red Deer, Alberta.
Burgers that you can’t pick up in your hands (and preferably hold in one after the first couple of bites – leaving your other hand free for beer) due to being overfilled with unnecessary ingredients, or even worse, fall apart due to soggyness are a massive, massive fail, and shouldn’t be allowed.
They could maybe rename them to “Food with accompanying bun arrangement”, but that’s about it.
Firstly a confession: I like eating pizza with cutlery.
But burgers? That’s just an admission of failure. One of my proudest achievements as a teenager was being the only one of my peers able to properly eat a Damn Yankee Robert E Lee half pounder (smothered, and I mean soaked, in barbeque sauce).
As others have mentioned, the key is to get the initial lift right. You only get one go at it, and once it’s in the hand, it’s there for the duration.
Huge fan of KFC’s Zinger box meal ..and my side order is always gravy ..Im sure that this is purely meant for dipping your chips in ( no euphemism intended)..but once the burger is down to size ..in it goes bun and all..
Anyone else ?
Once a month (once!! Child cruelty right there) my Mother would take me to this establishment. We’d sit, we’d order, anxiety would settle in, it would arrive.. the most juicy succulent burger coupled with elegantly fine fries..
The meal lasted all of about 16seconds.. and the clean up operation lasted about 15mins..
But back on topic, burgers are great. I have issues now with the amount of juice they excrete and the shere size of the things.. but mostly I dislike the soggy bottom bun.. saturated in gunk.
So I see no issue with using cutlery on occasions where the burger is teetering on the edge of collapse.