Edit: It will never cease to make me laugh that I get more genuinely serious discussion comments on my meme posts in /c/Memes than anywhere else. I’m not hating, I love it.
Edit 2: Chicago-Style deep dish pizza isn’t pizza go fuck yourself
In my boyfriend’s hometown they used to have this restaurant that served this thing called a hubcap burger
And it was indeed, wide enough to be the hubcap of a car, while being basically flat.
I mean… I’m hungry…
Where’s the address?
Southern Brazil.
Fuck
Epic road trip time, let’s do this
Well I’m on an island in the ocean in Canada and with no car. You coming to pick me up?
Harold and Kumar go to Florianópolis.
There was a Hubcap Grill in Houston that had the best burger in a city that has a lot of great burgers.
They say they named it that because of a method of cooking a burger on a skillet, where you place a metal plate over the beef as it cooks to reduce splattering. The joke was that the burgers were so big that they needed to use a hubcap instead of a plate. And it was pretty close to true. Those burgers were massive and incredible.
They still have a few locations, including one in Hobby airport. But the original, which was a hole in the wall in downtown Houston, was the best.
I mean it worked for subway. Until they started skimping
you mean the 11" footlong?
Maybe it was cold
cold cut?
Their success came from it being specifically longer. It’s much harder to visualise a bigger surface area, like how a 10 inch pizza is bigger than two 7 inch pizzas. Subway on the other hand only stretches it in one axis, so the number goes up faster.
I don’t want long burgers, although I don’t know why. Big fan of the circle.
It’s easy, just call it something different, like a chopped cheese.
Size factors are tricky and the issue with fractional weights. I say we make wider Burger circles and number then in onces in the USA and grammes in the rest of the world. I want my 200 Burger and my 400 Burger wide.
Roy’s once had the bodacious bacon cheeseburger. It was pretty lit.
It was 1/3 of a pound and elongated.
The form factor is not bad it’s like the original chicken sandwich from Burger King.
Some poboy shops here sell a long burger. My gym buddy used to regularly eat the 8 patty footlong double. Must have been a pound of meat on it, never mind the cheese and other toppings.
I’ll take whatever gets my beard the least messy.
You could also just have 2 regular sized ones or stop being such a fat ass.
I think wider is better so you don’t have to unhinge your jaw like a snake to eat it.
Nobody said it. So be it…
A regular size, ⅓lb burger is plenty for anybody. If it was unsatisfying, use better ingredients or stronger flavours.
Because nobody is asking that or you.
Get away from me, satan. No burger tastes as good as being able to see my own junk without a mirror
I was on your side until that gibberish about Chicago style pizza.
At a certain point you have to cut the burger like a pizza though
Mmmh, pirger.
But you dont have to dislocate your jaw ro eat it :)
I want a burger with the least amount of surface area.
Ah yes, the sphere burger
How do you think it would be constructed? A meatball between two regular buns? A meatball wrapped in buns? Or, perhaps, a bun core, a meatball mantle, and a bun crust?
Burgers should neither be taller nor wider. Just give me two normal sized burgers.
How about you unhinge your jaw like your little sister
Or eight. I have a large appetite. I’m only 10kg overweight. Honestly, a monster burger sounds pretty good too. I have eaten a few challenge burgers (and won) but the ones that are ten patties tall, you have to dismantle them to eat them. I support wider burgers. But every topping needs to be all across the thing or they are just serving lazy garbage.
A&W tried something like this. Sold a 1/3 pound burger because its bigger than the popular Quarter Pounder sold by its competition, larger than a Whopper even. It undersold and when people were asked why; it turns out people think 1/3 is less than 1/4. By the numbers, here.
Should have sold a 1/5 pound burger then lol
Ok I’ve always hated this “advertising study”. A&W is a small fish in a big pond. Expecting their shitty third pounder to outsell a core McDonalds menu item in its prime is a Herculean task. Americans do suck at math but maybe your burger sucked a bit more.
See youve got it! There is some import to this, AW was never gonna pull Mcd and Bk #’s but the fact is that their burger undersold at their restaurants and this is the reason they eventually found. Not poor locations, which they were, not poor advertising, which was dismal. AW was well known for burgers and ice cream and may have had a chance if it wasnt run by clown college graduates.
Well, yes, but also McDonald’s did it to themselves too. About 20 years ago when I worked there (holy shit I just realized it was 20 years ago), they had the Angus 1/3 pounders. They flopped hard. Exact same reasoning, both from their corporate offices and me anecdotally, people are fucking stupid. They really thought they were getting ripped off because the quarter pounder was more meat than the 1/3 pound Angus burger according to them. I, tiny teenage me tried explaining it to them, to no avail. Fucking morons.
You want to lose hope for the human race, work in a service industry
Tbf mcds has had a lot of menu items flop because, well, because of being bad at food.
Thus the title <3
Ya, made me member. Wasnt sure if the story was well known enough.
Oh I wasn’t saying that like I was complaining. Was saying that like to add onto your comment for those confused by the title. Sorry if it came off bitchy.
No, no. I added context, a comment and community to a silly meme. I love you
Love you too buddy <3
Not on the mouth, i cant stand it.
Tbf any variation of “one third of a pound” is a shit name, so all this proves is that they failed to market the product.
The real answer is likely that extra wide buns are not available from suppliers, and nowhere bakes their own bread these days. For the chains that have their own off-site bakeries and supply chains, the majority of consumers probably don’t want a much bigger burger, and those that do have big enough mouths to fit extra tall burgers, or buy 2 burgers which are easier to eat. I know if I’m extra hungry I’ll grab 2 cheeseburgers, but most of the time 1 plus the mandatory chips is enough childhood nostalgia junk for me. I wouldn’t care about a 50% wider cheeseburger.
They’re likely all getting their buns (and everything else) from Sysco anyways, so I can’t imagine different sized buns would be that hard to source.
Murica!
To be fair, I can’t think of a good name for a 3rd of a pound. “Thrice Slice” looks good, but is cumbersome to pronounce, and it sounds like a pizza.
Its amazing what a defunded education system can produce honestly.
Thanks to pizza, even Americans are familiar with the concept of wide
I’m having flashbacks to having to explain to idiots that one large pizza is way more pizza than two medium pizzas.
But how many people know that a pizza x times wider is x² times more pizza?
Except in Chicago, cause you know… Deep dish.
Just go snake mode and unhinge your jaw.
Literally at my restaurant right now the burger with 3 smaller patties is more popular than the burger with 2 bigger patties. Same total amount of meat, just taller on a smaller bun…
Well yeah I’d want that meat in three smaller patties instead of two larger ones. More maillard reaction.
People are stupid.
