I'm kind of like you mike when it comes to fast food type burgers, I'll never just stop at say Maccy's or Wendy's and get a burger, because to be honest they are complete shite, plus I made a conscious effort not to eat fast food if I possibly can, so yes much like you I may brave the dreaded golden arches if we're driving 5-10 hours or something like that but otherwise no.
But I think the appeal of a good quality burger, is the fact it's made with good ingredients versus the bone scrapings, jaw meat, and scrotal sack remnants used in something like a Big Mac. I've had some really good burgers from independent restaurants, that pretty much made me rethink the blandness of an actual burger. But of course for me the main appeal of something like a burger is what you can add to it to make it special, which doesn't even necessarily have to be a mountain of elaborate toppings, sometimes a simple mix of spices or seasoning to the meat, can be just enough.
Maybe more importantly for a lot of people, if you make it at home you can make it exactly how you like it, plus you know exactly what's going into it.
I would never eat the things myself..not least cause I am vegetarian. Also..I had a pet pig called Albin and I came home and he'd gotten murdered and chopped up...and they made Blood pancakes out the blood..which I ate anyway.
Well..anyway..this burger is an american tradition...but when I was in the US..they were horrified when I put food on a sandwich like chips and beans and stuff. Crazy. Double standards.
I'd like Sokurah to make squid on a bun. loads of tentacles sticking out..with A1 sauce.
But I think the appeal of a good quality burger, is the fact it's made with good ingredients versus the bone scrapings, jaw meat, and scrotal sack remnants used in something like a Big Mac. But of course for me the main appeal of something like a burger is what you can add to it to make it special, which doesn't even necessarily have to be a mountain of elaborate toppings, sometimes a simple mix of spices or seasoning to the meat, can be just enough.
Maybe more importantly for a lot of people, if you make it at home you can make it exactly how you like it, plus you know exactly what's going into it.
Exactly. It's fun to play around with "exotic" ingredients like this, but at the end of the day I prefer good ol' fashioned beef patties - which you (usually) know exactly what's in - and the "standard" toppings. And it certainly helps that you can make them at home for a fraction of what it costs to get a "gourmet burger" at a restaurant.
And for what it's worth - I don't make burgers often (although it may seem that way, lol). My last "burger-post" was about 6 months ago and that probably was the last time I made them. But I do like to shake things up a bit while I'm at it ;)
I would never eat the things myself..not least cause I am vegetarian. Also..I had a pet pig called Albin and I came home and he'd gotten murdered and chopped up...and they made Blood pancakes out the blood..which I ate anyway.
I would never eat the things myself..not least cause I am vegetarian.
I'd like Sokurah to make squid on a bun. loads of tentacles sticking out..with A1 sauce.
Btw, this burger came about because my friend is a vegetarian too. Well, he eats fish and chicken - just not beef/pork/etc, so I thought I'd try something he could eat. And for that same reason I wrapped his burger in turkey bacon, where I used regular bacon for mine.
Squid burger, though? ... not gonna happen, lol. That is just too weird for me :))
I’ve got a bunch of photos of meals to post up here since I was last posting regularly. Just need to get them onto some photo sharing site (ruddy Photobucket!). Quite a few curries :)
I do not buy anything here that says Shepherds Pie, because it's usually awful, like the Marie Callendar's Shepherds pies, yuck they don't even look the part, I'd never buy them...
Could've been loaded with Cayenne pepper, there's a chicken place round here has some stupidly hot sauce for their wings, but it's bullshit, it's just heaped full of Cayenne Pepper. How I know I hear you ask? Well I've been eating spicy, and hot food for years, an abundance of Cayenne Pepper is almost like faking heat, it's burny, but not the same way regular spicy food would.
Anyway massively long story short I eat these wings, they don't taste good, missus Boozy asks me have they finally found a hot wing sauce that can defeat you, I said no this isn't hot it's just loaded with Cayenne Pepper.
The next morning I go to take my wake up p*ss, and oh my god it burns, and burns, and burns! Never before has that happened to me, and I've eaten kebabs heaped with Chilli sauce, Phaal, and Vindaloo curries, Chilli with actual whole Habanero, and Ghost Peppers floating around in it, I add Ghost Pepper, Trinidad Scorpion, or Carolina Reaper sauce to several things I eat, and never before have I had an afterburn from the front! I always said if it burns coming out as much as it did going in you know you got the good stuff, but I always, always meant out the back, never the front.
That was pain, pain from Cayenne Pepper...….I've struck that chicken place off my list of places to eat, and gave them a bad review highlighting the exact problems I mentioned above, they deleted the review within half an hour of me posting it.
Guess they don't know how to make a good spicy sauce that doesn't make you feel like you have an STD the next day, seriously I ate chicken wings, but I feel like I suffered the aftermath of banging the town bike from a small Thai village without a contraceptive.
I dunno about any cayennes. I just think they were manky b*******s. I normally get great service from the pakistani community. They fall over themselves for me normally, fumble money and even give me too much change. One time I went in for a stamp and come put more money that I went in with.
I didn't feel like..I actually somehow got a UTI. second time ever. Was starting to pass blood. Had to go get anitbiotics. I dont eat that many curries but I shall ask about Cayenne in future..oi you..got proper spices in this or what.
but did anyone ever encounter the Tyne Brand pie in a can type things? The pastry on top was actually quite nice when it actually cooked evenly, and didn't have a soggy spot somewhere on it, but the filling was literally worse than E.E.C. canned mince (Anyone remember that stuff?). It was so salty, and sickly, not sure if comparing it to dog food would be an insult to the dog food? :))
My first Saturday job whilst still at school was on a production line for Ross frozen foods, making frozen sheperds pies. That was pretty horrendous, and such a mess.
I had to go into these cold stores where you couldn't breathe properly, bring out huge trolleys over 2m tall stacked with trays of crusted-over cooked 'meat' filling, wheel them through the factory over tiles and drainage channels that were randomly missing their covers, then scoop it all up by hand and drop it in a hopper.
Then a girl stood by trying to put foil trays into slots on a fast moving conveyor, each of which got a squirt of 'meat' which was then pressed down by a teflon-coated ram. Except if there were accidentally two trays stuck together, the ram would stick to the 'meat' and lift the top tray then ram it down onto the next one, and it'd all pile up in a huge mess. Or if a tray was missing, everything would be squirted straight onto the floor.
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But I think the appeal of a good quality burger, is the fact it's made with good ingredients versus the bone scrapings, jaw meat, and scrotal sack remnants used in something like a Big Mac. I've had some really good burgers from independent restaurants, that pretty much made me rethink the blandness of an actual burger. But of course for me the main appeal of something like a burger is what you can add to it to make it special, which doesn't even necessarily have to be a mountain of elaborate toppings, sometimes a simple mix of spices or seasoning to the meat, can be just enough.
Maybe more importantly for a lot of people, if you make it at home you can make it exactly how you like it, plus you know exactly what's going into it.
Well..anyway..this burger is an american tradition...but when I was in the US..they were horrified when I put food on a sandwich like chips and beans and stuff. Crazy. Double standards.
I'd like Sokurah to make squid on a bun. loads of tentacles sticking out..with A1 sauce.
I assume you used a Psycho Crusher to grind it ;;)
And for what it's worth - I don't make burgers often (although it may seem that way, lol). My last "burger-post" was about 6 months ago and that probably was the last time I made them. But I do like to shake things up a bit while I'm at it ;)
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Blimey! That escalated pretty quickly.
Squid burger, though? ... not gonna happen, lol. That is just too weird for me :))
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Haha, the mustard has run out.... I've already set up a reminder on my phone to get some tomorrow from the ASDA near work :)
Because you all needed to know that ;)
But, have you been a very bad bad boy?
On second thoughts, don't answer that, I'd rather keep those images out of my head :p hehe
It even made my dog puke!
That's a first 'cos she'll eat anything and frequently does.
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Knowing your neck of the woods Mike, its probably made from real Shepherds. =))
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I had a suspicious curry the other night...and I spend all morning in agony today with a UTI.
Anyway massively long story short I eat these wings, they don't taste good, missus Boozy asks me have they finally found a hot wing sauce that can defeat you, I said no this isn't hot it's just loaded with Cayenne Pepper.
The next morning I go to take my wake up p*ss, and oh my god it burns, and burns, and burns! Never before has that happened to me, and I've eaten kebabs heaped with Chilli sauce, Phaal, and Vindaloo curries, Chilli with actual whole Habanero, and Ghost Peppers floating around in it, I add Ghost Pepper, Trinidad Scorpion, or Carolina Reaper sauce to several things I eat, and never before have I had an afterburn from the front! I always said if it burns coming out as much as it did going in you know you got the good stuff, but I always, always meant out the back, never the front.
That was pain, pain from Cayenne Pepper...….I've struck that chicken place off my list of places to eat, and gave them a bad review highlighting the exact problems I mentioned above, they deleted the review within half an hour of me posting it.
Guess they don't know how to make a good spicy sauce that doesn't make you feel like you have an STD the next day, seriously I ate chicken wings, but I feel like I suffered the aftermath of banging the town bike from a small Thai village without a contraceptive.
I didn't feel like..I actually somehow got a UTI. second time ever. Was starting to pass blood. Had to go get anitbiotics. I dont eat that many curries but I shall ask about Cayenne in future..oi you..got proper spices in this or what.
I used to like them in the 80's but now i hate them, they are rank and probably very bad for you.
but did anyone ever encounter the Tyne Brand pie in a can type things? The pastry on top was actually quite nice when it actually cooked evenly, and didn't have a soggy spot somewhere on it, but the filling was literally worse than E.E.C. canned mince (Anyone remember that stuff?). It was so salty, and sickly, not sure if comparing it to dog food would be an insult to the dog food? :))
I had to go into these cold stores where you couldn't breathe properly, bring out huge trolleys over 2m tall stacked with trays of crusted-over cooked 'meat' filling, wheel them through the factory over tiles and drainage channels that were randomly missing their covers, then scoop it all up by hand and drop it in a hopper.
Then a girl stood by trying to put foil trays into slots on a fast moving conveyor, each of which got a squirt of 'meat' which was then pressed down by a teflon-coated ram. Except if there were accidentally two trays stuck together, the ram would stick to the 'meat' and lift the top tray then ram it down onto the next one, and it'd all pile up in a huge mess. Or if a tray was missing, everything would be squirted straight onto the floor.
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