Burger Survey 2025!

[Mary Terry]

Truth is, I get most of my "fix" for ground beef by cooking ground beef, straining the grease like hell, and using it in casseroles with rice or pasta and adding veggies to it. Using only a quarter pound patty for the whole thing. Another consideration of regulating my "red meat" intake to avoid gout.

Another thing I do is to make a single tostada without meat as a meal. Refried beans, fiesta cheese, lettuce, white onion and tomatoes with lots of hot sauce on a prefried corn tortilla. I try to eat a few meals each week that are all veggie.

I have a friend with severe cardiac issues (she's had 4 heart attacks) - the same friend who was hospitalized after her cat climbed up her leg like a tree trunk and she couldn't stop the bleeding because she takes so much blood thinner. She steams her ground beef so as much fat as possible drips out. She puts the beef in a fine mesh strainer over a pan of boiling water, covers it with a lid, occasionally stirs it, and cooks it that way until it is done. The fat drips into the water below.

She then uses the steamed beef to make soups, stews, casseroles, etc. and throws away the water. If I still had a dog, I'd get the fatty, beef flavored water from her to supplement the dog food.

 

[Mary Terry]

I've never tried Taco Bell. I've only ever seen one once, in Melbourne many years ago. We have a few of our own Mexican franchises and competition's fierce. One of them is branching out in to the US now but I'm not sure what states so far. Guzman Y Gomez, or GYG to us.

https://www.guzmanygomez.com.au/

I never tried Starbucks either though I did see a few of them around for a while, they just didn't smell right so I never went in.

You'd be wise to avoid both of those companies. The only thing I'd remotely consider eating at Taco Bell is a plain bean burrito, no meat!

 

[Judge]

You'd be wise to avoid both of those companies. The only thing I'd remotely consider eating at Taco Bell is a plain bean burrito, no meat!

The thing that always annoys me about Taco Bell is that they simply use too much chili powder in almost everything they make. It doesn't make anything any hotter, but it's just too much IMO.

A major reason for preferring Del Taco. Speaking of which, today is Taco Tuesday!

 

[Captain Jigglypuff]

I like my burgers to be edible of course!

 

[Masked Man]

I hardly ever eat burgers, but here's what I prefer:

Beef patty
Well done
Not too thick but not smash burger either
Lettuce and tomato (must be cold)
Ketchup
Mayo

Not a fan of cheese
No pickle
Very little mustard and only yellow

That said, a local place used to have a specialty burger with an artichoke dip as a condiment and it was so good but sadly they've dropped it from the menu. It was my favorite thing.

 

[Cutesie]

My burger has to be well done. During the very rare times that I visit a restaurant, I ask for the whole sandwich to be deconstructed. I like lettuce, onions and maybe pickles, but don't want them to be cooked by being placed together with the hot meat.

NO tomato. NO mayo-based sauces. NO mustard. If it contains any of these, I won't eat any of it.

As a Kosher consumer, I've never had cheese with a burger. Fake cheese and fake bacon are widely available, but I'm not willing to try them.

 

[Metalhead]

I feel like having a hot burger and a few ice cold beers.

 

[Outdated]

I feel like having a hot burger and a few ice cold beers.

I'm sort of doing that now, no beers though.

https://www.kfc.com.au/menu/boxed-meals/original-crispy-bacon-cheese-burger-box

 

[Jonn]

I've never tried Taco Bell. I've only ever seen one once, in Melbourne many years ago. We have a few of our own Mexican franchises and competition's fierce. One of them is branching out in to the US now but I'm not sure what states so far. Guzman Y Gomez, or GYG to us.

There is a Taco (not the citrus kind) Bell over my way.
I have been meaning to try it, but I have so many allergy issues that anything new is a worry.

 

[Jeff T]

The thing that always annoys me about Taco Bell is that they simply use too much chili powder in almost everything they make. It doesn't make anything any hotter, but it's just too much IMO.

A major reason for preferring Del Taco. Speaking of which, today is Taco Tuesday!

Yes! Del Taco has much better flavors than Taco Bell. But they switched the cheese composition around 1995 or so, I liked the older type more.