What Makes a Burger

What Makes a Burger?  Meat makes a burger, we all know that, don’t we?

Apparently not!

There was a time when life was simple, when you could walk into a take-away shop, order a burger, and know what you were getting.

Burger = minced beef, some salad stuff, a white bread bun: add sauce if you want to.

Then things started to change, people started mixing it up a little bit and we had chicken burgers and fish burgers, cheese was added, egg too, some people called it multi-culturalism.  Call it what you will – it still followed the rule – a bit of meat on a bun.

Even a bacon & egg roll is not a burger, we all know that.  It’s close, and they’re a good thing, but definitions are important, and a bacon and egg roll is not a burger.

Then some people wanted even more change, the old definition didn’t suit their particular needs, and started selling vegie burgers.  An oxymoron I hear you say – and you’d be right.  Just call it a sandwich!  Why do you need to call it a burger?  People said, you can put anything you want on it, but just call it a sandwich and be done with it.

But no, it’s burger they say, our definition of a burger.

Alright, the world is changing, I get that.  I can change too.  Urged on by some friends to give it a go – metaphorically of course, I gamely walk into a trendy café and order a Breakfast Burger, knowing full well it does NOT contain any meat.

What did it contain?  No idea.  A lot of stuff I’m not all that familiar with.

How was it?

Delicious!

Mind blowing vegie burgers: I must be somewhere on the NSW coast.