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Food & Drink What instantly ruins a hamburger?

Raw onions. Disgusting and dominate the taste. I want to taste man meat, not a bunch of gross onions that smell like body odor.
I like raw onions but wouldn't put them in a burger. Marinated onions is the way to go with meat.
And not only for burgers, when you do kebab you have marinated onions with the meat and fresh onions in the vegetable salad. And for a reason!
 
Too much lettuce. I like lettuce in burgers, but I want it to be the same square footage as the patties or bun. I don’t want lettuce that is hanging off the burger by like 5 inches.

Also, I don’t like it when a burger can’t hold together. Like you take one bite and your tomato goes flying out the back or something because there was too much sauce that made it like a fucking slip n slide.
When the lettuce frond is the first thing to touch your mouth/tongue, you know it's some kind of fucking shit show.......
 
I have two major gripes:

1. Overcooked, dry patty. A burger’s soul is its meat. Overcooking it into a hockey puck? Instant heartbreak.

2. Soggy bun. A once-golden, fluffy bun soaked in ketchup, mustard, or grease is a dealbreaker.
Veganism
 
Not enough of it... Nobody wants to be packing a small burger.

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I once ate a Cow Palace burger at a bar right outside the Cow Palace before I went inside the Cow Palace and watch Cody superplex Joey Ryan off the top of a steel cage

It was quite an evening


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I could eat.


The bottom one reminds me of a burger I had in Vancouver.

Double cheeseburger, bacon, 1/4lb brat, onion rings, lettuce, tomato, and I think bbq sauce.
 
Pickles or anything pickley, if that is even a word. I hate fucking pickles.
 
Ketchup! I FUCKING HATE ketchup, that red shit has never tasted good on a burger or anything else and I can't believe every other human on this ball of mud we live on likes it.
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Words fall out of your mouth, like shit from ass. Burger without ketchup is good for the bin.
 
Raw onions. Disgusting and dominate the taste. I want to taste man meat, not a bunch of gross onions that smell like body odor.
Onions are required in an adequate burger you fucking peasant.
 
Words fall out of your mouth, like shit from ass. Burger without ketchup is good for the bin.
It really depends on what type of burger it is imo..

I mean, if I’m getting sauté onions or something on there. I’m not mixing that with ketchup..
 
Mayo and/or cheese. Haram of the highest order
 
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