/ck/ - Food & Cooking

They're cheap and create a nice flavor contrast. It makes sense.

They can be good. Soggy old ones can be bad, so it's kind of a mixed bag.
A perfect burger doesn't need them though

>>10499336
Pickles and tomatoes are the two most essential toppings on a burger.

Pickles are great on a burger.
The limp green oddly flavored things that you get at a fast food place though, are no indication of what an actual pickle is like.

>>10499456
Nah. Onions are.

>>10499456
tomato
onion
pickle
mustard

>>10499498

Onions are the obvious third.

Pickles are for fags and if you like them you probably suck dick

>>10499336
Yes they belong

>>10499507
What's wrong with sucking dick? My favorite person in the world sucks my dick pretty regularly and I'd never use that as an insult against her.

>>10499336
what's even the point of those pickles they're like 1/20 the surface area, you'll get pickle in two bites max
i love pickles

Pickles are fine. I'm not a fan of Wendy's putting mayo on nearly everything though.

>>10499336
They allow the company to make nutritional claims without having to use fresh vegetables. Smart play.

>>10500103
They're small burgers, typically you can eat one of those in three bites

>>10500204
nah

>>10500115
dumbest thing i've ever read

>>10500103
I'll bet it's something cheap made to add some very little nutritional value or seem like the burger holds more than it does.
I like pickles, not pickles on my burger.

Fucking hell, I can already smell the putrid stench of those green globs of goo. I can't wash it off my hands. I'd rather buy pickles from the store and eat those than fast food "pickles."

>>10499336
only if they peel the pickles first

>>10499336
mcds pickles look like shit compared to bk

>>10500300
Who the fuck cares? How often do you look at the pickles? Dumb cunt. Fucking what a useless post I honestly hope you meet with a horrifically painful end soon and I never have to read one of your retarded comments again

>>10499336
they're shit

>>10499456

tomatoes were added decades later to make the hamburger look more expensive, so they could charge a premium. tomatoes do not belong on a burger.

>>10499336
i think mem genn teh feh

>>10499528
Your relationship with your mother is not relevant here

>pickles are a meme
People have been eating hamburgers with pickles since at least the 1880's mouth-breather.

>>10500103
Pickles gave an incredibly strong flavor

A good burger can stand on its own, condiments aren't necessary. Pickles can be good, but sometimes they're too rubbery or old or soggy or just plain not good so I always opt out.
>Onion
>Lettuce
>Tomato
>Ketchup
>Mustard
>Mayo
makes the kino burger.

>>10499336
Literally everybody opens the burger and throws they pickle away. I'm surprised that fast food joints haven't just given up on it and saved themselves some money or charged extra for the pickle as an extra topping.

Only thing that belongs on a burger is ketchup, mustard and cheese

>>10501099

The exact origin of the hamburger may never be known with any certainty. Most historians believe that it was invented by a cook who placed a Hamburg steak between two slices of bread in a small town in Texas, and others credit the founder of White Castle for developing the "Hamburger Sandwich." Records from that time are scarce, however.[2]

All claims for invention occur between 1885 and 1904, making it probable that the hamburger was created sometime in these two decades. Despite varieties, there are common elements in all of the narratives, most notably that the hamburger was born as a food associated with major events such as amusement parks, fairs, conferences, and festivals. All the hypotheses also share the presence of street vendors.

>>10501270

One of the first "birth of the burger" stories belongs to Canton, Ohio natives Frank and Charles Menches who were food vendors at the 1885 Erie County Fair, also known as the Hamburg Fair. Legend has it that during the course of the Fair, the Menches ran out of their signature menu item of pork sausage sandwiches. Their local supplier, Hamburg butcher Andrew Klein, was reluctant to butcher more hogs during a period of unseasonable late summer heat and suggested to substitute the use of ground beef. The brothers fired some up, but both found it dry and bland. They added coffee, brown sugar and other ingredients to create a unique taste. The original sandwiches were sold with just ketchup and sliced onions. With new found success with their beef sandwich, they christened it the “hamburger” after the Erie County Fair’s home town of Hamburg. "National Birth of the Burger Day" is celebrated on September 18th to honor the invention of the burger in 1885 at the Hamburg Fair. In the 1920s, carnival historian John C. Kunzog interviewed Frank Menches about his experience at the Erie County Fair. His detailed hamburger story was published in this book, “Tanbark & Tinsel” published in 1970.

>>10501277

One of the possible fathers of the hamburger is Charlie Nagreen (1871–1951) of Seymour, Wisconsin, who at the age of 15 sold Hamburg steaks from a street stall at the annual Outagamie County Fair. Nagreen said he began by selling Hamburg steaks, but these did not have much success because people wanted to freely move around the festival without the need to eat them at his stand. In response to this, in 1885 Nagreen decided to flatten the hamburger steak and insert it between two slices of bread, so that the public could move freely from booth to booth while eating his sandwich, an innovation that was well received by his customers.[39] This became known as the "Hamburger Charlie", and Nagreen's creation was sold at the festival until his death in 1951. To this day, his accomplishment is celebrated annually with a "Burger Fest" in his honor in his hometown of Seymour.

Another alleged inventor of the hamburger is the cook Fletcher Davis (better known as "Old Dave"), who claimed to have had the idea of putting ground beef between two pieces of Texas Toast when one of his customers was in too much of a hurry to sit down for a meal. The customer walked away with his Hamburger Steak and seemed so content that Old Dave offered his new carryout meal as a staple menu item at the end of 1880 in Athens, Texas. Fletcher had a stall with his wife at the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904. Texan journalist Frank X. Tolbert mentions a salesman named Fletcher Davis who served hamburgers in a café at 115 Tyler Street in Athens during the late 1880s.[40][41] The locals claim that Davis was selling beef sandwiches during that time, without having a clear name for his invention. During the 1980s, the Dairy Queen ice cream chain filmed a documentary about the birthplace of the hamburger featuring Davis' story. The story of "Old Dave's Hamburger Sandwich" is also found mentioned in Ronald L. McDonald's book The Complete Hamburger.

>>10501165
what do they do now

>>10501083
>jealous because his good boy points can't be traded for "extra special hugs" from mother.

>>10499501
tomato (Thinly sliced)
onion (thinly sliced white, thicker if red)
pickle
yellow mustard
heinz ketchup
shredded lettuce and cheddar optional

>>10499336

>>10499336
>>10502018

>>10499336
>>10502020

>>10501065
this
they make the buns soggy as fuck

>>10502058
Put the tomato under lettuce then you fucking retard. Holy shit. Do you forget to breathe sometimes?

>>10499498
my nigga

I'm not an old fashioned diner and milkshake burger purist or anything but onions, mustard and pickles can save any low quality of ground beef formed into a patty and sold for under $5.

>>10501914
This

>>10502024
Soo...you gon' slap my large #2 together or what?

Restaurants add pickles to sandwiches so that people with good taste will know to order a sandwich without pickles, meaning that the restaurant will have to make a fresh sandwich for the people with good taste. This means that people with good taste get fresh sandwiches while normies get premade pickle sandwiches, everyone is happy, and no one has to bring up the premade sandwiches, or request fresh sandwiches with the negative implications that would imply.

>>10502024
What does the cow's head taste like? Does the suffering give an unmistakable "funk" to the meat? Fuck man, now I'm going to have to go to McShits and look like a weirdo when I order the cow head burger.

>>10499336
Fuck pickles dude. I hate having to order burgers without them. And why the fuck do people insist on putting mayo on hamburgers? Mayo is disgusting on hot sandwiches. Gimme some toppings that makes sense together, like bacon, barbecue sauce, jalapenos, and fried onion rings.

I used to hate pickles. I mean I really fucking hated them, I'd force people to make me a new order if they showed up, and I could feel the taste permeate the bun so I'd bitch if they just pulled them off and pretended they weren't there.

Then one day, I came to understand the pickle. You see, it's a texture thing. You get a slight pop of vinegar that accentuates the mayo, and a crunch that's satisfying when you break through it. Most restaurants have garbage pickles, but those sandwich fuckers are awe inspiring. A true patrician appreciates a burger for what it is, in the style the restaurant decides to promote. I always order the "special" or the "homeburger" so I can sample how good their food really is. Any burger can be good with 2 inches of cheese and a fuckload of jalepenos, but a true burger artist will present me a beautiful pickled bouquet so I may sup upon it's glory, and bask in it's tender crunchy innards.

>>10502526
woo woo woo woo woo!

>>10499336
The perfect cheeseburger has these essential ingredients:
>Lettuce
>Tomato
>Pickle
>Onion
>American cheese (literally the only cheese that works with a burger)
>Ketchup
>Mustard

That's it. Any less and you have a poverty burger, any more and you've created a derivative. This is the standard.

>>10499456
Lettuce is also essential

>>10502692

Lettuce is the 4th most essential topping after onions.

>all these fatties ITT who dislike veggies on their burgers

>>10502060
>putting lettuce on a burger
Look who’s talking, retard.
Give me one good reason this shit-tier vegetable belongs on ANY food.

>>10502527
I'm not too sure about that head but you could try to make head cheese from either calf or pig's head

>>10499336
They can be good. A decent burger needs an acid flavor in it's profile, which pickles can make due. The problem is that, McD's specifically, defaults to ketchup, mustard, pickles, and rehydrated onion. That's a lot of acid, and it's gone too fucking far.

>>10501083
GOTTEM

pickles make or break a burger

>>10503352
>90 brajillion served
Sure, man.

>>10503397
>what is argumentum ad populum?

>>10503414
>Better than argument ad totally fucking subjectivum
"Stop liking things I don't like" screamed the Trump supporter, as the world realized he never deserved his white privilege.

>>10503532
project much?

>>10499336

It needs to be a dill pickle like at Harveys , the sweet pickles served on McDonalds burgers are an abomination.

am i the only one who loves pickles but hates them inside of a burger? they're a great, strong, vinegar-y palate cleanser. not unlike pickled ginger, in japanese cuisine. so a bite of pickle (on the side) in between bites of a burger is great. but, to continue the analogy, you wouldn't put pickled ginger into a piece of sushi--so why would you put it in a burger?

>>10503960
IMO they serve totally seperate purposes. Pickled ginger is very potent. Most burger pickles are far milder. The tang of the pickle is a great counterpoint to the meaty patty. It's the same idea as having vinegar in BBQ sauce, or putting fruits like apples or prunes in with roast pork, duck, goose etc. The acid complements the fat.

>>10503982
makes sense. i'm not a big fan of vinegar-based BBQ sauces, so maybe vinegar itself is just too strong of a taste to me personally(even if the standard low-quality burger pickle chip is low on flavor). i'll fall back on the other complain that seems to be in the thread: uneven distribution. maybe a small amount of non-sweet pickle relish would work better than 2 sad pickle chips laying in random parts across the burger patty.

>>10499456
>>10499498
>>10499501
>>10499506
>>10502692
>>10502706
isn't the burger the most essential?

>>10504410
That's not a topping on the burger. That's the burger. My favorite hat to wear on my head isn't my head.

>>10503011
>>10502058
>>10501065
Doing god's work, Anons.

I always ask for extra pickles and onions

i like a pickle on the side with a nice burger
i don't like the shitty pickles they put on fast food burgers

>>10499336
i find they usually overpower the burger with vinegar flavor

>>10502024
>Pay for the entire cow
>Only get a small portion of it

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!

>>10499336
I made brat burgers today and put american cheese, pickles, and spinach on it and it was awesome.

I usually put relish on mine instead of pickles is that weird
or use a burger sauce that has relish in it

>>10499336
Why does that McDonald's looks so wierd? Like even worse than normal, at least for the US.

>>10507547
they used the thinner triple decker patties in a quarter pounder.

fyi, the triple decker is actually unironically delicious.

>crusty roll
>deep fried onion
>beef
>sharp cheddar
>bacon
>heirloom tomato
>barbecue sauce
>dill pickle spear on the side
this is the perfected burger

I think fast food burgers are shit to begin with.

>>10508531
everything you just greentexted implies you are a fatty...

you still had my mouth watering