Nasty things.

They seem to have a completely different flavor.

And some people are born to love them!



Do you also dislike garlic?

How about leeks, shallots, chives or scallions? Do you dislike those too?

Unless it's a bacon cheeseburger. Then I like everything.

Sautéed onions, cheese and ketchup

I only have them at home now. No one builds a better burger. Often have to slice and dice to eat it.

Oh, and I like whole wheat Kaiser rolls, of which there are none locally. I have to go 40 miles for them.

Sometimes I’ll put bbq sauce instead of ketchup and add bacon.

I’m gonna go make myself a burger right now. This post made me hungry lol.

bacon, cheese, guac, tomatoes, maybe mayo or whatever sauce.

Sometimes it's grilled mushrooms and cheese.

Soft bun. Not toasted. Pickle on the side. Medium rare.

Tamarack Restaurant Portage WI.

I’m flexible, selecting different accompaniments depending on my preference at the moment. To those you mentioned, I would add mayo, mustard, lettuce, sautéed mushrooms, onions, green peppers, buttered & toasted bun, pretty much anything except pineapple.

Bacon! How could I forget bacon!

A garlicky guacamole, bacon jam, shaved red onions, pepper jack cheese with a fried egg on top. Kaiser roll, toasted with a mayo spread on before assembly.

My dear wife was reading this and said ….”Get to work, sounds great!”.

fried onions.

Great topic BTW,

Ketchup-mustard-cheese-pickle-onion (the classic)

grilled onion-lettuce-mayo (Five guys)

Ketchup-mayo-lettuce-cheese-pickles (The big Mac)

Crunchy fried onions - goat cheese (just like it).

Thanks!

But a plain burger I use mustard only. I'm simple!

You have to go with with what tastes good to you.

and DILL pickle relish

Daughter said when she visited Australia, she was surprised to find pickled beet slices on burgers. The lass hates pickled beets. Oh, and they referred to ketchup as 'dead horse'.

ketchup as "dead horse" Double NO.

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If I'm making a grilled burger or a smashburger at home, it's usually some variety of cheese (American or Pepperjack) and nothing else.

I might add fresh jalapenos or leftover bacon if they're around, but the burger should be the star of the show.

Except for Five Guys, I go out of my way to avoid burgers in restaurants. I think they try to hide their burgers under 8 ounces of toppings and a quart of sauces - which makes a horrendous mess.

Probably makes me a snob but I'm ok to die on this hill.

ketchup,

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Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun. That's the old McDonalds commercial song.

As for me: Mayo and pickles and cheese.....

A little bacon too if going excessively wild.

Or maybe a burger counts as an add-in for chili. Either way, maybe topped with cheese and onion rings, hot sauce and jalapeños as needed

I detest all that extraneous plant life.

-- Mal

Green chile, cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion, guacamole and catsup.

. . .on the bottom half of the bun. . .except for cheese.

In order:
Bottom half of bun
Mayo, mustard, onions, ketchup, pickles, lettuce
Burger
Cheese
Top half of bun

But NO KETCHUP! I hate ketchup. I hate it so much that when I eat at a restaurant, I will erect a little barrier on the table in front of the ketchup bottle using the napkin dispenser, hot sauce, salt and pepper shakers and whatever else is there, so that I can't even see the ketchup bottle.

I've visited Belgium a couple of times and they don't even put ketchup on their french fries; they use mayonnaise instead. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe Belgium is the origin country of french fries.

Also, on Wheel of Fortune, Pat Sajak occasionally castigates Vanna White because she puts ketchup on hot dogs. I'm with Sajak on that one. Ketchup on hot dogs? Yuck! I like my hot dogs with mustard, onions and sauerkraut, or with chili.

In one of my favorite movies, The Martian, when Mark Watney ran out of ketchup, I rejoiced. He was putting ketchup on baked potatoes! Maybe I should give him some latitude on that, because after all, he didn't have many choices, but still, ketchup on baked potatoes!? Incidentally, since reading that novel and watching that movie, whenever I eat a baked potato, I always think of Mark Watney.

On my burgers I might also put a slice or two of tomato or bacon, but the problem is, if you start piling too much stuff on that burger, it gets so thick that you can't open your mouth wide enough to get it in.

Getting back to the subject, did I say, I hate ketchup?!

-- Ron

like ketchup???? Love ya.

A hard-fried egg, some dill pickle chips, and a dollop of ketchup. Thinking about it is making me hungry.

Cheese
Mustard
Pickles
Big slice of raw onion
Lettuce

Hellmann's mayonnaise (generous amount)

1 squirt brown mustard

Generous amount of Cheddar cheese slices

Iceberg lettuce (4 or 5 leaves)

1/4 inch slices of sweet onion (2 slices)

1/4 inch slices of tomato (2 slices)

3 slices of bacon folded in half

Served on toast instead of a bun.

Hamburgers square shaped for full toast coverage.

That's how I make them for myself.

...are condoms and mints



Bowl of condoms, bowl of mints.

These two sliced tomatoes are the "buns" that hold my hamburger.


The hamburger is slightly seasoned with Lawry's Seasoned salt after baked or grilled. Sometimes I place sliced pickles on my hamburger, sometimes I don't.



There have been other times I place a slice of cheddar cheese on top of my hamburger while it's almost done cooking. No tomatoes, no pickles.


It depends on my mood.

For a 'fancy' turkey one, swiss cheese with pear preserves

OR

cucumber, lettuce, tomato and tatziki.

...spears and a little bit of purple onion.

Not sure if these count as condiments, but bacon and crumbled bleu cheese round out the toppings.

with my own catsup/w'shire/texas pete mix.

Prefer yellow onion, but sweet onions will do in a pinch. The only side I require is some extra onion if the slab doesn't last for the whole burger. I don't know why, but the older I get the more I crave raw onions.

Glad to see some raw onion fans in a few of the recent posts.

Wat

Mayo on burgers. It's what you are going to eat so go with the toppings you like, PS, I prefer MWhip

But I like the way it mingles with the juices.

But... once in a while I get a hankerin' for some down home and I make a Carolina Classic: Mustard, Chili, and Slaw!
(I have to make them, no place around here would even try.)

slaw on ham sandwiches. Enjoy your burger.

With everything including a fried egg.

A dab of hot sauce, little bit of spinach, one shake of bacon bits, a touch of mustard. On a toasted bun.

But no catsup. Never. The fries get tartar sauce or Bleu cheese dressing.

Grilled onions and mushrooms, topped with melted blue cheese, a thick tomato slice, mayonnaise, and stone ground mustard all on toasted buns.

Due to being “cholesterolly challenged,” I haven’t had a hamburger in two decades. However, there is a place in Provincetown, Massachusetts that makes fabulous turkey burgers, and I have those with sautéed mushrooms, caramelized onions, lettuce, tomato slices and a bit of mild mustard.

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a buttered toasted bun.