The best burger in the world has been announced - and it's meat free

[Orang Utan]

you aren't a weird puritan purist in other spheres, why here?

i am when it comes to naming things correctly

 

[Mogden]

I would suggest it's got a serious amount of mushroom in it giving a meaty texture and an umami flavour which sates the tastebuds in the same way a big buggering meat burger does. I always see burger as refering more to the shape of the item rather than the content.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

you aren't a weird puritan purist in other spheres, why here?

Refusing to accept that textured and moulded soya and fungus deserves to pass itself off as sausages or bacon is hardly puritanical.

 

[killer b]

i am when it comes to naming things correctly

the correct names for things change.

 

[Pickman's model]

it ain't got beef mince in it

right. so you're saying all burgers are beef burgers. palpable nonsense.

 

[joustmaster]

the correct names for things change.

You can't just put anything in a bap and say its a burger.

I'm going to put some footbal boots on a dog and say it's wayne rooney

 

[Pickman's model]

i am when it comes to naming things correctly

if only that were the case

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

If it's priced at £4 too, that's fine by me.

They look to be absolutely tiny - not particularly cheap if they're just a couple of bites.

I'd be curious to try one though.

 

[killer b]

You can't just put anything in a bap and say its a burger.

I'm going to put some footbal boots on a dog and say it's wayne rooney

Usage, dear boy. You're on the wrong side of history, I'm afraid.

 

[editor]

Refusing to accept that textured and moulded soya and fungus deserves to pass itself off as sausages or bacon is hardly puritanical.

Given that people have been willing to accept all sorts of strange items in their 'meat' burgers, including rusk, water, diphosphates and triphosphates, non-animal related matter and weird animal body parts (and horsemeat in some cases), I fail to see what's so strange abut a veggie one.

 

[joustmaster]

Usage, dear boy. You're on the wrong side of history, I'm afraid.

Although the thing in the OP looks nice... If I ordered a burger, and that turned up, I'd be livid.
I bet the majority of people would be.

 

[Santino]

Why didn't we have a thread like this when GQ announced that George Osborne was Man Of The Year?

 

[editor]

They look to be absolutely tiny - not particularly cheap if they're just a couple of bites.

I'd be curious to try one though.

I don't how big the burgers you eat are, but this really doesn't look "absolutely tiny" to me. Smaller than a whopper for sure, but tiny?!

 

[Mogden]

And given the etymology of the word burger in fact comes originally from hamburger, not beefburger, the beef only argument rather falls apart.

 

[killer b]

Why didn't we have a thread like this when GQ announced that George Osborne was Man Of The Year?

you need two sides to get a decent row going.

 

[killer b]

And given the etymology of the word burger in fact comes originally from hamburger, not beefburger, the beef only argument rather falls apart.

the ham in hamburger is nothing to do with ham though. Hamburgers are made with beef.

 

[two sheds]

That's one trouble with old people, they can't accept new things .

 

[Orang Utan]

And given the etymology of the word burger in fact comes originally from hamburger, not beefburger, the beef only argument rather falls apart.

hamburger derives from hamburg though, iirc

 

[dylanredefined]

And given the etymology of the word burger in fact comes originally from hamburger, not beefburger, the beef only argument rather falls apart.

Hamburg from the city not the meat. A hamburger is the same as a beefburger.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Refusing to accept that textured and moulded soya and fungus deserves to pass itself off as sausages or bacon is hardly puritanical.

Lump of proteiny stuff to go with the carbs in the bun/chips side. That's about what 'burger' means to me.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

I don't how big the burgers you eat are, but this really doesn't look "absolutely tiny" to me. Smaller than a whopper for sure, but tiny?!

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Yes I'd say that's a seriously small burger. Here's the GQ story, it's a slider size: The Best Burger of 2015 Will Surprise You.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Lump of proteiny stuff to go with the carbs in the bun/chips side. That's about what 'burger' means to me.

Is a cheese sandwich a burger?

 

[keybored]

And given the etymology of the word burger in fact comes originally from hamburger, not beefburger, the beef only argument rather falls apart.

"hamburger" is the U.S. word for the whole thing though (burger, bun, salad, relish or whatever). "burger" is just the beef (though over there it's a "beef patty").

 

[wtfftw]

the ham in hamburger is nothing to do with ham though. Hamburgers are made with beef.

I went to Spain once and the hamburgers were definitely ham.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Is a cheese sandwich a burger?

No. But a wimpy spicy beanburger definitely was.

 

[wtfftw]

Is a cheese sandwich a burger?

If you add a patty of beef.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Why didn't we have a thread like this when GQ announced that George Osborne was Man Of The Year?

Possibly because it didn't?

 

[joustmaster]

And given the etymology of the word burger in fact comes originally from hamburger, not beefburger, the beef only argument rather falls apart.

 

[killer b]

"hamburger" is the U.S. word for the whole thing though (burger, bun, salad, relish or whatever). "burger" is just the beef (though over there it's a "beef patty").

so what does 'burger' mean, over there?

 

[joustmaster]

If you add a patty of beef.

genuine lol.