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

[Shippou-Sensei]

You disgussed me. You don't have bacon and falafel and burger in the same bread enclosure. I am reporting you to the appropriate authorities. A K a the what are you having for tea thread.

Remember that poster Detroit city?

No what did they do? order a pinapple and sweetcorn pizza?

 

[xenon]

No what did they do? order a pinapple and sweetcorn pizza?

And worse, much worse. I think he made everyone else feel like culinary genius. Even if you were just having a ham sandwich.

 

[kabbes]

People making a massive fuss about burgers is classic hipster man-child nonsense anyway.

 

[kabbes]

Meat eaters trying to be healthy would be better off with grilled skinless chicken breast then, a bit less fat and a lot more protein than Quorn.

Yes, people should identify one single food that is best for them and then eat only that.

Who needs a mincemeat-like substance when you can just have chicken breast? Mmm, chicken breast chilli coming right up.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

People making a massive fuss about burgers is classic hipster man-child nonsense anyway.

Or people afflicted with children, who can now go to venues that look reassuringly like chains and still get food which is edible. I salute the improvement in burger standards over the last ten years.

 

[Orang Utan]

Or people afflicted with children, who can now go to venues that look reassuringly like chains and still get food which is edible. I salute the improvement in burger standards over the last ten years.

You don't have to feed kids burgers you know. It's not obligatory.

 

[JimW]

There was a bunch from Nottingham who used to do a veggie burger van at demos many years ago, think theirs was the best I recall not home-made.

 

[kabbes]

Or people afflicted with children, who can now go to venues that look reassuringly like chains and still get food which is edible. I salute the improvement in burger standards over the last ten years.

Do you actually fuss about them, then? Like the piece in the OP? Or do you just grudgingly go to the best available, in relief that it isn't shit, whilst wishing you could enjoy some actual proper cuisine?

 

[keybored]

Yes, people should identify one single food that is best for them and then eat only that.

Who needs a mincemeat-like substance when you can just have chicken breast?

Yes, that's almost exactly what I suggested.

 

[joustmaster]

McDonald's burgers do not equal burgers of course to. Get a kebab don't go to McDonald's.

McD's burgers are made from good quality meat, these days.

 

[kabbes]

Yes, that's almost exactly what I suggested.

Yep, it is.

"Don't eat this when there is this other completely different thing available" is what you said.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Do you actually fuss about them, then? Like the piece in the OP? Or do you just grudgingly go to the best available, in relief that it isn't shit, whilst wishing you could enjoy some actual proper cuisine?

I quite like a good burger and I would be disappointed if I went without one for six months.

 

[Roadkill]

Vegetarian haggis and black pudding are the only things I can think of that explicitly attempt to ape the flavour and texture of the meat originals and actually make a decent go of it.

I've not had veggie black pudding, but that MacSween veggie haggis is lovely. Well, it's lovely to eat, but it does give me the most unbelievable duvet-lifters. Veggie sausages are generally dry and uninteresting IME but I've had good veggie burgers and the one in the OP looks well worth a go.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Veggie black pudding is OK, right until you compare it to the proper stuff. Veggie haggis can fuck off.

As for the burger is the OP, I'm sure it's lovely. But better than a proper meat one? Nah. Never gonna happen for me anyway...

 

[killer b]

how can you tell?

 

[killer b]

That said, I think it's pretty pointless trying to compare a veggie burger with a meat burger, they're pretty different beasts - it's clearly been chosen to generate more click-throughs for GQ. In that, at least, it's worked spectacularly well.

 

[ska invita]

i think burger is a very flexible term.

liberal

 

[The Octagon]

Since when did fashion / wank mag GQ become culinary experts?

Clickbait.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Why do supermarkets and the McDonalds empire insist on marketing "hamburgers" and "beef burgers" instead of speaking proudly about their "dead animal bits surprise"?

 

[Lo Siento.]

Publicity garnered from saying restaurant x makes best burger made of beef in the world: 0.

Publicity garnered from claiming best burger in the world is meat-free: lots.

Mystery explained.

 

[editor]

Publicity garnered from saying restaurant x makes best burger made of beef in the world: 0.

Publicity garnered from claiming best burger in the world is meat-free: lots.

Mystery explained.

Well that's it then. Thank heavens a meat eater who has never actually tried the burger in question is here to explain all.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

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

£4 for some veg and fungus compressed and served in a bun. FOUR POUNDS? Does it come with veggie caviar on it too?

 

[Lo Siento.]

Well that's it then. Thank heavens a meat eater who has never actually tried the burger in question is here to explain all.

You don't think that's a likely motivation? (Regardless of the actual quality of this burger...)

 

[editor]

£4 for some veg and fungus compressed and served in a bun. FOUR POUNDS? Does it come with veggie caviar on it too?

Trying something first usually a smart move before passing an opinion

 

[editor]

You don't think that's a likely motivation? (Regardless of the actual quality of this burger...)

Not really, as if it's shit then it's going to make the mag look shit too. Why would they risk their reputation on a shitty product? It's not that the burger place has a shedload of cporporate cash to oil the publicity wheels either.

Maybe - gosh! - it really is as good as they say?

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Trying something first usually a smart move before passing an opinion

What, I need to east a £4 burger to know that it costs four times what a £1 burger does?

 

[killer b]

Not really, as if it's shit then it's going to make the mag look shit too. Why would they risk their reputation on a shitty product? It's not that the burger place has a shedload of cporporate cash to oil the publicity wheels either.

Maybe - gosh! - it really is as good as they say?

I'm sure it's delicious, but come on - this is the most blatant clickbait you've ever posted: does anyone remember discussing any of GQ's previous burger of the years?

 

[Lo Siento.]

Not really, as if it's shit then it's going to make the mag look shit too. Why would they risk their reputation on a shitty product? It's not that the burger place has a shedload of cporporate cash to oil the publicity wheels either.

Maybe - gosh! - it really is as good as they say?

Don't get me wrong, I think the burger is likely to be very tasty, I'm not for a moment saying that you can't make a spectacularly delicious veggie patty. But I also think it's very clear that magazines like GQ need to self-publicise from time to time to remind people they exist. One of the ways in which they do this is by courting controversy and this sort of story, likely to picked up by the press, shared around the internet etc. is a good way of doing that. So that's the motivation for the "best burger in the world is meat free" aspect of the article.

 

[Artaxerxes]

this is a burger

That looks like its going to give you really bad food poisoning.

i leave the thread for an hour or two and come back to see a pedant fest.

Must have been disappointing not to have been involved.

 

[editor]

Don't get me wrong, I think the burger is likely to be very tasty, I'm not for a moment saying that you can't make a spectacularly delicious veggie patty. But I also think it's very clear that magazines like GQ need to self-publicise from time to time to remind people they exist. One of the ways in which they do this is by courting controversy and this sort of story, likely to picked up by the press, shared around the internet etc. is a good way of doing that. So that's the motivation for the "best burger in the world is meat free" aspect of the article.

Maybe. But I guess its pressworthiness depends on the prejudice of the readers, some of whom clearly can't accept that the notion that a meat free burger can be a very tasty thing indeed. Personally, I don't have a problem with that concept. The more great veggie burgers the better, really.