Burger King claims I can have it my way. But I can’t get a rare burger. WTF?
If you don’t to sell rare burgers, fine. But don’t lie and say I can get it my way.
What, so you can sue them for e-coli poisoning (or whatever the disease of the month is…)?
You could always just get a well-done burger and then transubstantiate it into a rare burger.
Blimey. It’s a bad day for people making false claims, that’s for sure.
Did I miss a nostalgia flashback? Does Burger King still advertise “Have it your way?”
I remember that slogan along with the “Hold the pickle, hold the lettuce” jingle, which was popular when I was watching President Ford talk about Whipping Inflation Now.
Trust me, you don’t want a Burger King patty rare. Trust me.
Why would anyone want a rare burger? Surely everyone knows by now that hamburger meat must be well-done to avoid illness. Hamburger meat must be well cooked all the way to the centre. If not there is a significant chance that bacteria will survive to cause illness.
There is always some yo-yo that thinks that a claim like ‘You can have it your way’ means a free for all. Did you ever consider that even a hamburger joint must obey laws ?!
Yeah, and those damned WIN buttons didn’t work either.
And McDonalds told everybody they deserved a break today when it was perfectly clear that many people (they know who they are) didn’t deserve any such thing.
Having worked for the Aussie BK, Hungry Jack’s, trust me when I tell you that you want that burger well done. It really is frame grilled through an enormous rotating contraption. They go in frozen in one end, cooked out the other. Good meat though.
If you asked them to spit on your burger, they’d probably refuse as well. A rare burger is a lawsuit waiting to happen and is downright dangerous, so it’s not unreasonable for them to refuse to make you one.
Pretty lame pitting to be honest. I’d give it a 4/10 at most.
It’s amazing I have survived nearly 53 years, considering the number of rare burgers I’ve consumed, altho I will grant that I can only get that by cooking myself these days. Plus I’ve eated honest-to-goodness raw ground beef on more occasions than I can count with no ill effects that I can remember.
It probably helps that I keep my kitchen and my hands clean when food preparation is involved. Or maybe I just have a stomach of iron??
I am sure some people smoke 3 packs a day until they die of cancer at age 55, and probably someone that has done russian roulette every day for 11 years and is still alive.
Other than that your argument is fine
Most of the good restaurants around here (meaning not fast-food places) will cook burgers to a minimum of medium, due to health concerns. I always get burgers medium, and if I’m at home, I cook them medium-rare. I’ve made it to 42 with no ill affects.
Why would anyone want it that way? Because we like it that way.
I’ll support my two fellow Marylanders in this. I’ve eaten enough rare/medium-rare burgers in my time and I’ve gotten to 49 without any problems.
Rare-medium rare ground beef is only a problem is the meat is contaminated. Virtually all meat that is ground under sanitary conditions is not.
Why have it that way? Because a medium rare burger is so much better than a well done burger it is difficult to describe. I have stopped ordering burgers in restaurants because I know that they have to do it well done and I can’t go back. I get ground beef from butchers I trust or grind my own and make burgers at home.
I’d say that’s a ringing endorsement! I was balding by the time I was in my late 20’s, my back began to go around 35, and by 45 my knees were shot.
Plus, the bitch set me up.
More cowmeat!
I wouldn’t dream of asking for a BK or McDonald’s burger rare. Who knows how many cows contributed to that meat. (I’ll be eating at McDonald’s for lunch today). Besides, they’re so thin, it’d be damn hard to produce a truly rare burger.
But, at home or a bit more formal restaurant, I’ll always eat my burgers rare.
We get our hamburger meat from the local steak house. They gather up all the trimmings and grind them up. It’s divine.
-Lil
Burger King’s motto clearly doesn’t stand up to scientific evidence. Probably a bunch of damn Catholics running the place. At least the ‘flesh crackers’ are served rare.