American cheese is the only true cheese for a cheese burger. Cheddar doesn’t melt, it just sweats and turns greasy.
I feel your pain, although I prefer cheese on my burgers. My cross to bear is that I can’t stand ketchup. Try that at McDonalds, BK, or the like Yes, they say they’ll do it, but 50% of the time, it’s wrong. (Actually Wendy’s has never screwed it up, but the others routinely do)
Cafe Society is where threads about food go. Hamburgers may not be huate cuisine, but they certainly qualify as comestibles.
Cheese is an upsell. I get it, the boss requires you to offer cheese To everyone who does not order a cheeseburger, just in case they don’t know that you have cheese available for your burger.
I often order a “hamburger with no cheese.”
So do I, but they still put “cheese” on it. Even when I say multiple times “no cheese.”
what I think is weird is McD’s put cheese on a fish sandwich and 90 percent of the time my cousin says no cheese its still there ……………….
Yeah, I wasn’t all that keen on starting a thread either, until I thought of the title.
He knows that, it just cheeses him off.
I have the opposite experience in that when I order a cheeseburger and say what I want on it and omit the cheese they then have to verify that I want cheese on it. Well duh, otherwise I’d order a hamburger. And if I specify “cheeseburger with pickles, lettuce, and cheese” then they have to verify that I want the meat, and it seems silly to say “cheeseburger with pickles, lettuce, cheese, and meat” and when I do I know it is just a matter of time before someone asks if I want bread.
In the early 2000’s Burger King had a promotion–maybe it was 99 cent double cheeseburgers. So we went in and ordered 4 double hamburgers, fries, drinks, and the cashier told me an amount that was way too high. So I said, “the burgers are 99 cents each, right?” Her reply: “No you ordered double hamburgers–it’s double cheeseburgers that are on sale.” I really could not get through to her that it was ludicrous to charge me MORE because my burgers had no cheese on them. When we called the manager over, he refused to amend the charge, so we just left, and never ate there again. In fact, we started a ritual of saying “F you burger king” every time we drove past.
What I find mind blowing is that you actually got a patty hot enough that could cause any type of melting to occur!!
I never understood why a hamburger and a cheeseburger have two different names and separate entries on a menu.
Is a hamburger with tomato a tomato burger? Is a hamburger with lettuce a lettuce burger? Is a hamburger with onions an onion burger?
It’s just one food item with a choice of toppings.
By that reasoning, a hamburger with cheese is a hamburger. So if you order a hamburger, it may come with cheese.
Yes.
But when you order a hamburger you get to say which standard topping you don’t want and which optional toppings you do want. Cheese should be one or the other.
The cheese is not considered a topping but a main ingredient. E.g., you can have a grilled cheese sandwich. In a cheeseburger, the cheese and the burger are equals. The lettuce, mustard, etc. are hardly at the same level.
I know people who eat tomato sandwiches, so I don’t consider cheese to be any different than tomato.
And in fact a lot of menus do simply list cheese as an optional topping as part of a unified hamburger menu item.
Just order the cheese to go.
I wouldn’t say that the cheese is equal to the burger, but it is often applied at the end of the cooking phase so it melts a little. That does distinguish it from lettuce, pickles, and the other burger accoutrements.
Sounds like bacon.
Melted lettuce is baaad. Melted pickles - unsure. 