In Charlottesville, VA–practically across the street from the UVA Rotunda–there’s a wonderful little “greasy spoon” called the White Spot. Order the “Gusburger,” a cheeseburger with a fried egg, lettuce (I think), catsup/mustard/relish. It’s delicious. Get a side of pinto beans with a few shakes of Texas Pete hot sauce and some home fries, and a Pepsi. Not a meal for impressing your date, but what a great meal! I’d eat it every day if it didn’t involve a 100 mile drive.
Surely “the works” refers to the addition of fried egg, bacon, pineapple and cheese. The beetroot is stock standard.
For some reason a burger with a fried egg was pretty popular where I grew up (Finger Lakes area of NYS). On restaurant menus it was called a Bo Burger. I think it is slowly disappearing off menus, though, and is really now available only at the old-school places. The same places that still refer to a burger with lettuce and tomato as a Tully Burger and charge extra for it.
When I was a teenager I made burgers with egg (medium, over) and ortega chilis. I recall they were good. But now that I know about Calories, cholesterol, etc. I can’t bring myself to put egg on a burger.
You forgot the chili. :rolleyes:
And the BACON! Won’t somebody please think of the BACON?
So what burger would qualify as “The Homer Simpson Special”? Ham, bacon, sausage, cheese, fried egg, and chili on a double burger patty between a Krispy Kreme bun? With ranch dressing?
Wow. I’ve never put a fried egg on a burger before, but now I am completely consumed with desire for one.
Not usually, but sometimes I do.
My first encounter with such a thing was the Obelix. A bar/restaurant in my home town that does takeout on sandwiches named all its sandwiches as characters from Asterix, at first.
For those of you who don’t know the chars, Obelix is the “low-chested” strongman who considers that cutting 80% of a cake for himself and half the rest each for two others is “equal portions”. So the Obelix is the sandwich with everything the cook could think of. I’m sure you can wave one of those two-patties, fried-egg-bearing beauties in front of a switched-off blood analysis machine and get cholesterol readings… but Og are they GOOD!
Stanich’s Ten Till One Tavern is a Portland institution. Their “brunch burger” is a monstrous concoction of burger, eggs, canadian bacon, cheese, etc., etc. and they’ve been making them since the '40s. I personally don’t like them much, but anyone who lives around here for a while should have one just for the experience.
chilli has no business in a burger.
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You! Out of my thread! 
Oh, and Autumn Almanac, please do report back to us once you’ve had the experience, will you? 
I’m comforted to know that I’m not alone in my egg/burger loving. Pochacco, I’ve eaten at Cafe 50’s (both the one in Santa Monica and the one in Studio City), but I’ve never tried that burger. I’ll have to give it a whirl.
Could someone please explain beetroot to me and why I’d want it on a burger?
Well maybe that awful concoction gringos call “chili” but for me a burger sin chile no tiene chiste.
Never heard of fried egg on a hamburger but I’d go for it. Fried eggs are good on lots of things. It’s not all that different than a sausage patty & egg biscuit or English muffin.
CBEscapee, what do you consider - in English - to be proper chili? And be careful lumping all “gringo” chili lovers together. You can check out any chili thread here on the Dope and see there are very wide ranging interpretations of it.
Proper chili in English? I think you are talking of a dish called “chili con carne” in the US. I had a “chilidog” once and that was enough. It was ground beef with red beans and way too much cumin and very little “chili”.
The word “chile” here doesn’t refer to a stewed dish with meat and other ingredients, something we call a guisado, but to the peppers themselves. Chile serrano, chile jalapeño, chile de arbol, chile chipotle, etc… There are far too many dishes that contain chile for just one to be known by that name.
Some of us gringos can differentiate between “chili” ( chili con carne) and “chiles” (pods found on plants).
Sounds like CBEcapee had some sorry chili on his dog.
Undoubtedly so. But I wonder what would be the answer of most Americans when asked to define “chili”? The type of dish I had on my chilidog and the stufff found in cans on the supermarket shelves? And what kind would most likely be found on a hot dog or burger?
I have no way of knowing whether what I had on my hotdog was good or bad “chili” but I didn’t find it appealing. When I ws offered it I was expecting maybe slices of jalapeños or some other type of chile or maybe the sausage itself to be infused with chile.
BTW if we have a meat stew with chile we might refer to it as carne con chile seeing that the meat is the main ingredient and the chile is for flavor.
I like the Breakfast Jack egg on a burger at Jack In The Box. Since it’s on the dollar menu and served all day, I’ll get them when I’m on the road and want a quick “breakfast” at any time of day.
I also like breakfast burritos at those one-man rolling sandwich vans.
No…after much discussion of this, it’s been determined that what you yanks call Canadian bacon is what we Canucks call back bacon. It’s still bacon, but a less fatty bit that’s usually cut thicker.
That’s pretty funny. I lived almost all of my life in Texas, and it wasn’t until I moved to Oregon, two years ago, that I ever saw fried eggs offered on burgers.
If all you say is chili most people would expect the stuff you get in cans.
Here in the states you’d be offered a Jalapeno burger, or a Habanero burger (!), if we’re talking about a chili pepper.
Most Americans wouldn’t understand something con chili, but would need to know what type of chili. Pepper, or regular chili? If pepper, what type of pepper?