# Hey Wendy's, what part of "no cheese" don't you understand??? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 31, 2006, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-wendys-what-part-of-no-cheese-dont-you-understand/342398 "2006-01-31T20:47:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 85
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2023, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-wendys-what-part-of-no-cheese-dont-you-understand/342398/85 "2023-01-31T19:51:46Z")
I feel the OP’s pain, even all these years later. I order my burgers without cheese, and I estimate that they still put cheese on them 10-20% of the time. Even a Whopper, which isn’t supposed to come with cheese, still gets cheese on it sometimes. I’m not allergic or intolerant, and I don’t despise cheese, I just prefer most burgers without it. Only once have I made a fuss and asked for a new burger. All I can think is that it’s just force of habit for the cooks to just slap a slice of two of cheese on every burger that passes before them. I even started a similar thread a few years ago. > [@Cheeseburger hegemony](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheeseburger-hegemony/816066): > > Has anyone else noticed the demise of the humble, yet iconic, hamburger from restaurant menus in this great land? I was at a restaurant today and ordered a hamburger, and received a cheeseburger. Seems like every hamburger comes with cheese as the default now, which, to my mind, makes it not a hamburger anymore. Want a QuarterPounder at McDonald’s? You’re out of luck, unless you order a Quarter Pounder with Cheese without the cheese. Take a look at the [page](https://menu.wendys.com/en_US/category/hamburgers/) labeled “Hamburgers” at Wendy’s a… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-wendys-what-part-of-no-cheese-dont-you-understand/342398)._