Yep, knife and fork.
Here in Sweden it is very common to eat them that way as well, so maybe it is a Nordic thing? We don’t get an egg on top, mind, but they put so much stuff inside, and have such floppy buns, that there’s no hope of being able to pick one up to eat properly. It is one of the first things us immigrants do as part of the adaption process, learn to not feel embarrassed eating a burger with a knife and fork.
I like eggs okay. The idea of putting one on a burger strikes me as utterly bizarre, though, and I can’t believe that it’s commonly done. Why an egg and not a brownie or some mac and cheese? Either of those would be no more weird to me. I’d sooner eat a burger topped with mac and cheese, actually.
C’mon. You really didn’t think that was out there?
As my engineer friends would say – “it’s really just a design choice.”
America – F Yeah!
Yes but the Egg must be cooked through and inside the bun because I just learned from a few posts up there that putting it on top of the bun is apparently a thing.
Most times I’ve had an egg on a burger has been overseas where they don’t ‘get’ what make a good burger a good burger. Usually it an overcooked egg on top of some crappy meat with weird fixings. I’ll eat it, but I’d prefere just a well made hamburger, or cheeseburger on a good bun.
Hell yes. It’s tasty as anything. I know a burger joint does good burgers if they have an egg burger on the menu or don’t blink when you ask for one.
Yes, but it is an Icelandic thing. Never forget that they bury a shark for a few months and then eat it when it is good and rotten. Egg on top of a burger is probably the most normal thing they eat.
Egg and beef are a perfectly natural pairing. Steak and eggs, anyone? Beefsteak tartare usually comes with a raw egg nestled in the raw beef. It’s a pretty common topping at any of the pub-burger style places around here. It nowhere near universal, but certainly not bizarre, like putting a brownie on your burger or ketchup on your hot dog. 
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Well, it certainly does make me want to hang down my head.
Fried egg on a burger sounds AWESOME! (Never had it my self) 
Have one tonight – the technology is not complicated!
Fuck yeah!
I don’t get that at Red Robin because their Blue Cheese Burger is to die for, but I do get the eggy burger at BSpot.
Never made one myself at home, but I’m no egg gourmet. I only do scrambled.
Yes I will eat it.
When I finally was able to get the hell out of my nightmarish Italian internship, I didn’t sleep at all the night before I left. Then I sat in my sweltering 100-degree garrett apartment until 1:00, when I took a taxi to the station. Then I got on my train which left at 3. Then I rode the train for 5 hours, to Munich. Then I found out the airport train wasn’t running. I paid 50 Euro for a cab ride to the airport. I checked my baggage. I then got on the wrong bus, which did not take me to an airport, but forced me to disembark at parking lot 40, which is not in sight of any terminals. Then I called the hotel and screamed and cried. Then I called the taxi service and screamed and cried. Then a rogue taxi picked me up (in spite of taxi service’s insistence they weren’t allowed on airport roads). It took me to my hotel. I hadn’t eaten in 24 hours at that point.
When the burger I ordered at the hotel came with a fried egg and salsa on top, you’re darn right I ate it without a thought, and it was the most delicious burger I’ve ever had.
I’d probably swap the BBQ sauce for tomato sauce, but otherwise, yes please!
Like Oz, a typical “trad” NZ burger will have (at least some of) beetroot, pineapple, egg, and onions – lettuce, tomato, sauce, and burger patty being the basics.
McD’s do a Kiwiburgerhere with all but the pineapple, and Wendy’s introduced a similar item called a “Rugby Burger” for the World Cup (that one was being sold in a combo with passionfruit-topped pavlova as a dessert). 
Yep!
Yeah, IME, it’s pretty common in diners and so forth. I like the egg fried over-hard, though, and if it’s a good burger, I’d rather just enjoy that, with some black pepper, maybe hot sauce, maybe ketchup, maybe some salad on top.
I would only cook it for myself if it had been days since eating, though – and if I had some good bread to match the protein blast. Cheese, though, with or without egg, can always be an option.
The absolute best burger (with egg) comes from a good steak that is ground to order, then grilled to rare or maybe medium rare.
Sure, I’ve had burgers with fried eggs on them - at Red Robin I think.
The BBQ food truck that comes by on Fridays has sandwiches with mac and cheese inside the sandwich. They are pretty good.
I don’t like eggs, but hey free burger!. I might partake if I’m really hungry.