# Pickles on a burger - a poll. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 23, 2003, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pickles-on-a-burger-a-poll/150432 "2003-01-23T14:12:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![booklover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@booklover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/booklover)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pickles-on-a-burger-a-poll/150432/21 "2003-01-23T17:19:48Z")
You MUST have pickles on a burger! Dill and sliced into rounds (not spears–they slide off). ---
**Author:** ![DaToad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@DaToad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaToad)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pickles-on-a-burger-a-poll/150432/22 "2003-01-23T17:20:52Z")
Dill pickles, oh yes. And grilled onions. Throw some cheese and bacon on there too. I’m with Jimmy B. on that cold draft beer! ---
**Author:** ![Hanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b3f665/32.png) [@Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanna)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pickles-on-a-burger-a-poll/150432/23 "2003-01-23T17:58:56Z")
Pickles on burgers - a big YEA, I’ll eat pickles with anything, I love them. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pickles-on-a-burger-a-poll/150432/24 "2003-01-23T18:02:53Z")
My first job, at Burger King (at the tender age of 15) was a lesson in burger-building. The boss had strict rules: One pickle on a hamburger, three pickles on a Whopper. Heaven help the poor slob who accidentally threw on a fourth in an effort to keep up with the burger conveyor! You were immediately banished to the soft-drink machine until you could “control” yourself. I like a pickle on a burger. I also like a little cheese and pickle sandwich. Mmmmm…tasty! ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pickles-on-a-burger-a-poll/150432/25 "2003-01-23T18:02:59Z")
There should be **a** pickle on a burger. A **dill** pickle, needless to say. I just about gagged the first and only time I tried a Hardee’s “Six-Dollar Burger” (which deserves a whole nother rant for one or two other reasons) and bit into a sweet pickle. WTF? Aren’t sweet pickles just obviously wrong? Isn’t it just common sense that “sweet” and “pickle” do not go together? It’s an offense against nature and a contradiction in terms, like, oh, “salty ice cream” or “spicy milk” or, well, “sweet potatoes.” ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pickles-on-a-burger-a-poll/150432/26 "2003-01-23T18:06:35Z")
No pickles! Off off off off off! ---
**Author:** ![Debaser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3da27b/32.png) [@Debaser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Debaser)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pickles-on-a-burger-a-poll/150432/27 "2003-01-23T18:14:31Z")
Yes pickles! On on on on on! And I love onions as much as the next guy, but _raw_ onions on a burger? Gross. ---
**Author:** ![Hazel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e56c9b/32.png) [@Hazel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazel)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pickles-on-a-burger-a-poll/150432/28 "2003-01-23T18:21:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Khadaji \* > \*\*In another thread someone jokingly suggested that he might sue McDonald’s when there are no pickles on his burger. I detest pickles on my burger and have often wondered why they still put them on. > > Dopers pickles or no pickles? \*\* Agree. I don’t like dill pickles. I don’t want them on my hamberger. I don’t want them on the plate next to my hamberger or sandwich, either. I don’t want to have to smell the pickle, and I don’t want pickle juice on my food. I’ve always suspected that people wanting pickles with hambergers and/or sandwiches are the minority. I don’t get why restaurants give everyone pickles. Why not just have them available for those who request them? ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pickles-on-a-burger-a-poll/150432/29 "2003-01-23T18:23:06Z")
Pickles, sliced, dill. Check. Red Onions, sliced, raw. Check Okay, yellow or white onions will do if you don’t have red. But I can’t eat a pickle-less hamburger without a sense of melancholy for What Could Have Been. ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pickles-on-a-burger-a-poll/150432/30 "2003-01-23T18:34:33Z")
I like pickles on my burger. Hell, sometimes I’ll ask for EXTRA pickles. I hate onions, though. Hatehatehate them. I order them without onions when I can, but at, say McDonald’s, it’s kinda hard (their regular burgers have those onion chunks…blech. ---
**Author:** ![CuriousCanuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@CuriousCanuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CuriousCanuck)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pickles-on-a-burger-a-poll/150432/31 "2003-01-23T18:39:38Z")
PICKLES MAKE THE BURGER. This is one of the reasons I love Harvey’s. Big lengthwise sliced yummy pickels. 9-10 on the burger and as many on the side as they can give me without their manager seeing them. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pickles-on-a-burger-a-poll/150432/32 "2003-01-23T18:43:24Z")
You know what I love about threads like these? Finding out that the sensible folks with whom I agree on politics, theology, music, etc., can be hapless lunatics when it comes to dressing their hamburgers, or tying their shoelaces or whatever. And that the biggest jack-booted fascist Jesus-freak Eminem fan and I could smile and nod approvingly at each other and share the extra raw onions over the diner counter. ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pickles-on-a-burger-a-poll/150432/33 "2003-01-23T18:44:06Z")
Pickle slices, grilled onions and thousand island. Ketchup is for french fries. ---
**Author:** ![CuriousCanuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@CuriousCanuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CuriousCanuck)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pickles-on-a-burger-a-poll/150432/34 "2003-01-23T18:45:44Z")
Oh… did I mention I love pickles? ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pickles-on-a-burger-a-poll/150432/35 "2003-01-23T19:02:59Z")
Burgers _without_ pickles (_and_ without raw onions!) make the Baby Jesus cry! ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pickles-on-a-burger-a-poll/150432/36 "2003-01-23T19:07:57Z")
I love me some pickles and just gotta have 'em on those buhgahs. ---
**Author:** ![Venoma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c4cdca/32.png) [@Venoma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Venoma)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pickles-on-a-burger-a-poll/150432/37 "2003-01-23T19:13:29Z")
Yes! Yes! pickle on the burger GOOOOOOOOD… ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pickles-on-a-burger-a-poll/150432/38 "2003-01-23T19:18:25Z")
No pickles please. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pickles-on-a-burger-a-poll/150432/39 "2003-01-23T19:21:25Z")
Oh, and as for raw onions on a burger, well, I like them okay, but they tend to stay with me the rest of the afternoon, and sometimes I’m just not looking for a long-term relationship with my food. ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pickles-on-a-burger-a-poll/150432/40 "2003-01-23T19:26:40Z")
No - horrible, nasty things. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pickles-on-a-burger-a-poll/150432.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pickles-on-a-burger-a-poll/150432.md?page=3)