I don’t think so. It’s more like different people, in different places, at different times, have chosen different words, and there’s never been any linguistic pressure for any group to conform to the choice of any other group.
Do they have Krusty partially gelatinated non-dairy gum-based beverages?
Umm hmm…they call 'em “shakes”.
I was about to reply “Found the Aussie!”
I can see how pickled beet might work, but I’m not a fan of beets in nearly any circumstances (did have really well done beets at a now closed fine-dining place a few years ago), so unless I find myself in Sydney or Adelaide or wherever and order a burger, I’ll probably pass.
Given the potential for a mess on your shirt from a properly juicy and condimented burger, I can only shake my head at the impossibility of eating a beetroot-equipped burger without that red juice permanently staining my entire outfit.
I’m actually quite fond of beets, but really only the non-pickled variety. Fresh-roasted beets are awesome. I can see them working on a burger for some same as pickles, but since I usually ditch dill pickles on my burger as well I’d likely pass.
Looks like prevention beets cure every time! Great find! 
Beetroot on a burger sounds kinda tasty. It’ll be awhile before I can arrange that conjunction, but it’ll happen.
Don’t threaten me with a good time!
Do it. I was surprised when my hotel room service “burger and fries” at my Sydney hotel arrived dressed with beetroot automatically, but I was pleasantly surprised. It was good!
You can, of course, add whatever else you like: mustard, relish, pickles, tomatoes, onions, mayo—but a real Aussie burger should include beetroot.
Give it a try. From me, two thumbs up. Or should that be “two yums up?” Either way, it deserves a try.
I agree with you and, like cilantro, I can taste it where other people can’t but still, it doesn’t put me off enough not to indulge in it.
It definitely tastes a tiny bit like propane to me. Doesn’t matter if that’s artificial or not, or even if it comes from fat drippings. For instance, hot/bell peppers have natural ingredients that can taste like hydrocarbons even if none were added.
(On the other hand, BK sides are literally tasteless. If I were to pick a fast food Dream Team and pick and choose one restaurant to showcase the best, I might take BK’s patties, but nothing else from them. Maybe Checkers can beat them on the taste but they are so small the size makes up for it.)
Just for fun, I often take some to fancy dinner buffets, displayed in a nice silver bowl with the other side dishes.
I’ve always liked them, and I once offered one to a college professor. He turned to the class and said "I will now demonstrate the correct method of eating a Circus Peanut. I will put it in my pocket thusly, giving it two to three weeks to be properly aged, and to acquire the proper amount of pocket lint "
At that point, was he suggesting that you were then ready to (a) accept the circus peanut was now only fit to go in the trash or (b) eat it.
My grandmother used to say “I’ll just put these leftovers in the fridge till they are old enough to be thrown out”.
What always mystified me as a kid getting circus peanuts on Halloween was, they have an artificial banana flavor, right? Why not give them an artificial peanut flavor? They’re circus peanuts, not circus bananas. Lots of other crappy Halloween candy was peanut flavored, so it’s not as if the technology didn’t exist.
No. FTR I really like the banana flavored ones, too.
I’m so sorry you talked yourself out of trying it. I’ve had a great time taking trains to Seattle, LA, Chicago and Portland.
And these were at the cheapest level. My wife flies while I ride coach fare (yes, sleeping two nights reclining in a seat).
I was a little stiff the next day (I’m in my 70s), but watching dawn break over the desert mesas or the Rockies was worth it.
And the food was excellent, especially if you’re a carnivore. I sprung for dinner in the dining car: $40 for an inch-thick steak, done perfectly with tasteful sides. The included merlot was tasty, as was the huge piece of triple chocolate cake. All on linen tablecloths and served by a waiter who’d worked high-end cruise lines for years.
back in 1980 I wanted to travel the US on an American Railpass like the Eurailpass they had in Europe, and I found they didn’t exist.
They do now. A USA Rail Pass will take you anywhere for a month: 10 rides in 30 days. $500 except when they’re half-price. I grab one whenever they’re 250, and never get to use it for more than 6 or 7 destinations (NYC > CHI > LA is 2 rides).
By then I’m ready to stay home for a while anyhow.
I’ve never even tried chicken and waffles. It does not sound appealing to me, at all. I’m not that fond of waffles anyway.
I’m growing beets right now for the greens, although I will eventually eat the roots when the time comes. They are wonderful in salads, and are also good lightly steamed.
If you’ve had any kind of mixed-green salad, you have probably had beet greens.
The “new, improved” Whopper with cheese is, as I said earlier, quite similar to the original one, but apparently it has a higher quality bun and improved mayo. It’s still my favourite mass-market burger but I’ll still ocassionally get a McD’s Quarter Pounder with cheese just for a change. I don’t indulge in either of them very often anyway.
But I don’t have a particular problem with BK fries. To me, BK fries and McD’s fries and 5-minute frozen fries out of my air fryer are all much the same. Tolerable, but certainly not great. Really good fries are the ones I make from scratch, with hand-cut potato wedges soaked in water for at least an hour, then tossed in olive oil with garlic salt and Herbes de Provence and then air-fried to golden perfection.
We didn’t do it last Summer, but it’s on the table for a late Summer vacation this year. My wife just started a new job and doesn’t have a lot of vacation days accrued yet, plus they can’t take any vacation in the month of August at her job for some reason, so we might take a few days in September. Not a lot of time, but we could probably take a 3 or 4 day train ride as far out west as that gets us, and fly back.
Thanks for the rec!
I kind of get the impression that Amtrak is pretty pleasant, as long as you’ve got plenty of time.
That’s always been the deal-breaker for me; everywhere I’ve ever considered taking Amtrak has taken like 3x longer and been just as expensive as flying. So I guess it’s really whether you’re in it for the journey or the destination.
Washington state is known for apples, but back in the '50s and '60s Red Delicious dominated. So many apple dishes were disappointing.
Nowadays, we have crispy, tart apples like Honey Crisp, and I wonder what one would taste like dipped in good quality caramel!