A tale of two burgers...

This is a story from a few weeks ago.. It's not exciting, but I have wrote in a while. It is the story of two experiences of burger ordering.

Burger 1.

I went to a local pub for some food and a drink. Order my drink. It was a coke. I was being healthy. So I ordered a burger. A nice lamb burger with cheese. I asked if cheese on a lamb burger was a good idea. I wasn't too sure. The lady looked at me in a 'Do I give a f*ck way'. I got cheese.

Anyway, burger came, I was excited. Took the lid of the ciabatta (stale bread actually), to discover no meat. However, I didn't immediately say.. Oi there is no meat in this burger. Instead, being the typical brit decided it must be my fault, I'm not looking hard enough. I couldn't complain, only to find a very small bit of meat somewhere and have everyone embarrassed. That would be insane. So I started digging through the salad on on the bread, trying to see if the burger was hidden under a piece of tomato or something... This obviously caught the attention of the staff. Who confirmed there wasn't a mini burger hidden under some lettuce and said it must have been missed. Phew...

This however also caught the attention of the locals sat at the bar. They loved the fact that the chef had made this terrible mistake. And talked about it throughout the rest of the evening. Telling each person who came in, telling them that I had been served a salad sandwich and how crazy it was. Each time asking me if I liked salad sandwiches. This lasted hours!! The exciting nights you can have sat at a bar.

The burger did eventually come avec meat... I daren't tell them the cheese was missing.

The other story is of a burger from the Gourmet Burger Kithen.

A few things of note here. One brought up by my friend. My friend Larry is one of those strange vegi types. So he wanted a vegi burger. There is a very limited vegi burger option on the menu. About 4 burgers. But he said. Why can't there be exactly the same as the meat burger menu, replacing the meat with a vegi burger. Very good question. One I fear will never be answered.

The other thing to note is that GBK is essentially a very expensive Wimpy. You have to go up to the counter and order, just like Wimpy, and you get knife and fork. Just like Wimpy. You also get them in most major resteraunts unless you go to Bradford or something. The one major difference is you don't get fries. You have to buy them seperate. This is quite annoying. Burgers should come with chips in a resteraunt. It should be the law. So instead you end up paying a tenner for a burger and £4 for fries. Insanity. Burger came though, complete with meat. It was good.

The only way this evening could have been bettered was to meat (geddit) someone from Sum41 in a pub... And I did. Insane.