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Which burger would you prefer?-Cultural differences?

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Stopshoutingtv · 19/08/2026 21:55

Option A: Bbq burger on a burger bap with cheese, ketchup, salad, wedges and corn on the cob

Option B: Grilled burger (no bap etc) with plain pasta and salt

We had Dds friend over for lunch after Dd asked her if she wanted to come for burgers and toasted marshmallows. She was quite confused about the burger as has it like option B at home, aside from at McDonald’s.

Which burger do you prefer and can anyone guess which country we’re in?

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HoppingPavlova · 20/08/2026 08:26

We’ve only ever said burger bun🤷‍♀️

AgentCooperdreamsofTibet · 20/08/2026 08:26

Read all seven pages and there's no answer yet.

Plain burgers were a staple dinner when I was young (80s/90s) but usually served with potatoes and veg (carrots and peas) or salad - never pasta. I've been known to crumble leftover burger patties from a bbq into tinned tomatoes for a very quick and bastardised version of spag bol though (a few drops of worcestershire sauce helps too).

We go through a merry dance with my mum whenever we go to any sort of pub lunch type place. She always says she's not very hungry so will just have the burger. We have to point out that this will be a burger on a bun, with cheese and other toppings - look, just as it says on the menu. She'll study the description again and be all, well, I never. I just can't see it coming like that. We're not in an American diner. Insists on ordering it anyway and is then aghast when a tower of bread, meat and cheese arrives. Every bloody time.

Tulipvase · 20/08/2026 08:26

I’d have said Poland, haven’t read the whole thread.

LivingDeadGirlUK · 20/08/2026 08:26

ffs, all that and no answer!

5128gap · 20/08/2026 08:24

We were served burgers that way in Italy. I didn't enjoy it.

NoNameNoOne · 20/08/2026 08:23

Persephonia1966 · 20/08/2026 02:31

Is it one of these?

  • Afghanistan
  • Albania
  • Algeria
  • Andorra
  • Angola
  • Antigua and Barbuda
  • Argentina
  • Armenia
  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Azerbaijan
  • Bahamas
  • Bahrain
  • Bangladesh
  • Barbados
  • Belarus
  • Belgium
  • Belize
  • Benin
  • Bhutan
  • Bolivia
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Botswana
  • Brazil
  • Brunei
  • Bulgaria
  • Burkina Faso
  • Burundi
  • Cabo Verde
  • Cambodia
  • Cameroon
  • Canada
  • Central African Republic
  • Chad
  • Chile
  • China
  • Colombia
  • Comoros
  • Congo, Democratic Republic of the
  • Congo, Republic of the
  • Costa Rica
  • Cote d'Ivoire
  • Croatia
  • Cuba
  • Cyprus
  • Czechia
  • Denmark
  • Djibouti
  • Dominica
  • Dominican Republic
  • Ecuador
  • Egypt
  • El Salvador
  • Equatorial Guinea
  • Eritrea
  • Estonia
  • Eswatini
  • Ethiopia
  • Fiji
  • Finland
  • France
  • Gabon
  • Gambia
  • Georgia
  • Germany
  • Ghana
  • Greece
  • Grenada
  • Guatemala
  • Guinea
  • Guinea-Bissau
  • Guyana
  • Haiti
  • Honduras
  • Hungary
  • Iceland
  • India
  • Indonesia
  • Iran
  • Iraq
  • Ireland
  • Israel
  • Italy
  • Jamaica
  • Japan
  • Jordan
  • Kazakhstan
  • Kenya
  • Kiribati
  • Kosovo
  • Kuwait
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Laos
  • Latvia
  • Lebanon
  • Lesotho
  • Liberia
  • Libya
  • Liechtenstein
  • Lithuania
  • Luxembourg
  • Madagascar
  • Malawi
  • Malaysia
  • Maldives
  • Mali
  • Malta
  • Marshall Islands
  • Mauritania
  • Mauritius
  • Mexico
  • Micronesia
  • Moldova
  • Monaco
  • Mongolia
  • Montenegro
  • Morocco
  • Mozambique
  • Myanmar
  • Namibia
  • Nauru
  • Nepal
  • Netherlands
  • New Zealand
  • Nicaragua
  • Niger
  • Nigeria
  • North Korea
  • North Macedonia
  • Norway
  • Oman
  • Pakistan
  • Palau
  • Palestine
  • Panama
  • Papua New Guinea
  • Paraguay
  • Peru
  • Philippines
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Qatar
  • Romania
  • Russia
  • Rwanda
  • Saint Kitts and Nevis
  • Saint Lucia
  • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
  • Samoa
  • San Marino
  • Sao Tome and Principe
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Senegal
  • Serbia
  • Seychelles
  • Sierra Leone
  • Singapore
  • Slovakia
  • Slovenia
  • Solomon Islands
  • Somalia
  • South Africa
  • South Korea
  • South Sudan
  • Spain
  • Sri Lanka
  • Sudan
  • Suriname
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Syria
  • Taiwan
  • Tajikistan
  • Tanzania
  • Thailand
  • Timor-Leste
  • Togo
  • Tonga
  • Trinidad and Tobago
  • Tunisia
  • Turkey
  • Turkmenistan
  • Tuvalu
  • Uganda
  • Ukraine
  • United Arab Emirates (UAE)
  • United Kingdom (UK)
  • United States of America (USA)
  • Uruguay
  • Uzbekistan
  • Vanuatu
  • Vatican City (Holy See)
  • Venezuela
  • Vietnam
  • Yemen
  • Zambia
  • Zimbabwe

If yes, which one?

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rubyrued · 20/08/2026 08:21

@Franxisteak hache & plain pasta? Not everyone in France can cook though.

drspouse · 20/08/2026 08:21

Not guessing as my ideas have been done, but here (NW) it seems to be a burger bun, and a sausage or bacon roll or barm. Which is confusing for me having grown up calling them baps.

Munchie1965 · 20/08/2026 08:18

Italy!

Attictroll · 20/08/2026 08:18

Haven’t seen an option like B since the 70s tbh.

DoAWheelie · 20/08/2026 08:16

B style was quite common for me growing up. Burgers were basically cheep steak to us and used the same way, so with mash and gravy, chips and beans, chopped up with noodles or pasta etc.

PollyBell · 20/08/2026 08:15

Option b isnt a burger that i can see

diddl · 20/08/2026 08:14

I remember as a kid having burger (no bun), chips & salad.

Not that different to B.

If I have a burger in a bun at home I wouldn't have chips/wedges as well.

Franxi · 20/08/2026 08:14

rubyrued · 20/08/2026 07:58

I wouldn’t say B was France at all as someone with French family

I was served this at friends houses growing up in France.

PuggyPuggyPuggy · 20/08/2026 08:13

By definition I would have said a burger is meat-in-a-bun. You can add other things, but it's not a burger without the meat, or the bun. Come to think of it, there's also veggie burgers so reall it's just something-in-a-bun 😆

If someone asks if you want to come round for pizza and puts some kind of pepperoni, cheese, tomato concoction on a pile of rice, it's not pizza.

QuintadosMalvados · 20/08/2026 08:08

rubyrued · 20/08/2026 07:39

Option 2 sounds like prison food

I agree.
I don't wish to be harsh, if that's all you got to eat/afford I wouldn't mock at all.

but to pick this when you've got the choice of option A?

Obviously it's a kid that picked this and it would be truly awful to mock that child but yeah if it were another adult and I knew them well enough, knew they didn't have to only eat burgers and pasta out of be necessity and had no eating disorders I'd be a bit WTF? albeit in a jokey way.

Snufkin88 · 20/08/2026 08:08

Burger with pasta sounds so unappetising

GeorgeMichaelsCat · 20/08/2026 08:05

Never heard of option B so am curious. I would have assumed fussy eater.

muddyford · 20/08/2026 08:01

Thank you for saying 'bap'. To me a bun is sweet, rounded bread lump, perhaps with dried fruit in it, like a hot cross bun without the spice. Didn’t have them in bread growing up. My mother made the best beefburgers ever!

101Alsatians · 20/08/2026 08:01

@Stopshoutingtv Finland?

rubyrued · 20/08/2026 07:58

I wouldn’t say B was France at all as someone with French family

Ophy83 · 20/08/2026 07:57

We would eat A, but at restaurants in France (i know you're not in France!) the kids are often given something similar to B albeit the "plain" pasta is actually very buttery and delicious and the steak hache is not dry

WhisperingAngelisnotbad · 20/08/2026 07:55

At home, we either have chips with a burger or we have a bun. Not usually both. And I often just have veg with mine.

MargaretMeldrew · 20/08/2026 07:55

It’s a burger bun because that’s what it says on the packet and that’s what I write on my very old fashioned parchment shopping list with a quill. But inside my head it’s a bap.

When I was a child, my mum made the best burgers. They didn’t belong in any sort of bread. They were served with some type of potato (not necessarily chips) and peas. It was my favourite dinner. I had no idea what pasta was when I was growing up (in the seventies), apart from spaghetti hoops and tinned ravioli🤣 Often my eldest, now 18, used to eat various different meats with plain pasta. Meatballs. Burgers. Chicken goujons. He will still eat something like this if he’s feeling a bit under the weather and wants a plain dinner that’s easy on his stomach.

Are you in Ireland? Only asking as that’s where I am. I do think it’s a bit rude and performative to keep everyone guessing though.

x2boys · 20/08/2026 07:54

Needmorelego · 19/08/2026 22:10

When I was a child if people had burgers at home they were usually served with chips or mash - no buns.
Unless it was very specifically a BBQ. Then you got a bun.
(which was probably once a year when relatives came over on the august bank holiday 😂)
My daughter likes to eat burgers with rice. Even if at a BBQ. No buns for her. Even at McDonald's or Burger King she doesn't eat the bun.
Never had burger with pasta. Although whats the difference really between meatballs and pasta vs burger and pasta other than the shape of the squished up meat 🤔
Conclusion.....
Does it matter?

I was going to say the same im nearly 53 and remember eating burgers without a bun with chips and beans or peas as a child this wss before Mcdonalds was a big thing