Which burger would you prefer?-Cultural differences?

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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?

I thought the definition of a burger involved a bun of some form. Otherwise it’s just a patty.

See I thought that the bread on a burger was always a bun and that overrides any regional name for a bread roll.

Obviously option A.

Option B is strange.

I was going to say what a stupid thread but I'd be as WTF? as you are.

If you're baffled, too.
Could be you who thinks option B is OK.

I think it's batshit, frankly.

For a long time (am late 40s) the only place I'd been served something like this and seen it as a thing was France, but OP has said several times that it's not France.

Then, earlier this year, a friend served this when I was round with one of my DC, and I was very surprised. It was quite a plain and dry meal.

Said family member has spent quite a bit of time in France, which may or may not be a coincidence.

When we were kids in the Middle East we often had a grilled/fried burger with rice!

I’m nearly 60. As a few PPs have mentioned, when i was growing up, it was quite normal (for us anyway) to have burger, chips and vegetables for a meal. Burgers in a bun were for barbecues or fast food restaurants.

surely it would be bun, hun.

Austria, Switzerland or denmark

Italian in laws often do pasta followed by a plain burger patty (not together though, but maybe served that way for the children) but seeing as you've said not Italy I'm going to guess austria as it's on the border and they love quite bland food, don't think I've seen it here though!

Plain pasta? That is dull(unless you've got things to liven it up st your BBQ)

I would always think a but they did used to serve vegetarian burgers weigh no bun and pasta in my old work canteen ( not in uk)

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I remember that, the only place we got a burger bun was the once or twice a year we went to the Wimpy.

The Japanese do all sorts of dishes with hamburgers, as a sandwich filling in plain white sweet bread, inside large dumplings, in noodle soup, as a pizza topping….

My DM ( from NW) visited me in South Wales and asked at the bakery for barm cakes. They were perplexed.
One has to know the local lingo for baked goods, eg we holiday regularly in the NE, and our barm cakes are stotties there.

I’m well travelled and have also succumbed to burgers in most countries, always comes in a bap. Families can have all kids of food traditions yet that doesn’t mean it’s the normal way to serve something.

My guess is you have a time machine and you're in the UK before about 1995 when "beefburger" meant something that got served plain on a plate (like you would sausages or whatever) and it only got upgraded to "a hamburger" when you put it in a bun, if you were being all fancy and American and whatnot. McDonalds still came in polystyrene tubs and they didn't do coke, only "McDonald's cola."

The ones I buy clearly say BUN on the label in Asda 🤔

Option 2 sounds like prison food

Is it a health thing at home? So instead of white burger bun and fries they make burgers with pasta for dinner? They may either only have burgers and fries as a takeaway or not have it because of this.

I’d have B without the pasta as I don’t eat carbs. If I did it would definitely be A

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

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.

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.

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