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

@Stopshoutingtv Finland?

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!

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

Burger with pasta sounds so unappetising

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.

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.

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

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.

Option b isnt a burger that i can see

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.

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

Italy!

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.

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

And now no reply.....

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

ffs, all that and no answer!

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

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.

We’ve only ever said burger bun🤷‍♀️

Option B is not even a burger. It's a really strange combination that I've never seen before. A patty with PASTA?! What the Hell?!

Finland? My SIL lives there and makes some strange combos.

Greece?

Not unheard of, though the patties are much smaller than normal burgers and you'd have several. With ketchup.