"dsi1" > wrote in message
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> On 4/9/2013 10:19 AM, Gary wrote:
>>
>> McDonald's hamburgers! The plain original ones. Say, "yuK' all you want
>> to
>> but with all the billions or trillions they've sold, they must be doing
>> something right. If I was going on a 100 mile road trip, I'd buy a giant
>> bag of them and munch on one every 10 miles or so. And I would be so
>> happy. heheh 
>>
>> G.
>>
>
> Gosh, you really like those burgers! My parents used to get those burgers
> when a McDonald's opened up in our hick town in 1968. Nobody had seen
> anything like it before. The buns were bright yellow and the patty was
> undersized beyond reason. As I recall, a meal at McDonald's was a burger,
> fries, and a shake. That was my first introduction to the foods of white
> folks. That was fine with me but these days, your average kid would find
> such simple and sparse fare as lacking.
>
> The burgers of my childhood was served outside of a local drugstore that
> was owned by a Chinese family. They had the thinnest burgers that I've
> ever had but at least they fit the bun. They were pretty tasteless and had
> a mixture of mayo and mustard on the top and a ketchup/pickle relish on
> the bottom. The hamburger tasted like a mayo, mustard, ketchup, and pickle
> relish sandwich and that's the way we liked it.
>
> I few years ago, I was at Byron's Drive Inn near the Honolulu Airport and
> found out that the burger served there was a pretty good analog of those
> burgers that I had in the 60s. That was great! The patties were a little
> thicker - probably because there were no supplier able to manufacture such
> paper thin circles of ground beef. It was like the good old days plus they
> served weird stuff like deep fried Twinkies, peanut butter and banana
> sandwiches, and pickles - deep fried pickles.
>
> The joint closed down a couple of months ago so there goes my ticket to my
> trip down memory lane for the food that I used to eat most every weekend
> when I was a kid - it's all pau now. That's the breaks.
My dad used to get me McDonald's burgers once in a while when they had
pizza. I would not eat pizza as a child. Wasn't until I was much older
that I realized that it wasn't all pizza that I didn't like. My parents
only ever got sausage and black olive in those days. Then somewhere along
the line they changed to Canadian Bacon or ham and pineapple. And I like
neither of those kinds. Once in a while I'll like a veggie one but mostly I
just like cheese.
Anyway... I didn't like the McD's burgers either. Perhaps mainly because I
generally don't like pickles on things. I do like them chopped up and put
in certain things and I do like a peanut butter and dill pickle sandwich. I
even went through a phase of eating a sandwich with one thin slice of
Pastrami and a whole layer of sweet pickles. So I guess if there are
pickles throughout, I might like it. But to be eating a burger and then be
surprised by two or three little pickle slices in there just kind of bothers
me. I also don't like mustard in general. Again, in smaller amounts in
some foods, it's fine. And the same for ketchup. I wouldn't even eat
ketchup on fries as a child.
So my dad told me that the reason I didn't like the burger was because it
wasn't a double burger! So he began not only ordering me double burgers but
plain ones. And that was somewhat better. I would have preferred onion on
the burger but it just seems that at Mud's it's far easier to get a plain
burger than it is to get one with only specific things on it.
I'm still not convinced that the double patty made it any better. Perhaps a
bit more filling. Those burgers really aren't very big. But the plain ones
were pretty bland and easy to eat because of their soft texture. So while
this wasn't a meal that I particularly liked, it didn't really bother me to
eat it.
Now a BK burger just bothers me to eat it. Something just tastes wrong to
me with their meat. It has a harsh, almost chemical quality to it.