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submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by Stamets@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.world
 

Edit: It will never cease to make me laugh that I get more genuinely serious discussion comments on my meme posts in /c/Memes than anywhere else. I'm not hating, I love it.

Edit 2: Chicago-Style deep dish pizza isn't pizza go fuck yourself

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[–] Goltbrook@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

I want a place that makes tiny burgers

Forget the premium burger places where burgers are held together by whaling harpoons and you need to eat them deconstructed. Instead of one giant undesirable burger give me a plate with 4 regular sized burgers in exciting variations.

Give me a chicken chili burger, a double irish beef patty blue cheese burger, an italian herb lamb patty and as a chaser a smoked bison brisket with bourbon sauce.

All on one plate. I would be happy

4 burgers. 1 plate. 0 regrets.

And if you don't like one, you have 3 more chances to forgive the cook.

[–] RizzoTheSmall@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

As a person who cannot unhook my jaw in the same way that a snake is able to, I am all for the idea of wider, flatter burgers.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 29 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Big burgers should just be two burgers

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Can we use a hotdogs to make a bridge between the two hamburger castles?

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] promitheas@programming.dev 3 points 2 days ago

What have you done? What have you permitted?

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 99 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (40 children)

I disagree with the glasses part as counterargument. Pizzas are sold by diameter in places that offer large and small - some even do medium. I also believe it would be nicer to have wider burgers instead of taller

[–] markovs_gun@lemmy.world 86 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Counterpoint - pizzas are sold by diameter, but pretty much everyone I know underestimates how diameter corresponds to actual pizza size and think a 16" pizza is twice as big as an 8" pizza instead of four times as big, which it actually is. Meanwhile, a burger patty that is twice as big as another one is actually twice as tall, while one that is wider is only about ~41% wider. Vertical dimension is more intuitive for the overall mass difference.

[–] nyctre@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Just sell by patty weight.

[–] Mesophar@pawb.social 55 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Until you start selling a 1/3 lb burger to outcompete the 1/4 lb burger, but people are "4 is more than 3!" so your marketing fails...

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 45 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Them later advertising it as 3/9ths is pretty funny though.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago

"The one on the right is better because the thingy is lifting it higher and the arrow is pointing to it!" -- idiots, probably

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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 21 points 3 days ago

But a third is less than a quarter!

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[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Nobody said it. So be it...

A regular size, ⅓lb burger is plenty for anybody. If it was unsatisfying, use better ingredients or stronger flavours.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 43 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (9 children)

The A&W thing is more about Americans sucking ass at math than the difference between a wider or taller burger.

They had a 1/3lb burger and dipshits thought the 1/4lb was bigger because they don't understand fractions.

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[–] Kentifer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I was on your side until that gibberish about Chicago style pizza.

[–] Blass_Rose@pawb.social 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Literally at my restaurant right now the burger with 3 smaller patties is more popular than the burger with 2 bigger patties. Same total amount of meat, just taller on a smaller bun...

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

Well yeah I'd want that meat in three smaller patties instead of two larger ones. More maillard reaction.

[–] gradual@lemmings.world 6 points 2 days ago

People are stupid.

[–] drdalek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

This is a dumb response. Wider is easier to fit in your mouth and doesnt fall apart. Taller is just a mess and challenge to eat

TLDR: it's not a volume issue, its a distribution

[–] raltoid@lemmy.world 33 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

That is the point of the meme.

It's a reference to the third-pound burger, and how consumers thought 1/3 was less than 1/4.

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[–] CallateCoyote@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

It's true. I'm a bartender. When I serve a drink in a to-go cup I sometimes get people bitching "oh, that's all I get?" and then I passive aggressively demonstrate to them that it's the same as it would be in a pint glass but it's just shorter and wider.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 days ago

If they wanted a good deal, they should have stayed at home and drank alone in the basement. Works for me.

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[–] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 43 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Nah. If you put two plates in front of me and one had a regular burger on it and the other had a burger that was as wide as the plate itself, I'd pick the one that most accurately reflects how much I hate myself at that moment.

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It's not a comparison of size, it's just the formatting of the sandwich to fit better with the way the human jaw is made... What a dumb argument

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago

I think wider is better so you don't have to unhinge your jaw like a snake to eat it.

[–] acidbattery@lemm.ee 50 points 3 days ago (7 children)

Buns and patties would have to come in two different sizes for wide and regular burgers, and it’s probably more economical for restaurants to make them all in one standard size.

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[–] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I'll take whatever gets my beard the least messy.

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[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 29 points 3 days ago (6 children)

But wider = more taste surface. See smash burgers. Taller is just... more burger to toppings ratio. Diminishing returns, imo.

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[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Burgers should neither be taller nor wider. Just give me two normal sized burgers.

How about you unhinge your jaw like your little sister

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[–] supernicepojo@lemmy.world 35 points 3 days ago (8 children)

A&W tried something like this. Sold a 1/3 pound burger because its bigger than the popular Quarter Pounder sold by its competition, larger than a Whopper even. It undersold and when people were asked why; it turns out people think 1/3 is less than 1/4. By the numbers, here.

[–] Stamets@lemmy.world 27 points 3 days ago (7 children)
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[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 24 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (8 children)

In my boyfriend's hometown they used to have this restaurant that served this thing called a hubcap burger

And it was indeed, wide enough to be the hubcap of a car, while being basically flat.

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

Chilis used to make a Terlingua Pride Burger, it was wide AF. It was kinda fun, but the bun got soggy before you could finish it and it would start to fall apart.

Still miss it, though.

[–] Shawdow194@fedia.io 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz 27 points 3 days ago (4 children)
[–] SoloCritical@lemm.ee 25 points 3 days ago (14 children)

Never forget that the 1/3 pounder failed because people were too dumb to realize that 1/3 is bigger than 1/4…

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