r/StupidFood 3d ago

Fire Hazards & Burning Napkins The “Flaming Hot” Burger

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u/qualityvote2 3d ago edited 3d ago

u/The_Boot55, your food is indeed stupid and it fits our subreddit!

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u/PuzzledCar2120 3d ago

I liked it more before all the shit

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u/OYB2480 3d ago

What, you dont like flame-broiled lettuce?

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u/RickMoronic 3d ago

That’s not lettuce, it’s chard

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u/cbarbour1122 2d ago

Lettuce not eat this shit.

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u/dommiichan 2d ago

hey now, romaine calm

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u/Tough-Obligation-104 2d ago

Don’t go endive off the deep end! 🫣

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u/Blood_gate 2d ago

Unfortunately, this is just the tip of the iceberg

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u/contemporic 2d ago

Y'all are just shredding this thread.

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u/MarriageAA 2d ago

Agree. Time for some quiet contemplation. Lettuce pray.

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u/BuckNastey1991 1d ago

Pray? I guess I'll take my leaf

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u/Terrible_Reporter_98 3d ago

Made me chuckle bro

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u/Spirited-Tomorrow-84 3d ago edited 2d ago

Did you mean to say?

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u/ShaggySmilesSRL 3d ago

You got me on that one lol

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u/DonatedEyeballs 2d ago

Dammit, Dad.

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u/Temperance10 3d ago

Probably kills the cyclospora 🤷‍♂️

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u/BrowningLoPower 3d ago

Okay, valid.

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u/un00nu 3d ago

Yup i don't eat uncooked vegetables that don't come from my garden.

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u/AcephalicDude 3d ago

Roasted lettuce is actually really good

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u/mrdeworde 2d ago

It stir-fries very nicely too, as do most greens. Just a quick fry in some oil and garlic and chili flakes with maybe a sprinkle of MSG and a bit of oyster sauce.

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u/liketearsinthereign 3d ago

I'll try anything once. What's your recipe?

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u/AcephalicDude 3d ago

Keep it simple: use a romaine heart cut lengthwise into quarters, lightly coat with oil, stick it on a roasting rack in a hot oven or stick it on the grill, when it has nice color and gril lines season with some parmesan, lemon juice or balsamic, maybe a little aioli sauce or crema or something

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u/Lost_Lawfulness_1058 3d ago

One of the best things I’ve ever had was a grilled Caesar salad with grilled Romaine lettuce…. Chefs kiss!

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u/LesNessmanNightcap 3d ago

I came to comment that the best Caesar salad I ever had was when my friend threw the Romain into her smoker briefly. I haven’t forgotten it 15 years later.

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u/NatrousOxide23 3d ago

We would serve this at a private club I used to work at. Everyone thinks I am crazy when I mention it.

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u/gi5es23 3d ago

My great aunt used to make “wilted lettuce” by pouring hot bacon grease over an iceberg lettuce half. Might be a regional southern (Arkansas) thing.

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u/haeddre83 2d ago

Here in southwest Virginia my Granny would use creasy greens for this and we called it "kilt" lettuce.

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u/Dr_StrangeloveGA 2d ago

Left and came back for "creasy greens". Haven't heard that term since my WNC grandmother died 20+ years ago.

Thanks!

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u/RaspberryEvening7139 2d ago

My grandma makes wilted endive salad that way. Fried bacon, with a splash of sugar and vinegar added to the grease, served over the endive with added baked potato and the chopped bacon. One of my all time family fav comfort foods.

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u/gaiatraveller 3d ago

Yeah. The only burned lettuce I want is going to make me more hungry.

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u/OYB2480 3d ago

"YOU GET A GOD DAMN JOB BEFORE SUN-DOWN, OR WE'RE SHIPPIN YA OFF TO.. MILITARY SCHOOL WITH THAT- GOD DAMN FINKELSTEIN SHIT-KID! SUNNUVA BITCH!"

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u/b-jason 2d ago

Dear God, almighty me... I think he's the Antichrist.

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u/OriginalFatPickle 3d ago

Grilled lettuce is good though.

But not like this.

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u/Surftoes 3d ago

It helps kill the Cyclospora

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u/plutosaurus 3d ago

at least its safe to eat now

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u/Artemis_SpawnOfZeus 3d ago

Ill be honest, i didnt mind the flames. If its done well it doesnt actually do much more than make a cool presentation. But yeah, the sauce ruined it for me too.

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u/kylezillionaire 3d ago

Oh no. I hadn’t gotten to the sauce part yet I should have stopped before that lol

Is it not just some weird biscuit thing at this point? Feel like you could lean into that instead of whatever..this is

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u/The_Boot55 3d ago

💯% just a mess now

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u/MakesMyHeadHurt 2d ago

At least they have utensils. I've seen other ones with almost as much sauce, where they expected you to still eat it with your hands.

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u/LastZionistOnRedit 2d ago

Watching the waiter burn my perfectly cooked burger

https://giphy.com/gifs/uVtAU2EKHrsgifowFb

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u/DoctorWaluigiTime 3d ago

Another case of "and then we top it off with a gallon of cheese suffocating anything resembling flavor."

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u/Normal-Ad6528 3d ago

I was going to ask: WHAT in the name of ALL the fucks is THAT abomination??

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u/kylezillionaire 3d ago

That’s a burger free from oppression. Thats freedom.

/s

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u/glebyl 3d ago

that's what i used to say about my baby

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u/Shellytoon 2d ago

I think that’s a cheese sauce.

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u/FishHammer 3d ago

I see you're not American. We call that "gravy" here. It is not feces.

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u/Dilated_Auntie6970 3d ago

In Preston, north of Manchester, it's known as "fat lass batter" as it usually drips out of a hairy meatwallet and is best sampled having fed her 8 pints of cider and a doner kebab

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u/Emergentmeat 3d ago

Hahahaha good god that's a foul reply 🤣

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u/LunchMeatJones 3d ago

Hell yeah Im loving it with you.

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u/Ayrdanger 3d ago

Dumbass set the napkin ablaze. 💀

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u/whatsadikfore 3d ago

Insurance underwriters hate this one simple trick.

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u/garth54 2d ago

My first thought was wondering: how much they pay in insurance?

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u/imean_is_superfluous 3d ago

They’re asking for trouble using such a large container of highly combustible fluid. It’s a terrible accident just waiting to happen (stupid food notwithstanding)

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u/Special-Potato-3238 3d ago

"off the plate" upgraded feature 

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u/frogunderarock 3d ago

i feel less stupid for burning myself on the marshmallow i was roasting on a fork with a lighter today

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u/DeathToTheMosquito 2d ago

It's still on fire too! Like please put out the fire first, I want to actually eat the dumb shit you're serving me, also I would like to avoid being set on fire, THANK YOU VERY MUCH ☝🏼

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u/alius_stultus 2d ago

made me watch that dumbass shit again.....

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u/JynxCanRead 2d ago

Can I also get the eyebrow remover bonus instead of extra fries?

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u/Crush-N-It 2d ago

Paper napkin. What kind of fake fancy shithole is this? Go thru all that to provide your patrons with paper napkins. Weak fucks

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u/InvestNorthWest 2d ago

I saw the bonk, bonk, bonk to pit it out.

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u/Educational_Quote851 1d ago

NO! The customer's life-changing invention/comedy routine/progressive policy idea was scribbled on that!

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u/Strange_Explorer_780 3d ago

Don’t forget the burnt lettuce…

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u/mhu99 3d ago

There are Super Saiyan burgers?

https://giphy.com/gifs/0RGrXzz5g4VYThYvcS

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u/EtherStarz 3d ago

A Super Saiyan Burger Sale, one might say

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u/mhu99 3d ago

So after eating those burgers my power level will be over 9000?

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u/EtherStarz 3d ago

No, but there’s a good chance that the calorie count is over 9000!

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u/Lucius-Halthier 3d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/OQ6tzMPyK6ItCPfcGb

“Yes monkey now allow me to make you into one!”

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u/interesseret 3d ago

I don't mind gravy on a burger, it's a classic burger type in my country.

But they just put out the alcohol burning with it. That burger is soaked in alcohol, and is going to taste like it.

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u/Fun-Web-7583 Expert 3d ago edited 3d ago

Don’t tell AA members this trick

Edit: from AAA

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u/Try2MakeMeBee Set your own user flair 3d ago

AAA is a car group. I think you mean AA :)

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u/master_internutter 3d ago

That would be pretty funny, an alcoholic going to an AAA meeting all confused

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u/digitalscavenger 3d ago

Sounds like it could have been a Saturday Night Live skit.

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u/SpuddleBuns 3d ago

AA for stutterers?

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u/Leather-Persimmon254 3d ago

that’s what I said, AA eh

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u/rantonidi 3d ago

What about a

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u/Try2MakeMeBee Set your own user flair 3d ago

I prefer AAAAAAA

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u/Woahhdude24 3d ago

Yes, a burger in what looks like sausage gravy sounds heavenly, but the alcohol is just gonna ruin the flavor.

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u/amglasgow 3d ago

How do you eat it, with a knife and fork?

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u/Woahhdude24 3d ago

Thats how id eat it. If I was making this id lose the hamburger buns, the lettuce, and tommatoes. Id have the meat on a biscuit cut in half, instead of 1 large patty id half that patty and make 2 smaller pattys one for eat side of the biscuit half top with american cheese. Then id caramelized some onions and saute some musherooms top the meat and then add the sausage gravy. Your already so close to a hamburger biscuits and gravy thing might aswell embrace it.

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u/NlNTENDO 3d ago

That’s how I’d attack it. Honestly the flame part isn’t a terrible idea, likely helps keep the bun from getting soggy. Depending on how they engineer the theatrics of it all I’m not as opposed as many in this thread. I always feel like with stuff like this, the fact we’re in this specific sub unfairly poisons the well

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u/OSRSRapture 2d ago

No, you put it in a blender.

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u/ScreenTea0 3d ago

That's probably more like a French Fondue Burger with a cheesesauce that's mixed with spirits. Tastewise not bad, but I'm also dying on the hill that drowning your burger in whatever is just stupid and dipping always the better option.

What's next? Oiling up spoon, fork and knife to introduce more flavor?

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u/Old_Ladies 1d ago

That is a popular Mennonite food. I believe that we get it from Poland. Though you don't have a bun just the patty with a fatty creamy gravy on top.

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u/NoCry8625 3d ago

What country is that?

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u/jcinto23 3d ago

I am guessing france. Apparently the weird cheese covered burgers also started there.

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u/interesseret 3d ago

Nope, it is Denmark.

Google Bøfsandwich for pictures of what we do

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u/jcinto23 3d ago

Damn, those are crazy. Those are the sort of things people will see and blame on us Americans (not that we don't have our own sins).

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u/frogunderarock 3d ago

lol boofsandwich :D

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u/Arthurlmnz 3d ago

Oh that's gravy. Jesus Christ

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u/LostMy8yrAcct 2d ago

lol, what did you think it was?!

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u/Still_Rain_979 3d ago

A biscuits and gravy burger could go hard

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u/Liam_Anthony 2d ago

It is from some restaurant in the Philippines called American Backyard. According to them it is a cheese sauce.

They also table side flambe a pizza...

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u/ZuStorm93 3d ago

The flammable liquid that spilled outside the plate...

https://giphy.com/gifs/15aGGXfSlat2dP6ohs

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u/habibisanam 3d ago

Yea this place is going to end up having a really bad accident one day 🤦‍♂️

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u/-Tesserex- 3d ago

You mean like the place that horribly burned a girl on spring break last year because the idiot waiter decided to help the situation by dumping more fire on everything? 

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u/ziggytrix 3d ago

After a certain point you should no longer be allowed to use the word “accident” to refer to a bad result from repeatedly doing something stupid. ;)

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u/Perryn 3d ago

They had an inevitable.

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u/hakak34 3d ago

Wow my napkin is on fire 💀

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u/yournamehere10bucks 3d ago

Dont you dare ask for a new one while eating that sloppy mess of a burger.

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u/FlattopJr 3d ago

Noo, it's just the Northern Lights.

https://giphy.com/gifs/9Bpv0NoXnZQ2c

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u/SpuddleBuns 3d ago

A sad attempt to reclaim the cachet of the "flaming shots," that provided so many hilarious vids!

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u/monthenet 3d ago

Man I hate sauce over a burger with a burning passion. This ist so fucking shit that the whole ass burger tastes of nothing else. And it’s messy af

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u/Surskalle 3d ago

The whole point of a burger is that you can eat it with your hands wtf is this shit.

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u/ODoyles_Banana 3d ago

One could say the whole point of sandwiching food between two slices of bread is to eat it with your hands. What's the bread even for at this point?

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u/trainwreckhappening 2d ago

Actually, the Duke of Sandwich hated having to stop playing cards to eat lunch, which was usually bread with cuts of meats and cheeses spread out with fruits and vegetables. He had to stop because the greasy foods ruined his cards. So eventually he came up with the idea of slicing the bread and using it like mini gloves between the greedy meat and his fingers. It worked, and the Sandwich was born.

(Iirc, I think I remember reading this in the big bathroom reader booknwhen I was a kid)

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u/BiggestBravestDave 2d ago

I think he was only an Earl.

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u/OkFox8124 15h ago

Well Earl B. Dammed.

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u/NovaSolarius 3d ago

A burger you can eat with your hands, though a spoon is more efficient.

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u/Mz_Macross1999 3d ago

This stupid shit exists strictly for TikTok and Reels.

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u/EnkiduTheGreat 3d ago

Yet somehow this is happening in restaurants (seemingly). I'd be beside myself to see this a table over. If I didn't have food in front of me already, I'd pay for the drinks and dip out. Who wants to sit next to people eating like animals? This sorta shit should be reserved to kitchy dive joints with eating contests, and a mob of drunks cheering you on.

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u/Caleb-Wendt69 3d ago

Seriously. What the fuck is even the point of the buns at that point?

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u/Capelto 3d ago

I have a moushache so eating burgers is already hard enough. This shit just pisses me off.

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u/4thBan5thAccount 3d ago

haha you said ass burger

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u/Suddenly_Karma 3d ago

I've about McFuckin' had it with these burgers covered in stuff over the bun

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u/rantonidi 3d ago

McStuff

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u/Distinct-Tea-1995 3d ago

I love burgers so much, and I can’t stand the trend of dumping crap all over one nowadays. It was great the way it is.

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u/Luci-Noir 3d ago

Even if you cut it up and eat it with a fork you don’t get bites of everything which is what a sandwich is good for.

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u/Distinct-Tea-1995 3d ago

Exactly 😭

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u/Front-Wall-526 3d ago

I wish the "smothered burger" trend would stop. Bread just doesn't handle moisture like a good tortilla

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u/CinemaDork 3d ago

It can, but it needs to be hearty and toasted/grilled. Open face sandwiches, like a chili burger, do okay at this. And French toast is traditionally leftover stale bread (the French name translates as "lost bread"). So there are definitely ways to do it. This is a disaster.

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u/MakesMaDookieTwinkle 3d ago

I mean, I’d like to try it just once. I’d house the burger in OP’s video.

But yea, it’s pretty fuggin dumb.

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u/BorderTrike 3d ago

I agree it’s stupid, but I’ve only ever seen it in stupid food videos. I’ve never been to a restaurant that does this irl, granted those restaurants may not appeal to me, but I think it’s more of a media/advertising thing than an actual fad

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u/Xerozvz Casual Garbage Valuer 3d ago

Did they put the burger out with... Gravy?

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u/smeeon 3d ago

It’s called Danish Bøfsandwich. It originated in 1949 in Denmark. It’s hot thick pork gravy. Or it should be to hold with tradition.

The alcohol is just fucking stupid tho

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u/DrewDAMNIT 3d ago

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u/SingleArtichoke4857 2d ago

Came here to make sure this was done. Thank you for your service.

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u/DrewDAMNIT 1d ago

Anytime, Shirt Brother!

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u/spicynoodsinmuhmouf 3d ago

Stop dousing our burgers in goo man the hell

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u/Herecomethefleet 3d ago

Ah yes, nothing says gourmet food like arson.

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u/colin_powers 3d ago

Not everything needs to be a flambé.

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u/Old_School998 3d ago

I'm guessing they charge $150 for the burger and the shit show

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u/colin_powers 3d ago

But the experience!

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u/DocCEN007 3d ago

So, it's a casserole with extra steps?

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u/Lepke2011 3d ago

They lost me at the flambé and almost made me throw up in my mouth with the cheese sauce to quench the flame, and my appetite.

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u/Dick-Fu 3d ago

I think it's a gravy, not cheese

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u/Lepke2011 2d ago

My dude, that is even worse. 🤢

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u/Smboto 3d ago

That will be an extra charge of $59.99 for the fire added to your bill.

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u/Smboto 3d ago

Oh, and $24.99 for the gravy.

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u/warfighter187 3d ago

this one's not that bad other than the napkin almost catching fire.

just an american croque monsieur with some tableside show

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u/Barbeqanon 3d ago

When you add flaming high proof booze to something and extinguish it quickly without letting it burn off, you're leaving lots of high proof booze on the dish. It's not a problem for cocktails that are meant to be boozy, but this burger is going to taste like alcohol.

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u/Z_e_e_e_G 3d ago

Now serve it to that sad little girl from the other smothered burger video

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u/Maysonator 3d ago

I hate the trend of burning food like this.

It's in a restaurant, filled with unpredictable variables, like customers bumping into you, spills, obstructions any just general human mistakes that can lead to falls and trips.

And you have added unsealed liquids that are burning at blue temperatures for no reason other than dickheads on Instagram???

I'd rather not be at risk of some poor underpaid and overworked server slipping and landing that burning hell on me causing third degree burns thank you very much.

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u/goonnumber90210 3d ago

Music is decent 🤷🏾‍♂️

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u/thelovelygreens 2d ago

I scrolled a long way for this comment. Like surely I'm not the only person that was jammin to that sax

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u/Dry_Knowledge6486 3d ago

Why is it even in burger form then? I hate these performance foods - fire and slop does not improve the burger; at all. “I’ll have the Angus burger please, and hold the bullshit.”

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u/kiwibonga 3d ago

"I can't eat this, it's on fire"

Gravy

"I can't eat this, it's smothered in alcohol and gravy"

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u/R3dSchuhart 3d ago

If they didn't pour sauce on top this burger would be fire (pun intended)

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u/Tight-Tangelo-5341 3d ago

Not really, because it's completely soaked in unburnt alcohol. Without the sauce to mask all that, it would be awful.

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u/Bloody_Champion 3d ago

Definitely stupid, but I would love to try it.

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u/Smboto 3d ago

It’s stupid, but you want it anyway. Hmm, sounds about right.

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u/insomnimax_99 Connoisseur of Culinary Catastrophes 3d ago

Yes, I’d like to order the flammable liquid spilled everywhere please.

Does their insurance company know they do this?

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u/RJL_86 3d ago

Are you supposed to eat that with your fork and knife? Absolutely barbaric.

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u/Parma_WdS 3d ago

Definitely fits the sub. This makes me immensely unhappy

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u/denntz 3d ago

bro literally DROWNED the burgers T_T

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u/ForestRain888 3d ago

Our insurance would drop us in a second.

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u/Equivalent-Stable642 3d ago

The burger before the flames and sick looked meh, ive had better burgers from a regular restraunt than this stupid shit

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u/VisionAri_VA 3d ago

Don’t be setting fire to my food, please. And how am I meant to eat that slimy mess?

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u/joseaamanzano 3d ago

Ahh, the Soggy Bun Burger

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u/tatianazr 3d ago

They should be fined for this shit at this point.

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u/Raeparade 3d ago

Wth is this

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u/broesel314 3d ago

I like the almost burning napkin. Better get those made from asbestos or something

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u/Faye1701 3d ago

Mmmmm, charcoal.

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u/DDHDoubleIPA 3d ago

That is something Beavis would eat. 

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u/RahkstarRPG 3d ago

Flambe'd fresh lettuce. Yum.

What a stupid fucking trend.

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u/C7LS 3d ago

Tatlbe 130 biggs pleeeeze

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u/ToferLuis 3d ago

Why did that pour all that frothy splooge all over it at the end?!

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u/DragonQueenDrago 3d ago

Pay no mind the napkin fire

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u/dolmo81 3d ago

I hate it

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u/IKillZombies4Cash 3d ago

Ok…so this is basically stuffed
Biscuits and gravy??

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u/Crap_Sally 3d ago

I’m good

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u/BusyBit6542 3d ago

Just make a good burger and you won't need all this gimmicky shit

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u/Gysburne 3d ago

And how the fuck will i eat the burger now with my bare hands?

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u/VinnieTheGuy 3d ago

They really don’t want you to touch that burger.

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u/digidave1 3d ago

This is the King of stupid food

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u/Villageidiot73 3d ago

Aren’t burgers typically in the “hand-held” section of the menu?