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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I mean, I can't argue with the little girl though, I like that tall thin glass better as well.
Add a fun straw and some decorations and I'm all in.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

counterpoint: wattaburger in texas is very popular

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

So the invisible hand of the market has spoken, I see

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (4 children)

The fundamental problem is that burgers are a stack.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 days ago (14 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Murica!

To be fair, I can't think of a good name for a 3rd of a pound. "Thrice Slice" looks good, but is cumbersome to pronounce, and it sounds like a pizza.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

Its amazing what a defunded education system can produce honestly.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 6 days ago (5 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

The issue is toppings still have to go up. It's not like you can do a burger with the works and have zones of flavor. "Ooh this was the lettuce bite! I hope I get the pickle next!"

So the more you put on your burger the taller it gets.

There's also been an upsetting trend of smash burgers taking over every fucking restaurant. Ridiculously wide and flat patties that have a lot of flavor but it feels like you're eating a fried piece of cheese rather than a good burger.

Don't get me wrong, I do enjoy a good smash burger. It definitely has it's place. I used to make them but found that just making a chopped cheese was easier and honestly a little better.

But a fat, juicy, pink all the way through and almost red in the middle burger that squirts when you bite it will always be the king of my grill. And generally if I'm going to go get a burger somewhere, that's what I'm actually craving. This burgers must be taller. If you make that kind of patty too wide you either need to add a binder to keep it together, which kinda ruins the texture, or you'll need a really wide spatula to flip it and honestly some of them are still going to fall apart on you. Just the nature of the beast.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 days ago

Actually worked in a fast food place, and we had three sizes iirc. Patties and Buns.

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[–] [email protected] 105 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (15 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

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Who would even eat the taller pizza? I'd find it disgusting. I'm not saying anything about the burger.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 6 days ago (2 children)

You have just insulted everyone in Chicago.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 6 days ago (11 children)

I'll do it, Chicago has terrible taste in food. Deep dish is preposterous, Malort is an abomination, and despite how you feel about ketchup, relish should not look like the ooze that creates ninja turtles.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago (19 children)

Thank you. A deep dish pizza isn't a pizza. It's, at best, a fucking stew.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Okay, but to be fair, while it is delicious, it also is not "pizza" (insert bit from Jon Stewart:-).

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago (4 children)

I mean it worked for subway. Until they started skimping

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Their success came from it being specifically longer. It's much harder to visualise a bigger surface area, like how a 10 inch pizza is bigger than two 7 inch pizzas. Subway on the other hand only stretches it in one axis, so the number goes up faster.

I don't want long burgers, although I don't know why. Big fan of the circle.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

It's easy, just call it something different, like a chopped cheese.

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