Ketchup, Mayo, Mustard or All ?
January 23, 2010 5 Comments
Yeah I know, I missed Food Friday. So I am a day late. Whatever. Life happens. So I am making it up on Saturday. Today I was eating a burger {mind you a Brazilian burger, already made as a patty in the meat factory, very thin and processed. *gag* ok, I know what you are thinking, but it was great cause I had a few beers and I was starving and there was no other food around. My husband had no clue what I was doing the first time I made burgers from “real ground meat” .. as they typically do NOT do this in Brazil 
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Anyhow, after watching for a few years how people dress their burgers here, I thought I HAD to write about it tonight.
The typical way a Brazilian eats their burger is with the ketchup, and mayo bottles VERY close by. Usually they do not use mustard, but I have seen it on various occasions.
The step by step “burger eating” process in Brazil …
1.) Take a bite
2.) Squeeze a line of ketchup and mayo on your previous nicely bitten line, soon to be your next bite.
3.) Eat said line with mayo and ketchup {side note: next 2 to 3 bites, eaten in a nice vertical line across burger}
4.) Repeat previous step, more ketchup, more mayo, for next bites.
5.) Continue this until said burger is finished.
{does this process make sense to you? Or shall I take photos?}
Now… The “burger eating” process in America….
1.) Get the burger and lift up top part of bun/bread
2.) Squeeze or slather a generous amount of ketchup/mayo/mustard {depending on person} on to the inside top of said bread/bun or burger.
3.) Put bun/bread back on burger
4.) Eat entire burger as is !
Now I don’t know about you, but this seems like the much more logical way to eat a burger. Logical and easier. No hassle of keeping the bottles close by, sharing and waiting for bottles and continuously applying new dressings! Not to mention, it must make the restaurant owners much happier that you don’t use half of the f***kin bottle on ONE burger!
So how do you dress you burger ? If you live in Brazil, have you seen different? Or can you tell me about some other wacky thing you have seen? {don’t get me started on putting mayo on pizza! If you don’t know, I’ll save that for another post.}
Food Friday
How about all the wierd Brazilian burger toppings? Fried egg, shoe-string fried potatos and my favorite (for weirdness, I don´t care for it at all on my burger) – corn! Of course the corn maybe just Minas, they seem to add corn to everything.
Yes Corinne they do put corn on everything, the hot dogs too. The egg and shoe -string potatoes is reasonable, but yeah the corn is weird {im not a big fan either} They always put a bunch of crap on hot dogs too, here I have seen them put mashed potatoes, ground burger in a ketchup/tomato sauce, cheese, the shoe string potatoes, and PEAS!!! *GAG*
That’s a funny way to eat a burger!
Thanks for stopping by my blog. We lived in Framingham, MA. There are a lot of Brazilians there. What part of MA are you from? Here is a blog that talks about restaurants and things in Framingham: http://www.thisisframingham.com/
A good restaurant is: http://www.thisisframingham.com/old-station-steakhouse
When are you moving to the US?
Do you know why brazilian does its burgers like that?
Cause seasoning inside, can make a bread “fall apart” and you end up in a mess.
Putting as you eat you avoid that gooey bread
Hey, never thought about it like that! Thanks! For soft bread, I like that idea. But then again, I get a bit lazy in that department!!