In Canada we have Harvey’s. It seems to be a love it or hate it kind of place, and I totally get that. After all, taste is subjective, and this is a fast food franchise we’re talking about.
But I find it telling that the people who hate it prefer to instead go to McDonald’s or Wendy’s. Like, can you tell me what a McDouble actually tastes like? Me neither.
The format is kind of like a Subway too. You place your order, then when your food is ready you go up to the counter and get to pick out all your toppings. The menu itself doesn’t have a whole lot of variety, but you really get to make your burger how you want it. It’s also the only chain I know where you can get a real pickle.
I’ve lived in Canada, the US, Mexico and briefly wandered around Europe.
Canadian burgers are just weird, I don’t know what y’all are doing up there, they’re all just weird like someone had only ever seen a picture of a cheeseburger and tried to recreate it without ever tasting one. It’s still a burger, and it’s fine, but it’s always just kind of odd. Strongly urge you to have a burger in any other country if you ever have a chance, the taste is vastly different. The US is obviously a top choice, but don’t sleep on getting a burger in Germany or France if you ever go.
What’s weird about them? If we’re talking Harvey’s it does have that sort of frozen-made-with-filler quality, and tastes kind of like a grocery store burger.
But to be honest, Canada’s a pretty big place and the food varies by geography. We’ve got all the super processed chain food, but you can also get grass-fed local grown burgers if you visit PEI that will send you to heaven.
Plus there’s a million little pubs that have burgers ranging from terrible to exquisite, and from bizarre to unique, and every level of mediocrity between.
That’s kinda brutal, but I’m going to back you up on the thing with hamburgers in Canada. Maybe it’s just limited to Ontario, but when we moved there we were consistently shocked by the weirdness of the burgers. For the first year or so we shopped around trying to find a good burger and eventually just gave up. Our local pub served some that were OK.
And before anyone chimes in with the thing about all Ontario burgers being prepared well-done by law, it’s not that. I’m pretty sure our time there pre-dated that law. I think they may have been “spicing” them with onion powder, but who knows.
The burgers at Burgermeister in Berlin were quite decent. Those were the only ones we tried, though.
In Canada we have Harvey’s. It seems to be a love it or hate it kind of place, and I totally get that. After all, taste is subjective, and this is a fast food franchise we’re talking about.
But I find it telling that the people who hate it prefer to instead go to McDonald’s or Wendy’s. Like, can you tell me what a McDouble actually tastes like? Me neither.
The format is kind of like a Subway too. You place your order, then when your food is ready you go up to the counter and get to pick out all your toppings. The menu itself doesn’t have a whole lot of variety, but you really get to make your burger how you want it. It’s also the only chain I know where you can get a real pickle.
I’ve lived in Canada, the US, Mexico and briefly wandered around Europe.
Canadian burgers are just weird, I don’t know what y’all are doing up there, they’re all just weird like someone had only ever seen a picture of a cheeseburger and tried to recreate it without ever tasting one. It’s still a burger, and it’s fine, but it’s always just kind of odd. Strongly urge you to have a burger in any other country if you ever have a chance, the taste is vastly different. The US is obviously a top choice, but don’t sleep on getting a burger in Germany or France if you ever go.
What’s weird about them? If we’re talking Harvey’s it does have that sort of frozen-made-with-filler quality, and tastes kind of like a grocery store burger.
But to be honest, Canada’s a pretty big place and the food varies by geography. We’ve got all the super processed chain food, but you can also get grass-fed local grown burgers if you visit PEI that will send you to heaven.
Plus there’s a million little pubs that have burgers ranging from terrible to exquisite, and from bizarre to unique, and every level of mediocrity between.
That’s kinda brutal, but I’m going to back you up on the thing with hamburgers in Canada. Maybe it’s just limited to Ontario, but when we moved there we were consistently shocked by the weirdness of the burgers. For the first year or so we shopped around trying to find a good burger and eventually just gave up. Our local pub served some that were OK.
And before anyone chimes in with the thing about all Ontario burgers being prepared well-done by law, it’s not that. I’m pretty sure our time there pre-dated that law. I think they may have been “spicing” them with onion powder, but who knows.
The burgers at Burgermeister in Berlin were quite decent. Those were the only ones we tried, though.