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.
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.