I don’t eat or like hot dogs.
On hamburgers, my preferred bread/bun is sourdough. My least favorite bun is potato. I’d prefer chicken or salmon as meat, rather than beef, although I also like beef. I find that bacon especially enhances burgers. I always get fresh lettuce and tomato, sometimes spinach, green pepper, or grilled onions depending on other toppings. Avocado can really enhance the burger, if there is the right combination of toppings, particularly no cheese. If I get cheese, I prefer swiss, provolone, or mozzarella over American, cheddar, or pepperjack… always well melted.
I always order burgers (and almost anything else) dry – no mayonnaise, mustard, ketchup, dressing, oil topping, special sauce, etc. Mayonnaise is especially bad and will ruin the burger. I could tolerate mustard/ketchup, but would much prefer actual fresh tomatoes over ketchup with vinegar and other stuff added to the tomato-like base. For both taste and how it impacts how I feel and performance, I’d prefer no added salt/sodium, but this is impossible unless I prepare ingredients my self. Among well known chains, my favorite sandwich is Habit Burger Chicken Club which contains the following combination:
- Habit Burger Chicken Club – Sourdough bread, marinated chicken breast, bacon, lettuce, tomato, and avocado (I change to “light”). I order without mayo.
While on a 20+ mile hiking trip today, I had the following 2 sandwiches. I realize number 2 deviates from a “burger”, but it’s the same topping and ingrendient principle listed in my earlier summary.
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Carls’ Jr Sourdough Star – Sourdough bread, charbroiled beef patty, bacon, Swiss cheese (substitute), grilled onions, lettuce, tomatoes. I order without mayo.
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Subway “Chicken, Bacon, and Ranch” (without ranch) – Italian herbs and cheese bread, rotisserie chicken, bacon, provolone cheese, lettuce, spinach, green pepper, tomatoes