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DailyDirt: Burger Innovations From Around The World

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Fri, Jun 1st 2012 5:00pm — Michael Ho

The USA has no monopoly on hamburger innovations. Sure, Americans probably eat more burgers than any other country, and we came up with the drive-thru and drive-in processes for burger orders. But the possibilities for burgers have no limits, and here are just a few global developments in the world of burger technology.

In Germany, McDonald's crowdsourced a few new menu suggestions which were released as actual products for sale over the month of May. The "Pretzelnator" was the first item -- offering folks a ham & cheese sandwich on a pretzel-like bun. [url]
In Japan, the phrase "have it your way" translates to "put as much bacon as humanly possible on my Whopper, please." Japanese Burger Kings will put 15 slices of bacon on your burger for about 100 yen, and for about 7,000 yen, that's 1,050 slices of bacon on your order. [url]
Pizza Hut in Dubai has added cute little cheeseburgers to pizza crust. They've also added mini chicken fillets on pizza crusts and cream cheese, too. [url]
To discover more food-related links, check out what's floating around in StumbleUpon. [url]

By the way, StumbleUpon can also recommend some good Techdirt articles, too.

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Filed Under: bacon, burgers, food, pizza, pretzelnator, whopper
Companies: burger king, mcdonalds, pizza hut

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Anonymous Coward, 1 Jun 2012 @ 5:12pm

cheesebrugers on a pizza!?!?
okay, so pizza hut is just test marketing other kinds of food by putting it on pizzas in other countries. first hot dogs in the crust, now cheeseburgers. what else can they do? tacos/burritos in the crust in mexico?
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Jeon, 1 Jun 2012 @ 5:20pm

I first had cream cheese on a pizza over twenty years ago. It's awesome...really.
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Anonymous Coward of Esteemed Trolling (profile), 1 Jun 2012 @ 5:51pm

How to troll an American
#Lesson 1
Tell them the truth about their big ass inducing burgers.

Why are American burgers not featured in the article ?
They are the most outlandishly disgusting burgers in the world.

hmmmmm..... has epiphany

You ate them all... didn't you.
Now it's time to invade other countries and eat theirs.

The Americans race to achieve "Type 9001 diabetes" continues
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- Anonymous Coward, 2 Jun 2012 @ 6:06pm
  
  Re: How to troll an American
  American burgers? You mean the original burger? Three ounce grilled patty on toasted bread? I think you need to be a bit more precise when tossing insults into the black hole of don't know what the hell you're talking about.
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  - Anonymous Coward of Esteemed Trolling (profile), 3 Jun 2012 @ 12:24pm
    
    Re: Re: How to troll an American
    Someone is very over protective of their countries outlandish burgers.
    Let me assist your in you aim to achieve, "Blind Patriot Of The Year"
    
    Yes .... original American Hamburgers from Hamburg, Germany after USA ruined the recipe.
    
    exhibit a)
    Pink slime burgers with BONUS ammonia. hmmmm sounds delicious
    http://gossiponthis.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/pink-slime-1.jpg
    
    exhibit b)
    heart attack grill
    http://img.ibtimes.com/www/data/images/full/2012/02/16/234125-heart-attack-grill.jpg
    
    exhi bit c)
    The results of the improved recipe
    http://images.paraorkut.com/img/funnypics/images/f/fat_american-12714.jpg
    http://www.lifesl ittlemysteries.com/images/i/704/iFF/fat-man-hamburger-02.jpg?1324322062
    http://www.susanweinernutri tion.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/fat_american_walking_dog_from_car-1.jpg
    http://2pep.com/funny%2 0pics/very%20funny%20hilarious%20strange%20pictures%20cool%20images/27/super_funny_hilarious_worlds% 20funniest_pictures_of_scooters-fat-people-2.jpg
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Watchit (profile), 1 Jun 2012 @ 11:04pm

I remember that German Burger King thing! Some German Bronies almost got a chicken sandwich called the "Scootaloo" to win :D That would have been awesome... and perhaps a copyright infringement....
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David, 2 Jun 2012 @ 4:38am

Burgers ??
Best you ppl get your arses down to Queenstown, New Zealand. They've got "Fergburgers". Best Burgers in the world I say, try the "Sweet Bambi" you will want to emigrate. ;0)
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kubaa434 (profile), 3 Jun 2012 @ 6:19am

American burgers are great
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