Friday, November 16, 2007

A patty melt is not the same thing as a burger.

One of my co-workers is a very nice British person who, sadly, grew up without the joy that is the patty melt. Today we went to lunch at Taylor's Automatic Refresher in San Francisco's own Pantheon of Food Goodness, where he was introduced to this wonderfully quirky sandwich and its rye-grilled onion joy, but, despite my best attempts to explain, refused to understand that there exists a critical difference between a patty melt and a hamburger.

They have common lineage, but they are so very different! It's on rye! It doesn't come with any vegetables, save the onions! It's entirely different! And it is not, as he claims, simply a burger on toast.

My illustration sums up my point of view quite well, thankyouverymuch. Look here:

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