Burgers starting with J
41 burgers: 36 from chain menus, 3 from film and TV, 2 homemade. Titles starting with “The” are filed under the next word.
A bison burger is a small piece of American history on a bun.
“The one everyone’s talking about”: a smash patty with jalapeño and onions pressed into the beef as it cooks, melted cheese, pickles and burger sauce.
The small change that improves the whole slider.
Whataburger has spent seventy years being a Texas institution first and a burger chain second, and this is where that shows on the menu.
A Tex-Mex burger loaded with Cheddar, jalapeños, Frank’s RedHot, house salsa, lettuce, pickled red onion, guacamole, sour cream and tortilla chips.
The hot one: a wagyu beef patty under melted white cheese, topped with pickled jalapeño slices and a sprinkle of chilli flakes, with shredded lettuce and a creamy white sauce on the bun.
The name is a nod to Elvis Presley’s favourite sandwich.
A beef patty with romaine, tomatoes, red onions, cheese, beef bacon, JB Sauce and barbecue sauce.
The plain hamburger: a beef patty with romaine, cucumber, onions and JB Sauce.
A beef patty with romaine, onions, cheese, mushrooms crisped on the grill and JB Sauce.
The house cheeseburger: a 100% beef patty with romaine lettuce, cucumber, onions, cheese and JB Sauce.
The small cheeseburger, served in the children’s menu with fries and a small drink.
The spicy one, named after the house “Jeff” spice: a double chuck patty with cheese, the “feel the heat” spice blend, fried onions and ranch on a potato bun.
“The commoner”: the original, simplest burger, an Australian beef patty in a bun.
Lois puts the family on a diet, so Peter opens a food truck with a menu designed to undo it, and this is the headline item: a burger built on a split glazed doughnut with jam on both sides of the…
Billed as the “final boss” burger: American-style, with grilled bacon and a thick, heavy cheese sauce poured over generously.
The talking point: a beef patty with American cheese, applewood-smoked bacon, lettuce and a layer of creamy peanut butter on brioche.
Jimmy Pesto's entry in the contest, thrown together with ten minutes left on the clock and spat out by the judges on camera.
The sauce on this burger belongs to John Boy & Billy, the radio duo John Isley and Billy James from Charlotte, North Carolina.
The classic build, named after the Entourage character: a dry-aged patty with Cheddar, iceberg lettuce, onion relish, pickles and Hundred’s secret mayo.
Patty & Bun’s spicy burger, built around a house chilli relish.
A Southwestern burger with roasted green chiles and Monterey Jack, plus bacon, house sauce, grilled onions and pickles.
Wendy’s invented the modern value menu.
The small, cheap burger for the back seat.
The small burger on Farmer Boys’ board, and a good way to try the beef without committing to a Big Cheese.
A small patty with cheese, pickles, onions, ketchup and mustard.
The smaller deluxe burger, built like the full-size one and sold in the junior combo with fries or tots and a smaller drink.
The Jumbo Jack shrunk down: a smaller patty with the same fresh toppings.
The Jucy Lucy is Minneapolis’s own burger: the cheese goes inside the patty, sealed between two thin layers of beef, and melts into a molten core as it cooks.
The name promises a lot, and the ingredient list shows where the juiciness is meant to come from: evaporated milk and dry bread crumbs.
Two bars in south Minneapolis, a few blocks apart on Cedar Avenue, both claim to have invented this in the 1950s, and neither has ever conceded.
The Juicy Lucy is a Minneapolis burger with the cheese sealed inside the patty.
This is the Juicy Lucy straight out of Supernatural.
The fan favourite: a jumbo burger with cheese and bacon, usually sold on the buy-one-take-one deal.
The biggest chicken burger on the menu: a large spicy chicken patty mixed with chilli and cheese, topped with lettuce and jalapeños in a toasted bun.
The chili burger is an American import, and its usual birthplace is 1920s Los Angeles, where Thomas “Ptomaine Tommy” DeForest started smothering hamburgers in chili at his all-night restaurant in…
A jumbo burger with an egg, a pairing Filipinos have put on burgers for decades.
Jack in the Box built its business on the drive-thru from 1951, selling small, cheap burgers fast.
The smaller Madero: a 130g flame-grilled beef patty with Cheddar, lettuce, tomato and homemade mayonnaise.
Canada’s low-price chicken sandwich and a fixture of the value menu: a breaded chicken patty with shredded lettuce and mayonnaise on a soft bun, made with chicken raised on Canadian farms.
“The boss”: an Australian beef patty with Bangor’s signature sauce and lettuce.