Burgers starting with M
45 burgers: 32 from chain menus, 8 from film and TV, 5 homemade. Titles starting with “The” are filed under the next word.
It shares its name with Madrid’s ring road, and it is built on just two toppings: grilled goat’s cheese and caramelised onion.
Macaroni and cheese reached America through a president.
Hopdoddy’s best-known burger for people who want something earthy rather than meaty-loud.
The simplest of the family: a regular patty with onion and pickles.
A&W spent its first forty years selling root beer, and when burgers finally became the main event in 1963 the chain gave them a family instead of a name each: Papa, Mama, Teen and Baby.
The pub-food burger of the line-up: beer cheddar cheese, onion strings seasoned with smoked salt, and little lardons of bacon.
A California-style burger with guacamole and Swiss, plus lettuce, tomato, onion and mayo.
The burger with the chain’s name on it is almost the Original, but with plain mayonnaise in place of the Original dressing.
When McDonald’s opened in India in 1996 it faced a problem no other market posed: most customers do not eat beef, and many do not eat pork.
McDonald’s spent its first decade in the Gulf selling the American menu with the pork taken out.
Peter rescues the owner of McBurgertown from a fire, gets free burgers for life and eats thirty of them in one sitting, which gives him a stroke.
McDonald’s first attempt at a chicken sandwich landed in 1980 and sold so badly it was pulled within a few years.
In 2019 Popeyes launched a fried chicken sandwich, sold out of it in two weeks and set off an argument that ran for years about who in America made the best one.
At the drive-thru, Dorn insists they have all the ingredients for a McDLT, and he is right.
McDonald’s spent the mid-2000s selling a double cheeseburger for a dollar, and by 2008 franchisees were telling head office that rising beef prices made every one of them a loss.
Ask a Swede about McDonald’s and the McFeast comes up fast.
Hayley jumps through parallel universes in this episode — one where Stan is a flag, one where Steve is a bowl — and one where the whole cast works at McLewis Burger.
McDonald’s developed the McPlant with Beyond Meat and announced it in November 2020, then split on what to do with it.
McDonald’s executive chef René Arend, the same man behind the Chicken McNugget, developed the McRib in the early 1980s, reportedly because chicken supply could not keep up with McNugget demand and…
Singapore has sold the McSpicy since 1999, and it stayed local long enough to become the thing Singaporeans name first when asked what their McDonald’s has that others do not.
The big one: double patties, double cheddar, bacon, grilled onions, house sauce and ketchup.
Grilled turkey burgers with feta, lemon zest, dill, oregano and smoked paprika, topped with a relish of green and black olives, feta and lemon.
The Brutus with a second patty.
Peter cannot believe anyone would order chicken at Fuddruckers, and the episode treats it as one more reason to be disappointed in Meg.
The Michigan olive burger: a beef patty with Swiss cheese under a creamy spread of cream cheese, mayo, green olives, olive brine and cherry pepper.
Beetroot on a burger is not a Grill’d invention, it is Australian.
This one only ever exists as a line on the chalkboard, so everything here except the mole itself is reconstruction.
No gimmick topping, just a lot of burger.
When Hardee’s launched the Monster Thickburger in 2004, it made no attempt to hide what it was: the chain itself pitched it as a “monument to decadence”.
Monterey Jack is one of the few cheeses America can claim outright.
MOS Burger was founded in Tokyo in 1972 by Satoshi Sakurada, a former securities trader who had eaten at a chilli-topped burger stand in Los Angeles and decided Japan needed its own version.
The original MOS Burger with a slice of cheese melted into the meat sauce.
A chicken sandwich with a name that promises crunch and delivers it.
Krusty created the Mother Nature Burger to clean up the image of Krusty Burger and attract health-conscious customers.
The umlauts are a joke with a history.
Stan gets his jaw broken while queuing for this, buys it anyway, forces his mouth open and passes out.
Peter works a drive-thru window under a name tag reading Lester and finds out through it that Lois is cheating on him.
A short, savoury build: a patty with white American cheese and sautéed mushrooms.
Sautéed mushrooms and Swiss cheese on a flame-grilled patty, with lettuce, tomato and mayo.
Mushroom and Swiss is one of the fixtures of American burger menus, and plenty of chains on this site sell their own version.
Sautéed mushrooms and melted Swiss on the seared patty and buttered bun.
Smash burgers topped with butter-browned cremini mushrooms and melted Swiss, finished with a truffle mayonnaise sharpened with lemon, garlic and parsley.
The Thickburger for people who want savoury rather than salty.
A meatless burger made from three packs of sautéed mushrooms with onion, garlic and oregano, held together with breadcrumbs and rolled oats.
One of the plant-based burgers Bareburger is known for, built on a patty of sweet potato, kale and wild rice.
