Burgers starting with P

The burger people order to prove a point.

A nod to the old Bobby’s Burger Palace name: a classic cheeseburger with American cheese, pickle, lettuce, tomato and Bobby’s Sauce.

KFC opened in India in 1995 and ran straight into the obvious problem: a large part of the country is vegetarian, and the chain sold nothing but chicken.

Two patties for when Mama will not do.

A&W introduced its Burger Family in 1963, printing cartoon characters for the Papa, Mama, Teen and Baby Burgers on their wrappers so a whole family could order by size.

A compact regional classic: a patty with cheese, a slice of ham, mayo and lettuce.

This viral Dubai burger swaps the bun for crispy, flaky paratha cooked in ghee.

The diner staple done the classic way: a patty with caramelised onions and both American and Swiss cheese on grilled marbled rye, with thousand island on the side for dipping.

The patty melt is older than most of the chains selling it, and it is usually traced to Tiny Naylor’s coffee shops in Los Angeles in the 1940s, where a burger was folded into a grilled cheese…

A classic American diner sandwich, done the Freddy’s way: crispy steakburger patties with melted cheese and grilled onions on toasted rye.

Peanut butter on a burger sounds like a Portland invention and is not: it has turned up on Midwestern diner menus for decades, where the logic is the same as putting it with bacon in a sandwich —…

This is the infamous Turducken Slammer from Supernatural.

Pepperoni is not Italian.

A basic burger in the family-cookout style: ground beef bound with an egg and fine dry bread crumbs and seasoned with nothing more than salt and pepper.

Peri-peri is a Portuguese word for an African chilli, and the sauce is a product of the same trade routes: chillies came from the Americas to Portuguese ports in Africa, took root in Mozambique and…

Nobody in the episode says what is in this, so I paused every frame and rebuilt it layer by layer.

This is the only burger in history to send a grown man to a motivational coach.

Picanha is the cut Brazil argues about least.

A crustburger with pickles seared into the patty: a quarter pound of beef pressed thin, stacked with cheese in a flattened, toasted potato bun.

A breakfast-for-dinner burger: beef with a fried egg, bacon, cheddar and Goiko mayo.

Hawaii and pineapple are linked because of one industry.

The Banzai Pipeline is a surf break on the North Shore of Oahu, a few miles from Haleiwa, where waves break over a shallow reef into the barrels that made it the most photographed wave in the world…

Aged beef is the one thing on this menu you cannot fake with sauce, which is why the plainest burger is the one built on it.

Burger King launched a meat-free Whopper across Europe in 2019, built on a patty from the Dutch company Vegetarian Butcher, and immediately ran into an argument it had not planned for: in the UK it…

These sliders take the filling of a pork dumpling and shape it into small burgers.

A whole portobello mushroom cap, battered and fried, stacked with cheese and the usual toppings.

A portobello cap is about the size of a burger patty and grills the same way, which makes it a popular meatless swap on burger menus.

A burger built for the gym crowd, with 81 grams of protein by the chain’s own count.

In-N-Out started wrapping burgers in lettuce instead of a bun in the 1970s, long before low-carb eating had a name attached to it, because customers asked.

Nothing but Angus beef in a brioche bun.