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Bob’s answer to the Big Mac, and the burger most Brazilians associate with the chain. A double-decker with beef, cheese, lettuce and a special sauce. It is familiar if you know the American original, but it tastes distinctly Brazilian, and ordering it with an Ovomaltine shake is practically obligatory.
The story
Bob’s got to Brazil first. Bob Falkenburg, the American who had won Wimbledon in 1948, opened a snack bar in Copacabana in 1952 and brought burgers and milkshakes to a country with no fast food at all — twenty-seven years before McDonald’s opened its first Brazilian restaurant. That head start is why the Big Bob exists as a rival rather than a copy: by the time the double-decker with special sauce arrived from America, Brazilians had been buying burgers from Bob’s for a generation.
What’s inside
- beef patties
- cheese
- lettuce
- special sauce
- sesame seed bun
Make it at home
There is no copycat of the Big Bob yet. Until there is, these recipes on the site come closest to it, judged by what goes into the bun.
- Shares beef, a special sauce and cheese
McDonald's Big Mac (Copycat) - Shares beef and cheese
Skip Marooch's Chutney Burger - Shares beef and cheese
Juicy Lucy from Supernatural - Shares beef and cheese
The Burger Ball Pit
Similar burgers at other chains
Built around the same things as the Big Bob.- Shake Shack · beef, a special sauce and cheese
SignatureShackBurger - Hans im Glück · beef, a special sauce and cheese
SignatureHans im Glück - Ruby's Diner · beef, a special sauce and cheese
SignatureThe Classic - Fatburger · beef, a special sauce and cheese
1000 Island Burger
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About Bob's
Bob’s is the only burger chain on this site founded by a Wimbledon champion. Bob Falkenburg, an American tennis player who won Wimbledon in 1948, moved to Brazil and opened a small snack bar in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, in 1952, bringing American-style burgers and milkshakes to a country that had never seen fast food. It was Brazil’s first fast-food chain.
Around 800 restaurants across Brazil.
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