Ultimate Cheeseburger
No vegetables, just two patties with two kinds of cheese, American and Swiss, and ketchup, mayo and mustard. It is rich and a bit salty, the kind of burger built entirely around melted cheese. The Swiss gives it a nutty depth that plain double cheeseburgers never have.
The story
The Ultimate Cheeseburger is the burger behind one of Jack in the Box’s best-remembered adverts. In 1999 the chain created the Meaty Cheesy Boys, a mock boy band singing about this two-patty, multi-cheese burger, a parody of the boy-band craze of the time. The joke worked because the burger fitted it: two beef patties with American and Swiss cheese and nothing healthy getting in the way. There is also a version with bacon.
What’s inside
Make it at home
There is no copycat of the Ultimate Cheeseburger yet. Until there is, these recipes on the site come closest to it, judged by what goes into the bun.
- Shares beef, cheese and a double stack
Peter’s Triple Bacon Burger - Shares beef and cheese
The Krusty Burger - Shares beef, cheese and a double stack
Whopper (Copycat) - Shares beef and cheese
Juicy Lucy Cheddar Burgers
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About Jack in the Box
Robert Peterson opened the first Jack in the Box in San Diego in 1951, one of the earliest restaurants built entirely around the drive-thru, with a giant clown on the roof and a speaker to order through. In 1980 the company literally blew up the clown in a TV ad to announce it was growing up, and the ping-pong-ball-headed Jack who replaced him has been the face of the chain since 1994.
Around 2,200 restaurants, mostly in the western and southern US.
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