Cheesy Yumburger
The Yumburger with a slice of cheese, which makes it richer without losing the sweet dressing that defines it. For many regulars this is the default order, the one that sits next to a piece of Chickenjoy and a cup of spaghetti in a classic Jollibee meal.
The story
The sweetness that puts people off at first is not a marketing decision, it is Filipino. Sweet-savoury cooking runs through the country’s food, and the clearest symbol of it is banana ketchup, invented during the Second World War by the food scientist Maria Orosa when tomatoes were scarce and bananas were not. Generations grew up on it, and when Jollibee built a burger for that palate in the late 1970s it dressed the patty sweet rather than sharp. McDonald’s arrived in 1981 selling the American version and never caught up.
What’s inside
- beef patty
- cheese
- Jollibee dressing
- soft bun
Make it at home
There is no copycat of the Cheesy Yumburger yet. Until there is, these recipes on the site come closest to it, judged by what goes into the bun.
- Shares beef and cheese
Smash Burgers - Shares beef and cheese
Arby’s Roast Beef - Shares beef and cheese
Sloppy Joe Smash Burgers - Shares beef and cheese
Best Hamburger Ever
Similar burgers at other chains
Built around the same things as the Cheesy Yumburger.- Culver's · beef and cheese
SignatureButterBurger Cheese - Freshness Burger · beef and cheese
SignatureClassic Cheese Burger - Bobby's Burgers · beef and cheese
SignatureCrunchburger - Q Burger · beef and cheese
SignatureClassic Beef & Cheese Burger (經典牛肉起士堡)
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About Jollibee
Tony Tan Caktiong opened an ice cream parlour in Quezon City in 1975, noticed that customers kept ordering the hot food instead, and turned it into Jollibee in 1978. When McDonald’s arrived in the Philippines in 1981, Jollibee did something most local chains failed to do: it won, by cooking for Filipino tastes rather than copying American ones.
Around 1,700 stores, more than 400 of them outside the Philippines, from Vietnam to Canada and the UK.
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