5oz Beef Burger
The flagship burger: two fresh patties of Irish beef with melted cheese, lettuce, pickle, tomato, red onion, ketchup and the house burger sauce on a kaiser bun. Cooked to order rather than held, and it shows in a juicier patty than the chain’s older, smaller burgers. Order it with garlic and cheese chips to eat the way the Irish do.
The story
Supermac’s launched the 5oz burger in August 2015 at the Tullamore Show, one of Ireland’s biggest agricultural fairs, with the agriculture minister Simon Coveney and the president of the Irish Farmers’ Association beside Pat McDonagh. The chain billed it as the first fresh, never-frozen beef burger at an Irish quick-service chain, and tied the launch to its spending with Irish farmers, which it put at more than €20 million a year. It has since become the base for the chain’s bigger burgers, including a bacon and cheese version and a festive one each Christmas.
What’s inside
- 2 fresh Irish beef patties
- cheese
- lettuce
- pickle
- tomato
- red onion
- ketchup
- burger sauce
- kaiser bun
Make it at home
There is no copycat of the 5oz Beef Burger 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
Whopper (Copycat) - Shares beef, a special sauce and cheese
McDonald's Big Mac (Copycat) - Shares beef, cheese and a double stackBig Beef Blopper
- Shares beef and cheese
McDonald's Quarter Pounder with Cheese Deluxe (Copycat)
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About Supermac’s
Pat and Una McDonagh opened the first Supermac’s in Ballinasloe, County Galway, in 1978. The name came from Pat’s nickname as a Gaelic footballer at Carmelite College in Moate. A second restaurant followed in Gort, then one on Eyre Square in Galway city in 1982. Today there are about 120, making it the largest Irish-owned quick-service chain, and the company also runs motorway plazas, hotels and the Irish franchise of Papa John’s.
About 120 restaurants across the island of Ireland, several of them at motorway service plazas.
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