The Legendary Burger
The burger White Spot has been selling to British Columbians since the drive-in days: a quarter-pound of fresh Canadian beef, Triple “O” sauce and a pickle on a locally baked bun. That is all, and lettuce and tomato come free if you ask. The sauce is the point, and nobody outside a small circle at the company knows exactly what is in it. Plain enough to let you judge it, and it is the burger to order first.
The story
The Legendary owes its name to its sauce. White Spot says that by the 1960s, with ten restaurants, the burger had become a magnet for teenagers in Vancouver because of the secret Triple “O” sauce, and the recipe is still known to only a few people inside the company. The sauce became so tied to the brand that when White Spot launched a quick-service chain in 1997 it named it after the sauce, Triple O’s. That chain has since carried the burger to Alberta, Ontario, Hong Kong and Macau.
What’s inside
- quarter-pound fresh Canadian beef patty
- Triple “O” sauce
- pickle
- locally baked bun
Make it at home
There is no copycat of the The Legendary Burger yet. Until there is, these recipes on the site come closest to it, judged by what goes into the bun.
- Shares beef and a double stack
Whopper (Copycat) - Shares beef and a double stackThe Mr. Smiley Burger
- Shares beef and a double stackBig Beef Blopper
- Shares beef and a double stack
Triple Seared Whiskey Burger
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About White Spot
Nat Bailey, born in Minnesota and raised in Vancouver, started out in the 1920s selling hot dogs for a dime and ice cream for a nickel from a converted 1918 Model T at Lookout Point. In 1928 he opened a barbecue sandwich stand at Granville Street and 67th Avenue and, on a friend’s advice, named it after a White Spot restaurant in Los Angeles. It became Canada’s first drive-in, Bailey is credited with inventing the carhop tray, and by 1955 the chain was serving 10,000 cars a day. Vancouver’s baseball stadium is named after him.
About fifty family restaurants across British Columbia, plus Triple O’s counters in BC, Alberta, Ontario, Hong Kong and Macau.
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