"regular" is not a size....

[Teefies2]

I usually stick to a bacon cheeseburger with just bacon and cheese. Once I went to Wendy's to get a Baconator and I got it with just bacon and cheese. The friend with me pointed out that the only other thing on the burger is mayo and ketchup. To which i responded; "First, it's my burger. Second; I'm allergic to mayo. Third; I have a weird ketchup phobia thing." All of these statements are true. If you ever want to know the root of my ketchup phobia just ask.

Okay, unless someone else has beaten me to it, I'm asking. Just what is it about ketchup/catsup that skeeves you out?

[Food Lady]

When I say "regular," I mean, at the menu board price without upsell. Every fast food chain has their own nomenclature for the differing sizes. A lot of times they try to upsell you in a sneaky way, which is suck on the part of the corporation.

That applies if you're ordering a meal. These people aren't, and can't be bothered to let me know what size they want.

[Mr Hero]

I guess some people (seems to be guys for some odd reason) have a severe aversion to the word "small", so they use "regular" instead and confusion ensues. Could also be why some places have medium, large, and extra-large... but nothing below medium except the occasional child size.

It's because guys don't want to refer to something else as "small." To them it's "regular" size.

And on the topic of burgers, meat and bun are they defining characteristics of a hamburger. A patty is not a hamburger. A bun is not a hamburger. Therefore, I consider meat and bun a regular hamburger. Anything else is extra.

[Jester]

If you want ketchup (catsup?) on your burger, don't go to Lou's Lunch in New Haven Connecticut. That's where they invented the hamburger (seriously)...

This is what you can learn watching The Food Network!

Actually, this is what you learn if you believe everything you see on tv.

The hamburger in various forms has been around for hundreds of years. In its current American form, Louis's Lunch is merely one of many claimants to its invention, others of which date to 1889, 1895, and 1904, among others, I'm sure.

Myself, I'll have my burger with a healthy dose of skepticism. And no ketchup.

[dalesys]

Regular? Regular...

Check dictionary...

Check for obscure, encrypted meanings...

A-ha!


One Metamucil latte, going down!


(bet it comes up pretty quick, too)

[Reyneth]

It's because guys don't want to refer to something else as "small." To them it's "regular" size.

Next thing you know we're going to have Average, Above-Average and Deluxe.

(A re-creation of a vintage knitting pattern for willie warmers comes in sizes Small, Medium and Liar)

[ShadowTiger]

I've always taken "Regular" to be the most average size, between the smallest and the largest. It's just easier. Of course, it doesn't work at all, but hey, what else can you do but wait for an answer they may never give? :P


Similar tales at my Key Desk arrive when someone tosses out a key at me, without saying anything. Would this usually mean to only make one copy? Of course not. If I ask "How many?" And they say "One" .. would that mean one copy? No, that sometimes means "I just gave you one key. That's the key that must be copied." Doesn't mean it's one copy though. No. :P

[Jay 2K Winger]

Yeah, I don't use "Regular" unless that's the establishment's name for the size.

As for a "plain" cheeseburger, most places I've gone to understand what I mean by it-- bun, burger, cheese. "Plain" bacon double cheeseburger? Bun, burgers, cheese, bacon.

Otherwise I'll order it as follows: "<burger>, no onions, no pickles" or "<burger>, lettuce and tomato only." Etc. etc.

Then again, unlike most SCs, I actually DO have a brain.

[Miss Maple Leaf]

Once I went to Wendy's to get a Baconator and I got it with just bacon and cheese.

That's how I get mine too, except I don't have any allergies.

I'm not a big fan of ketchup, except with fishsticks. For some reason, even though I usually hate ketchup, I love having it when I'm having fishsticks. (I really don't understand my taste buds sometimes...)

Mayonnaise, on the other hand, is the work of Satan. I'd rather starve to death than consume something that has mayo on it. Blech!

[Andara Bledin]

If you ever want to know the root of my ketchup phobia just ask.

I, too, wish to know the root of said phobia.

Mayonnaise, on the other hand, is the work of Satan. I'd rather starve to death than consume something that has mayo on it. Blech!

While I'm not quite as anti-mayonnaise as you (it's fine in tuna salad, thousand island dressing, etc), it has absolutely no business on burgers. I've had to start asking for "special orders" to keep it from contaminating my burgers, of late. Although, I'm not quite to Jimmy the Tulip's anger levels over it.

^-.-^

[Jester]

As for a "plain" cheeseburger, most places I've gone to understand what I mean by it-- bun, burger, cheese. "Plain" bacon double cheeseburger? Bun, burgers, cheese, bacon.

Otherwise I'll order it as follows: "<burger>, no onions, no pickles" or "<burger>, lettuce and tomato only." Etc. etc.

Okay, let me be clear about this: that is what I would think a plain burger would mean. And in a world where everyone used the same words to mean the same things, that is what I would order for people when they said "plain."

However--and this is the important part--far too many people have different ideas of what "plain" is for me to merely assume, as the order taker, that that is what they mean. Oftentimes it is. But scarily often, it is not.

I figure it's worth a few extra seconds of my time as a server to determine exactly what people want when they use that word than to assume and risk dealing with getting a burger that has something they don't want, or doesn't have something they do want. Better to ask now than deal with bullshit later.

[Food Lady]

That's why I ask, but it doesn't work. So I'm not going to ask anymore; I'm going to punch in small.

[hinakiba777]

Okay, unless someone else has beaten me to it, I'm asking. Just what is it about ketchup/catsup that skeeves you out?

I, too, wish to know the root of said phobia.

Very well then. When I was around 3 or 4, I was simultaneously picky about food but interested about other things. So I wouldn't eat my veggies, but I and grass to try it. I was a weird, but normal preschooler when it came down to it.

One day i got a cut on my arm, and being the curious little angel I was, I started to lap at the blood. It tasted weird, and kind of like pennies. After a moment, I ran my arm under hot water to clean it, and then put on a band-aid. I was such a smart little girl.

So either later that day, the next day, or later that week- I saw something red on the table so I picked at it and then licked it. "This tastes like blood!" I shouted, announcing my discovery to my older brother. Who calmly explained to me that was, in fact, the ketchup he had spilled the night before. My little brain made the obvious connections.

Plus when I was 9 I asked for a plain hotdog, and when I was eating it, it tasted funny. I saw red on my napkin and thought it was ketchup. I told my dad I didn't want ketchup. He looked at the hotdog, then to my hand. When I opened my Root Beer, I had cut my hand on the rim. So what i thought was ketchup was blood.

And it really is a horrible phobia. If I got mayo or mustard on my skin, which I'm horrible allergic to I will just shrug it off and wash my hands. If ketchup touches me I freak out. When I was 20 I accidentally got home from a restaurant to find me burger and ketchup on it, and I literally started bawling my eyes out. My brother had to wipe all the ketchup off the burger, and every individual piece of bacon before I was able to calm down enough to eat the damn thing.

It really is weird.

[Jester]

Wow. I just hate the taste of ketchup. I don't fear it.

[Treasure]

I know that not every body makes burgers the way i like, so when i order it (except a few places that make it exactly how i like) i order:
A Bacon Cheese burger, w/ Mayo, lettuce, Tomatoes ONLY

you wouldn't think it would be that hard would you? and yet I've had places eff it up any way - I do NOT WANT pickles, onions, mouse-turds (mustard) or ketchup on my burger, and NO, i do not want ketchup for my fries either, i'll eat them plain tyvm!. (unless i'm at the little red-head's drive through, where i'll get a child's chocolate frozen treat for my fries)