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Is There Any Reason for This to Exist: The Ham Dogger

Well, you can make fun of my posting... I don't mind. And I understand what you mean. But I wrote that comment because as I understood it, it was a sausage with no ham/pork. Right? I may have got that wrong.

And then I connected that info with something that is on my mind right now and that is that McDonald's here in Sweden is going halal. Chickens slaugthered have to be blessed by Allah. And I think that is wrong. Or at least food for thought...

So meat/beef-sausages worries me! (haha, that sounded kind of weird :) They do! Yes, you can laugh, but they do. No ham/pork and then it's all halal... McDonald's will be the first in line... And I don't like it.

Marcus at 10:09AM on 10/12/09

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Is There Any Reason for This to Exist: The Ham Dogger

Somehow I came to think of the Swedish McDonald's who recently started to use chicken-meat that is halal. I came to think of this as sausage normally includes porkmeat that can never be halal since muslims don't eat pork what so ever.

Swedish McDonald's promises that the slaughter of chickens they need to make food is done following all Swedish laws and regulations. But in the "slaugthering act" there is someone approved of some kind of an islamic foundation who will attend and chant islamic verses when the poor chickens are put to death.

Well... I don't like it.

I don't believe in God, Allah or anything. I just wan't to eat my food and if any animals have died for it I want them to have been killed and have lived as "humanly" as possibly. I don't want the things I eat to have been blessed by Allah! Please respect my non-belief!

And I don't like that McD, as a company, uses religious staff (or uses suppliers that uses religious staff). What will happen if McD has to downsize it's staff? Will they fire that religious guy or someone in the kitchen?

If you are religious I think you can chant before you eat or you can go to some other place where the food is prepared in the way your religion allows. But leave McDonald's out of it!

Marcus at 12:58PM on 10/11/09

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Dear AHT: 'Help! I'm Allergic to Beef"

I have a faint memory of a girl that went to the same school as I did when we were kids who was allergic to beef in general. She was allergic to almost everything. If I remember correctly she could only eat meat from young bulls. It had to be male and young. Don't know why.

Marcus at 12:58PM on 07/01/09

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Watch Burger King's 'Whopper Virgins' Documentary

As I have said in earlier comments I live in Sweden. And I guess you've all been waiting for a comment on the swedish fast-food-market-situation ;)

I live in Gävle, a city with a population of about 93.000. Burgerwise: there are three McDonald's here. If I remember right there are two Sibylla-restaurants and two Snabbt&Gott. Two national brands. They serve burgers that are ok but the big problemo is that they don't have a unicode for the burgers. I mean that they don't make the burgers in the same way and it differs from one restaurant to another and it even depends who the guy is that is making it. From a fast-food-perspective that is a major no-no.

More interesting is that there are two Max restaurants here. Max is a swedish brand with about 60 restaurants. Expanding and growing. This year selling burgers for more than one billion swedish krona (swedish krona is about 1/8 of a dollar). I know they're planning to go international and who knows... maybe you've got a Max-restaurant in your city soon... ;)

I think Max will make it on the international fast-food scene. In my opinion - better burgers than McDonald's and a well run company... why shouldn't they be succesfull?

Burger King... a name that doesn't sound well in Gävle. I love their burgers, no doubt about that. But in Gävle they have messed up their brand and name very much. Reason: some years ago (5?) a guy moved to Gävle and said he would open a BurgerKing-restaurant. Lots of job opportunities and everybody was happy, including this city's political government. They granted this guy to buy a real estate for building a house (normally you have to wait years to do that - depending on where and so on. I don't think I have to go into that matter more. Quite complicated.) because they thought him to be important for the community.

Being granted by the municipallity to go ahead in the queue for buying real estate because of being a "VIP-person" is quite controversial i Sweden. If you do get this privilege I say it's a lot of social pressure that you have to deliver something. Many years have gone by and so far nothing. No BurgerKing. The guy says he is looking for a place for the restaurant. It's been years! What is this guy looking for!? What does this guy want!? I think most of the people living in Gävle thinks that this guy never intended to start a BurgerKing restaurant and just wanted to get a permission to build a fancy house. HOWEVER! BurgerKing has lost so much on this affair and it's hard to understand why they let this happen. Why didn't they defend theirself and their brand and name? They let this guy and their own name go down the drain and they didn't do anything to prevent it and they don't seem to care.

But they still make good hamburgers! ;)

Marcus at 10:23PM on 12/08/08

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From A Hamburger Today

Is There Any Reason for This to Exist: The Ham Dogger

Well, you can make fun of my posting... I don't mind. And I understand what you mean. But I wrote that comment because as I understood it, it was a sausage with no ham/pork. Right? I may have got that wrong.

And then I connected that info with something that is on my mind right now and that is that McDonald's here in Sweden is going halal. Chickens slaugthered have to be blessed by Allah. And I think that is wrong. Or at least food for thought...

So meat/beef-sausages worries me! (haha, that sounded kind of weird :) They do! Yes, you can laugh, but they do. No ham/pork and then it's all halal... McDonald's will be the first in line... And I don't like it.

Marcus at 10:09AM on 10/12/09

From A Hamburger Today

Is There Any Reason for This to Exist: The Ham Dogger

Somehow I came to think of the Swedish McDonald's who recently started to use chicken-meat that is halal. I came to think of this as sausage normally includes porkmeat that can never be halal since muslims don't eat pork what so ever.

Swedish McDonald's promises that the slaughter of chickens they need to make food is done following all Swedish laws and regulations. But in the "slaugthering act" there is someone approved of some kind of an islamic foundation who will attend and chant islamic verses when the poor chickens are put to death.

Well... I don't like it.

I don't believe in God, Allah or anything. I just wan't to eat my food and if any animals have died for it I want them to have been killed and have lived as "humanly" as possibly. I don't want the things I eat to have been blessed by Allah! Please respect my non-belief!

And I don't like that McD, as a company, uses religious staff (or uses suppliers that uses religious staff). What will happen if McD has to downsize it's staff? Will they fire that religious guy or someone in the kitchen?

If you are religious I think you can chant before you eat or you can go to some other place where the food is prepared in the way your religion allows. But leave McDonald's out of it!

Marcus at 12:58PM on 10/11/09

From A Hamburger Today

Dear AHT: 'Help! I'm Allergic to Beef"

I have a faint memory of a girl that went to the same school as I did when we were kids who was allergic to beef in general. She was allergic to almost everything. If I remember correctly she could only eat meat from young bulls. It had to be male and young. Don't know why.

Marcus at 12:58PM on 07/01/09

From A Hamburger Today

Watch Burger King's 'Whopper Virgins' Documentary

As I have said in earlier comments I live in Sweden. And I guess you've all been waiting for a comment on the swedish fast-food-market-situation ;)

I live in Gävle, a city with a population of about 93.000. Burgerwise: there are three McDonald's here. If I remember right there are two Sibylla-restaurants and two Snabbt&Gott. Two national brands. They serve burgers that are ok but the big problemo is that they don't have a unicode for the burgers. I mean that they don't make the burgers in the same way and it differs from one restaurant to another and it even depends who the guy is that is making it. From a fast-food-perspective that is a major no-no.

More interesting is that there are two Max restaurants here. Max is a swedish brand with about 60 restaurants. Expanding and growing. This year selling burgers for more than one billion swedish krona (swedish krona is about 1/8 of a dollar). I know they're planning to go international and who knows... maybe you've got a Max-restaurant in your city soon... ;)

I think Max will make it on the international fast-food scene. In my opinion - better burgers than McDonald's and a well run company... why shouldn't they be succesfull?

Burger King... a name that doesn't sound well in Gävle. I love their burgers, no doubt about that. But in Gävle they have messed up their brand and name very much. Reason: some years ago (5?) a guy moved to Gävle and said he would open a BurgerKing-restaurant. Lots of job opportunities and everybody was happy, including this city's political government. They granted this guy to buy a real estate for building a house (normally you have to wait years to do that - depending on where and so on. I don't think I have to go into that matter more. Quite complicated.) because they thought him to be important for the community.

Being granted by the municipallity to go ahead in the queue for buying real estate because of being a "VIP-person" is quite controversial i Sweden. If you do get this privilege I say it's a lot of social pressure that you have to deliver something. Many years have gone by and so far nothing. No BurgerKing. The guy says he is looking for a place for the restaurant. It's been years! What is this guy looking for!? What does this guy want!? I think most of the people living in Gävle thinks that this guy never intended to start a BurgerKing restaurant and just wanted to get a permission to build a fancy house. HOWEVER! BurgerKing has lost so much on this affair and it's hard to understand why they let this happen. Why didn't they defend theirself and their brand and name? They let this guy and their own name go down the drain and they didn't do anything to prevent it and they don't seem to care.

But they still make good hamburgers! ;)

Marcus at 10:23PM on 12/08/08

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Increased Price of McDonald's Double Cheeseburger Starting Dec. 1

I live in Sweden and here a double cheeseburger at McDonald´s costs about 2,20 USD...

Marcus at 2:48AM on 11/28/08

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Dear AHT: Bacon Cheeseburgers at FOB Hammer in Iraq

I'm a guy from Sweden and I wish there was a way to express my thanks and gratitude to the americans who are risking their life in Iraq and Afghanistan. I wish you guys all the best.

And it looks like you can get a pretty decent hamburger there... Even though a good hamburger can't compensate for risking one's life a good hamburger is always a good hamburger.

Marcus at 5:18PM on 08/22/08

From A Hamburger Today

Dear AHT: 'Help! I'm Allergic to Beef"

I just had an allergic reaction today with itching, hives and trouble breathing from a buffalo burger at a restaurant. I also have allergic reaction to beef with same symptoms. I've had this happen after eating a steak at a restaurant. That was my worse one, Beef tips and hamburger from restaurant and beef from store. I recently started getting the natural beef(Krogers-Laura something brand) and so far I've not had any allergy symptoms when I had this It says on the package that there are no hormones or antibiotics in it.. I took a benadryl and it makes me tired but I've heard that you can take the non drowsy claritin. I'm also wondering what they are giving to the animals now that is causing this as I never had this happen for years. This started in the last year or two. I think they are loading them with hormones and antibiotics. I've never had a reaction to chicken but I heard they use hormones on them too but it must be too small to cause a reaction. Sorry I have no solution as I miss eating steak esp. when I go out to a restaurant. They do have natural steak in the store and again no allergic reaction. I do not know about the usda labeled beef in stores. I read their info. and can make no sense out of it. Also I did not realize that bison and buffalo are different

Sherie at 7:06PM on 10/21/09

From A Hamburger Today

Is There Any Reason for This to Exist: The Ham Dogger

@Kenji: Ima gonna ignore the hamster thing. DOODEEDOOODOOOO

Oh yeah, I did watch the whole video, but without the use of any actual meat/fillings, it didn't leave much of an impression on me. Then again, I'm not the target audience for this thing seeing as I almost never prepare food at home. :(

Robyn Lee at 11:40PM on 10/12/09

From A Hamburger Today

Is There Any Reason for This to Exist: The Ham Dogger

@Robyn

Wait a minute - just watched the video. You missed the most important part - turn the top half of the mold upside down, and it allows you to create a trough in the middle of the burger-dog to fill with your favorite toppings, like cheese, bacon, or vegetables! Jucy Lucy Dogs! Incredible!

On a further note of surreality, my wife just came over and asked me to sniff her hamster's butt. It smelled as you would expect.

J. Kenji Lopez-Alt at 11:33PM on 10/12/09

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Is There Any Reason for This to Exist: The Ham Dogger

@robyn

Hooray for white trash seafood!

That reminds me of salchipapas, which happen to be one of my wife's favorite. I don't know if it's just a Colombian thing, but it's french fries served with hot dogs cut into 2-inch lengths, with each end split like an octodog (though in this case, it's four legs on each end of the 'dog), then deep fried.

The kind of thing she gets to eat only on vacations or birthdays.

J. Kenji Lopez-Alt at 11:14PM on 10/12/09

From A Hamburger Today

Is There Any Reason for This to Exist: The Ham Dogger

@Kenji: But there is a plastic doohickey that turns hot dogs into OCTODOGS!!!!

Yay human ingenuity.

Robyn Lee at 11:02PM on 10/12/09

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Is There Any Reason for This to Exist: The Ham Dogger

@ratbuddy

Beat me to the punch!

The same thing has happened to me numerous times. Extra ground beef in the fridge, and all I got left is hot dog buns.

Actually, I'd imagine that this happens to a lot of people, since hot dogs come in packs of 8 and buns come in packs of 12, or whatever the actual numbers are. Either way, you always end up with too many buns.

Beef, you never have that problem - just grind as much as you need, or pack the burgers bigger or smaller if you need to.

That's probably why nobody has yet invented a plastic doohickey that converts hot dogs into burger-shaped patties - there's just less demand for them.


What with junk food conversions, eskimos, and Marcus from Gävle, this is one of the more surreal SE talks I've seen in a while...

(p.s. - I did understand your post and how you made the connection, Marcus. I suppose doing something like that in Sweden, would cause a greater uproar than in most of the rest of the world. But in the end, if the chickens are still being slaughtered according to Swedish law, is it that bad that they undergo one extra step to make them accessible to a minority? McDonald's does have a history or changing company practices to cater to local populations - it's not unique to Muslems in Sweden)

J. Kenji Lopez-Alt at 10:56PM on 10/12/09

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Is There Any Reason for This to Exist: The Ham Dogger

@DenghisCon and dbcurrie, I was pulling for sex, drugs, rock and roll, and chicken fried steak. Perhaps you could post on some of these other topics Marcus..

ezrider001 at 8:27AM on 10/12/09

From A Hamburger Today

Is There Any Reason for This to Exist: The Ham Dogger

So maybe it helps the meat hold together well. How about making your tuna roll or lobster roll that way? We New Englanders are fond of toasted exterior cut hot dog buns and will put just about anything in them, so why not hamburger?

lemonfair at 7:37AM on 10/12/09

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Dear AHT: 'Help! I'm Allergic to Beef"

Hi I finally found someone with the same reaction to ground beef that I have. I have not always had this allergic reaction but it has been in the last 13 years so it makes me wonder what they are doing to our beef now that they didn't do back then. I don't always have this reaction but when I do it is severe hives. I have wondered if I sometimes get a batch that has some of the cleaning solution in it or if it is foreign beef and they have added someting to it to make it safe for USA. I can never eat at McDonalds because i always have this reaction.

DeeLee at 5:03AM on 10/12/09

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Is There Any Reason for This to Exist: The Ham Dogger

@DenghisCon, I was thinking exactly the same thing, except I was hoping for parsley, Olive Garden, Eskimos, and chess tournaments.

dbcurrie at 2:38AM on 10/12/09

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Is There Any Reason for This to Exist: The Ham Dogger

@Marcus Wow, I was wondering what your thoughts were on chicken, McDonalds, the Swiss, and religon. How'd ya know?

DenghisCon at 8:55PM on 10/11/09

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Is There Any Reason for This to Exist: The Ham Dogger

I've made those before, when all I had on had was ground beef and hot dog rolls. Wasn't that bad.

ratbuddy at 8:07PM on 10/11/09

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Dear AHT: 'Help! I'm Allergic to Beef"

OMG....Since about May of 2008 I also have an allergy to beef/pork. At first I had no clue to what my allergy was with. I would get hives...swell up...and itch like crazy. The itching would stop if I layed down in the tub filled with warm water. I cant even eat bacon or ham....its been chicken and turkey for over a year now. Worst thing is I am sort of over paranoid about this...the itching is pure hell. I found out its not just eating...but if steamed and I am over it while being steaming...I get the reaction but not as intense. Thank god or whatever higher being you belive in that I can still drink MILK. Thank you everyone for your comments...I at least know others are in the same boat...maybe there is hope.

E=Mc2 at 5:29PM on 10/07/09

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Dear AHT: 'Help! I'm Allergic to Beef"

For about a year I would break out in cat o' nine tails of welts--hives--when I ate dairy. I abstained for a year, slowly introduced it, (I don't think it's good to take antihistamines regularly) and now can have it without problems. 'Drying out' seemed to help. I never told anyone in real life because I thought they would say I was crazy.

If you're having that severe a reaction, you should get it checked out--it's unusual you only get it from meat, since you probably eat beef in tiny doses, in broth and such, without realizing it--in marinates, even ground up in processed chicken products. You may only be allergic to a certain protein or your allergy may be more diffuse. Either way, simply avoiding burgers and steaks, if you have a really, really severe allergy won't necessarily protect you.

HeartofGlass at 5:44AM on 09/01/09

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Dear AHT: 'Help! I'm Allergic to Beef"

I too am allergic to beef. During the last year, I've had to add pork to the list as well. I used to eat hot dogs, but that's over as of last night due to a trip to the ER with anaphalaxis. Very scary......I don't know what the cause is, no one can tell me. I developed this in my mid-twenties and it has progressively gotten worse. I can no longer eat Arby's roast beef, McDonalds, Wendy's--you name it, it nails me. Just FYI though, don't mess around with anaphylactic reactions. Get to the ER quickly; you can die from this. Your blood pressure may dump so low that your body cannot recover on it's own. The only solution I have found is to avoid the offending food. It's chicken, fish or turkey. Yuk. Anyway, it would be interesting to find out what the exact culprit is. Good luck everyone.

BelindaA47 at 11:01PM on 08/30/09

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Dear AHT: 'Help! I'm Allergic to Beef"

I myself recently found out that i am allergic to hamburger i'm supposing its beef in general as i only eat my burgers well done. however its only the beef that is store purchased and is ground. i can go to McDonald or any fast food restaurant and order a burger and be fine. if i eat home made patties i break out in bumps, itch horrible, and even swell in my hands and face. last week i ate burgers and i done all of the above and even vomited so im still trying to figure out what i can do to eat burgers again as they are my favorite. any one out here have a solution to this problem?

mason0819 at 5:59PM on 08/07/09

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Dear AHT: 'Help! I'm Allergic to Beef"

I had a friend who was allergic to regular beef due to some sort of dye that was used in the preparation, but she was able to eat Coleman Natural Beef without a problem.

elizabear at 12:03PM on 07/15/09

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Watch Burger King's 'Whopper Virgins' Documentary

Ummm....thanks for all that info. I've really, really been meaning to follow Gavle politics and real estate gossip more.

EazyB at 10:33AM on 12/09/08

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Increased Price of McDonald's Double Cheeseburger Starting Dec. 1

The McDouble will only have 1 slice of cheese FYI...

burgerboy at 9:21AM on 12/02/08

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Increased Price of McDonald's Double Cheeseburger Starting Dec. 1

@PommeDG: SPELL CHECK HAS BEEN NOTED *BEEP BOOP*

Robyn Lee at 3:26PM on 11/28/08

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Increased Price of McDonald's Double Cheeseburger Starting Dec. 1

May I get a spell check on, "incrase," aisle 4?

PommeDG at 2:35PM on 11/28/08

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Dear AHT: Bacon Cheeseburgers at FOB Hammer in Iraq

Kaley - delayed reply, sorry! I studied abroad in Italy for a year and developed a serious addiction. What about you?

justlikeaholiday at 6:35PM on 08/28/08

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Dear AHT: Bacon Cheeseburgers at FOB Hammer in Iraq

Hooah sir! Keep your head down and your spirits up.

nhfoodie at 2:55PM on 08/26/08

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Dear AHT: Bacon Cheeseburgers at FOB Hammer in Iraq

Thanks for all you do - God Bless!!

nichole at 4:13PM on 08/25/08

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Dear AHT: Bacon Cheeseburgers at FOB Hammer in Iraq

GOD BLESS YOU GUYS!!!

THANK YOU!!!!

burgerboy at 10:42AM on 08/25/08

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