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Cohiba · Joined: 01 Feb 2005

I just finished watching a Modern Marvels episode
about "Drive Thru" windows.

http://www.mininova.org/get/106992

It said that Americans eat 120 burgers per year.

Do you?

fiveeagles · Joined: 19 May 2005 Location: Vancouver

There's a great hamburger place in Itwaewon (sp?).

1st burger in 4 months and it was worth the wait!

Go across the main road from the burger king. Walk west and then after 30 seconds, you will pass a hotel on your left. Go up the side road towards some of the Korean restaurants. Turn right when you hit the restaurants. The burger place is on your right...Amazing!!!

Qinella · Joined: 25 Feb 2005 Location: the crib

I stopped eating burgers about two years before I left the US. During my 10 months in Korea, though, I've had perhaps four.

JongnoGuru · Joined: 25 May 2004 Location: peeing on your doorstep

Hard for me to estimate. Part of every year I don't eat red meat, or much chicken & fish either. (I do that to feel good -- not "righteous" good, just "body happy" good.) Anyway, when I end the meat ban, I'll typically gorge for weeks on defenceless beasts of every description. And that includes hitting all the fastfood restaurants, which will have new items on their menus since the last time I went. For a month I'm probably around the "average American burger intake".

But then it tapers off abruptly to about... one every two months?... for four months. Then it's the no-red-meat-at-all regime again for half a year. Whatever the figure is, it's certainly less than when I got here. Much less than the average American or average Westerner, I think. I know I eat far less meat than anyone back home except for orange-skinned, sniffly-nosed vegetarians.

I wonder what the average Korean burger consumption is. Korean kids love fastfood, don't they? It's not all instant noodles & pizza, is it?

I have an America friend here, a bit on the hefty side, who isn't a big fastfood fiend in Korea. But he claims he makes up for it when he goes home on holiday. He'll have a meal with his family and then go to the drive-thru at Taco Bells, Carls Jr, whatever, one right after another, never leaving his car. Cool

Snowmeow · Joined: 03 Oct 2005 Location: pc room

I would have voted but the voting seems to have come to an end already.

At home, I probably eat burgers about 3 a week during 12 weeks or summer, maybe 50 total in a year.

In Korea, I am on pace for about 200 burgers a year. I just am clueless about cooking here.

mole · Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Location: Act III

I voted 1/week, but it's less often now that I've moved, and can't find a burger joint within walking distance of home or work.
I've become an opportunistic buggerer, I mean burgerer.

krats1976 · Joined: 14 May 2003

At home I would probably be average, but here I hardly eat fast food at all. It's a simple matter of proximity--I don't have any fast food places near where I live and I don't have time to go in search of them.

Usually the only time I eat a burger now is when I go to TGI Friday's about once every other month, or when I make the mistake of going to HomePlus hungry. Laughing

Rteacher · Joined: 23 May 2005 Location: Western MA, USA

Poll: How many poor animals have you caused to be unnecessarily abused and slaughtered by your abominable preference for the taste of animal blood and flesh, ground-up and spiced and served on a bun (with-or-without ketchup, onion/tomato slices and a pickle... Evil or Very Mad

)

(Sorry, I'm in a bad mood this morning - haven't chanted yet...)

VanIslander · Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 5:21 pm Post subject:

Back in Canada: once or twice a month

Here in Korea: once or twice a year

Don't miss them!

(except for those monster homemade kind, even then, no big loss)

JongnoGuru · Joined: 25 May 2004 Location: peeing on your doorstep

Thunndarr · Joined: 30 Sep 2003

justagirl · Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Location: Cheonan/Portland

I never eat fast food burgers, but during the summer and grilling season, I love to make my own at home. Sometimes getting one at Applebee's or Chili's, etc, is nice, too.

Tiger Beer · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

In rural Michigan, visiting family, I'd easily eat the two burgers a week (120/year national average).

When I've lived in cities like New York, San Francisco, Seoul.. I'm lucky if I even get to eat one a month. Maybe even less. Just not that interested.

Burgers taste best in greasy road dives.. they don't taste so good in fast-food restaurants, overseas, or large U.S. cities (too many other options in the latter category).

Zyzyfer · Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 7:28 pm Post subject:

Zyzyfer · Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 7:32 pm Post subject:

As for burgers, it averages out to about 50 a year. When I make them at home (here in particular with those huge Costco packs of ground beef), I eat 2 or 3 of those a week, and they're massive 1/2-3/4 lb behemoth burgers. But I only buy more ground beef about every 2 or 3 months. Occasionally eat hangover burgers as well.

Now pizza, that's a different story.