Yahoo Health posts "The Best and Worst Burgers" list

[Amerigo Vespucci]

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The Best and Worst Burgers According to Yahoo! Health

Posted by Robyn Lee, February 10, 2012 at 1:00 PM

You probably aren't eating burgers for their healthful properties, but in case you're wondering where to get the (relatively) healthiest and unhealthiest burgers from chain restaurants, Yahoo! Health recently published this list of the nutritionally best and worst burgers in ten categories each. Click through their slideshow for full descriptions, or check out this quick list:
Best...

Plain burger patty: Wendy's Jr. Hamburger
Low-carb burger: In-N-Out Burger's Hamburger With Onion, Protein Style
Burger with mushrooms and cheese: Dairy Queen's Mushroom Swiss GrillBurger
Other-meat burger: Ted's Montana Grill's Skinny Dip Bison Burger
Gluten-free burger (with bun!): Cheeseburger in Paradise's Back to Basics Burger
Sliders: Ruby Tuesday's Zucchini Cake Minis (AHT note: This is what a slider is.)

Meatless drive-through burger: Burger King's BK Veggie Burger
Restaurant veggie burger: Denny's Veggie Burger

Portobello burger: Cheeburger Cheeburger's Grilled Mushroom Portobello Sandwich
Turkey burger: Hardee's and Carl's Jr.'s Charbroiled Turkey Burger [AHT review]
Worst...

"Cheeseburger": Friendly's Grilled Cheese Burger [AHT review]
Double cheeseburger: Denny's Double Cheeseburger

Drive-in burger: Sonic's Ring Leader Loaded Burger
Burger posing as breakfast: Perkins' Sunrise Burger

Healthy-sounding burger: Ruby Tuesday's Avocado Turkey Burger
Oversized burger: Fifth Third Ballpark's Fifth Third Burger
Fair or festival burger: Krispy Kreme Burger

Burger melt: Red Robin's All-American Patty Melt
Burger hybrid: Applebee's Quesadilla Burger
Burger so bad it should be illegal: Chili's Southern Smokehouse Bacon Burger

[HopeHoops]

1. There are good burgers? They all suck.

[Bladian]

4. Your post doesn't compute in my brain.

Some of the best food I've ever eaten has been in burger form. Not to bash your likes or dislikes, of course, just offering my POV.

[HopeHoops]

19. Oh, burger form is fine - just hold the meat.

[Chan790]

5. Unfortunately, so do most veggie burgers unless they're locally-made.

There's this really awful "fake burger" flavoring (one that is clearly a synthetic food-lab creation, probably petrol-derivative too) that started with Boca and moved to Gimme Lean and assorted brand-name crumbles. It doesn't taste like ground beef or anything even approaching on a hamburger. It's simply the industry-standard for what faux-hamburgers will taste like...it tastes like ass.

Seriously. How could these people get soysage so right and f**k up soy ground-chuck? It's a bland umami palate, maybe some liquid smoke, tamari and salt. I can make it at home with TVP, lentil flour, seasonings and a binding agent. Some cubed vegetables if you want a more veggy flavor. Is that so hard to replicate on a larger scale?

[HappyMe]

8. I feel the same way about tofu. It sucks.

[OriginalGeek]

11. I like tofu, I like Hamburgers, I like veggie burgers

For veggie burgers I don't eat for them to taste like hamburger. If you go in thinking it should taste like beef you're gonna be sad. That recipe Chan posted sounds awesome though - will have to investigate that.

I like stir fried tofu (make it spicy!) and I like tofu in miso soup but i haven't really explored it much further than that.

as for hamburgers, I'm a 5 Guys fan. Cheesy greasy mess and I llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllove it. I'm surprised they didn't make the list...

The best burger I've had, though, is the Fertility Burger from the now defunct Jungle Jim's. It had cream cheese and hot sauce and avocado and a crap load of other things. Had to use a fork. I wish I could remember what was on there - I think some jalapenos too...I'd make them for myself at home if I could remember it all...

oh SNAP - the power of google!

FERTILITY INFERNO
Suth'n sauce, pepper cheese, buffalo wing sauce, sliced jalapenos, cream cheese, sour cream, shredded iceberg, dills and tomato are a potent combo.
Beef 8.17 Chicken 8.81 Gardenburger 8.53

I'm gonna have to guess at whatever "suth'n sauce" is...from their menu: " our secret Suth'n 17-spice Cajun hell-fire sauce"

[hobbit709]

17. hope you like your GM Soy products.

[Scuba]

2. Go to the Weary Traveler on Willy Street in Madison for a "Bad Breath Burger". MMMMmmmm.

[HughBeaumont]

3. There are ways to make a burger less caloric . . .

. . . lose the mayo, ace the cheese, feed the dog the bacon, eat only half the bun, etc.

. . . but, non-stunt-food pics aside . . . sometimes I really want to just DOWN one of them sumbitches!! Granted, there are some bad ones I wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole (mainly because I don't like spice or mayo or chilies), and I wouldn't come near a Krispy Kreme burger, but doubles or sliders made right off my grill with some tomatoes, mushrooms and pickles and steak sauce . . . something gourmet like that. An "every-so-often" thing.

[Kali]

6. dammit

I'm hungry!

[GoCubsGo]

7. Those last three look gross.

And, it's only because I have an aversion to cheese and bacon on my burgers. I prefer them unadulterated by any other protein sources. And, no I am not Jewish. That is just how I am.

[DinahMoeHum]

9. As I suspected, the worst cheeseburger belongs to Friendly's

Wendy's Grilled Cheese Burger:

http://health.yahoo.net/articles/nutrition/photos/best-and-worst-burgers#11

That one is Cholesterol City!!!

[AtomicKitten]

10. In-and-Out Double-Double.

Nutritional Data: http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/foods-from-in-n-out-burger/8238/2?print=true

Of note, it's 670 calories, 369 from fat, total fat 41 gm.

[Bladian]

13. Oh god why did you have to post that

I'm away from my home in SoCal, at school in NY. My mouth is watering.

[marmar]

12. A Krispy Creme burger? Who thinks up this sh*t?

nt

[HughBeaumont]

15. A singer who battled diabetes, hypertension and died of a heart attack (according to legend).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther_Burger

[Manifestor_of_Light]

14. What, no Whataburger???

No Texas Cuisine??? Whataburger and wendy's are both pretty good for a not real fatty burger. Whataburger is important because Hank has those important discussions with Bobby at Whataburger.

We don't have a lot of those chains listed, in Texas. Sonic is OK if you are really really hungry.

[hobbit709]

16. I'd rather have a Whataburger than any of those others.

[gkhouston]

18. And Whataburger has a good grilled chicken sandwich, too.

Although my favorite burger is probably Beck's Prime, but damn, they're expensive.

[Divameow77]

20. The 50/50 burger from :D Spot in Maplewood, MN

Half ground beef and half ground bacon. I've never had it but my fiance did and said it was sooooo good but he'll never eat one again.

This place has 60+ flavors of wings that are INCREDIBLE!

www.eatatdspot.com