What does one associate with the St Patricks Day? Parades, wearing green, shamrocks, having a Guinness – the usual stereotypes.
But nowadays it seems any company will use the most tenuous of links to ride St’Paddys coattails in order to make a sale.
With that in mind, lets have a look at, from Loaded by BL – the Paddy O’Burgs Burger.
Now, the above description sounds kinda nice. The choice to use American Cheese was an odd one, considering how many awesome cheeses there are to choose from from Europe where Ireland is situated, but the Guinness Braised Brisket, Irish Whiskey BBQ Sauce and Smashed Potato’s are all on point, making this sound both Irish themed and pretty damn tasty.
Then there is the bun Oh the bun.:
Oh that is a sickly green! That’s the kinda green you see on the face of someone that has just eaten a very bad burger! That is not a green that should be seen outside of a child’s pencil case. But one must confess that no green buns, no matter the shade, were going to look scrummy, so one can’t judge too much I guess.
Was this burger bad? Well, it t’wernt great, I’ll tell ya that. The taste was average to say the least, you didn’t feel like spitting it out but nor did you hunger to take another big bite.
The main problem was this was stew in burger form. Yes Irish Stew is yummy, but not between two buns! Everything about this burger was overdone to the extreme. The brisket had been braised that long it could barely hold onto to its molecular structure, the smashed potatoes were too smashed – obliterated more like, the cheese was a melted mess and the Irish Whiskey BBQ sauce was barely thicker than just straight whiskey.
All this combined meant that the moment you bit into the burger a tidalwave of slush vomited out the other side to land with a sickening splat and you felt liquid running down your chin. If you wanted to eat what had escaped the buns, a straw would have been more useful than a fork.
So should you get this burger? No, if this chain offers the same burger next St Patricks Day then avoid it. The contents of a burger should not have the same colour and viscosity of what you see people evacuating in a back alley after 20 pints at an Irish Pub.
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