I ♥ hamgurgers!

Hamburgers are one of my all time favourite foods. So, in honour of them I am starting a monthly feature: I ♥ hamgurgers! I love homemade hamburgers. I love fastfood hamburgers. I love appetizer slider-burgers. I love chinese restaurant hamburgers. I just love hamburgers!

In the first installment I am going to feature a burger that I get to eat very infrequently: A Harvey's Ringer. Putting onion rings on burgers has only entering pop-cuisine fairly recently and I've only lived in one place that had a Harvey's (and it was in the airport) so I rarely get the chance to partake in this excellent example of burgermanship. I would classify Harvey's in the upper class of fast food restaurants. I love that they leave the topping of the burger totally up to the customer, Subway-style. You never have to feel weird or demanding requesting things be added or removed from your burger; since it starts as a blank slate, Harvey's gives you complete control in completing it. I usually get lots of lettuce, pickles, ketchup and a small squirt of hot sauce. Once seated I remove the pickles and give them to Kristin: 1) because she loves pickles and 2) because I like the pickle taste, but find that a pickle dominates the taste of everything around it. If removed, the pickle juice gives a nice pickle undertone to the burger, which is fantastic.

We were in Charlottetown for Thanksgiving and for our last lunch before heading back home we stopped at the Harvey's. Now, I have to confess, I didn't actually order a Ringer, I just got Frings (which is a mixture of fries and onion rings) with my cheeseburger combo and put some of my onion rings on my cheeseburger. It was great having two distinct crunches in the burger: lettuce and fried, breaded onion. The burger was so good it was the food I discussed most following Thanksgiving and it takes something very special to top stuffing.

photo borrowed from http://smartcanucks.ca/harveys-canada-free-original-burger-with-bacon-cheddar-ringer-purchase/