Hamburgers, de Portuguese

The concept of hamburgers is a bit different on the continent. I just tried a new gourmet burger place called H3 in El Court Ingles. The gourmet options would have been familiar to an american, mushrooms, 'benedict' with egg and spinach and 'french' with foi grais. And then the next item on the menu would have thrown them, like it did me. That would be the option—the only one—that included putting the burger on a bun. Well focaccia actually. And that option wasn't combined with any of the interesting ones. A burger on a nun was exotic enough already! What isn't clear to me is how grilled ground beef, which is common in many cuisines, gets converted into something very consciously labeled an marketed as a hamburger while missing the basic elements necessary to achieve hamburgerness.

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