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A tasty campaign you can believe in

  • 29-12-2008 04:37PM
    #1
    Toto Wolfcastle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭


    Ladies and gentlemen, Brothers, Brotherettes, Brothers and Brotherettes in waiting, wimmins, men, and lurkers.

    When you hear the words 'Michelin Star' what comes to mind? Delicious but expensive food? Indeed.

    When you hear the words 'Burger King' what comes to mind? Delicious but inexpensive food? Indeed.

    With this in mind I come to you today with an idea. An idea so fantastic that even His Modness, Tom Dunne, approves.

    Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you

    The Campaign to Award Burger King a Michelin Star

    In 4 easy steps, BGRH, the Michelin star, and Burger King can be connected:

    The Michelin star share its name with the Michelin Man (below) who is shaped like a Brother, and Brothers enjoy Burger King.

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    Take that Kevin Bacon! (Mmmmm bacon!)

    See, this is meant to be!

    With your help, this idea can become a reality.
    We need you!

    For more information, see the following post, and its replies:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=58403418&postcount=85777

    Your campaign manager will be along shortly to introduce himself. He is, like a true Brother, currently asleep.


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Comments

  • #2
    Tom Dunne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,202 ✭✭✭✭Tom Dunne


    Here on BGRH, we are into our pork, and pork derivatives. On a day to day basis, pork provides the Brethren with the sustenance required, with a taste that cannot be beaten.

    But when the time comes to go that little bit extra, we like our beef. Especially when a brother wants to impress teh wimmins. As we all know, teh wimmins like a good bit of beef.

    Having sampled various beef products, from various fast food vendors, there is one that rises to the challenge, one that provides a unique beef experience.

    That beef expereince can be found in the burger chain that is known as, ironically, Burger King.

    I am therefore lending my enormous girth to the campaing to get a Michelin star for said fast food joint.

    I encourage all the supporters to place a link in their signature and say it now, and say it loud, A Michelin Star for Burger King.


    I thank you.


  • #3
    Agent Smith
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 21,505 Mod ✭✭✭✭Agent Smith


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  • #4
    Tom Dunne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,202 ✭✭✭✭Tom Dunne


    Thank you for that Brother Smith.

    *nothing unusual going on here*

    *Jedi wave*

    Moving on.

    So, why should BK get a Michelin star? For one, the beef. None of your namby-pamby frying it, no-sir-eeee. Flame Grill. With love and care, the way all good beef should be treated.


  • #5
    Star Lord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,120 ✭✭✭✭Star Lord


    BK inspired me to go on a diet... :eek:

    Before you start panicing...
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  • #6
    Toto Wolfcastle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    Another thing: Burgers are supposed to be juicy. That's what those Michelin people would say. There is no doubt that BK burgers are that. (Or greasy, but it amounts to the same thing.)

    Love the diet, Damo!


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  • #7
    Nevyn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43,044 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    /read entire thread thanks to mod powerz and has to have a sit down and brandy.

    burger king is far superior to McD's, I've worked in a few while putting myself through college.


  • #8
    Toto Wolfcastle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    Thaedydal wrote: »
    /read entire thread thanks to mod powerz and has to have a sit down and brandy.

    :D


  • #9
    Tom Dunne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,202 ✭✭✭✭Tom Dunne


    Thaedydal wrote: »
    /read entire thread thanks to mod powerz and has to have a sit down and brandy.

    I don't know what you are talking about. Ahem.
    Thaedydal wrote: »
    burger king is far superior to McD's, I've worked in a few while putting myself through college.

    Well said.

    So, is BK worthy of a Michelin star?


  • #10
    Hermy
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,782 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    Tom Dunne wrote: »
    So, is BK worthy of a Michelin star?

    You must be fupping joking!:mad:
    How does a food outlet that serves nothing but reheats deserve anything but scorn.

    Genealogy Forum Mod



  • #11
    Tom Dunne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,202 ✭✭✭✭Tom Dunne


    Hermy wrote: »
    You must be fupping joking!:mad:

    Joking? About food? On BGRH? No way. We take our food very seriously.
    Hermy wrote: »
    How does a food outlet that serves nothing but reheats deserve anything but scorn.

    That is a very serious allegation to make against a restaurant of this caliber. I am sure most restaurants have to reheat food on occasion. But it's not the reheated food we are interested in, it's the quality of the cooking we are concerned with.

    Plus, their chips are nicer than McDonalds.


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  • #12
    ChewChew
    Moderators Posts: 24,367 ✭✭✭✭ChewChew


    Gah. I cant be doing with that burger king crap. or maybe its the giant beef tomatoes the muppets put on them. YUK! :mad:


  • #13
    Tom Dunne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,202 ✭✭✭✭Tom Dunne


    ChewChew wrote: »
    Gah. I cant be doing with that burger king crap. or maybe its the giant beef tomatoes the muppets put on them. YUK! :mad:

    Young lady, you do know you can have it without the beef tomatoes? Without onions, without mayo, you name it. You can have it whatever way you want.


  • #14
    ChewChew
    Moderators Posts: 24,367 ✭✭✭✭ChewChew


    Tom Dunne wrote: »
    Young lady, you do know you can have it without the beef tomatoes? Without onions, without mayo, you name it. You can have it whatever way you want.
    Yes Sir. Me so sorry sir. Three bags full Sir.


  • #15
    Toto Wolfcastle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    Tom Dunne wrote: »
    Young lady, you do know you can have it without the beef tomatoes? Without onions, without mayo, you name it. You can have it whatever way you want.

    This is probably the best thing about it. I mean, who wants salad crap on their meat?

    And if you went to a fancy Michelin-starred restaurant there is no way they'd allow you to 'have it your way'. And that is why Burger King is better.


  • #16
    Nevyn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43,044 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    Hermy wrote: »
    You must be fupping joking!:mad:
    How does a food outlet that serves nothing but reheats deserve anything but scorn.

    The do not server nothing but reheats, if you want your whooper scalding hot and freshingly flamed you ask for one off the broiler there is even a button on the till to make that happen.


  • #17
    Hermy
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,782 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    But Lady Death, I did ask them not to microwave my meal and then they microwaved it anyway - the whole meal, meat, lettuce, chips, cardboard, (surprised they didn't stick the large coke in the oven while they were at it:confused:) - so I asked for a freshly cooked meal that hadn't been cooked several hours ago and then reheated to death in a microwave and the manager gave me my money back and told me to leave and that was the last time I set foot inside of one of those...eh...restaurants as ye refer to them.
    Nowadays I dine at Sprockets when I require a burger and chips.

    Genealogy Forum Mod



  • #18
    KnifeWRENCH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,148 ✭✭✭✭KnifeWRENCH


    Certainly Burger King are better than McDonalds.
    But that's like saying Watford are a better football team than Accrington Stanley. This is true, but it doesn't mean Watford are ever gonna win the Champions League!

    There are various food outlets with far superior chips - your common or garden chipper, for instance.
    Burgers at BK are nice, I grant you - but I would much prefer a restaurant which serves me a fine hunk of sirloin steak (well done of course - I hate rare meat :mad:)
    So I am sorry but I cannot accept that Burger King are truly worthy of the Michelin Star. I await further proof on why they deserve it.

    Oh and Agent Smith - scrape all that salad crap of the top of that Whopper immediately. :mad:


  • #19
    Toto Wolfcastle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    But squigloo, this is a campaign that you can believe in!


  • #20
    Steve
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,575 ✭✭✭✭Steve


    BK make a truly fine burger but they are a long way from the best, and believe me I know what good burgers are.

    They are, however, probably one of the better burgers available at short notice in this country.

    square_igloo, don't ever say that about a piece of sirloin steak again... evar! it's just wrong.:mad:
    You can't have steak unless it's dripping blood and still twitching!!!


  • #21
    KnifeWRENCH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,148 ✭✭✭✭KnifeWRENCH


    janeybabe wrote: »
    But squigloo, this is a campaign that you can believe in!
    I'm afraid I shall need more convincing.
    Why do Burger King deserve a Michelin Star and not the local chipper, whose chips are far superior?
    SteveC wrote: »

    square_igloo, don't ever say that about a piece of sirloin steak again... evar! it's just wrong.:mad:
    You can't have steak unless it's dripping blood and still twitching!!!

    I like my steak cooked until it's almost burnt.

    There, I said it. It's the way Mammy Igloo always cooks it and by God I'll eat it that way to the death. To the death I tell you.


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  • #22
    Toto Wolfcastle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    square_igloo wrote: »
    I'm afraid I shall need more convincing.
    Why do Burger King deserve a Michelin Star and not the local chipper, whose chips are far superior?

    Many a reason. For one, many local chippers fail to give the juicy burger experience that Burger King gives.

    I exclude KCs from this obviously.


  • #23
    Steve
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,575 ✭✭✭✭Steve


    square_igloo wrote: »
    I like my steak cooked until it's almost burnt.

    There, I said it. It's the way Mammy Igloo always cooks it and by God I'll eat it that way to the death. To the death I tell you.
    I once thought as you do young igloo
    Don't worry, with age comes wisdom and a taste for blood and raw cholesterol :D

    I should know, I'm old and have arteries like titanium fuel lines.;)


  • #24
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,411 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    square_igloo wrote: »
    I like my steak cooked until it's almost burnt.

    There, I said it. It's the way Mammy Igloo always cooks it and by God I'll eat it that way to the death. To the death I tell you.

    This post makes baby Jesus cry. :(


  • #25
    Tom Dunne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,202 ✭✭✭✭Tom Dunne


    square_igloo wrote: »
    Certainly Burger King are better than McDonalds.
    But that's like saying Watford are a better football team than Accrington Stanley. This is true, but it doesn't mean Watford are ever gonna win the Champions League!

    But BK are the winners of the Champions League that is quality burgers, hence why they should be awarded the Michelin Star.
    square_igloo wrote: »
    There are various food outlets with far superior chips - your common or garden chipper, for instance.

    But this is not about the chips, it's about the beef, dammit.
    square_igloo wrote: »
    Burgers at BK are nice, I grant you - but I would much prefer a restaurant which serves me a fine hunk of sirloin steak (well done of course - I hate rare meat :mad:)

    Oh dear.

    Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.

    The naivety of youth. The young palate that has yet to develop an appreciation of the beauty of a prime cut of beef, served rare. *drools*
    square_igloo wrote: »
    So I am sorry but I cannot accept that Burger King are truly worthy of the Michelin Star. I await further proof on why they deserve it.

    Get me a premium burger from all the fast food chains in this country, and I will guarantee that you will find no better burger than BK.

    Go do it, you know you want to.


  • #26
    Toto Wolfcastle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    I had a burger from a chipper last night and it was all rubbery and horrible.

    It had nothing on a BK burger.


  • #27
    Hermy
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,782 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


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    Eddie%20Rockets.jpg

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  • #28
    Toto Wolfcastle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    More often than not Eddie Rockets burgers are dry.


  • #29
    Hermy
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,782 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    No they're not.:eek::(

    Genealogy Forum Mod



  • #30
    Toto Wolfcastle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    Yeah they are. They're better than McDonalds though.


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  • #31
    Hermy
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,782 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    Blasphemy

    Edit: What about Rick's on the corner of Georges Street and Dame Street. I've never eaten there but I'm told the burgers are the best in Dublin.

    Genealogy Forum Mod



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