An American Question

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I called into a new American-style burger bar for a cheeseburger & saw this on the menu




So, gourmet beef layered with peanut butter, strawberry jam & topped with cheese 
Is this true American cuisine?  tweetiepiesmom ?
I never knew you Americans had such revolutionary adventurous cuisine 
Next visit I've just GOT to try me one of these! (Purely for the purpose of developing closer cultural ties, of course   )

[tweetiepiesmom]

Ewwww! I've never seen that here! Sounds gross. If you're brave enough to try it, fill us in on how you like it. America has been credited with a lot of questionable things but I think we'll pass on that! How about it yellowfacedviolet?

[jellybean]

Sounds disgusting to me too 🤢

[Marianne Marlow]

I feel sick at the thought. But then I'm a vegetarian anyway.

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Hmm...sampling idea abandoned if it's not a traditional, innovative, genuine USA delicacy.
Marianne Marlow My new built-like-a-brick-birdhouse diabetes nurse has commanded me to eat more healthily as I've got a very high cholesterol level.
If being a vegetarian blesses one with skin as smooth as yours, I'm in.
How about I try a finch seed sandwich with spinach? Only kidding.
A young lad made my day this week by saying, "'Ere. Missus, can you do a wheelie on that bike?"  (Perhaps thinking I was much younger.  Ah, face masks are such a blessing hiding saggy-baggy chins.  Liking them.)
Pffft! I wish...

[yellowfacedviolet]

Sept 26, 2020 23:30:16 GMT @cal said:

So, gourmet beef layered with peanut butter, strawberry jam & topped with cheese 
Is this true American cuisine?  tweetiepiesmom ?

What, no bacon?

The only thing really American about it is that it is a mash-up of two American favorites: the cheeseburger and the PB & J sandwich, the latter a fixture of school lunchboxes and American GI rations since the 1920s. Though no self-respecting fan of the PB &J would dream of using anything but grape jelly. Strawberry jam? Blasphemy.

I've dined out in 46 of the 50 states including at specialty, upscale hamburger havens, and have never seen it on a menu. But this is a vast country and you can find most anything somewhere, and sure enough a quick google search reveals it does exist here and there including one joint here in NYC, way up in Harlem. The much-respected food critic for no less than the New York Times described the peanut butter and jelly bacon cheeseburger she had there as, "mind-blowing," She didn't mention if it had similar effect on her arteries.