Montana's - Canadian Burger Eh

Place: Montana's

Location: 9065 Airport Road, Brampton

Type: Chain Restaurant

Web Site: www.montanas.ca 

Atmosphere: both types, country and western

Burger: Canadian Burger Eh

# of pattys: 1

Special Sauce: Mayo

Toppings: Peameal Bacon

Type of cheese: Cheddar

Added Extra: Apple Butter BBQ Sauce

THE PLACE

Montana's is like a restaurant you would find in the old west, if the old west had air conditioning, piped in music and a debit machine. There is wood, or the semblance of wood, everywhere. The decor cries out "we are in the old west and don't you forget it." 

Also they put paper on the tables and give you crayons so you can play hangman, which is nice.

Also the glasses look like mason jars. I mean who doesn't love that? 

THE BURGER

The Canadian Burger Eh is a single patty burger brushed with apple butter BBQ sauce, topped with a slice of cheddar, two pieces of peameal bacon and a bit of mayo. It looks nice, although you can see it falls down on the burger to bun ratio it's fine on the bacon to bun ratio, which I just made up. It would be hard to not admit that this cheeseburger is tasty, but with the wrong type of tastes.

Yes, the Apple butter BBQ sauce tastes nice, as does the bacon and they mayo. The three of them together are just lovely. The problem is I wasn't able to taste either the burger or the cheese and if you can't taste those then what good is your cheeseburger? Simply put the burger cannot just be the delivery system of the BBQ sauce and the bacon, it has to be part of the meal. And why did this even have cheese at all? There was really no reason since it was buried under the bacon and was invisible taste wise.

The fries were nice, the bun was ok. Really this cheeseburger would have been above average ... Barely. It would have been so much better if I could taste the parts that make the cheeseburger a cheeseburger.

Rating: 2.2out of  5

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Today The Cheeseburger Hunter is thinking about other types of food. Something sweet. Something delicious. And nothing is as sweet and delicious as cake. But what, and stay with me here because this is important, what if we could have a cheeseburger cake?

Well let fantasy become reality.

McDonalds - Cheeseburger

Place: McDonalds

Type: Franchise

Atmosphere: Hipster Wannabe

Burger: Cheeseburger

#of Patties: 1

Special Sauce: None

Toppings: None

Type of Cheese: Cheddar

THE PLACE

We all know McDonalds. So much that I almost feel silly writing this part. Big yellow arches. Garish color scheme. Scary ass clown. It's a part of everyone's childhood and, for some of us, a part of our adulthood. But McDonalds is going through a bit of an identity crises. It seems to want to be some sort of hipster coffee shop instead of a burger place, which is what it is. My local McDonalds actually went so far as to lose in store seating to this  aesthetic. Can you imagine a restaurant actually giving up seats just to appeal to a group of people who won't eat there anyway? Seriously McDonalds, what the hell is wrong with you?

THE BURGER

And here it is, the humble McDonalds cheeseburger. Possibly the most eaten cheeseburger in the world. (Well not this specific one, but you get the idea.) Not very pretty, is it? I mean it's very basic. Meat, cheese, bun, toppings. You will not be arguing philosophy with this burger. And yet there is something about it, something that keeps bringing you back. Probably because it is so simple, most likely because it is so damn easy to get.

When I took my first bite I was taken back to the days when I was a kid and there was only one McDonalds in town and a happy meal cheeseburger was a rare thing. Then I actually concentrated on the taste and ... It ... It wasn't very good.

Sure it tastes like a burger, and you could taste to cheese but there was something in there, maybe it was the taste of a frozen patty but it wasn't too nice. The bun was weak and my fingers went through the top. Honestly put it all together and I can only call it above bland. Certainly not the worse cheeseburger I've ever had but far, far from the best.

I've been using the idea of the McDonalds cheeseburger as my base line when rating cheeseburgers, working on the theory that it was at least a 2.5, but it isn't, not by a long shot. The McDonalds cheeseburger rates nothing more than a 1.0.

And yet I will still eat it, because I have a McDonalds around the corner from me and I am, at my heart, lazy.