I have a cheeseburger

by Tracy on March 31, 2008

cheeseburger in a can

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It’s in a can. Yes, I saw the infamous cheeseburger in a can, and I had to get one for myself. After making a few international phone calls, shipping costs and taking into account the weak dollar, it only cost me about twenty seven dollars. And it’s only been oh, two months since that last guy did it, so I don’t look like a dorky, late copycat, not at all. We won’t even talk about how I discovered today it’s been made into a lolcat.

The ingredients seemed to all be edible – except flour was disconcertingly spelled “our”. At least I hope that’s what is was meant to be, “swelling flour” is puzzling enough, “swelling our” doesn’t bear thinking about.

ingredients of can cheeseburger

The cooking part was simple enough, ten minutes in a bain marie. How fancy! I used a pot of boiling water, which I think is pretty much the same thing.

boiling cheeseburger in a can

Taking it out of the can, it looked kind of soggy and sticky but the smell wasn’t as bad as I expected. The inside was kind of yucky, it probably could have done with more cooking.

cheeseburger in the can

can cheeseburger on a plate

open can cheeseburger

As you can see, it looked pretty grim, so I though maybe some spring mix and sliced onions would freshen it up a bit. And blood oranges, to prevent the scurvy.

can cheeseburger with spring mix, onions and blood orange garnish

My husband refused to cooperate on the grounds that this was stupid and I was only doing it to impress my message board friends, so there are no pictures of me taking a bite of my cheeseburger in a can with blood orange garnish, but here’s a picture of it with a bite taken out.

The worst part was the bread, it was sweet and soggy and chemically and I couldn’t bring myself to chew it. The spring mix was nice, but it wasn’t in the can so I can’t count it. The cheese tasted a lot like Kraft Old English Cheese Spread only more, I don’t know what you would call it, yeasty? Can I use chemically twice in one paragraph, because that’s what it was, artificially tangy, yeasty and chemically. The meat kind of tasted like those cheap beef jerky strips made of the chopped beef, with enhanced beef flavor agent, I can’t remark on the texture because by the time my teeth got down to that layer I was gagging and running to spit it out. I wasn’t lucky enough to get a pickle in my bite, that might have changed everything. To top it off, my blood orange palate cleanser/garnish was flavorless and dry.

My verdict is that this wasn’t nearly worth $27 and I now wish I had not bought four.

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{ 11 comments }

Ming April 1, 2008 at 2:20 am

For $27 I’d expect pickles spread evenly across the burger.

two hands April 1, 2008 at 8:04 am

Couldn’t you have done something more worthwhile with that $27? Like maybe send a bag of pork rinds to Indonesian orphans?

bwise April 1, 2008 at 8:28 am

You are going to save me lots of time and money, I just know it.

travit April 1, 2008 at 9:13 am

I am impressed with how much a simple spring mix really classes up a canned cheeseburger.

Grace_in_KSA April 3, 2008 at 4:28 am

You are a brave woman. I mean that. *shudders*

TitMouse April 3, 2008 at 2:07 pm

You should have taken a picture in the mirror. Open up another one, we’ll wait.

admin April 3, 2008 at 11:00 pm

First I’d have to windex the mirror. I’ll do almost anything for a laugh but housework is where I draw the line.

Gerald Weber SEM Group December 9, 2008 at 3:38 pm

Oh mai gawd! Please don’t evar do that again! Ha ha that looks worse than spam!

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JD at I Do Things May 28, 2009 at 12:15 pm

Well, that effectively killed my craving for a cheeseburger, and I wasn’t even going to get a canned one. I think I may now be off spring mix, raw onions, and blood oranges too.

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Stacie July 24, 2009 at 8:23 pm

I just wish this entry was titled, “I can haz cheezburger?” Because it wasn’t, I couldn’t go any further.

To redeem yourself, plz take on balut and trn it into a lolcat, i noze u can du it.

Natural July 25, 2009 at 5:02 am

say it ain’t so. a cheeseburger in a can too. i wouldn’t eat that if i were you. going to hurl now. urp.
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