It was n’t a coincidence that the ground beef was first introduced to the world at the 1904 World ’s Fair in Budweiser ’s hometown of St. Louis . Actually , it plausibly was a coincidence , but serendipity is a powerful affair – they even made a romantic comedy about it back in what seems like must have been the ‘ ninety , but was actually the 2000s . No matter whether it was fate or chance , though , there ’s no deny the joy of plopping down on a president , barstool , or banquette and saying , “ I ’ll take a Bud and a Warren Burger . ”
There ’s a beautiful symmetry to matching simplicity with simplicity . Budweiser has just five ingredient : H2O , barleycorn malted milk , rice , barm , hops . A burger also just has five ingredients : bread , non - distracting botany , high mallow , moo-cow , condiment . The synchronicity goes beyond an ingredient recording label . It ’s a mellifluous order – you get initial rhyme , assonance , and speech rhythm delivered in the tightest potential command to a waiter : “ Bring me a Bud and a hamburger . ” It ’s one of the least pretentious poetical phrases humanly potential , “ baby horseshoe for sales agreement ” notwithstanding .
If you ’re in a stripe , you do n’t even have to say “ please ” after requesting the compounding of Bud and a burger , because the barkeeper will already be grateful . That ’s because even the most wildly creative cocktail bartenders love low maintenance customers who have a go at it exactly what they need . It ’s not that they do n’t enjoy making complicated boozing – they make their living and their report off making complicated drunkenness – but they sure as hell appreciate the break that but reaching into the cooler and grabbing a feeding bottle by the neck opening provides .
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Not having to give their opinion on “ ricotta toast or chicken brochettes ? ” is a nice incentive .
The mixologist ’s feeling are n’t the only personality traits this order will divine . you may tell a bunch about who a person is by their reaction to “ Can I get a Bud and a burger ? ” Do they tsk - tsk because you did n’t order a craft and did n’t get the taste computer menu and everyone order the burger ? Or did they make no comment because they ’re contented enough with their own life decisions to not experience compelled to worry about yours ? How much time do you want to pass with the former form of somebody , whose sentience of justness and inappropriateness on beverage and meal choices extend into corrective language that always begin with “ Actually … ” ?
Crowd pleasing , coincidentally kismetic origination dates , and poetry away : The trick of a Bud and a burger is consistency . you may get a Bud from Kenosha to Kyoto and it will savour exactly the same . If you ’re not spill the beans fancy burgers , you know the introductory flavor game you ’re walking into . The whole point of “ Bud and a burger ” is that you do n’t have to make a individual decision beyond “ I ’m going to imbibe a Bud and eat a Warren E. Burger . ” Before the words leave your oral fissure you know exactly what you ’re regularize will taste like , because in the goal you ’re really eating and drink fond memories of having done this a hundred time before . And bloody if memories do n’t taste even full than serendipity .
