In yet another piece of evidence that America, the “greatest country in the United States”, is doomed to crumble in the next five years, US netizens are currently in a war with Australians over the fact that we call a chicken burger by those two very words. The entire debate has led many to ask the question of our American friends: what else do you want to bloody call it then?
The entire debate started over on X (formerly Twitter), where one user posted a photo of a piece of chicken with pickles and sauce wrapped between two buns and made a statement that sparked furious international tension.
Most decent and civilised people of the world would look at the food item the American user shared a photo of, identify it as a burger with chicken in it, and therefore call it a “chicken burger” — because that’s what it is.
Sure, it’s not a creative name. However, it identifies the two main components correctly and creates a conjunctive term to label their combined product.
Yet apparently, that sort of complex thinking just isn’t good enough for our American friends.
“Learned today that Aussies call this a ‘chicken burger’ and about had an aneurysm,” the X user wrote.
In America, this type of food is called a “chicken sandwich”, as opposed to a burger.
This is because the name there is based on how the meat is prepared, as opposed to in Australia and most other parts of the world which name it after the type of bun.
Introducing the beef sandwich https://t.co/ahC3gX9upO pic.twitter.com/97gOF2DgAr
— Baron (@baron_slays) May 17, 2024
This sole Tweet, though from a small account with only a few hundred followers, was picked up by the X algorithm and seen by 14 million people from all around the world.
Most of whom then took it upon themselves to correct the ill-informed chicken-burger-denialist.
… what else would you call it https://t.co/3MzJvFltvp
— keewa 🇵🇸 (@keewa) May 16, 2024
anything in a bun is a burger… chicken snitzel burger, steak burger, fish burger, beef burger, chicken burger… they’re all burgers
— steph ™️ (@aboutasteph) May 17, 2024
it’s a sandwich if it’s between two pieces of bread from a loaf
it is a chicken burger what the fuck else is it
— sarahhh (@yeehawsarahh) May 16, 2024
Others took this as an opportunity to highlight how America is doomed as a nation due to its citizens’ inability to comprehend that not everyone talks exactly how they do.
It’s bizarre how mad Americans get when they discover everyone else in the entire world calls something a more sensible name. https://t.co/X0gJYeLBA2
— stone cold 𓅃 (@largacty1) May 16, 2024
One of my favourite tweet genres – Americans discovering that the rest of the world is a bit different sometimes. https://t.co/YWJs8fSICs
— Caroline Gates (@caro_gates) May 17, 2024
severe ontological crisis happening in the land of the free. this empire has got 5 years left tops
— james hennessy (@jrhennessy) May 17, 2024
And of course, for good measure, there was a fair amount of people doing the typical highlighting of America’s own confusing linguistic choices.
Don’t you guys dip your cookies in gravy? Weirdos.
— Kirk Fletcher (@kirkfletcher) May 17, 2024
American: hahahahaha Australians refer to chicken in a burger bun as a “chicken burger” instead of a sandwich!!! They are so strange
— krokodil dundee (@maximum_chips) May 17, 2024
Also American: *calls the main course an “entree”*
This much criticism of the original post must have then made the original American realise their mistake, and regret trying to start a fight with 25 million people at once, and so not only did they remove the original Tweet, but their entire account.
To which the larrikins of Australian Twitter took as a sign of cultural superiority, and proceeded to celebrate.
Oz Twitter, we have done it again.
— Hayden (@bychero) May 17, 2024
That poor old seppo who tried to rinse us for calling a chicken burger…well, a burger, has had to lock his account. 😂
The way I see it, this tale has two morals.
The first is that you should never try and mock a culture for the way they name something, particularly if it is a food given how close cuisine and national identity are linked.
The second, and more important: it’s called a chicken burger. End of story.
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