Wendy's Baconator
Two beef patties, six strips of applewood bacon, cheese melted between the layers, and nothing green. Wendy's 2007 Baconator, built by doubling instead of balancing.
Burgers
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Vermont Cheddar Burger
A burger that names its cheese by maker and age, two-year Cabot or clothbound Grafton: sharp aged white Vermont cheddar, crumbly and loud, melted gently over a griddled patty.
Veggie Burger (California Style)
California's plant burger builds inward from the produce, leaning on Hass avocado and 1970s sprouts to do the work beef fat would, over a patty whose paper trail runs through 1982 London and 1980s.
Utah Pastrami Burger
A cheeseburger crowned with a pile of griddle-hot pastrami and fry sauce: the Utah pastrami burger flopped in California and became a Salt Lake institution, the Crown Burgers build.
Tillamook Cheddar Burger
A burger built around aged Oregon cheddar that softens but never pours, trading the melt of a processed slice for a sharp, firm bite: the Tillamook cheese carries the build.
Theta Burger
Smash patty, American cheese, and a whole halved dill pickle laid across it, on a small toasted bun. The Town Tavern's Norman, Oklahoma signature, in a building open since 1936.
Steamed Cheeseburger
Burger patty and cheese steamed in a metal tray, served on a bun; unique to central Connecticut diners.
Spicy Chicken Sandwich
On a spicy chicken sandwich the heat is in the flour, fried into the crust so it stays welded to a juicy fillet. From Wendy's 1996 staple to the 2019 Popeyes launch that lit the chicken sandwich wars.
Smash Burger
A loose beef ball smashed flat on a screaming griddle, browned across nearly its whole face: the crust is not seasoned on, it is built by contact, and the burger exists for it.
Slider
Small burger, typically 2-3 inches in diameter; White Castle origin.
Shrimp Burger
Ground or chopped shrimp formed into a patty and fried.
Shake Shack ShackBurger
Angus beef burger with lettuce, tomato, and ShackSauce on a potato bun; started as a NYC hot dog cart in Madison Square Park (2001), now ...
Salmon Burger
Salmon is too lean to hold a patty, so the salmon burger is an engineering job: a third blended to paste to glue thumbnail-chopped chunks, bound with egg and crumb. The Pacific Northwest standard.
Salmon Burger (Alaskan)
In Alaska the salmon burger tracks the run calendar: sockeye and coho worked into a bound patty, seared and folded into a toasted bun. A state that wrote wild salmon into its constitution.
Sacramento Squeeze Burger
A smash burger with a frico ring: a fistful of cheddar dropped on the steel around the patty, fried into a lacy skirt that overhangs the bun. The Squeeze Inn's Sacramento signature since 1977.
Raising Cane's Chicken Finger Sandwich
Three chicken fingers on buttered Texas toast with Cane's sauce, a one-hand spin-off of the single-item Baton Rouge chicken chain Todd Graves opened in 1996 after his LSU plan failed the class.
Publix Chicken Tender Sub
Fried in-store and held warm, the Pub Sub is built around a softened tender, dressed sauce-on-bread, and best pressed on a flat-top. Its origin is a documented dispute.
Protein Style Burger
No bun at all. In-N-Out's protein style order closes the patty and cheese inside two leaves of iceberg, a customer-driven swap the press met decades after it started.
Popeyes Spicy Chicken Sandwich
Popeyes put its spicy chicken sandwich on US menus on 12 August 2019 and sold out everywhere within two weeks: a fried fillet whose heat rides in a thick spicy mayo, not the crust.
Popeyes Classic Chicken Sandwich
Classic is the launch's quiet half. Plain mayonnaise on the bun, plain seasoning in the dredge, same brioche-style bun and barrel-cut pickle as the spicy sibling. Launched 12 August 2019.
Philly-Style Chicken Sandwich
In Philadelphia, chicken at a steak window means two different sandwiches: the griddled chicken cheesesteak and the breaded cutlet, never confused.
Panera Bread Frontega Chicken
Panera's Toasted Frontega Chicken pulls smoked chicken into shreds, melts fresh mozzarella over them, and presses the lot on black pepper focaccia. It started, like the chain, in a small St.