Warren’s long burgers

publish #needswork - publish the math part of this at the bottom Opened 2022-11-08. From Musings on everything else.

This, but a burger

I love fancy burgers. But they’re usually way too tall because they have too many ingredients.

Example from Son and Garden. Taller than evolution intended

In order to eat one of these you need to either (A) dislocate your jaw, devouring it all in one bite like a snake; or (B) chomp partial bites into the burger, never quite slicing top-to-bottom and missing the full range of flavors in every bite.

The world seems content with (B). But there must be a better way.

My solution: Just use bigger buns and spread the ingredients wider.

This is a win-win: the restaurant-goer gets a better tasting burger (and also the illusion of a bigger one), and the restaurant spends barely any more money on buns — cash quickly recovered by more customers wanting to try their long burger.

Anyways, that’s the idea behind Warren’s long burgers. It’s more like a principle I hope more restaurants adopt.

Visualization

Visualization of transforming an overly tall burger into a long burger by flattening its ingredients and not changing the volume of non-bun ingredients.

((PIC: Diagram)) Source: Warren’s long burgers math

Also, for funsies, here’s the same diagram but using AI to paint over and visualize it:

((PIC: Diagram))