Each week, my Meal of the Week feature examines an airline meal from my travels over the years. This may be a meal from earlier in the week or it may be a meal served over a decade ago.
Since we seem to be on a United Airlines theme today on Live and Let’s Fly, let’s stick with it for my weekly Meal of the Week segment. Earlier this week, I had the chance to try United’s new “everything bun” hamburger and loved it.
United describes it’s new “everything bun” hamburger as:
All-beef patty and Swiss cheese on a bun topped with poppy seeds, sesame seeds, salt, garlic and onion.
Served with Sir Kensington’s ketchup, mustard and chipotle mayonnaise on the side.
The sock photo is above. How would it measure up?
The hamburger costs $10 and is served in a paper bag pulled directly from the warming oven. The Sir Kensington’s condiments include a nice chipotle mayonnaise.
The bun was fabulous…it made the burger unique. I also appreciated the melted Swiss cheese.
Note that tomatoes and lettuce are no longer available toppings: those used to be offered on the side. That makes it less of a traditional burger, but places more emphasis on taste on the meat and cheese…and bun.
CONLUSION
Unlike its underhanded changes to the MileagePlus program, at least you can always count on United to offer a good burger. This bun is even better than the pretzel bun, making it the best United burger yet.
Looks like the old Continental burger — RIP! — on a slightly nicer bun…
Should definitely have the lettuce, tomatoes and pickle on the side!
I live in Ottawa, Canada. This bun was delicious….where can I buy them?
The burger with the everything bun still comes with lettuce, tomato and pickles (or at least it did today).
The real photo that you posted first had me in mind of, “Where the beef?!”
“Since we seem to be on a United Airlines theme today on Live and Let’s Fly”
Today?
It’s getting close to the point at which an intervention may be required to help you deal with this burger addiction…..
Nice buns
On a “sock” UA fetish I see….
How many calories are in the burger, please?
Let me preface this with that I actually really enjoy your blog. Your content in general is pretty good, but in particular you make all the food you eat on airlines actually sound really good.
but I’m convinced that given that you spend so much time flying, you don’t get to eat actual good food. Just had this burger yesterday… it sucked. The bun is rubbery and the meat is tasteless. Mcdonalds that you bring onto your flight would beat this 10/10 times.
First time to taste, the best burger for me . I’m loving it.