I found that place underwhelming. The steak had no sear and that sauce tasted very minerally (not in a good way IMO).
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Long Johns all day. Every little bakery makes them. A bigger bakery by me has them every way you could imagine. I hate filled anything, though. Yeah, WI born and raised. As my dad would say: “born in the basement, and barely brought up.” The Grebe’s (Mwaukee) Kruller is the gold, though. GOLD!
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While in university, I used to wander the East Asian markets; it wasn’t to buy anything, rather to ogle the sodium content in the various noodle cups. Holy moly, the stores should have offered a buy 1 get 1 free dialysis machine.
Then again, U.S. fast food orders could additionally present free angioplasties, so the comparison isn’t all chalk and cheese.
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From Sarah Donnelly, an American comedian in Paris.
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Oh wow. In all my trips to Picard, I’ve never seen that. At least in the UK, the American week at Lidl delivers some of the MVPs she seeks.
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Most Valuable Players? 
I found this Twitter page a while ago, and just now rediscovered it in my dozens of open Firefox tabs.
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Now that’s a great thread to get lost in; thank you!
The language Sarah Donnelly used.
Pardon my non-native upbringing peeking through. I’ve only ever seen the term related to sportsing 
FWIW it is estadounidense. You added an S. (Apologies. Just noticed how old this post was.)
Big Gay Ice Cream is its name. No Al. Big Gay Al is a character from South Park though.
Amusing
Eh, no pardon needed given that I was just repeating her and hadn’t given MVP a thought to the terminology because it was otherwise going to take me down my own analytic breakdown of term to figure out what was going on.
“To prove that I’m not only critical of American food and their takes on other nation’s dishes:
I’m back in England due to a family emergency, and I took an evening to meet up with an old friend and his sons (my godsons) for dinner last night. We met at a place called The Willow Tree.
On the menu was something called a “Dirty Philly Burger,” and the description prompted me to try it.
So, Americans, what do you think of when you are presented with the notion of a famous sandwich from Philadelphia? Thin-sliced rashers of steak, provolone cheese, fried onions, green peppers, and maybe mushrooms, all fried up in butter, and jammed into an overflowing miniature loaf, oozing fat and grease and butter and loveliness, yes? Something along those lines?
Let me tell you what’s in a “Dirty Philly Burger” in the UK.
Two beef patties – okay, it’s a burger, that’s to be expected.
More beef – barbacoa pulled beef, not steak
Onions: crispy onions and raw red onions, not soft fried white or yellow onions
Cheese: nacho cheese sauce, not provolone
Also lettuce, a hash brown, and “burger sauce”
At least, on the upside, the UK now seems to have discovered “potato tots,” which, for trademark reasons, cannot legally be called “Tater Tots,” which is a brand name.
ADDENDUM: It was a tasty burger, though, just completely inauthentic. And the tots were good.
Sure beats the “chicken chalupa” I had at Jingle’s in 2005, which came out enrobed in puff pastry and drizzled with hollandaise sauce.”
Unsure where to stick this so here it resides.
From The Dull Men’s Club page on FB.
Hundreds of responses, mostly wondering what tater tots were. 
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I would love to see a picture of that burger. Sounds like a monster.
By the way I think wit whiz maybe even more popular these days than provolone.
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The comments that weren’t about tater tots were mostly arguing about cheese choice and what constitutes “authentic”, naturally. 
Actually, Cooper is the cheese de rigueur these days.
I think they just picked a well-known US city and made a massive burger, with likely no knowledge of Philly’s incredible, insurpassable contribution to the culinary world
Curious whether there were also discussions on whether “Dirty Philly” constitutes a tautology.
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