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A man in Australia has successfully patented, and started selling, the Hamdog - a combination of a hotdog and a burger in one bun.
Mark Murray first appeared on Shark Tank - the Australian equivalent to the UK show Dragon's Den - where he pitched the idea to potential investors.
The judges turned him down for funding.
But one year later, he is selling the Hamdogs at fairs and markets in Western Australia and looking for people interested in taking on a franchise.
"We launched our marquee two months ago and we had people come from everywhere just to experience the Hamdog," he told News.com.au.
"At one stage the crew were knocking out about one every 15 seconds. It was amazing," he said.
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The Hamdog was first patented in the US back in 2009 but Mark Murray has only just begun to sell them.
When he first pitched it to the judges on Shark Tank in 2015, he described eating the dish as a "party in your mouth". The judges laughed.
Images show the unique shape of the bun, which holds both a burger patty and a hotdog.
The burger is split in half, to allow the hotdog to be placed in between. The bun is then also filled with lettuce, tomato, pickles, cheese, mustard, tomato sauce and mayonnaise.
"We use all local ingredients. The only thing that's not from Western Australia are the pickles," Mr Murray said.
"At the moment there is a fair bit of labour involved in making the buns because they're made by people, not machines. We're still developing a way to semi automate production."
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That's nothing, you should see the entries in the State Fair of Texas food contests. I believe this year's winner was fried Jello.
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It seems like the dog would fall out while you eat the burger, or vice versa. Then there is the complication of getting chili all over your hands as a dog without chili is a sad meal.
I'd rather have a burger and a hot dog on my plate, and save the ingenuity for the fries. Like, how about fries seasoned with Tikka Masala.
I worked at a Clay pigeon shoot many years ago and they had a café there in which they sold a Sausage Burger. This was accomplished by cutting a sausage in half and placing it on a burger in a roll.
This man seems to have wasted a fair proportion of his life on a weirdly shaped roll.
Truly the hair-brained inventor meme live on through this chap.
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The bun seems like a waste. I'd be willing to try one, but compared to things I've had at Crave Burger (a hot wing burger, chicken patty hot wing style w/ blue cheese dressing on top of a burger ) I can think of way better burgers
kronk wrote: I'd rather have a burger and a hot dog on my plate, and save the ingenuity for the fries. Like, how about fries seasoned with Tikka Masala.
If the Lays chips are any indicator, those fries would be amazing.
notprop wrote: I worked at a Clay pigeon shoot many years ago and they had a café there in which they sold a Sausage Burger. This was accomplished by cutting a sausage in half and placing it on a burger in a roll.
This man seems to have wasted a fair proportion of his life on a weirdly shaped roll.
Truly the hair-brained inventor meme live on through this chap.
Yeah, I often make sausage sandwiches by just cutting sausages in half lengthways; it's fairly standard practice. Seems like doing that and just putting the halves on top of the patty itself would've solved the most prevalent issue...
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jreilly89 wrote: The bun seems like a waste. I'd be willing to try one, but compared to things I've had at Crave Burger (a hot wing burger, chicken patty hot wing style w/ blue cheese dressing on top of a burger ) I can think of way better burgers
It does seem like yet another novelty food that is just going to end up being awkward to eat.
Seems to have a pretty decent marketing team behind it, because I have heard this mentioned a lot of times, and there's way better, and way funnier novelty food out there.
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notprop wrote: I worked at a Clay pigeon shoot many years ago and they had a café there in which they sold a Sausage Burger. This was accomplished by cutting a sausage in half and placing it on a burger in a roll.
This man seems to have wasted a fair proportion of his life on a weirdly shaped roll.
Truly the hair-brained inventor meme live on through this chap.
You only need to add some bacon and chips and a fried egg to the Sausage Burger to create the perfect balanced meal.
Wimpy did this years ago. I present to you the Wimpy Mega Burger. However Wimpy had the sense to cut the hot dog so it bent round in to a standard burger bun. Unfortunately they decided to call it the Pork Bended... (For those not so aware of British slang "Bender" is a rather offensive term for a homosexual man. I can only assume that Wimpy came up with the name before that was a thing as otherwise it would be very inappropriate, and I am surprised they are sticking with it)
notprop wrote: I worked at a Clay pigeon shoot many years ago and they had a café there in which they sold a Sausage Burger. This was accomplished by cutting a sausage in half and placing it on a burger in a roll.
This man seems to have wasted a fair proportion of his life on a weirdly shaped roll.
Truly the hair-brained inventor meme live on through this chap.
You only need to add some bacon and chips and a fried egg to the Sausage Burger to create the perfect balanced meal.
Bacon was naturally an available option - the Sausage Bacon Burger.
Chips and Fried Eggs were unfortunately beyond their capabilities.
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Steve steveson wrote: Wimpy did this years ago. I present to you the Wimpy Mega Burger. However Wimpy had the sense to cut the hot dog so it bent round in to a standard burger bun. Unfortunately they decided to call it the Pork Bended... (For those not so aware of British slang "Bender" is a rather offensive term for a homosexual man. I can only assume that Wimpy came up with the name before that was a thing as otherwise it would be very inappropriate, and I am surprised they are sticking with it)
Just the other day I was thinking how much of a hassle it was having to decide between eating a hamburger and eating a hot dog. Problem solved!
Now they need to just stick the fries in there so maximizing caloric content doesn't take too much effort. Maybe stick it in some sort of bag that can be affixed to the face and head....
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