Just when you thought burger blizzard had died down, Christmas comes along and bolsters the dirty food rev with a snowstorm of festive buns.
We're not sure why, but restaurateurs in Manchester have taken it upon themselves to cram an entire Christmas dinner between two brioche buns.
The results are a mixture of distressing and delicious. Imagine Santa's had too many brandies and crash lands his sleigh in McDonalds, spilling Christmassy magic on all the burgers, and you’re halfway there.
Taste of Manchester have tasted a few that well and truly rocked our xmas stockings– here are our favourites.
The Hawksmoor Christmas Burger (£12) comprises a slab of fried turkey, topped with sausage patty, smoked bacon, sprout tops, spiced cranberry ketchup, a slice of Ogleshield cheese and turkey gravy. If that doesn’t finish you off, the Christmas Nuggets will. Turkey thigh and sausage patty wrapped around a melting Ogleshield cheese core with a panko crumb and cranberry ketchup.
The Splendid kitchen burger (£12.90) is 7oz of beef, with a chestnut and bacon pattie topped with sticky sprouts, flaked ham, a three cheese mix, shoe string potatoes in a pumpkin and sage bun served with naked fries. This towering stack of xmas is also half price on Mondays.
The AF team are serving Christmas in a bun - Butter Blood Baubles and Booze is a double juicy cheeseburger, applewood smoked cheese, slow cooked BBQ pulled pork, steak mince, Chorizo, pork stuffing balls, crispy BBQ spiced leeds and onions smothered in a sugar spiced JD BBQ sauce, bacon and cranberry jam and brandy buttered peppercorn mayo.
If you want a Christmas burger but don’t want the coronary heart disease that comes with it, try the Father Cheesemas (12.95). It's a little more reserved than its counterparts - Two 6oz hamburgers, bacon Freddar (TM) cheese, crispy bacon, pickles, shredded iceberg, chipotle ketchup and honey-mustard sauce – but it still packs a delicious xmas-ey punch.
If there were a tallest Christmas burger award (is that a thing?), Solita would win it. A 7oz minced chuck steak patty, with sliced Monterey Jack cheese, with buttermilk fried turkey, honey roast gammon, deep fried sprouts swathed in a cranberry and port sauce, sandwiched in a seeded brioche bun. Sitting atop the burger is a goose fat roast potato, stuffing ball. Finally, a candied pig in blanket takes the place of the star on this meat ridden Christmas tree.
