I guess this isn't my business either, but doesn't eating the occasional burger completely wreck your innards? The last time I ate beef it was before I'd decided to stop eating meat altogether, but it had still been months since I had, and I felt like I had appendicitis or something. And cheese, too? I think I would die (or feel like I was dying) if I ate that at this stage.

It's an interesting concept, though: I've never met an occasional-burger-eating vegan before.

Yep--it does always make me a little sick. I guess the flora in your digestive track changes to meet your usual diet and then can't handle a sudden switch. Taking a lactaid supplement helps somewhat with the cheese. This burger is worth it.

i'm a vegan too! i haven't had cravings for beef though, and i agree with #1, when i have had cheese since going vegan, it doesn't taste nearly as good as i seem to remember, and i always get nauseous, so i find that it just isn't worth the trouble. one time i ate chicken while i was just vegetarian, and i threw it all up promptly about 15 minutes later, so i am not really up for trying meat again...

I hate vegans more than I hate Christians. Mostly because they can never shut up about how vegan they are.

Bacon is NEVER "utterly unnecessary"!

And yes, that's one tasty burger.

But, the PB&BB at Twilight Exit is better, IMO.

I was vegetarian (but not vegan) for ten years before having fish, cured meats, chicken, and raw oysters in rather quick succession. My stomach took it rather well.

the after-school special is one tasty burger that's for sure. i resisted for a long time just on principal(peanut butter on burger, wtf?), but i gave in, and am total convert. @ 5 i totally agree ... bacon is almost always necessary! in fact it was bacon that brought me back from vegetarianism. i just could no longer resist it's salty goodness.

@4 - Well I hate vegan-haters even more than I hate Christians; mostly because they can never shut up about how much they hate vegans.

So there.

An "occasional-burger-eating vegan" in not a vegan!

Peanut butter is vile in any use. I've never understood americans' taste for it.

Then again I grew up eating Vegemite so whatever.

I hate vegan haters who hate christians who hate other vegan hater christians because they can never seem to shut up about how much they hate vegan hating christians who hate vegans.

To say that something is not my business assumes I was going to ask. That comes off as rude to me.

I'm more of a burger minimalist. I feel like a really good beef patty shouldn't need more than a slice of cheddar and maybe some grilled onions as toppings.

A bacon/cheese/peanut butter/meat burger!!??

Aside from sounding like something Homer Simpson would love, shouldn’t they call that one The Widow-maker?

I hope that restaurant has a defibrillator on the premises.

I ate a burger after maybe 5 years of veganism and it tasted great and made me feel great.

I was a vegetarian for many years, and about once a year I would start craving hamburgers. After a while I decided it was healthier to just eat the damned burger than to obsess over how much I wanted one. So I'd eat a hamburger a day for a solid week, and then the cravings would be gone for another year. I've never heard of anyone else who had this happen. Eating the burgers never made me feel sick, but I wasn't a vegan, just veg.

I'm a little thrown by the "not your business" comment, though. Why so defensive?

Ditto for what Peter @ 15 said, except it was only three years, it was vegetarianism, and it was a hangar steak.

But bacon is even better, because you can eat it while feeling bad for people who keep kosher, people who eat halal, and vegetarians, too. It's like a triple-bank-shot of feeling bad for those less fortunate.

John Doe, I'm sorry that struck you as rude. Someone would have asked, and then this would have turned into the usual 'should or shouldn't we eat animals' discussion. I wanted to focus on the outrageously awesome burger. More talk about burgers! Please. My mouth is watering.

Peanut butter? On a burger? Totally new to me.

@12, 16: It's pretty clear why she'd said that. Look at 4.

Is it kosher for vegans to partake of the body and blood of Christ?

Would peanut butter help?

Nobody likes a vegan.

Ok. I love peanut butter. I can't live without peanut butter. But on a burger? With bacon? I get the pb and cheese combo, but with meat? Even if I ate meat, that would sound horrible.

(I'm what my friend calls a "vegan in training" -- I can't seem to give up cheese but can avoid everything else.)

To quote Margaret Cho in what I intend to be a fun way and to make fun of myelf: "Never fuck with Vegans. They will fuck you up. ... because they're hungry!"

@14, here's Homers favorite burger:

"We take eighteen ounces of sizzling ground beef, and soak it in rich, creamery butter, then we top it off with bacon, ham, and a fried egg. We call it the 'Good Morning Burger'!"

www.baconsalt.com

@10. When I was in high school we had a French foreign exchange student who said the same thing. Couldn't stand peanut butter, thought it was disgusting, couldn't see how we could eat it. Then he ate about half a pan of my mom's peanut-butter chocolate cookies and about fell on the floor when we told him they were made with peanut butter.

As for Vegemite, I had no idea what it was when I was in Australia and ate it for the first time. I almost threw up right away...

To each his own acquired tastes...

Amy Kate, thanks for the clarification! Very nice of you. I gave up meat for years once and was usually done in by a burger as well. Truly the Jezebel of the meat world.

my friend introduced me to the peanut butter and bacon sandwich last year, but i hadn't thought of combining its deliciousness with a cheese burger. genius!

I was a vegan from 8pm last night until 11:30am today. My stomach handled it fine.

@ 22 - I remember a Kate Clinton concert where she said something more or less anti-vegan and was loudly booed by a few audience members. She handled that rather well I thought: "I know you would like to come up here and beat the shit out of me, but I know you're too weak to get up out of your seat."

Although I have several friends who are either vegan or vegetarian (how to distinguish - anything with a mother or anything with eyes?), I accommodate their dietary requests when I host them. On the other hand, when I am hosted by them, it would never occur to me to ask them to fry up a rasher of bacon. So vegan-wise there actually is no tit for tat.

Amy,

There was a place in Los Angeles in the 70s called Hampton's and they had about 110 different hamburgers on their menu. One of them came with peanut butter and jelly. I once asked a waiter if anyone ever orders it, and he said, "Yeah, sometimes they do."

It's the only other place I've ever seen PB on a hamburger.

How come you don't experience what a lot of my friends experience when they go without beef for an extended period of time and then cave in to a craving? It usually makes them kind of sick - like eating too much dessert or drinking too much egg nog. It's as if the body can't cope with the sudden richness.

Oh...should have read earlier comments first!

@22: I dunno, why not? In Thai food peanuts and meat are the two great tastes that taste great together.

@32 - that's a good point. I still think PB & a burger sounds kind of ill, though.

@19 - the comment @ 4 has nothing to do with Amy Kate's decision to go vegetarian. It's just a blanket comment about vegans.

Now back to the burger talk....

When did it become okay to cheat? I'll never forget the time I was accused of being a fake vegetarian because I'd given in to a little temptation while setting up a non-veg cold cut party platter on an empty stomach. So have my fellow vegetarians become less fascist?

This is why I never called myself "vegetarian" and why I never say, "I'm going to quit smoking!" Sometimes, you just need a little bit of deliciousness that will shave a few minutes off your life. I think maybe that's what makes vices so delicious.......mmmmmmmm......

I find that if you can refrain from proselytizing about your dietary habits and beliefs, you can stray from them occasionally without your friends feeling obliged to ridicule or guilt you about it.

Slightly off-topic, but for everyone intrigued by the PB on a cheeseburger, check out the Sybil's Breakdown at Mad Pizza:

Garlic ricotta base, mozzarella and gorgonzola cheeses, sliced Granny Smith apples, red onions, mandarin oranges, mushrooms and roasted cashews.

Bizarre as it sounds, it's so delicious that my friends and I order it almost to the exclusion of other pizzas.

I agree with #3. I get tired of the vegan food fascists who wont shut the fuck up about why I cant eat whatever the hell I want. Tell ya what food fascists, you eat what you want and you DONT make a comment about what I eat unless you want to hear me tell you all about what a complete and utter asshole you are. As for PB on a burger, the thought of it makes me ill :-/

It seems that me @38 has become what he despises...

@36 - exactly

animal cruelty is good in moderation.

In the eighties I worked at a place in Spokane that had 20 different burgers. I offered a money back guarantee on the Peanut Butter Burger. Sold a ton, never had to buy one.

How is it different from peanut sauce with chicken. Try it, you'll like it...

Eat whatever the fuck you want - my question is, was there anything Else on it besides peanut butter and cheese? How do you season a beast like this?

Well, as a Christian, I can't hate any of you. But it does pain me that you lump all Christians together. There are those of us who don't hate gay people, don't want to throw Bibles at everyone, and pray for everyone regardless of sect, non-sect, affiliation, refusal to affiliate, etc. So of us are ACTUALLY Christian. I know it's hard to tell the difference - but those of you who hate to be disparaged take great pleasure in doling it out.