WTF is a dessert burger!?

Dessert burgers are wrong dammit, and have no place in burgerdom.

Now I don't need a burger to be meaty. I've had many tofu, falafel, and vegge patty burgers over the years, that have kicked the absolute pants off anything Ronny 'McD' has peddled in our malls. But I draw the line at sweet burgers. Yuck. There's absolutely no place for it in a modern civilised society. Cakes, I'm down with. Sweet french toast with bacon I adapted to (although I still prefer the more anglicised 'eggy bread'). These things aren't pretending to be a hot savoury sammich. That's what the burger loving world wants when it sits down for for its fix. Not a meringue, topped with custard sauce in a doughnut bun, but a savoury hot cheesy sandwich. Preferably with chips (made out of potatos preferably - kumara fries? Don't get me started).

These cupcakes are cute...

Cute but WRONG!

Food, that pretends to be other food, should make you suspicious. 'What's it got to hide?' we should be asking. We should be metaphorically frisking it and checking its credentials. If it ends up being a cake, whilst dressed up as frittata, we should kick it out of the restaurant for a breach of trade descriptions.At the very most, I can categorise them as interesting novelties, but they are not burgers.

Anyhoo, in brief, I will NOT be trying this 'burger'. Pah!

Sweetness Incarnate

Artisan Restaurant & Bar

Bolton Hotel, Cnr Bolton & Mowbray St 

"Whittaker’s chocolate marquise with a poached EcoEgg meringue, mango purée and lime jelly on a doughnut bun, with shortbread shoestrings"

'Sweetness incarnate' will set you back $18, and will NOT. Repeat NOT actually be a burger. It's stuff like this that makes it hard for me to trust people.

Outrageous.