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Competition for the best hamburger in Spain
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Maybe they should have categories like small, medium, large or lightweight/heavyweight? Looks like a lot of large and maybe heavyweight?
 
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First burger and beer in Zubiri. Then the restaurant in Ages that had ten different burgers. There were 8 of us and we chowed down on a variety of these.
 

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Oh goodness I wanted a hamburger my first day on the Camino but didn’t get on until Pamplona and I was terrible but I savored every bite. I never ate a hamburger in Spain after that.
 
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While I realize that Spain is not known for its great hamburgers and while these days I don't eat hamburgers at home very often and have over the years eaten a lot of burgers, some good, some bad and some great in many places and countries but sometimes while walking the Camino I'm really jonesing for a hamburger and a cold beer, especially after finishing 20-30 kms. I've eaten several there and while none were great they all did the job. Sort of like that old Jimmy Buffet song, Cheeseburger in Paradise.
 
Well I have just woken up and with the regard to the old adage ‘you should try and learn three new things everyday’, I have already learnt there is a word known as ‘jonesing’ and even more interesting a song called ‘cheeseburger in paradise’! Two down, one to go!
 
I seldom eat red meat and agree that McDonald’s will not ever be considered for best hamburger, but I worked at McDonald’s as a kid and so I try McDonald’s in every country I visit. Having worked for an airline for 19 years I’ve been to a few. There’s that thought that McDonald’s is the same wherever you go however only once has it tasted the same as the United States.
Ironically it was years ago I was walking into Burgos. This was before the river route was as established as it is now and a local sent me the concrete jungle way into town. There’s a McDonalds at the edge of Burgos I stopped at that the burger tasted exactly the same as the US (For the first time ever). And it was absolutely delicious!!!
Just goes to show that familiarity and fatigue can play a part in how good something seems.
 
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I can believe it. I had just spent a week packing up and transporting a house full of furniture and other junk into long term storage. Had built up quite an appetite. It wouldn't be my first choice every day but it worked well then!
 
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I stopped and ate at that one, too.
I was starving. All I had for breakfast that morning was the usual nutritionally flimsy coffee and toast and later a protein bar are the area of the military reservation up on the hill before you walk down into the city. I got the typical combo meal with fries and a coke. Scarfed it down and happily marched across Burgos with renewed energy from the grease and fat and sugar and stayed at the big municipal.
As the old saying goes, hunger is the best sauce.
 
This is maybe not the most compelling reason to walk the Geira, but I would definitely try to get there if I walk again. But if past is prologue, the business at the winning places increases to the breaking point, so I imagine you will have to stand on line to enjoy this burger. There’s a very nice pedestrian street in A Estrada, with lots of tapas bars, but this place is not on it. But it is very close to the square where the ayuntamiento has a pilgrim statue, which was masked when I walked by.

I’ll bet the lines will be a lot shorter at the three places in Santiago that were in the competition — Singulario, Sume and Sabroso. Sume is right on Rua Franco, while the other two are closer to the Plaza Roja and the modern commercial area. Maybe forum members can weigh in on those options!
 

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