Apple vs Google: So, What Is the Right Way to Eat a Burger?

It’s the burning issue of our time: is the cheese placed above the patty or below it in a burger?

We are reporting LIVE from the Google headquarters where the situation has gotten really tense after the burger aficionado community raised serious concerns about the company’s emoji game and the portrayal of burgers in its emojis.

I think we need to have a discussion about how Google's burger emoji is placing the cheese underneath the burger, while Apple puts it on top pic.twitter.com/PgXmCkY3Yc

— Thomas Baekdal (@baekdal) October 28, 2017

According to sources, the R&D team is under a lot of pressure after CEO Sundar Pichai confirmed that ‘the alignment of cheese’ in their burger emoji was of the highest priority.

Will drop everything else we are doing and address on Monday:) if folks can agree on the correct way to do this! https://t.co/dXRuZnX1Ag

— Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai) October 29, 2017

The matter came under the public scanner when writer and publisher (and Burger connoisseur) Thomas Baekdal did a ‘cheesy’ expose on the two technology companies confusing customers with their two different burger emojis.

While Google’s emoji has the cheese layer after the meat patty, Apple tops its meat patty and has the cheese slice after.

Apple VS Google: Who Got The Right Burger Emoji?

No sooner was the matter discussed that it became a burning debate on Twitter. While left wing burger heads took the stance that the burger had the freedom to decide, right wing burger heads loudly proclaimed that they will make burgers great again.

As is usually the case, the online debate did not give us any substantial answer. And the the placement of the cheese layer still remains an unresolved, major issue of our times.

There is only one way: the cheese must melt directly on top of the patty.

— ☃️Susan J. Fowler🎄 (@susanthesquark) October 29, 2017

Obviously, cheese must be on top of meat. But lettuce must be insulated by the tomato - so both are in the wrong.

— Tero Kuittinen (@teroterotero) October 28, 2017

.@baekdal
IMO cheese & lettuce should wrap the patty in b/w them, whether you place it at the top or bottom. Tomato - negotiable. Thoughts?

— Daksh Jaiswal (@GangsOfGtown) October 29, 2017

Cheese always goes on top so it can melt. No contest here... pic.twitter.com/7cnbcVZZgO

— Jonathan Longoria (@jonathan3579) October 29, 2017

Apple is wrong too as they have the lettuce at the bottom - need bottom bun, patty, cheese (optional), lettuce, tomato.

— Caitlin Fitzsimmons (@niltiac) October 29, 2017

Well you could leave it up to each hardware maker to decide. But then people would complain about burger fragmentation.

— Ina Fried (@inafried) October 29, 2017

Duh.

Just Google Image search a cheeseburger.

— Husain Sumra (@hsumra) October 29, 2017

Vegetarians Demand Their Own Burger Emoji

Meanwhile, vegetarians called out the blatant show of discrimination by the software companies against their community, with the spokesperson, Mr Lettuce Datta saying that they too had the right to an all veg Burger Emoji option!

Veggie Version of course!

— Massi Kamali (@MasoudMassi) October 29, 2017

Where’s India, Bro?

How could India be left behind in this debate? A fellow desi had this suggestion to make.

That's why you need a Vada Pav emoji. pic.twitter.com/4feMkg8VEG

— Nitish Saxena (@nitishsaxena_) October 29, 2017

The Internet gave him a standing ovation for this and of course, 26 retweets!

While we are discussing the placement of cheese,is there a way we could add some sautéed mushrooms and onions to go with it as well?And either Swiss or provolone would be good.

— SK (@Stewie0424) October 29, 2017

To Cheese or Not to Cheese

To get to the crux of the matter we reached out to a global Burger expert, Mr Bacon Fry on what is the right way to do burgers. He responded with a dry, “No comments”.

But Uncle Blob from Twitter did show us the way forward by bringing to our attention the best practices of the company Huawei.

Huawei puts (apparently) two lettuce leafs and no cheese. That's what I see. So I guess Huawei is your burger Thomas! 😁 pic.twitter.com/PWBi3CTG6Y

— Uncle Blob 💾🖱️ (@iglesiasp_) October 29, 2017

While experts research the best way to place the cheese in a burger, we call upon companies like Apple, Microsoft, Samsung and Google to focus more on this issue. After all, the common man has the right to an accurate burger emoji.