h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

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This is a recipe for an easy cheeseburger. Many people like cheeseburgers; there should be an article about how to make one. I wrote the article well (in my stuck-up opinion) and showed the recipe and how to make it... make it official. "Cross-check" it by making one of these!

You know very well what I am going to say about the first footnote.

Out!

The others are a little silly too.

and "Cook The @#$% Thing!" can be substitued for "Cooking it" or "Can I Cook It Now?", thankyou very much.

Ditto about the footnotes - don't try too hard to be funny - just be yourself. And don't talk about fiction! otoh, I thought having 'roast beast' in the ingredients amusing...

how about talking about the options? Personally, I prefer to use real cheese, and grate it, rather than that plastic, artificial stuff that comes in slices... Then you can put it on both sides of the burger - for extra cheesy cheeseburgers...

Sauces are good too - bit of barbeque sauce is my fave - of spicy sauce of some kind... Oh, and some weird people use salads(!). And I thought the whole point of cheeseburgers was to be unhealthy.

And there's lots of debate about what sort of 'roast beast' you should use. Personally, I prefer those steaks they sell in the supermarket - but others prefer the ones sold as burgers. The important thing, I'm told, is to check the percentage of meat that is put on the side of the pack. 100% is clearly the best - but it can go as low as 20%, which really starts to get a bit disgusting.

Generally, the bread cooks faster than the beast - so you need to either grill or BBQ the steak beforehand. Chucking it in the grill first is the obvious method, since you'll be using the grill anyway...

Using buttered slices of bread - NO NO NO NO! The way to go is clearly sesame seed buns - they're almost as cheap as slices of bread, and they give everything a much more authentic feel... plus they're just as healthy... Some people like to toast the insides of the bun to crisp them up a little - but I'm not so fond - I prefer to make sure that the cheese melts into the burger and bun properly...

I'm not too fond of cutting into triangles either - why not eat the thing the Mcdonalds way?

*rereads post*
Hmm - clearly this is a contraversial subject - maybe you should have a call for entries thing somewhere, and find out the perfect way to make a cheeseburger... and the easiest...?
btw - what's a skillet?

Hey - SmartGamer - you might have MENTIONED that you'd made some changes...

Having reread it, I'd like to take back some of my somments - you're right that this is about *A* cheeseburger-like sandwich - it shouldn't have to cover *all* cheeseburge-like sandwiches... that'd be a fairly tough job, if not impossible. But it's good that you mention a few options anyway.

Yep: I'm happy with this. It's a good recipe, clearlly explained, and you make good use of humour without ever becoming non-factual. I like it...

nitpicks------
You need to get rid of a few "I"s - and you should probably use "this researcher" rather than "the author" - or even better just rewrite those sections, EG:

"The author thinks they do, anyway, and he has come up with a recipe..." -> "For those that do, here is a recipe..."

Oh, and in footnote 7, it's recommended...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/F48874?thread=101369 There appears to be another thread for the same entry at the above URL...

I fixed my mispelins, and added the Call for Action to submit your own recipies, commenting that there ARE others. This could end up as a community zone where people swap cheeseburger recipies.

Yeah, right.

There are a lot of recipies out there- why don't you Be The First to Talk About This Entry! ?

You should be glad to note that the word "SKILLET" is, in the first place it appears, a link to [URL removed by moderator] for the definiton of Skillet.

Just bumping this up on the list and asking people to reread it.

Some UPPER and lower-case errors still in there (e.g. a Bit of Butter and Margerine) butter and margerine aren't proper nouns. (SmartGamer: You German? Germans do this)

Footnote 8: "I recommend it" should be replaced by "recommended" get the 1st person out of the text. (It is also somewhere in the text body)

Tip: After you adjust the entry let people from the peer review know (So you will not have to come here post anything just for the sake of being in the first page)

Generally a good idea to build a burger-forum. I'll be watching out.

Byas, HELL

Has anyone pointed out the "andwich" under "Prepare your tools"?

Whad? Haw did I du that? I nevvir mystip! Or myspel or uz bad grammer!

OK, getting serious. I fixed it and several first-person errors in the article. I changed the capitalization (I do that when writing an item list as a main heading, but you're right. I fixed it.) I corrected the misspelling, check it out again!

And a big fat :p to the moderator who took out my link to [URL removed by post author] in my previous post. They get there if they click the link anyway.

--SmartGamer

Changes have been made; please check this article again.

I repeat my request. Please reread; I fixed it... I want an edited article out of this, and I'm not giving up!

Come on and read this!

*bump*

I am not going to let my attempts die... I'm going to start pestering y'all on the Ace's Mailing List if nobody reads this, so at least I get a little attention

--SmartGamer (Ace)

Well I think it's a great article but I've noticed a small flaw: pre-penultimate(?) sentence : hundereds should be hundreds.

Now I've read it would you care to read mine (A579071 - The Open University) and comment on it - there's a thread already in Peer Review.

Cheers!

Konrad

(You've made me really hungry now - I'm off for a pint and a pizza)

DOH! That was stupid, but I got it fixed.

Whaddayathink?

--SmartGamer(Ace)

*bump*, again
:P

hey, i like!
one thing i noticed, with the buttered bread and all, this sounds more like a modified grilled cheese than anything else.... i've done this with other meats before, but never with the roast beast... thanks for the nifty idea!

i'm going to stick by my "modified grilled cheese" oppinion...

Darn. He hath seen through my clever disguise of a cheese sandwich with roast beef. *SHHH!* Don't tell anyone!

--SmartGamer (Ace)