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Burger BBQ maestro, Wayne. Before our sailboat, Wayne didn’t BBQ. |
Wayne was Jonsen’ for a burger even longer than I’d wanted a Caribbean lobster dinner (indulged! Click here to read about that). Most burgers we saw were $10 and up. Twenty bucks or more for two is a big bite – literally and figuratively — out of our targeted $50-day-for-everything budget. It seemed wrong to cave in for a franchise burger since we don’t much like ‘em back in the U.S.A.
We did what we usually do — made ’em ourselves.
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| Wayne went all out, toasting the buns and melting pepper jack onto the truly “flame broiled” burgers. “I immolated them” Wayne declared. |
It still wasn’t cheap. At the RiteWay in Fat Hog Bay, one of the more “affordable” grocery stores in Tortola, here’s what we paid.
$5 for the burgers – but we got 4 patties
$4.25 for the buns, but we got 8 buns
condiments – well that hardly counts since we use ‘em for so much other stuff anyway.
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| Burgers dressed, except the banana ketchup. Yes, really. It tastes… just like ketchup. But it’s yellow. |
Rounding off, let’s say we paid $10; but we got 4 burgers, 2 meals apiece from it. Well within our budget, even if it meant eating some gummy PBJ sammies to use up the extra 4 buns.
Did they satisfy? Oh yeah!
“Given a choice, if it was affordable, would you rather make ‘em yourself or eat out and be served?” I asked Wayne.
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| Smoky chipotle potato salad and tomatoes and cuke vinaigrette. A little different sides than McD’s supersize- me meal. |
“Hmmm… If it was a good bacon burger with fries? Out. Otherwise….”
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| We know these were not 7% fat ground sirloin burgers. They oozed with juicy goodness. The BBQ oozed, too. |
Maybe they were too good, Wayne still gets a little wistful when the topic of burgers comes up.
