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Pictured: Beef Brisket Burger

That BBQ Joint at King George Square

A return to a city based location was a massive draw-card for burger aficionados this week. Twelve official scorecards were received but there were some others who chose to sample the Mixed BBQ Plate instead of a burger – and thus couldn’t submit scores.

That BBQ Joint Results (Each index is out of 10): Average BCI (Burger Cost Index): 8.46 Average BTI (Burger Tastiness Index): 7.25 Average BSI (Burger Size Index): 8.4 Average AQI (Accompaniment Quality Index): 0 -------- Average Burger Joint Goodness Index: 24.11 / 40

That BBQ Joint had two (what you could loosely refer to as) burgers, the Beef Brisket or the Pulled Pork. In reality they were a huge load of meat slapped into a Styrofoam container then sprinkled finely with something resembling a salad. The King George Square location afforded nice outdoor seating where we could adequately enjoy the stark concrete surroundings.

With no accompaniments in sight we had to rethink the ‘Normalised’ scores proposed under the ‘The Bun Mobile’ model. Normalising the scores out of the 3 burger metrics rates the burger, not the burger joint and this would have propelled That BBQ Joint into an undeserved #1 position. In reality, you might have a great burger but if you can’t offer me chips or onion rings (or some weird cured meats in one case) then you will NEVER be best burger joint! With that in mind having no accompaniments now nets you a big fat 0 – this has been applied retrospectively to The Bun Mobile as well.

The ‘burgers’ were cheap, big and somewhat delicious earning great marks overall in those categories: Cost 8.46 (2nd), Taste 7.25 (13th) and Size 8.4 (2nd). However, no accompaniments dragged it down to 21st spot overall.