Google, others showcase emoji cheeseburger construction faux pas

Enlarge / A more readily accepted burger construction method. (credit: Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

While much of the Internet spent the weekend wondering which Trump associate was about to be indicted or freaking out about various sports ball home runs, there was another fervor brewing-albeit one far smaller in scope. It all kicked off when Thomas Baekdal alerted the world to the rather odd construction of Google's cheeseburger emoji:

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

Apple-which is in the process of rolling out new unicode 10-compliant emoji-opts for a relatively photorealistic style, putting the lettuce underneath the patty but the tomato and cheese above. By contrast, Google keeps the vegetable garnishes up top where they ought to be, but the company puts the cheese underneath the patty.

Shortly afterward, others began to note a wide variation in burger construction across different emoji implementations. WhatsApp is alone in including ketchup. HTC's design team went for a double patty approach with some visual separation courtesy of what we must assume is rather wilted lettuce. Mozilla's approach is the most bare-bones, backyard cookout style, with nothing to adorn its burger save for a slice of cheese and some sesame seeds on the bun.

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