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The cheese on Google's version of the cheeseburger emoji is in the WRONG PLACE and that is problematic:
Responding to criticism about the placement of cheese on Google's version of the cheeseburger emoji, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said that he would take a look at the issue immediately. "Will drop everything else we are doing and address on Monday :) if folks can agree on the correct way to do this!" Pichai tweeted.
Pichai was responding to author Thomas Baekdal, who pointed out the difference in cheese placement between Apple's and Google's cheeseburger emojis. "I think we need to have a discussion about how Google's burger emoji is placing the cheese underneath the burger, which Apple puts on top," Baekdal tweeted.
The tweet ignited a debate about where the different ingredients of a cheeseburger belong. Among all the different cheeseburger emoji variants offered by various tech companies, Google's is the only version to place the cheese below the meat, according to images of cheeseburger emojis from Apple, Google, Samsung, Facebook and others, as seen on Emojipedia. It's generally accepted that cheeseburger cheese should be placed directly on the meat patty for optimal melting.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 31 2017, @07:07AM (6 children)
My emojis are all black and white. I cannot distinguish cheese from pattie, or lettuce or tomato! Am I doomed? Is there no redemption for a Linux using, javascript-blocking, non-facebook buggering techie?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday October 31 2017, @07:26AM (5 children)
I'm guessing something like this [mozilla.org] might do the job, although my Firefox seems to be spitting out color emojis already. No JavaScript required (I... hope).
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by KiloByte on Tuesday October 31 2017, @10:28AM (4 children)
No, that extension makes things even worse. A text without colors (be they HTML tags or ANSI SGR) should come consistent. Randomly colorizing some symbols breaks text being text.
Ceterum censeo systemd esse delendam.
(Score: 3, Touché) by takyon on Tuesday October 31 2017, @07:47PM (3 children)
Opinion, not fact.
I think the flag emojis [google.com] in particular look great when rendered in color, even at their small sizes.
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(Score: 2) by KiloByte on Tuesday October 31 2017, @08:42PM (2 children)
Or rather, a preference. A good piece of software allows setting these.
You're right about country flags, this is one of the few cases where information is actually conveyed by color rather than symbol.
Ceterum censeo systemd esse delendam.
(Score: 2) by Aiwendil on Tuesday October 31 2017, @09:11PM (1 child)
If you know the normal way to render the tinctures (colours) in heraldry [wikipedia.org] you can get monochrome flags that convey roughly the same information.
(Score: 2) by KiloByte on Tuesday October 31 2017, @10:13PM
At a resolution typically used for computer text, there's no way the tincture notation can be readable, especially for flags that consist of something more than two fields of solid colour. Thus, in this case, colour indeed is vital for conveying the information. This is not the case for most other symbols, where the symbol loses no information by being monochrome, and often even is meant to be able to assume an arbitrary colour as directed by text's metadata (HTML, ANSI SGR, etc), such as red/green/yellow lock, which emoji presentation breaks: on Firefox it shows as 🔒 no matter what colour is requested.
Ceterum censeo systemd esse delendam.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Bot on Tuesday October 31 2017, @07:08AM
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(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 31 2017, @07:11AM (7 children)
Mozilla used only cheese and meat between the bread. That is a pure cheeseburger. Everybody else added non-standard stuff, typically tomatoes and lettuce. (it is not a Whopper or Big Mac icon)
Google put the cheese between the meat (heat source) and the bread (insulation). This works. The bread can even be heated.
Everybody else failed. They put the cheese next to components that conduct heat well and are normally cold.
(Score: 5, Funny) by tangomargarine on Tuesday October 31 2017, @02:32PM (1 child)
Originally. But more recently they've added sriracha avocado mayonnaise, artisanal century eggs slices, triple-fried onion rings, 3 separate kinds of mustard, and reversed the buns (curved side in) because having your burger making a constant bid to slide out of the buns is a sexier way to present the meal to consumers.
Next quarter they will stop listening to anyone who wants their burgers prepared any other way, because neither does Google with their One True Burger.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 4, Funny) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday October 31 2017, @05:55PM
Well since Fox News was busy covering this, instead of treason, the other day I'll give you their take:
As long as it's not dijon mustard on that hamburger we're OK.
Ketchup on a steak would also be acceptable.
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Tuesday October 31 2017, @03:01PM
Seems like McDs or Buger King missed out on a golden product placement opportunity.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 31 2017, @04:07PM
Needs bacon++.
(Score: 2) by Snow on Tuesday October 31 2017, @10:34PM
Interesting cheeseburger analysis, but I must disagree.
Placing the cheese on the top creates a small layer separating the hot patty and the cool veggies. Placing the cheese on top (where it melts) also makes it act as a binding agent holding toppings in the burger. Ideally, the additional topping would be layered in a way where the most heat sensitive ingredients are further away from the patty (ie. onions --> tomato --> lettuce --> Mayo).
Now, there are exeptions. Wendy's, depending on the burger, will have cheese on top AND underneath. It's a solid strategy, but they changed their meat formula 5ish (maybe more) years ago and their meat is not as tasty as it once was.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 31 2017, @10:51PM
Placing the cheese on the bottom also has the advantage of making it less likely that the bottom of the bun will wind up soaked through.
I think in the future I may start making my cheeseburgers with the cheese under the patty.
(Score: 2) by driverless on Wednesday November 01 2017, @05:25AM
So who moved the cheese?
(Score: 2) by lx on Tuesday October 31 2017, @07:13AM (9 children)
Now that they fixed that fucking emoji,here are some more things they should look into. [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 3, Funny) by maxwell demon on Tuesday October 31 2017, @07:54AM (8 children)
It's a cheeseburger emoji, not a fucking emoji. And while a fucking emoji would probably be used more than the cheeseburger emoji, I doubt that the guardians of the garden wall would ever allow it into their walled gardens.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 31 2017, @08:42AM (5 children)
We need fucking emojis. The new animoji stuff, for animated emojis, would be great for this. Submit proposals to Unicode to make it happen.
We need all the different positions.
We need an emoji for goatse, one for tubgirl, and one for lemonparty.
We need an emoji for a goatfucker, for a sheepfucker (both Scottish and Muslim), for a dogfucker, for a cowfucker, for a horsefucker, for a dolphinfucker, for a manateefucker, and for a pigfucker.
We need an emoji for a gloryhole, for bukkake, for felching, for docking, for threesome double-penetration, and for rimming.
We need an emoji for pedophiles, one for cucks, and one for necrophiles.
We need a casting couch emoji.
We need an emoji for filling a sock, one for filling a tissue, one for ruining a magazine, one for ruining a computer keyboard, and one for use of a potted plant.
We need an emoji for regular asphixiation play, and one for fart inhalation.
We need a gimp emoji. We need an anal beads emoji.
We need a falling-into-geothermal-while-fucking emoji. (it happens) We need a penis-bending-rocking-chair-accident emoji. We need a shot-dead-by-cheated-partner emoji. We need a mile-high-club emoji.
We need a moistness emoji. We need a boner emoji. We need a shrinkage emoji.
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Tuesday October 31 2017, @10:54AM
Is there already a spit-take emoji?
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 3, Funny) by Gaaark on Tuesday October 31 2017, @11:09AM
One for husband dressed like Batman knocked out by ceiling fan leaving wife tied to bed emoji.
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(Score: 2, Troll) by SanityCheck on Tuesday October 31 2017, @12:38PM (1 child)
We need a "I'm drunk emoji," I nominate "Kevin Spacey mounting a 14 year old boy."
(Score: 1) by Gnuthulhu on Thursday November 02 2017, @07:29PM
At least there's an emoji for getting drunk in your underwear: https://www.popsugar.com/food/Finnish-Word-Drinking-Home-Your-Underwear-43182383 [popsugar.com]
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Snospar on Tuesday October 31 2017, @02:22PM
No, no, sex emojis are the last thing we need. Currently us oldies can attach a couple of emojis to a message without really knowing what they mean (personally I use them as topical pictures if they loosely relate to the message). Occassionally we'll luck out and send a naughty combination to one of the young hipsters who know about these things and they'll get a little chuckle scoffing at our ineptitude (e.g. "Ha ha, look at what gramps sent me!").
If we lived in a world with ambiguous sex emojis (and come on, how detailed can they possibly be at that scale) then the outcome of sending a dubious couple of emojis could be awful "Mummy why does Grandpa want to push a Coke bottle up my starfish without using any lube?"
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(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Tuesday October 31 2017, @08:42AM
I say 🦐🌮 or 🐈🍆 or 🍑🌭 or 👯💦. They know what I mean.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 31 2017, @08:43AM
> It's a cheeseburger emoji, not a fucking emoji.
Yeah, fucking emojis are eggplant emoji and peach emoji.
> I doubt that the guardians of the garden wall would ever allow it into their walled gardens.
Tee hee 🍆🍑
(Score: 2) by KritonK on Tuesday October 31 2017, @07:59AM
More important, where do they place the bacon?
(Score: 3, Funny) by RedBear on Tuesday October 31 2017, @07:59AM (1 child)
I've always put the lettuce on the bottom of my burgers, along with the tomato and pickles, while the onion goes on top with the ketchup. But everybody has their own stacking arrangement. I've seen restaurants place lettuce or tomato above or below. Onion is usually on top either way, on display. The cheese though... Seems pretty universal that the cheese is melted right on the patty. I can understand the outcry. After all, burgers and emojis are both Serious Business.
¯\_ʕ◔.◔ʔ_/¯ LOL. I dunno. I'm just a bear.
... Peace out. Got bear stuff to do. 彡ʕ⌐■.■ʔ
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 31 2017, @11:47PM
Need to understand there are 3 "cheese burgers"
First the patty melt. The cheese is placed on top of meat WHILE it is being cooked, so the cheese is MELTED to the patty.
Second the grilled cheese. The cheese is MELTED to the bread while toasting on the grill. The patty is added after the process while stacking.
Third the cheese burger. This is the lazy method - cook meat and toss on american cheese (flavoured oil with yellow color) hope meat is hot enough to melt this low temperature "cheese".
Give me the first one any day. With good hard slow melt cheese.
Give me the second on special days, where cheese bread (twice the cheese to boot) then it cold and tomato soup on the side.
The third leave poor horse along.
(Score: 0, Troll) by janrinok on Tuesday October 31 2017, @09:30AM
(Score: 2) by inertnet on Tuesday October 31 2017, @09:39AM
Someone dropped his cheeseburger, news at 11!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 31 2017, @09:58AM (1 child)
it's halloween, not april fools
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Tuesday October 31 2017, @10:30AM
You don't think this news is scary enough for Halloween?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 31 2017, @10:02AM (1 child)
I bet Google's toilet paper roll emoji spirals off the back side, instead of off the front, the way God intended...
Good to see some top level attention to important details!
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Tuesday October 31 2017, @10:33AM
Wait, they didn't yet include modifiers that specify whether the toilet roll spirals from the front side, from the back side, or is standing on its side and thus not rolling at all?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by stretch611 on Tuesday October 31 2017, @10:26AM (6 children)
The best cheeseburgers have a slice of cheese on the top and a second slice of cheese on the bottom.
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Tuesday October 31 2017, @10:34AM
Maybe we should ask the people from Cheeseburg, I'm sure they know best how their burger is meant to be made. ;-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 31 2017, @10:47AM (3 children)
...and a third slice of cheese between the patties.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 31 2017, @11:28AM (2 children)
... and a fourth and fifth slice of cheese instead of the patties.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 31 2017, @01:39PM (1 child)
You know what, forget everything but the cheese.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Tuesday October 31 2017, @10:57PM
A "nothing but cheese"burger is not a "nothing burger", but it is darn close to an ungrilled cheese sandwich.
(Score: 2) by Tara Li on Tuesday October 31 2017, @02:05PM
Too F'ing RIGHT!
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday October 31 2017, @11:12AM (1 child)
Why is the burger round?
Wendy's workers UNITE!
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(Score: 2) by Uncle_Al on Tuesday October 31 2017, @05:15PM
White Castle lovers.. whatever.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 31 2017, @02:17PM
I could totally see this being part of an internal inside joke of some sort. "Everybody else does it this way, Google does it that." sort of thing.
Good for them.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Sulla on Tuesday October 31 2017, @02:54PM
This is all the proof that I need that Google is an anti-American company.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Tuesday October 31 2017, @09:35PM
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