We admit to not picking up on the craze on past trips to Turkey. It seems the Patso, or french fry burger, all started when a group of students
"insisted on extra fries in their sandwiches and burgers. And the boss never turned them away, adding more and more fries to each serving, and thus a new item was added to the menu: patso. In time Aktaş expanded the types of patso available: sausage, cheese, chicken and döner. And the rest is evident from the lines in front of his store late into the night."
So the rest is history. But you can revel in it. It's all here: Join Mehmet Usta for the "tale of the transformation of what was essentially a potato sandwich into patso," and find out where the patso craze began.
And click through the logo to the store's web site.
(Turkey is one of the great places on the planet, and there are hundreds of photos from all across Turkey in the Turkey Gallery at EarthPhotos.com. But not a single patso burger.)
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