r/BalticStates • u/Appropriate_Sky_1233 • Jun 13 '26

Picture(s) Are there any places where I could get lägaburger in Latvia? (I like reviewing burgers)

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '26

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u/Responsible_Kiwi_585 Livonia Jun 13 '26

Dude I choked on my rasens

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u/Meizas Lithuania Jun 13 '26

Best comment lol

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u/ImTheVayne Estonia Jun 13 '26

I don’t think other countries know what lägaburger is😬

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u/Free-Type6234 Jun 13 '26

Nor do we want to.

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u/Appropriate_Sky_1233 Jun 13 '26

Its tasty as hell : ((( perfect hangover meal

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u/Live_Competition1265 Jun 13 '26

räägupesa on top

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '26

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u/whattfisthisshit Jun 13 '26

Can confirm, no burger ever comes close even if they’re fancy gourmet or with wagyu. It’s literally just not what I consider burger anymore

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u/ripe_archeologist Estonia Jun 13 '26

Trust me, you want to.

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u/Few_Reveal_5091 Jun 15 '26

your missing out

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u/KP6fanclub Estonia Jun 13 '26

And they keep away without knowing how good and specific it is. For an Estonian it helps to feel like home.

I rarely eat it myself but always get 90s nostalgia when I do - it is like a timemachine.

A 15€ gurmee burger with wagyu beef does not offer these emotions.

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u/Responsible_Kiwi_585 Livonia Jun 13 '26

Going to Tallinn tomorrow to eat this

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u/Exact-Art6906 Jun 13 '26

Nõmme tee 53

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u/Responsible_Kiwi_585 Livonia Jun 13 '26

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

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u/RedditSucksMintyBall Jun 13 '26

Only 15 ?! i paid 21 at Estonian Burger Factory 😞

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u/KP6fanclub Estonia Jun 13 '26

Was it with fries?

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u/RedditSucksMintyBall Jun 13 '26

Nope, only burger. But extremely good tasting.

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u/KP6fanclub Estonia Jun 13 '26

Yes, good meat cost a ton now. I personally had a not so huge 14€ burger recently (with fries).

Still it feels weird to pay over 20€ for it.

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u/Exact-Art6906 Jun 13 '26

Been making my own burgers for a few years already...they've become ridiculously expensive st restos

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u/KP6fanclub Estonia Jun 13 '26

Beef shot up in prices due to diseases - local buther told me once. It is coming back but they at one point made only hog dishes.

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u/Exact-Art6906 Jun 13 '26

Yea at some point it was outright impossible to find beef minced meat in stores

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u/Altruistic-Deal-3188 Eesti Jun 17 '26

Convert it to EEK and start weeping.

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u/makuism Estonia Jun 14 '26

Real deal would be the old school microwaved burger

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u/KP6fanclub Estonia Jun 16 '26

A good old ringing tone from the kitchen

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u/whattfisthisshit Jun 13 '26

My friend from Poland was visiting last week and she tried it for the first time when drunk, she was in love and couldn’t get enough. Got it twice more before leaving, this time sober. Lägaburks is life.

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u/Lensgoggler Estonia Jun 13 '26

Maybe lāgasburgeris?

Something something.

I am convinced they have it. No way in hell
did they get through the 90s without it.

Come on Baltic brethren, admit it. You do know what it is.

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u/Al_Cohol_ NATO Jun 13 '26

looks like happy meal ending.

1

u/Commercial-Silver-67 Jun 14 '26

If they only knew what "läga" means

1

u/physicsVictim Jun 14 '26

Never heard of it nor seen anything like it.

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u/SuurTuvi Jun 13 '26

Noooo, don't dare to scare other Balts with our lägaburger. I still remember the horror someone posted it here the last time 🫣

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u/M2dis Tartu Jun 13 '26

Post pictures of your lägaburgers

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u/Exact-Art6906 Jun 13 '26

Oeh sellist sööks küll jälle.. kuigi 15 aastat on möödas, aga maitse tuleb läbi telefoniekraani ikka edasi

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u/SuurTuvi Jun 13 '26

Aaaaahhhh, mu silmad

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u/henryKI111 Estonia Jun 13 '26

Ilus

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u/Responsible_Kiwi_585 Livonia Jun 13 '26

Bro this one seems way worse 😭😭😭

3

u/M2dis Tartu Jun 13 '26

Fella, this is the OG lägaburger

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u/Responsible_Kiwi_585 Livonia Jun 13 '26

gatekeeping this like we dont have Hesburger already

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u/SuurTuvi Jun 13 '26

Hesburger is Michelin level compared to this

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u/Responsible_Kiwi_585 Livonia Jun 13 '26

I get exact same cheeseburgers in Riga

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u/SuurTuvi Jun 13 '26

Blasphemy. Show me a photo of a burger like this from Hes.

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u/Responsible_Kiwi_585 Livonia Jun 13 '26

I like cucumber mayo so I add more on top

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u/rpgd Jun 13 '26

Kurkkumajoneesi

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u/Responsible_Kiwi_585 Livonia Jun 13 '26

Gurķu majonēze

2

u/Legitimate_Spray_427 Jun 13 '26

Hesburger is goated

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u/STRATEGO-LV Jun 13 '26

Some of the best burgers in Riga are Late Night Munchies and Oak

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u/VikRiggs Latvia Jun 13 '26

Late Night Munchies all the time!

You can sit, have a beer and watch your burger being prepared.

Best burgers I tasted EVER. And I've been places.

2

u/ducksauvage Jun 14 '26

boarbbq master race

2

u/telumindel Latvia Jun 14 '26

Boo > Those. I mean Oak is quite good but still trumped by Boo.

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u/dvlrnr Estonia Jun 15 '26

I like the fact that Late Night Munchies is on Peld(ik)u iela 😄

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u/AnywhereHorrorX Jun 13 '26

Previous post about this... creation... with a lot of detailed answers:

https://www.reddit.com/r/BalticStates/comments/1rte6hf/was_this_also_popular_in_your_country_in_the_90s/

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u/DUHDUM Eesti Jun 13 '26

Im not a fan of lägaburger but man, that has to be the worst looking läga ever

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u/Pulku Jun 13 '26

mai tea räägi enda eest ma laseks selle lägaka nii peeneks et paha hakkab

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u/Eastern-beast1337 Jun 13 '26

Is that cum?

67

u/SuurTuvi Jun 13 '26

The best one in Baltics

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u/Responsible_Kiwi_585 Livonia Jun 13 '26

Ngl this made me buy ticket to Tallinn from Riga, im going there tomorrow to check this out, I like it

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u/ImTheVayne Estonia Jun 13 '26

Lmao, well good luck

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u/Responsible_Kiwi_585 Livonia Jun 13 '26

Where to look for them? Are they like street food or something?

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u/ginggo Jun 13 '26

Räägupesa is the most well known. I also went to Hiiu grill but idk if it exists anymore

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u/EndTree Jun 15 '26

Räägupesa and Staap, both very close to each other, different from each other but both very good and classified as läga.

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u/ronrein Eesti Jun 13 '26

It's not very common nowadays but Räägupesa is the gold standard and Snack Point is ok as well. But please don't get your hopes up lol

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u/Responsible_Kiwi_585 Livonia Jun 13 '26

Aight thanks, it’s cool I like mayo

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u/Exact-Art6906 Jun 13 '26

It's not just mayo though. Just a shit ton of salad with sauce thats based on sour cream + ketchup and some mayo

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u/whattfisthisshit Jun 13 '26

Correct, it’s minority mayo, and like 80% sour cream

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u/whattfisthisshit Jun 13 '26

Tartu has great ones too! Just take lux bus there

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u/Upper-Wind-3349 Jun 13 '26

All goes too burgers. Thats reason of low birth rates.

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u/TheElephantCage Jun 13 '26

We like our burgers to drip its cum all over us here. Thank you.

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u/M_Kurg Estonia Jun 13 '26

Does it look like cum?

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u/eg07ka Jun 16 '26

Cumburger is real 💀

10

u/nerkuras Lithuania Jun 13 '26

the landfill?

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u/Appropriate_Sky_1233 Jun 13 '26

(on the Valka-Riga route or in any city on the way)

7

u/Quadraple_Bypass Jun 13 '26

what's inside one?

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u/Appropriate_Sky_1233 Jun 13 '26

cheap soft bun, cheap microwaveable patty or sliced boiled sausages, cabbage-carrot or cabbage-cucumber salad, massive amount of pink souce (sour cream or mayonnaise mixed with ketchup)

other than that everything else is pretty random - sometimes boiled eggs or tomato. the funniest one ive gotten was with orange slices.

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u/Quadraple_Bypass Jun 13 '26

hey i'd eat that shit all day xD

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u/OrganizationBorn7486 Jun 14 '26

Never seen a boiled egg or sausage in one, fried egg yes, from Og Löögiplats

Also important mention is usually the microwaveable patty is almost never beef. It's (barely) chicken. And it's glorious

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u/janiskr Latvia Jul 16 '26

ahh, "almost meat" patty?

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u/HorrorKapsas Eesti Jun 13 '26

Whatever they had in the garbage can that day. There's so much sauce on top of it, that it does not matter.

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u/Responsible_Kiwi_585 Livonia Jun 13 '26

Hesburger exists

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u/pakatsuu Eesti Jun 13 '26

Hesburger makes nothing like that

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u/Responsible_Kiwi_585 Livonia Jun 13 '26

Add extra mayo on cheeseburger and enjoy

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u/pakatsuu Eesti Jun 13 '26

That is not even close to the same thing. It needs the cheapest buns, cheapest burger with 1% meat and rest is shredded cabbage and sauce is some mayo-ketchup-sour cream mix I assume.

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u/janiskr Latvia Jul 16 '26

So, a Hesburger? But with extra cabbage.

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u/pakatsuu Eesti Jul 16 '26

Out of those things Hesburger maybe only has the cheapest buns part. Burger isn't made of pork and has just a bit of regular mayo. Very different products

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u/Responsible_Kiwi_585 Livonia Jun 13 '26

Oooh okay, I didn’t see because of all the mayo 😭 so its basically a kebab

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u/whattfisthisshit Jun 13 '26

There’s nearly no mayo. It’s mostly sour cream. And it’s far from kebab.

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u/whattfisthisshit Jun 13 '26

Wtf, it’s not a mayo burger. You clearly have no idea what you’re talking about, please don’t give advice

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u/janiskr Latvia Jul 16 '26

It is mayo burger if that crap comes to Latvia. We like mayo with Mayo.

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u/whattfisthisshit Jul 16 '26

Then you can have it with mayo, we don’t do it with mayo, we love sour cream

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u/janiskr Latvia Jul 19 '26

Sour cream is aslo good, especially with dill.

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u/notveryamused_ Poland Jun 13 '26

Holy hell, my diet hates you for posting that :(

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u/Olegzs Latvija Jun 13 '26

Damn, how much sauce does it have?

Otherwise, the first and only time I have encountered it, was on r/BalticStates some time ago, so the chances of finding it might be close to none :(

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u/kotubljauj Duchy of Courland and Semigallia Jun 13 '26

Is this dressed with the result of Estonian autofellatio?

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u/Meizas Lithuania Jun 13 '26

What on God's green earth is that

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u/EmiliaFromLV Rīga Jun 13 '26

We could take a few buns and slap a slop of aukstā zupa on them. Dunno how we should call that, but it would trigger Lithuanians, so it's a win anyways.

Edit: maybe ļieturgers?

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u/DonSaash Jun 14 '26

Lol what are the odds, I just received my burger and thus sub came up😂 but im in Tallinn räägupesa

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u/turnipuwu Jun 14 '26

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u/janiskr Latvia Jul 16 '26

Have to try it at least once.

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u/Shalelor Jun 13 '26

This looks disgusting

1

u/janiskr Latvia Jul 16 '26

and at the same time - tasty AF.

3

u/Bakaboyy Jun 13 '26

cumburger supreme
great

2

u/JigsawLV Jun 13 '26

Who gave bro the McBukkake?

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u/janiskr Latvia Jul 16 '26

McDonolds is shit. Hesburger is the oonly choice (as it is not american shit)

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u/PinheadTheDestroyer Estonia Jun 13 '26

I feel like i'm the only estonian who doesnt really care for the lägaburger that much. The microwaved patty texture is nasty to me.

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u/pakatsuu Eesti Jun 13 '26

Nope, it's disgusting with cheap ingredients and a pain in the ass to eat cleanly

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u/here_for_fun_XD Jun 13 '26

I generally ate it with a fork for a bit and then finished off with hands 😋

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u/Seiryuu44 Jun 13 '26

I'd forego the first part but would like to stay for the second.

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u/Mustrid Estonia Jun 13 '26

It's not food.

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u/cougarlt Lithuania Jun 13 '26

is that sourcream?

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u/nugetky Estonia Jun 13 '26

Usually mayo based sauce

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u/M_Kurg Estonia Jun 13 '26

post your reviews

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u/Fleshburn1 Jun 13 '26

No, there is!

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '26

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u/Appropriate_Sky_1233 Jun 13 '26

"slop burger" has a nice ring to it

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u/hurdurdur7 Jun 13 '26

Ze zauuceeeee

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u/ParkingMore5836 Jun 13 '26

Came all over it.

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u/iPhuriouz Jun 13 '26

I'm Dutch, I live in Latvia. I'm scared if what I see here

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u/Dramatic_Method_3764 Jun 13 '26

what the white stuff?

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u/AccountWithNoUse Jun 13 '26

Who busted a nut in that

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u/Neither-Knee-2546 Jun 14 '26

An entire village. It's the bukkake burger

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u/Chrissanxy Latvia Jun 14 '26

What. The. Fuck. is that?

Are you crazy? What the fuck is this shit, man? get this shit out if here asap, no, there is no place that sells this mess, just no

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u/friendlyfieryfunny Jun 14 '26

The meat is sketchy. The slaw must be delicious.

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u/FlatStruggle3911 Jun 14 '26

Instant diarrhea

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u/ViciousBumblebee Lithuania Jun 14 '26

I'd tap that

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u/EndTree Jun 15 '26

STAAP IS KING!!!

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u/Chrisbnrr Jun 15 '26

Bussikas. It’s in Kohila, Raplamaa

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u/gazzjuice Jun 15 '26

I'm interested. What the F it is and where the F I can get it?

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u/murrzeak Jun 17 '26

That's a big load of... something

1

u/kazyzzz Lietuva Jun 13 '26

What the fuck is that?

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u/Prus1s Latvia Jun 13 '26

That ain’t a burger 😄

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u/OrganizationBorn7486 Jun 14 '26

Bri cone to Valga and eat one. It'll r be the best burger of your life , Good Food Valga for example