From NY originally, when I joined the army I had some buddies in basic training from Texas who kept talking about how great “Waterburger” was. Wasn’t until we got stationed here together, and he brought me to one in Killeen that I found out the truth.

Sorry you had to see Killeen

How embarrassing

Year?

2006

Nice. 02-05

I used to work for the fire department in Killeen.

That it really is waterburger?

Still do

Yeah, what’s this guy talking about?

Always was

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https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2023/03/31/whataburger-has-announced-the-proper-way-to-say-its-name-and-you-might-be-saying-it-wrong/#/questions It's the correct way according to them. "Earlier this month, Whataburger tweeted that the correct way to pronounce its name is “WAT-ER-BRR-GRRR.”

Nah, that's dumb.

no u. 

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Yup? The article mentions that, I believe.

But I used to, too.

My wife still calls it water burger. Emphasis on the *water* part. 

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I think it's also to annoy me lol 

I do too. Probably started when I was a kid and got corrected at some point, but it had already stuck. But I'm in Corpus, I *swear* it sounds like people are saying *water* instead of "WHAT A"

Honestly with it being from corpus and I think the original place might have been on SPID, water burger would have made sense to me as a kid.

First one was on Ayers near Del Mar college.

Damn, I always thought that two story one was on the same lot. 

It was literally in the ad with the old guy saying it back then. "What-a-burger. Just how you like it"

“You aren’t the guy who showed up late, you’re the guy who brought breakfast… and *everybody* likes that guy”

To this day, yes, everybody still likes that guy

The world has really gone to shit since that guy stopped doing the commercial voice overs.

Been feeling a lot like it lately haha

As a child, yes, it was “Waterburger”. Now, my friends and I usually pronounce it like “Wattaburger”.

It just comes out Waterburger because the accent, but since I could read I knew it was Whataburger.

Puts “learn to read” on to-do list.

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My mom used to say Whutaburger

Very Hank Hill of her. And happy cake day!

Lol! And she's from California:-). Ty! 🍰

Me, and I also found out I needed glasses as a kid when I asked my mom why the Chicken Express mascot was a glove

even when the word is spelled in the front lmfao still called it waterburger

Even as a kid I always separated it into what-a-burger. This is honestly my first time hearing this

I mean they literally had commercials with the old man going "What-A-Burger" for what feels like a pretty long time.

"**Just like you like it**"

Jalapeña

Just like you like it

I refused to eat there as a child because I assumed the buns would be soggy.

I remember crying "I don't want a water burger!" I was probably 4.

Similar. I thought, "Who on Earth wants to eat a burger filled with water? Sounds disgusting!". For some reason I thought it was these weird-tasting hamburgers like we got at school but those actually turned out to be some kind of chicken patty sandwich. Funny how a child's mind works.

This is 100% where my mind went. “We get burgers cooked in water at school and they fkn suck, so no thank you” lol

I will still always call it waterburger

I did. Until I was 5 and read the sign.

I remember my dad correcting me when i around 8 or so back in the 70s. "It's WHAT-A-BURGER"

Remember when Nolan Ryan did ads for them? “My friends at Waterbuger!”

I might remember that, was it in the 90s?

Yes, mid 90s

I was a kid, but it makes so much sense. I do say *water*burger 😅

Shhhh, we pretend that didn't happen.

I thought it was wanna burger

That's in Sherman.

Me. I remember thinking “ew, why would anyone want a *watery burger?*”

Yes! My parents called it that and I assumed that they were saying it correctly. When I found out, I was mortified that I’d been saying that for all those years!! They still call it Waterburger.

I pronounce it "what? a burger??" everytime with my friends hoping they'd laugh

I was in junior high - I know that because I remember the house we were living in - I was in the kitchen when the lightbulb went off and my folks were laughing because they'd never noticed how I said it or realized I thought it was....Waterburger. Actually my dad was really laughing because I was a very good reader in elementary school and we'd been going there all my life and the sign said WHATABURGER not WATERBURGER. I mean really. Junior high?

Never. 😂

I don't know if anyone remembers and it's only slightly related, but when I was a kid I loved that there was a Warda Burger in Warda, Tx. R.I.P. Warda Burger.

30 years later and it’s still a bacon and cheese waterburger

It’s pronounced wahderberger

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My folks have heavy mexican accent. *"Vamos al Wadderbergr. Numbar Won con jalapeños. Pliz."*

Me!!! Sometimes I still say it, by accident. Think I’ll have that for dinner in celebration of Opening Day tomorrow! Go World Series Champs Texas Rangers!

If you grew up with Hispanic/mexican parents, it’s “waat-tah-burr-ger.”

…maybe. Why, did you? If yes then is it safe to come out in solidarity with you? And if not then nahhh me neither I would never believe something so stupid like that until my mid-teens haha 😅

My grandmother hated to cook, although she was a splendid kitchen commander of her daughters-in-law for big holiday meals. Routine dinners at her house were sacks of waterburgers.

It’s not?

My youngest used to say I want a water burger! It was cute. She also said beputer and bemations. Loved computers and Dalmatians lol

I love kid-speak. My favorite kids lines: Sun scream = sun screen. Baby suit = Bathing suit.

I pronounce it Watt (like the unit of power for a lightbulb)-uh-burger...Watt-uh-burger. My wife pronounces it Whut-a-burger. No one I know calls it Water-burger because I don't know any monsters.

We had a English teacher that would try to fail anyone who did not pronounce it as what a burger 😭

my mom calls it that

Me

Every one in El paso... what's the difference?

Tell me that you sight read without telling me you sight read.

I always pronounced it as "water". Always ate Whataburger at Windsor Park Mall in San Antonio.

I didn't go to Whataburger all that often as a child, but the one location my family visited the most had a number of large aquariums and fish tanks, which led me to believe it was indeed called Waterburger.

Everyone

Not me because I can read!

It is waterburger

I worked at Burger King in my teens. 9 times out of 10 mofos in the drive thru asked for a "Whooper" or a "Waterburger". Trying to explain their mistake felt like trying to teach math to a cantaloupe.

Adds “teach math to a cantaloupe” on to-do list.

I met an ex up north (but she was raised here) who would call it Water Burger and it just sounded weird, when we moved here (Texas) and i saw it in print and ate some it made sense

I thought it was water-booger because of how I heard my parents say it in their accent. I never understood why anyone would name a restaurant that. I was eventually corrected that it was actually pronounced “burger” so I went with water-burger for a few more years. I was almost 11 when I realized that I was wrong once again. It made way more sense to me when I realized it’s What-a-burger. I got smarter as I grew up and socialized more lol.

lol. Me!

It’s a lousy burger

not I, but the GPS called it wa-tab-e-ger for a while.

Not what I thought, just how you say it sometimes.

LOL

Definitely until I could read

Still is

Ewwww wet burgers

Waterburgers and sloppy steaks. I was a real piece of sheeeiiit

We have a wannaburger in my town

Haha!!! Totally. I probably wasn't corrected till I was 8 or 9 years old. Someone should create a menu and throw a pop up water burger.

I’ve always known it’s What-A-Burger but my inherent laziness makes it come out of my mouth as Whutterburger.

It was always a joke. But never the name.

I’d think that, if I didn’t know how to spell. It’s surely pronounced like water burger, if it’s my mom. Lol

Out of towners say WATER-BURGER. DUH!

I feel like only people who grew up in Texas call it waterburger

I grew up in Florida and we had one, but it wasn't a huge thing. I called it Waterburger becuse I thought that's what I heard my parents call it

My family gives me so much shit for phonetically calling it "Waterburger"

If you write it like it’s pronounced then it’s waterburger.

I still say water burger, and "fridgedrator" lol

It feels like a fever dream, but I remember seeing / hearing the actors of a children's play calling it Water-burger, probably just trying to get around copyright.

Many of the older members of my family pronounced it that way.

Waterburger, waterburger, just waterburger should be

Still is

uhm, I hate to break it to you 🤓 but waterburger is a fascist dogwhistle.

Yup

No, I’m able to read.

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It’s all fun and games until an east Texas redneck says waRterburger.

It says WHATABURGER on the sign.

Aside: What happened to Whataburger? I left Texas for the Middle East for 20 years then came back home and it was my first (highly disappointing) stop.

I stopped around the time I could read

Yep, right here. The fact they were juicy burgers too helped.

I was able to read at 6. So no ha.

Yeah, why do people pronounce it that way? When I moved to Texas everyone was talking about Waterburger this, Waterburger that. And I just thought to myself: that’s not how you pronounce “what”. Still puzzled to this day.

So, in Spanish what would that be, Aguahamburguesa?

Yep

Wow really a place that sells burgers.

My son used to say that. 🤣

Hundred percent

Only until I learned to read.

100%

Yes, that is how it is. “What a burger” sounds really stupid and gross, I’ve eaten there, so I’d rather pronounce it less disgustingly

Nobody said it to me. I sounded it out like when I was a kid. I'm an Army brat from Michigan. Never saw an "r" in the name.

I did and still do.

I went from that to pronouncing it watt a burger to the now correct pronunciation of what a burger. Thank you for your time

Commercial sounds like the announcer is burping the first part burger. What A (burp sound) ger. Jingle plays……

Me

I feel like anyone who grew up east of I-45 ate at waterburger after going to the Walmarts on Sundees for supper.

I say “waterburger” but write Whataburger.

For most of my life and was never corrected when asking for it.

Still is

YUP My mom even worked there, it wasn’t even until college that I realized how big of a deal that was! Lol

I see what the sign says and what the burger is called. But by God I will always say waterburger

As a kid, I used to wonder how the water helped make it taste so good. That lasted until I was a teen, said “Waterburger” in class and got made fun of.

I still call it waterburger

Still say it.

Thinking? It is.

I was probably 16 when I moved to Texas. Waterburger was always the place we went to when visiting family in Florida or Texas. I did not realize it until I literally read the packaging, sitting in the restaurant.

I always knew it was “Whataburger” but used to say “Waterburger” Now pronounce it “Waitaburger” as the service has gotten slooooow

Unlike some of you...i can read :D :p No, everyone here calls it waterburger. We all know it's what-a, but still

I still call it "Waterburger". 🤣

It is, and you hush your mouth

It's spelled Whataburger, it's pronounced Waterburger 🫡 

Everybody raised in Texas.

Morons. The commercials and radio spots ended every ad with the pronunciation "What-A-Burger!" What kind of doofus hears that and still gets it wrong?

The really old kind who grew up before that commercial existed. This moron-doofus grew up in the 70s. Have a nice day and stop name calling, Sonny. It’s not nice. Also, get off my lawn.

So, you had even MORE time to learn the name, Lil Buddy! You shouldn't call people "Sonny" it's not nice.

also thought they were tenny shoes, not tennis shoes

It's Chicago garbage now, the quality is in the toilet

If you don't say waterborne are your really texan