SOLVED. Children’s book read in 1980’s. Boy makes or invents a different type of hamburger every day (possibly alphabetical: apple, banana etc?). Possibly a boy detective? [s]

[Gladsong]

I read a children’s book in the 1980’s about a boy who made a different type of hamburger each day. In the back plot, he may have been a boy detective who solved mysteries, but the memorable thing to me was that he invented different types of hamburgers every day. Maybe it was alphabetical—Apple hamburgers, banana hamburgers, etc. what was the name of that book?

[Kris]

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[Kris]

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[Daisy]

Ohh I read this, but can't think of what it might be.

@rainbowheart?

[Rainbowheart]

It does sound kinda familiar, but I can't place it.

[Daisy]

Okay, I think I found it! I was associating it with Hey, Remember Fat Glenda?, but disregarded that since you said it was a boy. However, I pulled my copy of Me and Fat Glenda off the shelf and it has this plot but with a girl cook. It's because her parents eat a strange diet so she cooks for herself and her brother.

Page 8: "So that was why we invented the alphabet-burger. We had only just started on it the week before. A was apple-burgers. Fried apple slices, sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon, slapped on top of the hamburgers......Toby liked the apple-burgers so much he thought B should be banana-burgers. But I didn't go for that at all, so we had bean-burgers....C was easy -- cheeseburgers....D was really hard."

[Gladsong]

That’s it! I had that book. Amazing.

[Kris]

Great. Glad you found your book, Gladsong. Thanks for the update.

[Mozart]

Encyclopedia Brown solved mysteries, I think he also liked hamburgers.