If that's a bite mark, someone's got a jaw with the oddest curvature I've ever seen.

It looks like the burger fell apart on the grill.

To me, it looks misshapen and this can happen in a variety of ways. When I'm cooking burger meat, I pick it up with a spatula - there really isn't a spatula big enough to support the entire patty, so sometimes a little bit of it falls off. I won't try to reattach it, or pick it up if it's fallen on the counter, so the patty comes out less than circular.

Also, that burger just looks kind of gross.

Thirdly, the line "Jesus and his family stopped at the drive-thru" sounds like the opening line to a hilarious joke.

It's not a bite mark. Having worked there in the past the stupid frozen [or re-frozen from the night prior] patties sometimes get suck together and break off like that. Seen it before working the grill. Nothing to worry about.

I grew up in the area of that hell hole. With a name like Jesus, I'm surprised that is all they did. Anything that is remotely different from their ethnic background can get you killed. That area is where that young man from Mexico (I believe) was murdered & the teens that did it just got off recently by a jury there. It makes where I live now in WV look progressive.

the worst thing that has ever happened to me in fast food was that they put the wrong burger in the right wrapper (well the wrapper of what I ordered)

Didn't a man once find a rat in his Burger Kind burger?

@Stephen Schenck:
maybe it's 2 bites?

@outinthedark:
they re-freeze patties?, why?

@pecan 3.14159265:
I hate a burger like that at a restaurant in Los Angeles

as much as I didn't want to eat it it was noon and I hadn't eaten anything since the chocolate bar at 3AM and trust me it is gross

@AppleAlex:
sorry meant to say ate, still one disgusting meal

It looks to me like someone hurled on the bun...

Yeah, it's not bitten into. I worked at wendy's before and it happened pretty often where for some reason a portion of the patty would fall off prior to putting it on the bun. So pretty much this was a waste of a submit for the op.

@pecan 3.14159265: "Jesus noticed something weird about his bacon cheeseburger" is extra hilarious from a historical/cultural perspective.

@AppleAlex: Oh I have no doubt that you ate and and hate that meal.

Ha I like how the logical conclusion is that someone is messing with your food or eating.

The Consumerist needs to do a bit of critical thinking before it posts stuff like this, that would just raise "hysteria" and ire.

Perhaps the OP too should think before crying out in disgusts.

It simply looks like part of the burger didn't make it to the wrapper, probably because it fell on the floor. I'd be more thankful that the cook decided to use good judgment and not apply the 5 second rule.

So did Jesus eat the burger anyway?

What was the Jesus' plan here? What was the end-game?

I mean, were we as readers supposed to go "Yes, that is a bite" as if we're more qualified to identify it? I'm predicting there will be many "no's," a few "yeses," and we'll be exactly where we started.

I'm just so confused. I don't know what the Jesus wants or if he thought about what they want. Umm... Ms. Northrup? What was your play here?

@Laura Northrup: I didn't even catch that! Hahahaha.

I ate at Sonic a few times when I lived in a town that had one. They had great shakes and drinks but we called their burgers gristle burgers because they had little bits of gristle and even bone in them. After a few weeks we stopped eating there even with really good coupon deals. Sometimes we would go through the drive through and get a shake though.

@AppleAlex:

So they don't go bad. You might not want to risk them, even in the fridge overnight so since you have to thaw another lot in the morning, just chuck it back into the freezer.

@wvFrugan: Me too, and I know the case of which you speak. Terrifying.

That said, it's probably not fair to tar everyone from there with that brush either.

@William Brinkman:

Jesus just wants attention. First that whole cross thing and now this.

Wow, I'm a meat lover and hate simple-carbs. How do you eat the burger without hitting the bun or toppings?

It's nice to see the Consumerist is finally stepping up to the standards of fake news.

I hope he has a lawyer. He can get ten or twenty bucks out of that.

Why is this even on here? Slow consumer news day?

@AppleAlex: They have a smaller freezer beside the grill to "cook to order" [yea right like that happens during rush] and occasionally I know those thin patties thaw and will get refrozen.

Which is why I said that because the refrozen moisture is what makes them break like that. There probably is another patty with a big chunk stuck to the backside of it.

@chattanooga: I can't believe this is even post worthy... Anyone who has cooked a burger before knows that chunks can some time fall off. To me this sounds like someone grasping for a lawsuit or attention.

The virgin bite?

@wvFrugan: oh, come off it. there's much worse places than the WB.

btw, when did they get a sonic??!?

oh, & note to editors: it's PA. not penn, not penna, just P-A.

@William Brinkman: The OP is trying, and failing, to get in touch with Sonic corporate. He thought there was a bite taken out of his burger. His family thought there was a bite taken out of his burger. I don't eat beef and haven't worked in fast food, so this is more of a "is the consumer justified in complaining, or did his burger just fall apart?" question.

@mac-phisto: Actually, I think Penna. and Penn. both used to be acceptable alternatives, especially when written in an article like here. PA used to only be used by the Post Office, but it's become more common.

That said, I'll always call my home state Pee Ay.

@Laura Northrup: And I thought The Da Vinci Code was bad.

@Stephen Schenck: So you think a Brit did it?

@mac-phisto: In Associated Press style, it's abbreviated Penn., not PA.

@AppleAlex: even stranger curvature then.

@outinthedark:
so that's how fast food works?

it's all frozen to the side?

Is Beavis & Butt-Head working the gill there?

I used to work at Wendy's on the grill and chunks of burgers would fall off all the time. When you flip them the first time they're usually pretty weak still...also you can see the bun isn't bitten into. I call shenanigans.

I find it rather amusing that no one has yet to identify it as a bite.

//it's not a bite

I'm not sure about the bite, but if you look tomato and the patty the right way, well, it kind of looks like Jesus.

@AppleAlex: Your cave, get out of it. Or did you just skip every teenager's right of passage to work in at least one fast food joint during high school?

@William Brinkman:

What was the Jesus' plan here? What was the end-game?

You find all that you seek in the four Gospels, my son.

@krispykrink:
sorry I never did much research on fast food

I worked at a chain pizzeria where some employees would take a small slice out of a pizza then wedge it back together again. Nobody ever noticed.

Someone apparently brought their lolcat to work.

@chattanooga: Agreed. I worked at McD's and saw this from time to time. The main issue here is they served a partial patty instead of wasting it.

Didn't these bozos hear?

You don't fuck with the Jesus.

@Coles_Law: Yep, that's what I was thinking, too. Usually fast food places toss the partial patties (or, in the case of places like BK, they'll throw the rejects into "chili").

@William Brinkman: The concensus is that it's not a bite. However, Sonic's lack of even a stock response is poor form and worthy of note.

@feckingmorons: If Sonic had replied to the guy, it wouldn't be on here. This isn't a food tampering issue, it's a customer service issue.