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Dog Burger Receipt, also known as This Is For a Dog refers to a series of jokes and memes about a viral tweet of a receipt from a restaurant that requires a series of special instructions because, as the receipt reads, the burger is for a dog.

Origin

On May 27th, 2019, Twitter^[1] user @annaesilman tweeted, "my friend is the chef at an extremely fancy nyc restaurant and this is an order he received today." The tweet included a photograph of the order, which required the chef to remove everything from the burger order except the patty because ht order was for a dog." The post received more than 19,000 retweets and 100,000 likes in two days (shown below).

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Following the post, people began making jokes about the order. Twitter^[2] user @ShiftyGirl91 tweeted a He Protect But Also He Attac variation. The post received more than 445 retweets and 10,000 likes in two days (shown below, left). Twitter^[3] user @ericmdavid tweeted, "Steve, when I checked my blood pressure tonight it was high. Was my burger salted?" The tweet received more than 100 retweets and 5,500 likes in two days (shown below, right).

On May 27th, Twitter^[4] published a Moments page on the post.

On May 28th, Redditor ^[5] mishorangetree posted the image on the /r/KitchenConfidential subreddit. The post received more than 3,100 points (98% upvoted) and 225 comments in 24 hours.

Several media outlets covered the tweet, including Fox,^[6] the AV Club,^[7] The Daily Dot ^[8] and more.

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