The term "emoji" comes from the Japanese word 絵文字えもじ (pronounced [emodʑi]). They are ideograms, or better known to some as "smileys" that can be used in electronic messages and web pages.
Popular to express various genres, including facial expressions, common objects, places and types of weather, and animals, emojis have come a long way before becoming a worldwide phenomenon since their international inclusion in Apple's iPhone in 2011, which was then followed by similar adoption in Android and other mobile operating systems.
In October, Twitter users battled out over the weekend, debating about how Apple and Google put their burger emoji in place.
Emoji and burger lovers were wondering why neither Apple nor Google seems to know how to assemble a good cheeseburger.
A full-scale debate has broken out after a Twitter user tweeted an image comparing Apple and Google's burger emoji, showing how the two stacked the ingredients.
Both Apple and Google's emoji appear to have burger ingredients stacked differently:
Apple's version has the cheese placed on top of the patty, with lettuce underneath the patty. Google's version places the cheese underneath the patty, with the lettuce leaf on top of all the other ingredients.
When the fierce but rather comical debate seems to go out of hand. It even caught Google CEO's attention. Sundar Pichai tweeted that he would drop everything to resolve the situation if people could land on an agreed order for burger toppings:
Will drop everything else we are doing and address on Monday:) if folks can agree on the correct way to do this! https://t.co/dXRuZnX1Ag
— Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai) October 29, 2017
Jeremy Burge, editor of Emojipedia and vice-chairman of the Unicode emoji subcommittee, began reaching out to burger brands to find out the order in which they stack their ingredients. He also polled burger-loving Twitter users to find out their ingredient-stacking preferences.
Outlining Burge's findings, Emojipedia (helping Pichai) tweeted:
Poll: help @sundarpichai out here! The correct ingredient order for burgers from top to bottom is:
— Emojipedia (@Emojipedia) October 29, 2017
And just when people thought that the great burger debate starts to cease, Snapchat came along by pouring lighter fluid on the fire.
With Snapchat wanting to get in on the conversation, the messaging app popular among teens and ephemeral chat lovers joined the burger party with its very own contribution to the debate: a dancing burger AR filter lens.
And Snapchat opted for this order: lettuce, burger, tomatoes, cheese, burger.
Snapchat might not have its own emoji, but it does have AR lenses. So people see Snapchat as trolling the debate with a good sense of humor.
With the community thinks that Apple, Google and Snapchat had it all wrong, it seems that Microsoft is the only one who made the cheeseburger the right way: lettuce, tomatoes, cheese, then meat patty.