Coat it in flour before you dip it in egg. Season your flour and breadcrumbs with salt, black pepper, paprika, and cayenne pepper. Italian seasoning will be good on it too or you can be a g and get your own rosemary, sage, oregano, thyme, and basil and make your own mix each time. Oh garlic salt on that **** too.

I've been eating a lot of vegan meals prepared by my vegan friend lately. I don't think I could ever go full on herbivore, but those ****ers have some great dishes.

In other words eggplant burgers suck no matter how much you force it.

Straight up, no matter how good your eggplant "sandwich" ever gets, do you think it would elevate to a point that comparing it qualitywise to beef burgers is ever justified?

Yes. Unless some idiot vegan is trying to sell you on it tasting like a burger, you can def elevate eggplant sandwich to be as delicious as a hamburger sandwich.

Absolutely anyone else?

You don't sound like you think it isn't worse.

Throw some bacon on that bitch.

Make it turkey bacon just to spite Batman because he's probably all dunderheaded about "real bacon" and ****.