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yeah burger king review a big burger king review because it has big in the the name so why not
it's a big review for a a big sandwich for a big boy right here and uh what kind of introduction
this is i have no idea let's just get into the review the big king from burger king is back now
this has been back i believe since new year oddly enough i i you know i i check the food news i see
what's out what the new releases are etc and i saw around new year that this was released so i looked
at the burger king and i was saying all right you know give it a shot when i when i'm able to
i check their menu not available week after week after week i keep checking all the different
burger kings and i don't know if i'm just in areas where this isn't uh served or what have you but it
took months to finally uh be able to obtain this item now these sorts of things do happen though in
terms of the rollout i don't know why that is um but for instance when they released the chi king
sandwich from burger king same exact type of thing certain areas got it more of a faster than others
and in this uh this instance yeah it's been a while but i got my hands on it i think i tried
the big king once before like five years ago or something to that extent but obviously as we
know items change things change a lot of stuff these days has been going downhill so i think
it is important to uh you know just check it out again see if they're maintaining the standards or
lack thereof at this point and uh just see what it is give an updated uh 2022 assessment of it
the big king right it sounds like a big sandwich i mean the big king this this thing is gonna be huge
uh i'm sure you're thinking right now the big king here's what it has two flame grilled beef patties
lettuce onion pickles american cheese special stacker sauce and it is on a sesame seed bun
this is a five to six dollar sandwich mine was around six dollars but a lot of people might be
getting it around the five dollar range so all right you know that this is burger king's take
on the big mac um obviously mcdonald's has their iconic sandwich when you think of mcdonald's you
know you think that fries you think of the big mac the the secret sauce that i mean people have
died over that let's let's be real here um they keep it secret for good reason but uh
this on the other hand you know burger king for years has been trying to compete
what do you think of when you think of burger king right they want you to think of the big king
and no one's thinking of it yet so darn it we got it we gotta grind this into your head
it's the big king it's the king the big king yeah that's what this is right you always got to tack
on the yeah at the end for extra added effect all right this is what it looks like when i saw the
size of it here i thought to myself the big king i thought i was expecting something that's you
know this giant half pound sandwich and instead who knows you can't judge a book by its cover
they're going with the 70s lsd design right here
but then i look at it
i say that's the big king now there's some indicators granted when you look at their website
that it's not going to be the massive sand which you thought it was going to be um obviously even
in terms of the sandwich to review bra uh size comparison review bra face size comparison that is
um it's not the biggest sandwich and the indicator is not the picture the picture makes you think
that this thing is like you have two pounds or something that's going to be this massive massive
sandwich but look at the calories you know you see that there's only 490 calories in this and that
right there is the giveaway that it isn't the big sandwich that they want you to think that it is
um is it the smaller sandwich not these giant you know again half pound patties or anything
there's the top bun you can see the stacker sauce with some lettuce um there's the onions
couple onions we got the pickles we've got the american cheese
and then there's the beef patties but again certainly not the biggest um sandwich around
again you can see in terms of me the size comparison etc yeah it's not that big
there's six bucks you know the size is a little disappointing and uh the marketing campaign now
i understand they have to advertise they want to try to incentivize you give you some sort of
reason to go get this but um obviously still it's like you're expecting more and then when you get
it you're thinking this is the big the big king so uh just something to be aware of it's a very
potent sandwich i mean you could smell that onion it's really really sharp either way though let's
let's try it out let's see what it tastes like the big king from burger king 2022 edition going in
we'll take two or three more bites
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i'll take one more bite
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you could see i switched it up i'm not going with my usual chalice right because we got to go with
a special special glass for the big king yeah yeah it uh it's a very salty sandwich hence my
my excessive perhaps water consumption but it is it is a salty sandwich let me tell you
i'm slightly disappointed with it the one thing yeah i'll give the phrases first and foremost so
i'll say what i like about it but then let's get into this um you know this is one of those things
judging a book by its cover i look at this right and you see the outside right there and i say what
the heck is that you know you're looking where's the meat i just see this cheese folded over
but there actually is a better amount of of beef therein than i initially thought so there's that
all right not bad uh taste wise i'm not gagging it up you know it's it's it goes down and uh
certainly edible so those are the good things now here's the things that i i'm not a fan of
all right for all that's on this sandwich and for how potent it is in terms of the scent that it it
gives off i was expecting more from it i really was i expected this to be a little more flavorful
to be quite honest and as i'm eating this i'm not really tasting all that much yeah
you could taste the the the meat um but the whole thing just tastes salty to me
i thought you know i swear it smells so potent all right i'm gonna be able to taste the sharpness of
those onions maybe a little bit of the tanginess from the pickles i thought it's gonna be so
interesting to taste the stacker sauce right the famous stacker sauce and uh how that's gonna
contribute to it instead i'm biting in and what do i taste i taste all right it tastes really salty
that's about it i taste this liquid which is obviously the sauce which
doesn't taste like anything um the onions aren't even that flavorful which is a shark
it's just salty it's like they dumped half a shaker of salt
on the meat and then that american cheese only adds to that and uh it's just salty it's like
all right all right it's a burger it's a really salty burger and that's it that's that's all that
you could really say and for a sandwich mind you that's being marketed as being like the competitor
to the big mac uh that's not really what you want uh you want something that certainly has a little
bit more to it not that you'd be expecting this to be the best sandwich in the world you know coming
you don't expect to have gordon ramsay for instance running around in the burger king
kitchen and expecting that level of quality but still you're just expecting something
that just has a little bit of flavor to it and you're not really getting that so
that's one thing i'm going to try this little piece of bun right here that's doused in the sauce
but even that the sauce is so weak in terms of its flavor there's a tiny little bit of of
tanginess that you're going to notice in the the stacker sauce but even that flavor of it
was drowned out by that tiny little piece of bun so now imagine that adding the beef the cheese
the lettuce the pickle the onion the sauce that's going to get lost in there sometimes you
talk about getting lost in the sauce but this time it's the sauce that's getting lost in the big king
um because let me tell you it's uh it's just uh i cracked myself up with that one admittedly
um it's just it's a sandwich where you can't really taste what you're hoping to taste is what
i'm trying to say i just thought i thought there was going to be more to it than this
you smell the thing you look at it and all right you're a little defeated by what it looks like
compared to the advertising but then when all you taste is this salty sandwich it's got all
this stuff that you can't taste it's disappointing it's disappointing i was hoping for more here i
swear when i tried this in 2018 if i remember correctly i enjoyed it more back then but uh
i guess there's no real surprises you know a lot of fast food is going downhill
these days and that's just the reality of things so no real surprise here uh burger king you know
they have some wins uh some losses too though and this isn't my favorite item from them
i was hoping for a little more plus i mean six bucks for this you know it's
it's a bit pricey if you ask me all things considered then factoring in the price
how it tastes etc yeah i was hoping for more here it's just not that flavorful so all things
considered out of ten i'm just going to be giving this a 5 out of 10. again if you want to get it
get it you could obviously eat it but if i had to go to burger king i'd probably just get a
whopper if you had to make me order something so not maya not my go-to sandwich by any means
all right a little bit disappointed there though and uh that's the assessment for the big king
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