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Food Review! Well, hello, ladies and gentlemen and everyone watching!
This is Running On Empty Food Review and I am your host TheReportOfTheWeek. So a very happy day to you!
We're just gonna we're just going to assume that it's a day time because you know, it's a very bright
you know kind of midday type of lighting outside. It's high noon and
we'll just pretend it's daytime for everyone watching. So happy day to all of you! We are back at Burger King.
I know I haven't I haven't tried out Burger King in a while.
But they do have a new release. That's kind of been
requested to me people were, I was checking the comments and people were, saying, "Yeah.
Can you give this this item from Burger King a shot?"
I thought alright. Ill give it a try and we'll just see what happens. So...
They released the bacon cheesy tots. Now some of you might be saying, "Oh their cheesy tots?"
"That kind of rings a little bit of a bell. Did you ever review the the cheesy tots?"
"Or variants thereof in the past?" And I did.
And to be quite honest they were terrible. They're actually
In all fairness, probably one of the worst things I ever ate at Burger King.
But you know what? I'll just, you know,
that isn't that isn't relevant. That isn't germane to what it is that we're trying to get to today. Those were the cheesy tots.
We're trying out the bacon cheesy tots. I'm gonna just treat this with full impartiality
while the original cheesy tots were
disgusting and, to put it mildly, these might be great. You know? They might have tweaked the recipe.
They might have made a few adjustments here and there. I mean who's to say?
So uh... We'll just give it a shot. So the name is pretty much self-explanatory.
They are cheesy tots with bacon inside. And a cheesy tot -
you know, like the name also says - it's like a Tater Tot, a potater Todd, you know? It's this little
potato
ball
that's kind of, you know, breaded fried and
inside is a just this little blend of melted cheese, and now there's little tiny bits of bacon in there as well -
bacon cheesy tots.
So the price for these is around
$2.20 or so. Eight pieces of these per order.
They're more of like a snack than a full-blown meal, but it's just one of those
kind of gimmicky type of things that burger king will come out with every every now and then.
And as they described on the website: "You asked for bacon, we got you bacon."
So I imagine all of you were asking for said bacon so you have now received
said bacon.
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Alright, with that said...
Let's see these bacon cheesy tots.
Alright, this is the I don't know if this is the custom-made
cheesy tots box but I either way this is what it says right there.
There it is in the Sun it's kind of like it's just in a black void because of the focus right there.
What does it even say?
"Full of
flavor
Flavor
Flav Burger King R." All right. That's what it says. So there's the
(= It's Flavorless. Got it!)
triple flavor box. More delicious than delicious
equals deliciousousous. Right there.
(= Indedbile? just a guess)
I don't know what that's supposed to mean if that's some sort of
coded message or what but you can see I'm not even I'm not even messing you around this time.
That's just what it says and there they are. Did we get the full? Oh wait, let's see one two, three, four, five...
We didn't get eight of these. There I am with them.
There we go. And there they are kind of in the little rows right there in the sunlight.
Cheesy tots - bacon cheesy tots.
And we'll just try them out!
We'll see how good they are up close and personal view of a bacon cheesy tot right there.
Alright, we'll see how good they are, bacon cheesy tots from Burger King going in!
(Oh no! I'm honestly scared for him.)
(Is he going to take another bite? Oh my! I can't even bring myself to look.)
(Tell me when it's over.)
(This suspense is just too much!)
(I hope he's alright. Oh how I hope.)
These things are really hot.
(Where's the bacon?)
I'll tell you I'm gonna have another one, but I'll tell you one thing that kind of confuses me a little:
"You asked for bacon,
We got you bacon." I have a feeling that that's just like a sick,
cruel joke on the part of Burger King's management.
Now I'll be honest, as I was watching around,
I did see one other review for for these and it's the same problem that I have. I will say this right now:
I am THOROUGHLY disappointed in these!
Not even because of the taste. The last time I tried these I was
disgusted at how bad they tasted. If there's one thing they actually managed to improve,
it was actually the taste. They actually have finally this nice crispness to it.
They have this crunch, you know?
They tasted pretty good overall. Have a good blend of that cheesiness and the potato, you know?
For a standard cheesy tot,
they did a good job, you know? So you might be saying, "Well, if it doesn't really taste bad, why are you disappointed?"
Well, if they just called these the
"revitalized", "the redone cheesy tots"? I'd say, "Wow. They were spot-on. They did a great job!"
They call these the bacon cheesy tots! And they called them that for a reason.
Not just to kind of mess with you and say we're just gonna call it bacon cheesy tots
because they're SUPPOSED to be bacon in them! I think I saw one tiny little piece of bacon. I got a tiny little shred of
bacon in one of those cheesy tots. The one that I ate after that had none in it whatsoever.
(say what‽)
Now you might say, "Well, what do you expect? It's Burger King!"
Well, yeah, you know, but but you look at their website you look at what is being advertised.
What's even on the poster
that's there at the store behind me and you will see they make it look like there's at least probably a dozen and a half
little pieces of bacon, bacon bits, in each cheesy tot.
There were zero in the one that I ate and I think there's one single piece of bacon in that last one.
They didn't say these were bacon flavored cheesy tots. These were bacon cheesy tots with, you know, bacon bits - that's self-explanatory.
(#$@&%*! BK!)
Simply put: It is not what it is advertised to be! There is almost no bacon in it whatsoever.
And as a result, I'm thoroughly disappointed because I got something that, you know...
They they promised me would have the bacon in it and it's very clear...
It's not like I got the wrong thing I saw there. Is that one piece of
(sand?)
bacon in it. I just know that I got the right thing and they just did a terrible job with it, unfortunately.
That's the most disappointing thing of it all. I'm gonna take one more bite of this just you can get a cross-section.
(Dang! I hope the plummet of BKC stock after this doesn't trigger a recession.)
(If this close-up isn't a clear and present warning of things to come, I don't know what is?)
Sometimes the lighting will mess it up but...
Well, what I'll do...
Is you can kind of see right there those two little blobs?
You know?
That's the bacon in this whole thing. That's the bacon! These two tiny
minuscule
microscopic pieces. I mean, right there, that the tiny little piece. That's how big the bacon is that you're getting in these and...
That is EXTREMELY disappointing beyond disappointing to be quite honest.
It's $2 completely wasted because even though it might taste all right,
I was looking forward to getting a, you know, to having that bacon flavor in there. You can't taste it at all!
Extremely disappointing. I'm giving this a 2 out of 10.
Extremely extremely disappointing. The only reason that it isn't lower is because it actually - it tastes alright for what it is.
But again, I was promised something they did an absolutely horrendous job in execution.
Probably one of the worst, one of the worst, I've seen anyway, because sometimes you'll get a burger but at least, you know,
It's got the beef and all of that and just the ingredients don't taste good. This? They give you the absolute
tiniest amount of ingredients possible and that's extremely disappointing!
So that's why it has the rating that it has and that's all that I have for you.
So bear that in mind.
Maybe if you just kind of want to get the revamped cheezy tots without any bacon, because you won't get any,
then maybe check these out.
But, if you're hoping for that bacon in every bite, you're really going to be let down and I'm just telling you that right now.
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With that, thank you! Take care, and hopefully whatever review we do next we'll get something a little better. That's all and take care!