hello everyone this is Running on Empty Food review well hello ladies gentlemen and everyone
watching welcome when and all to this newest edition of The Running on Empty Food review
series I'm your host the report of the week always a pleasure to be here Arby is back at
it again with the new releases and this time it is a special movie themed meal that they have out
for a limited time AR has teamed up with the Good Burger 2 movie and they're releasing the special
Good Burger 2 meal in order to promote the release of this new film and uh again this is the latest
limited time promotion from Arby's so what I'll be doing in today's review is I'll just assess
the meal in its entirety of course break it down by component just see if if the meal itself is any
good or not if it is worth the price and what's so special about it so stay tuned for that now
it makes sense and this is the one time where I will admit I was not lost at the name whatsoever
I was worried at first that this was going to be a fish sandwich or something but as a matter of
fact it's not and uh the name does make sense that this is a burger in order to promote the
Good Burger to move it actually comes as a matter of fact with their Deluxe Wu Steakhouse burger
it also comes with a medium french fries and it comes with a strawberry milkshake the meal itself
is available and the price fluctuates I've seen it listed anywhere from $13 to $15 for the meal
in my case it was $13 50 and again what it comes with is the medium strawberry shake medium fries
and the Delux Wu Steakhouse burger it is one of their also limited time Burger offerings it has
a blend of apparently 51% Wu and 49% ground beef it also has American cheese lettuce tomato pickles
onions and of course Special Sauce so with that mentioned again the price can fluctuate anywhere
between 13 and $15 for the meal deal I'll show you the components up close and then I'll just
try them all out there isn't much in the way of branding um there is no special bag nor
is there really much special packaging you can see these are just your regular uh fries right
there
the milkshake now I don't know how well you could really see but it does
it might be a little bleached out but there is a little bit of a pink Hue to
it and the one thing that has a little bit of special branding not much granted but
just a tiny bit is this the burger wrapping so they went all out we're paying a premium for
a sticker and it says the Good Burger 2 meal new movie streaming November 22nd exclusively
on Paramount plus and uh the meal is only at Arby's the Nickelodeon good burger too meal
uh once again you could save that sticker you could kind of peel it off I might actually wind
up in celebration peeling it off and I might put it on my lapel and I'm going to savor it
you know I'm just just going to I I'll peel it off again and then I'll put it on a different
lapel the next day and uh and then the next and the next there you have it the exclusive
branding all right let's see let's try to open this up it mustn't harm the
sticker there we go okay oh yes there's the burger with
the special sauce right that's what we want to see Special Sauce engulfing the burger
wow almost looks like there's more special sauce than there is beef that's just the
angle you know their burgers are generally good for the most part uh although the last one I
had or the last one I reviewed that is there was something about it the last beef burger I
should say I tried out one of theirs that was the alch burger and whatever else was in it I forget
that one was okay anyway looks like a little bit of a Messier Burger getting very heavy on
the sauuce so I'm sure I'll be a to taste plenty of that and then just taking a look here lettuce
is on the stringier side tomato and again the beef patty is actually a little difficult to
discern I think mostly because the cheese is melted over it and again it's covered in the
sauce but you could obviously see uh that it is there and there's a little bit of onion mixed in
as well which I can definitely t or not taste I can definitely smell very potent at that what I
think I'm going to do actually because I don't know if I've done this before I'm GNA pause the
camera just tidy this up a little bit but most importantly I'm going to cut it in half and that
way we'll be able to get a real good crosssection of the beef and then try it out cuz I want to get
a better look at it myself and I think that'll be a good way to go about that so stay tuned
I will be right back and there you have it this is the view I was really hoping for now you can
really see um that cross-section of the beef it does look like a complete Burger maybe a little
messy but still complete I will give them that so what I'm going to do next I'm just going to
try it out um you know just try it out see how it tastes see how good it is and I'll sample the
fries and the drink and in the end I will give the meal a rating as a meal not just by the component
but just how is the Good Burger to meal with that said let's try out the burger it's going
in
for
I'm pretty sure I've reviewed either this exact burger or one that's very similar to this I know
for a fact I've tried I believe this uh sauce and and uh so as a result I'm not going to go on too
much about this I would encourage you strongly to check out my previous reviews um for the Wu
Burgers from Ares as I've tried out several and you'll find a lot of time dedicated to them I am
pleased to say this in regards to the burger that is included with the uh Good Burger to meal the
deluxe Wu Burger it is a messy Burger don't get me wrong and I'm sure you could see that as I was
eating it of course I have my manner upon which I just nibble away at it you know that's just what
I do and uh nonetheless you obviously noticed as you were watching me do that how the sauce was
just dripping out continually onto the uh little wrapping here and likewise there are on the bottom
BN many of these stringy onions that are very potent as far as the flavor is concerned um but
likewise you know I'll take the bite I'll kind of pull and the onion will just kind of all come out
hence perhaps some of the more Awkward um bites in my case because you know then all of a sudden
the whole onion will just go in my mouth Etc but I'll say this despite any sort of messiness that
may exist as far as consuming this burger is concerned the quality of it barring any of that
you know like I said this might not be the item to really eat in your car or on the go or if you
want to be really really careful it could again be a little messy considering all the sauce and
everything but despite my complaints the last time I had this burger this is far more reminiscent of
the first time I tried one of the Wu Burgers uh from AR and uh I am a fan of it the beef again
you're not really going to be able to discern that it's Wu we obviously know that this is Ares that
we're talking about it's a fast food burger and we have to understand that of course so do not go in
here expecting some sort of gourmet uh restaurant quality Burger but I will say this compared to
some of the burgers these days that you get from some establishments definitely definitely tastes
good and better than again many of what you would get at this point in time uh where you could see
that there is a good amount of beef it's tender it's juicy flavorful it seems to me anyway of
good quality and it is cooked nicely as well it's not dry this certainly is not a dry Burger I will
tell you that right off the bat in so far as both the meat as well as all of the sauce obviously and
uh it just tastes good little bit of seasoning on on it as well looks like a little bit of just
a salt pepper uh seasoning Miron a little touch of again some saltiness to it as well but uh it's
balanced out nicely by the sauce uh I should add which it's not the thing about the sauce here it
has a flavor of its own essentially uh it's not quite you know not quite analogous to McDonald's
Big Mac sauce but is sort of similar to that in a way again not exactly don't expect it to taste
precisely like that um but it just has that little sort of of Tangy bite to it uh that I I do notice
and I think I've seen many establishments do this as well they tried to do a sauce sort of similar
to it not exactly but sort of like it I remember Burger King did something like that as well Arby's
is doing that there was even Papa John's years ago that actually made a burger pizza and tried
to do a similar sauce just like this it's a very common blend that I see that uh it it hits the
right notes though I will give them that hits the right notes and uh given that there is so much
sauce though I was worried that it was going to be overwhelming and that that was going to be the
only thing that I was going to be able to taste but I am pleased to say that despite the amount of
the sauce uh the the the potency thereof is just right to the extent that again the flavor of its
own upon which it casts forth works very nicely with the burger and all the other ingredients um
but likewise it still holds its own but it's not overwhelming it just works nicely they obviously
put some thought into that sauce and it's a very nice accompaniment as far as the lettuce and the
Tomato are concerned the tomato is pretty fresh the onions are fresh um they're pretty potent
and you're really going to notice them where uh especially with the stringiness of them but they
don't overdo it the cheese I can't really taste all too much that's the thing this isn't the
cheesiest burger in the world and the lettuce I wish was of slightly higher quality but all things
considered I'm still happy with the burger and uh I would strongly recommend you all check out my
uh previous reviews that I've done for the W goo Burgers from arb's last one I tried again I hated
it um but this one is better messy but much better so that's good to see try out a fry real quick
these are just your standard uh crinkle cut fries right there fries are always a little difficult
to focus on but see it has a little bit of a salt pepper seasoning to it and I'll try this out real
quick
standard as far as fries go has a little bit of a crisp to it a little bit of a
salty seasoning as well I'd say they're good for the dipping and I could see those working
nicely with like a barbecue sauce and the strawberry milkshake let's try that
out
it's smooth goes down real smooth I I will say that the strawberry taste as far as the strawberry
milkshake is concerned it's very sweet and what it reminds me of I'm sure for obvious reasons you
have all sorts of different types of strawberry flavor mind you and different approaches to go
about about it this tastes more on the synthetic sort of uh line as far as strawberry is concerned
in that if you've ever had strawberry flavored milk and you know that sort of strawberry flavor
that it has where it's not necessarily natural it's again it's like very sweet very synthetic
um not necessarily in a bad way it's just a certain very discernable flavor that's what
this has um where again it's more of like that St strawberry flavored milk uh that I'm just drinking
with you know a little bit of whipped cream mixed in there as opposed to like strawberry ice cream
so to speak it's just on the more synthetic side it's still fine for what it is it doesn't bother
me at all but I'm just saying for some that's probably going to be a bit of an acquired taste
and I just wanted to throw that out there I don't think everyone's going to be a fan of
it I think it's fine for what it is I just don't think everyone's going to love this thing uh and
it's I just wanted to get that information out there just so you know but I would say as far
as the quality of the ingredients are concerned the burger quality is good fries are basic and I
would say the milkshake is basic as well as far as a meal uh the quality again it's standard doesn't
bother me any uh this to me of course seems more like a like a regular just Burger meal now granted
I I would presume the premise of the movie being promoted has something to do with Burgers so I'll
uh I'll give credit where credit is due there maybe I wish that they could just do a little
bit more as far as branding is concerned I mean a sticker is that is that all that they could
really do it it just would have been nice if they could have had a little even a special
thing for the fries and the drink and a special little little box for the burger or something I
mean a sticker you know it's not much but it's more than some places have done at this point
and uh the price price again $13.50 even that is a little steep still and $15 you'd say what for
am I paying the extra just for that sticker uh so the price is a bit steep uh compared to what
I would like to see it at but again at least the meal subject is topical and the quality thereof
especially the burger is good so factoring all that in I'm going to be giving the RB's Good
Burger 2 meal uh I'm going to give this a 7.2 out of 10 maybe I wish that they just did a little
more as far as the creativity is involved but the quality is good enough for me and that's all that
I have for you thank you for watching and until next time I'm your host the report of the week