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Thank You Burger King I
Say that with sincerity
Because for the last however many weeks I've been I've just been saying to myself please, you know
Can can someplace just release something can they release anything at this point?
I just want something new some new item out and Burger King was the first one to do it
I've heard that there's gonna be some other new releases coming up from different places as well
But Burger King was the first to do it and they're making some headlines in the process
Lieth in this bag is a sandwich which goes by the name big king
XL and
For those of you that might be unsure as to what the XL
Abbreviation stands for I did a little bit of research myself and it stands for xylophone
Limousine because nothing is really larger than that
So they tried to put the XL there to emphasize how huge this sandwich is not
only that however, but this is also trying to compete with
McDonald's Big Mac sandwich, of course a a very famous sandwich, believe it or not
I I kid you not I had a Big Mac for lunch today
So what will really compare the two on the sandwich two quarter-pound patties totaling a half pound granted of,
their flame grilled beef
American cheese sliced onions
Zesty, they they had to use the word. Zesty pickles lettuce
Stacker sauce on a sesame-seed bun' so this is really when you look at it
Burger Kings way of trying to compete with the Big Mac
sans the middle, but it doesn't have that that center bun and
You know for my understanding in a way, we'll see it in a minute
The portion size is going to be significantly larger than say the patties
You would get on a Big Mac
Now the price for the sandwich was six dollars and fifty cents it may differ in your location
but expect this to be not the cheapest sandwich in the world, but if it ends up being good and
You know, maybe it'll be worth it. But it's this interesting Burger King. They're trying to
Try to start a beef
They get you get the joke because if there's beef on the sandwich, and they're trying to start a beef with McDonald's
Yeah, I know you guys got that one
You know by trying to say well
This is this is our Big Mac and it is allegedly better than yours
Who knows to be quite honest? I always try to handle these with
As much impartiality as I can sometimes a bad experience for me the bad
Many faces quite literal bad taste in my mouth
Let's use this
Trash necessary and here it is
It is a heavy sandwich. I got to give them credit on that
You can see again. They marked it as they they did XL
Xylophone Limousine right there, you can see even the king's crown. This is the king of all the sandwiches
some
place other than blanket King I
Guess I'll do it right now get the promotional out of the way
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Let's get this further
There we go
That 500 kilowatt I
Don't know what I was going for there. There's the sandwich you got a view of it
big king
XL
Fresh picked it up fresh. You can see it the sesame seed bun. Lets us go through the layers real quick again
There is no middle bun to this. That's where it kind of
does not
Necessarily go step for step with the Big Mac
You can see that top bun right there with some of the stacker sauce as well some lettuce and a pickle
on here some of the
onions pickles cheese more stacker sauce and
Two patties
Which to my understanding?
Yeah, there's nothing below you can see right here there's a pickle
Almost on the verge of sliding into my palm
Because it just wants to escape. I don't know sure. Yeah. Sorry pickle. I'm sorry. You're back on the sandwich
So
That's it
Lets us. Try it out. Let's see. Yeah, does it taste like a Big Mac? How good is it? How bad is it?
We'll find out big king XL from Burger King. It's going in
One more bite
You know, I gotta give them credit where it's due right I
Have had my complaints especially in regards to the big King series
So in regards to the patties and and the quality thereof
Right because these sandwiches are huge
Let's get that right off the table first and this is a massive sandwich. I mean
It's huge it weighs a lot. That's a half pound of beef
And if that beef that you're getting is dried up it tastes like you know what it's terrible
You know, then what's the point of even getting the sandwich?
So the quality of the beef that you get on this sandwich is key and I got to give them credit
This is actually juicy its flavorful and it just it tastes good. So
the quality of the beef itself is
Better than I anticipated
I think that's one thing that Burger King has kind of stepped up in the last few years because in 2016
I'm pretty sure when they first did the big king lineup
It was terrible and I remember some it was one of the worst things I ever reviewed
So they bounced back from that and the beef was good quality juicy, you know tasted good
Okay, we got that out of the way. What about the cheese the American cheese?
Certainly blends together good. It wasn't robbery. You know, it actually was kind of melted
You know it held those two patties together certainly blends in there was pretty flavorful the sliced onions potent
It definitely stands out. You could definitely taste those onions
The pickles know this is the one thing I wouldn't necessarily describe the pickles as zesty if anything
I would describe their stacker sauce, perhaps as
Being more on the zesty side than the pickles the pickles kind of get lost in there. You know, they're really not emphasized
But you consider how much food you're getting those those three pickles kind of get lost in there
No, the lettuce is just you know, it's there
The bun, you know it held everything together and that stacker sauce. Does it taste like that Big Mac?
sauce, you know the the secret sauce the Thousand Island dressing as everyone likes to kind of joke around and say
There is definitely a difference
It does have those similarities where it does have that kind of zesty tang to it
But it certainly is its own entity
with that being said
Does the big king?
XL taste like a Big Mac because again. I kid. You know it probably six hours ago
I went over to McDonald's. I had a Big Mac for lunch. I didn't even think I had this out yet
They're different
It's obvious that Burger King is trying to you know
Compete with McDonald's on this but the portion size here is much larger than what you would get at McDonald's
This is six dollars fifty cents
It's Burger Kings take on the Big Mac. It's bigger
There's a much greater emphasis on those beef patties
and if those beef patties are cooked well and they're juicy and flavorful like mine was
Then I think you're actually going to enjoy this sandwich as long as you have that appetite for it
Because the stacker sauce adds a nice touch to it
I do not expect for it to be a play-by-play Big Mac because it isn't but again these two beef patties
They're the bulk of the sandwich. It's a half pound if they do them, right? You're gonna be in for a treat
It's a pretty good sandwich. If as I said the beef is of good quality. Therefore out of ten
I'm gonna be giving this an eight point six out of ten
because I
Really? I don't have much to complain about
I'm I'm satisfied with the sandwich beef was fine, the sauce, you know again,
It was definitely its own. So it's like they're trying to copy McDonald's
You know ingredient for ingredient
But it all but all ties together. So that's all that I have for you
Ladies and gentlemen, I'm your host the report of the week and today's review was for the big king
xylophone limousine
Sandwich from Burger King also known as the big king XL
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