Hello everyone,
this is Running On Empty...
...Food Review!
Well, hello ladies and gentlemen,
and everyone watching,
this is Running On Empty Food Review.
I'm gonna be frank.
I'm actually a little nervous
before consuming this.
But this might be the biggest
twist to 2018 by far.
You never know.
This is the signature...
I actually had... there's a lot to it.
I had to write this down on little Post-it Notes
This is the Signature Garlic White Cheddar Burger from McDonald's.
Now you might remember from last year.
They introduced their Signature line of sandwiches.
And this was McDonald's saying, "You know what,"
"we might have our standard burgers,"
"we might have our standard chicken sandwiches,"
"but we have a premium lineup of goods too."
Thus the Signature line.
And they originally had the Signature Sriracha Burger,
but you know it just as well as I do,
sriracha...
is a fad.
It's a fad, it's past,
McDonald's said, "All right we gotta get-- we gotta get up with the times,"
so what's everyone... what's everyone talking about?"
- "Oh, I know! Garlic, white cheddar!" - "Yeah!"
"You never heard about the garlic white cheddar craze,"
"that's sweeping-- not just the nation-- but the entire planet, in 2018?"
Well, McDonald's has.
And thus the...
Garlic White Cheddar Signature lineup has been made.
Now I got their burger.
And again, I admit.
I have a little bit of...
hesitation...
because first and foremost right off the bat,
I kind of got hit with some bad luck.
I'll tell you the truth.
This, you know you can get it in a burger, or you could get it as chicken.
So you can get it: burger, crispy chicken, grilled chicken.
I went to order this,
and I said "I'd like to get the burger."
They said,
"Uh, grilled or crispy?"
I said, "No the burger, the beef burger."
and they said "Yeah, grilled or crispy.
It's like they, they didn't un-- there was an issue,
there was a miscommunication with that.
I guess I've never really heard of a crispy burger, but...
Anyway,
Finally that got cleared out of the way.
Now this is supposed to have a beef patty,
crunchy garlic chips,
garlic aioli - that's the garlic,
lettuce, tomato, white cheddar cheese and of course,
I think I already mentioned it, beef.
This was $4.59, a premium sandwich.
Now,
what I got,
you know it's understandable.
Here's a first view of the burger there.
It's understandable, you know.
When they say expectations vs. reality in terms of fast food
It's understandable.
It's not, you know, it's not always gonna look like it does
during the picture that's advertised.
But,
it's not the happiest looking sandwich, you know.
And this is it.
The one thing that kind of gets me,
and this is why I said, I have a little bit of
hesitance in terms of trying it.
Now it is white cheddar cheese, that's true
N'this is their signature bun.
But if you look,
I'm gonna do a little bit of tomato extraction here,
and then I'll put it back on.
You kind of see the cheese right there
It's almost clear.
You know, the cheese - hide behind it and make it get that perfect view of it -
the cheese, it's like it's clear almost
it's like it's a clear...
I don't know.
It's just I've never really seen cheese
that's completely clear before, I suppose.
I guess
I'm not really seeing any of the garlic chips,
I guess they forgot that one, too.
But this is indeed the, the burger
I could at least smell some of the, some of the garlic at least,
on it,
but uh, it seems clearly there were a few errors already
in terms of preparation and the cheese kind of has me a little,
uh, a little iffy.
But nonetheless, and do you know how things are here?
We carry onwards and forwards and,
we're gonna delve into this and try it nonetheless.
So this is the Premium Garlic White Cheddar Burger from McDonald's, going in.
One more bite.
It's the end of the day.
I said well, I'm feelin it.
You know, you're gonna gonna do a review.
It didn't... it didn't work out.
I said this before when I was trying
the Cheesy Tots from Burger King.
I said to myself, "Remember,
just be logical and just remember,
that not everyone's item is gonna be like this.
But yours was not good and be honest about it."
And that holds true here.
There's a couple issues with it,
couple very serious ones.
Number one of course first and foremost, it's missing the chips.
We can't have the full signature burger without the garlic chips on it.
So it's missing a crucial,
it's missing that, that, that...
k-keystone,
or cornerstone or whatever they call it.
That's absolutely quintessential
for just the foundation of this sandwich, it's missing it.
But it still has garlic in this at least.
So has that garlic aioli.
So it's not it's not like you're just getting a
premium garlic burger sans garlic.
At least it does have that garlic aioli to it.
So I was able to get and absorb some of the garlic,
flavoring to it.
Next big issue that I found with it was the quality of the beef.
When of course they say signature craft,
they do expect it to have a bit of an upgrade
from their standard, you know, from their standard...
dollar menu, two dollar menu and such...
burgers.
But this burger to me was just, it was tasteless,
and the only thing that I could taste on it was the copious amount of salt
that they added on the bottom of the patty,
maybe to kind of make up for the lack of flavor,
I have no idea, but all I could taste on it was salt.
I mean when I even looked at it
I could see the salt crystals on the burgers.
I mean they must have dumped the entire shaker on this thing,
because that's all that I could taste in this burger, just pure salt.
The third issue that I have with it
is the bun.
Now again, for signature craft
they try to make it more like an artisan type of...
you know, restaurant-quality thing.
They try to toast the bun which is a kind gesture.
But when the bun isn't toasted and rather it's burned,
that's a big issue too.
So, here I am, I'm eating this burger.
You can't even taste the cheese,
which has this really weird looking...
It just looks very very odd.
So maybe they just stuck the sheet of plastic
that's supposed to go on the cheese
and put that in.
And you know, I would be able to taste that instead,
but you get what I I'm trying to say.
Just looks very very out of place.
You can't even taste that.
The burger all I taste is the salt.
It's flavorless, otherwise.
The bun is completely burnt.
So here I am I'm eating it.
There's some char from the bun,
but there's that tomato. That was a good tomato.
That tomato didn't deserve to be on the sandwich.
That tomato deserved to be in a better place quite frankly.
And then you had the garlic, right?
So at least the burnt bun
and the overly salty
otherwise tasteless patty
had some garlic flavor and a little tomato also to boot.
so at least they kind of had those two things,
but everything else was terribly disappointing.
I could, you know, I see what they're trying to do here.
They're trying to get it just nice and garlicky.
It's supposed to work out and have a little bit of that crunch there, too
and it's supposed to just be a really nice restaurant-quality burger
which at that price of you know four dollars and fifty something cents,
would be very good value
but this was just a terrible disappointment for what I was given.
Extremely subpar therefore the rating of what I will be giving this burger that I got,
it's gonna be a 2 out of 10.
And the reason why it's not lower,
is because it has a little bit of that garlic flavor,
and that was a good tomato that they gave me.
And that's pretty much the thing that's keeping it afloat.
Now keep in mind though. That's not saying that every burger
that's out of this line is gonna be terrible.
Because I highly doubt that.
But,
keep that in mind.
If your burger has everything that it's supposed to have,
you know, the garlic aioli that's there is very potent.
It's a garlicky, you know, it's a garlicky sauce.
This will be a garlicky burger,
and if all the ingredients are of their quality,
it should hopefully be better than what I got,
but just take this into consideration,
you know, take it into consideration,
double-check make sure it looks alright,
and you know, just just keep that in mind.
But what I got tonight was disappointing overall.
I'm disappointed.
On one final note, one last thing that I wanted to
bring up and then that's about it for this review.
I of course do my radio show the VORW Radio Show. soundcloud.com/vorw_radio_int
It's a weekly program where I kind of you know,
I have some miscellaneous talk, and it's about an hour long.
But in this latest program I kind of address a couple current events
and I just consider it something very important.
It would mean a lot if you could give it a listen,
even just the first 15 minutes
because that's where I kind of talked about a few things. soundcloud.com/vorw_radio_int
But it'd mean a lot if you could give it a listen.
You could check it out on Soundcloud - soundcloud.com/vorw_radio_int
You could find a link to that in the cards,
in the description, and I also have it in the pinned comment.
But I'd really appreciate it if you could give it a listen. soundcloud.com/vorw_radio_int
And it's very important to what's going on in this world today.
And It's just... it's perspective you know.
I'd always recommend getting a shortwave radio to listen to that on.
Also you can find that in the amazon
page in the description too - amazon.com/shop/thereportoftheweek
but I just wanted to get that out there and mean a lot if you could listen. soundcloud.com/vorw_radio_int
That's all that I have for you.
Disappointed by this,
but who knows maybe they'll redeem themselves going forward.
That's all that I have for you. I'm your host, The Report Of The Week.
And this is Running On Empty Food Review.
Thank you again for watching, take care, happy Friday.
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