hello everyone this is running on empty food review well hello ladies gentlemen and everyone
watching welcome one and all to this newest edition of the running on empty food review
series i'm your host thereportoftheweek thank you for tuning in i'm actually running a little bit
low on battery in my camera so this one's going to be a little shorter than usual perhaps i mean
you know how i do things but i'm kind of on the clock either way so let's get right into things
this i believe is the second time burger king has done this
they have released an impossible burger back in 2019 it was the impossible whopper
this time around in 2022 it is the impossible king so what this is it features instead of a beef
patty uh it features a plant-based patty so this they try to say is an alternative for
someone who's vegan or vegetarian i think there might be some issues with um how it's actually
prepared that you do need to be aware of but again the big thing about this it features a
plant-based patty instead of the beef patty it also has onions pickles ketchup and mustard this
burger is available the price of seven dollars a little pricey but i guess they say it's a
plant-based item um so we could charge a bit of a premium for it again it says the impossible patty
made from plants again this is the impossible king of the using impossible whopper packaging
and there you have it there's a view of it
all right so you obviously notice that cut there you might say camera problems well
let me let me ask you this what did you what did you notice um did you notice anything about this
not the packaging or anything right you see you see this right there the tomato and then
i saw mayo right there i thought to myself wait a minute this doesn't look like what was in the ad
so i uh paused the camera right then and there kind of depleted what was uh a couple
of that extra battery and i looked i looked at the receipt it does say one
impossible king and i also got a uh a whopper just for the heck of it just for the fun of it
which i've got right here um not impossible granted but anyway what's the big deal uh
i think they gave me an impossible whopper and not the impossible king so it's the end of the world
it's the end of the world so i guess i don't have what i uh what i need to review so that's kind of
well that's kind of a wrap for the uh the review that is i mean there's nothing i can do here my uh
well i'm sitting here contemplating right now if i want to uh
if i want to salvage the video in some way or just kind of say forget it i'm done with it for the day
uh what the heck i mean i set the lights up and everything i
got everything prepared i did all of that stuff yeah i don't know we'll just keep the camera
rolling i mean why not i guess this is an outtake video at this point and this happens sometimes
um i'm not even in the mood to really get all that upset i mean look it is what it is uh
obviously it wasn't an issue on my end and i checked i bet some of you might be wondering
well what what if they just messed up now this is this is definitely a whopper right there
i could tell though that this is an impossible burger and some might wonder how
you could you could always tell that there's a scent difference um the whoppers and all that
just have a certain scent but the impossible patties i guess it's just the plant-based
um the plant's base to it it's got a different scent so i noticed that this stuff happens it's
quite unfortunate that it does but this is one of those problems that's as old as fast food itself
essentially though i will say i think it's gotten worse over the years granted um you get the wrong
item right it's happened to all of us uh sometimes it's more egregious than others like in this case
it was just total wrong um sandwich as opposed to what i you know what i ordered uh sometimes it'll
just be like you ordered something with cheese and it didn't have it or it had an extra condiment
that you didn't want or whatever it was but in other cases you get the wrong thing and uh like
i said it happens but uh definitely gotten worse i'd say lately so you know it is what it is i mean
i don't know i guess i should still nibble at this for you know for your entertainment really
because i mean i reviewed the thing i reviewed this back in 2019 and i enjoyed it at the time
i mean i guess i'll try it again but this isn't a review for the impossible king
obviously because it's just gonna be what it is and uh it's totally different there's different
components so that's like nothing i could do there still paid seven bucks for it though very nice
at least i guess i got the whopper right we got that going so i'm just going to kick back at
this point what's the point so i'm just going to kick back i got got my uh got a different radio
here next to me so maybe i'll turn it on scan around nibble at the impossible burger let's uh
let's take one more look at it that look the hell with it let's just see look at the size of this
it's massive we'll see how it's changed since 2019 how about that uh at least review something
so turn on the radio listen to some
shortwave not really sure what you could pick up at this time of day but let's see
and uh well let's try it out the impossible whopper i guess 2022 edition going
in sorry about that had a little notice that came up that mentioned about the battery and then when
i pressed it it stopped the recording anyway the wrong item pretty much yeah it seemed possible uh
it's the impossible walker no doubt took another bite while the camera was kind of
doing its thing anyway there's a little cross-section for you i'll tell you this you know
the impossible items i always notice are just real hit or miss that's just the way that it goes a lot
of the time if you remember i tried out the was it the impossible or the it was the plant-based
stuff from kfc and my god that was awful that was absolutely horrible um where it was inedible and
but there have been other times where i've tried out the plant-based uh alternatives and they're
actually pretty good and burger king despite the the track record that they have sometimes despite
some of the items that they release which are absolute garbage um you know they really do
have a few a few hits out there so to speak and one thing that i i genuinely liked it
back in 2019 not and i'll be honest i'm not you know the kind that i'll be going out and getting
the plant-based stuff all the time you know and i'll straight up admit that that's why i've got
a regular whopper right there but like i said i'm not afraid to admit that and that's what i
usually go with so i'm not going to pretend like i eat this stuff you know three times
a day every day or anything but i will say that for what it is compared to some of the
plant-based items that i've gotten in the past it's actually pretty good
it was good back in 2019 and it actually still was decent in 2022 as well is it overpriced oh
absolutely it is but uh all things considered you know what you're looking for is the um
how does it match the regular whopper burger right and it actually does it tastes just like it i mean
that's the thing that gets me you could tell in the consistency and again with the scent that you
get that um it's definitely not a real burger but in terms of the taste it mimics the flavor
um almost better than it should you know for something so uh kind of man-made in that regard
but um they definitely do a good job with it i think it's for folks who maybe want
to get the experience like they're eating a burger king burger but aren't actually
consuming any meat and it still does that i mean it still does it tastes just like a
like a whopper burger even though again consistency wise it's like it's just a
little um a little thicker i would say than what the burger itself would normally be
but um still pretty good all things considered toppings are actually fresh that onion though you
could see so much of it and it's very very potent i mean you could definitely notice that too but um
all in all i mean i would say impossible burger wise in terms of the quality of the patty itself
it's actually pretty solid still maintaining the standards i wish i would have got the right item
so i could have tried out the impossible king but i would wager if the core component
is just having that impossible patty as the base that's what it's going to be all built off of
and then you know you would just be throwing in some some onions all right we got that we got the
pickles so we know how that would work and it does onion is just very sharp pickles are just kind of
there um and then ketchup and mustard and i think on the impossible king they also throw in some
some cheese as well but it all blends together nicely so far good base and um i'm sure it would
come together again if that's what it's built off of i'm sure if i just had to take a guess
i'd say the impossible king would probably be solid not going to say anything definitively
though because i couldn't try it out here i just tried out the impossible whopper again
but uh solid i mean still maintaining the standards i would say that you know
for an impossible for what they're trying to accomplish here they still did a good job with it
and um with it definitely going to get an 8.5 out of 10 i'd give this burger
just to you know retry the uh the impossible stuff still good for what it is but um
yeah yeah what can you do what can you do you know i am i'm upset at myself over this
just saying what but then i say what could have i done about this you know i don't know i don't know
is what it is this happens i remember back in 2014 this happened too tried out an item and it
was totally the wrong thing couldn't really do anything with that i swear maybe back in
2021 i tried this too it's a chicken sandwich i think it was from burger king it was the wrong
item also so i guess it just happens maybe it was even burger king that did that back in 2014
i think it was wendy's back then but as this happens i wish that places would at least
check obviously it went through on the computer system again that it was the uh
impossible king but it it you know was made obviously for something else
maybe someone else wound up with an impossible king and they're sitting there all upset that um
they didn't get their impossible whopper who knows maybe a switcheroo took place
so this is what it is it wasn't the intended experience but uh do you know
the way it goes a fast food experience a genuine fast food experience for you
making the best out of what we've got all right battery's about out so i'm going to wrap it up
right now sorry about this i sincerely apologize i strive to try to give you quality with with these
reviews i strive to review what i say i'm going to review and when that doesn't happen i i feel like
i let you all down but um there's only so much i could do in this situation and uh if the demand
is really there going forward for the impossible king then i'm going to go out i'll get it again
and we'll give this another shot so i'm sorry that this happened you know it is what it is in the end
not the end of the world obviously but um that's all that i have for you today thanks for bearing
with me though i appreciate your support until next time i'm your host the report of the week