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Food Review!
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Hello ladies and gentlemen, and everyone watching.
This is running on Empty food review. I'm your host, TheReportOfTheWeek, and
It is a very hot afternoon admittedly. I'm out here, it's uh,
gosh, it's at least a hundred degrees. I think I think the heat index is around 110, so it's very very hot today,
but I'm out here because I wanted to do a review outside. I thought to myself.
Well, you know I want to switch it up from just being in the car
and I'm going to beat the heat with some nice cold water and some McDonald's, a new menu item
from McDonald's as a matter of fact.
If we check our trusty notes here,
this is their signature sriracha quarter pound burger it is in this...
sack,
the Sriracha Burger sack, they actually call it officially, and
I've already have I already have mixed feelings about this to be quite honest.
I mean, it's just that's how I see it, but I have mixed feelings about this to be quite honest um...
A lot of their signature crafted sandwiches, and this is another one of those, are very hit-or-miss.
Some of them are very good...
some of them...
*Vietnam flashback of horrible sandwiches*
I think you know what that means.
Means it's not so good.
We'll see, it's up in the air. We'll just see what this is and how it is and we'll go from there.
Now this is again, the Signature,
Sriracha Quarter pound burger, you could also get it as a chicken patty uh...
Fried, or grilled. This comes with a spicy, chili pepper, infused
Sriracha Mac sauce- What name right? Also comes with some tender baby greens.
Tomato, crispy onion, smooth white cheddar cheese, on an Artisan Roll.
And you could get it on a uh, sesame-seed bun, if you'd like to kind of make it a Workingman
Sandwich, or you could get it on the uh, artisan roll if you want to go that route.
Now I got it on the artisan Roll, but you can swap either by the way.
Uh...so again,
*ReviewBrah puts away his notebook*
In short, and this was $5 13 cents....
*ReviewBrah fixes his godly suit*
In short, this is McDonald's, again, trying to say- And this strategy of theirs, I really don't know how I feel about it
It's them trying to say you know, we're McDonald's but we can do kind of upscale restaurant quality food too....
And sometimes it works out all right, sometimes,
let's face it, it's McDonald's and they really can't do an upscale restaurant quality burger, But they're not giving up,
They're resilient, they're going to be fighting to the end...
uh fighting to the bitter end to the death, and
uh they're keeping on with this stuff
and they're trying you know, they're gonna
get into everything, really. They're going to try and
be a bit of a late comer into the sriracha craze...
*removes food from bag*
With this premium Sandwich so anyway,
Signature crafted burger in the signature crafted burger box
*Shows Burger box to camera*
There's one thing that I like about it,
it is the design. You know I said this in the past, but I do like just the simple,
Minimalistic black design on this, I like it. I give them credit for that.
*opens box*
Take some water to cool down...
*dignified sipping*
No worries, I already have a cup of Starbucks water right off camera.
*takes out burger*
*investigates box*
*shows camera the burger's offspring*
Is that the offspring? What are these things here? You see them?
I don't know what those are are.
Are those little baby Sriracha burgers, getting ready to grow up?
So here's what it looks like. Now, I give them credit, it looks very, very much aesthetically pleasing. If you just look at it..
*the creator is impressed*
If there's one thing that they can do well with these signature crafted sandwiches, they make them look good. Uh, you can just see the glistening
*shows the aesthetically appetizing burger on camera*
uh artisan roll there, you can see the burger, all the nice pristine looking toppings there. I mean it looks good.
It looks good. They do have a good appearance when it comes to this.
umm...
*takes off top bun of burger*
I was expecting a little bit more sriracha... sauce, but you can kind of see it on the top there.
You can kinda see a little bit there.
But you can see we have a little bit of everything. You see we have the bun,
we have the lettuce, the baby greens, the cheese, the onions the sriracha, so we got everything that we need.
So that being said, I guess we'll just dig in. So this is the Signature Crafted Sriracha Burger from McDonald's-
preliminary sip of cold Starbucks water goin' in first,
*drinks the Starbucks water*
so I don't overheat and die on camera.
And now we're gonna try the burger, with some short wave radio accompaniment
I hope. So, it's the Signature Crafted Sriracha Burger from McDonald's goin' in.
*turns on radio-chan*
*static*
*the creator is displeased :(*
*disciplines radio-chan*
*attempts to find other station with fine tuning*
If I could...
Say sad face right now,
That would be my expression, because I was kind and I was hoping to tune into a certain station
And it looks like looks like they signed off at the hour
*devours sandwich*
*attempts more fine tuning*
*garbled voices and noise*
I don't know what they're talking about here but we'll listen to this.
*from radio speakers* Whatever reason general sessions decide
*continued from radio* remind me um...... *garbled static*
*continued from radio* America is about
*static*
*foreign language*
*foreign language something about mobile trace and 1000 of something*
*foreign language *
I'm pretty sure it's broadcast of the voice of the Americas to send news to the African continent, but I'm not entirely sure
*static and more foreign language mentions Donald Trump and Obama*
-One more bite.
*obliterates sandwich*
*sandwich defeated*
*foreign language*
*radio-chan is turned off*
*the creator cleans himself*
*napkin obliterated*
*fixes his suit*
Well, which one.... I'll go with this one cause it looks cooler.
*sips graciously*
*incoming roast in 3*
*2*
*1*
I know, I had a little bit of trouble with the radio. I wanted to find a good station and listening to while I ate, but-
We found something, that's fine.
When it comes to the sandwich,
*sigh of disappointment*
It can be- you know...
It can be disappointing sometimes.
They build your hopes up....
Gamechanger!
A revolutionary!
This is gonna be
the McDonald's sandwich, that revitalizes the chain
Revitalizes the menu and gets you come in there every day, three times a day for every meal.
Every single thing you eat as a result of this sandwich will be from McDonald's, they say when they release this.
They build your hopes up. You go there, you get the sandwich, you take that bite...
And then all your hopes and dreams come crashing down.
Crashing and burning.
Because the sriracha sauce on this sandwich, just didn't work out that well.
It's true.
The uh, I mean, the signature crafted thing. I understand what they're trying to do. I think you do too.
They're playing with fire. It's either going to be very good or it's not going to be good at all.
It looks good, you saw that, good presentation.
*dignified drinking*
Some of the stuff on it tasted good. I give credit the onions,
These little onions. I was able to discern that this was not the um offspring of the sandwich, so these are not little baby
Um,
Sriracha burgers that are just developing, but these are actually the fried
Onions that are on it
Those are very good they're actually very tasty
Flavorful had a nice little crispyness but had some nice flavor in there too - those are good. I like those, it was a really good
Um... *dignified sipping*
The baby Greens
were innocuous
They didn't add anything or detract anything. Smooth white cheddar for cheese. I mean it was actually pretty good pretty good quality there
The beef is standard-
You know it's like a standard quarter pound burger when they assume- when you know they imply that it's Artisan quality you expect...
I don't know what you expect if you think of like some chef wearing this real fancy pressed culinary uniform
Flipping burgers on the grill making a special nice patty just for you
But it's exactly the same thing is that their standard quarter pound burger
Has some flavor, but you know it's a little dry still a little dry, could have a little bit more
Um, juiciness to it a little more flavor that could be an issue there.
But it's to be expected, because from McDonald's... Then comes the sriracha sauce
And also the tomato tomatoes pretty good, nice juicy good-quality plump tomato, what you want to see on a burger
Then comes the sriracha sauce
of all this good stuff on the sandwich
The sriracha sauce it just-it just ,
It just doesn't work
You know it just doesn't work. That's all that I can say. I'm going to be inclined to try this with a chicken sandwich because
*dignified sipping*
Well sometimes I've heard that some sauces you know they'll work better with the chicken and the meat.
I knew that. So I think I'm going to try the chicken variety of this in the near future
Because the sriracha sauce just doesn't work. Has a spiciness to it, which
*head tilt*
You know, it's definitely noticeable
but it just clashes everything in it. Just a certain bit of a spiciness a little bit of the tang that's in there too...
It just clashes with all the other ingredients on this sandwich it just doesn't go it seems like it doesn't belong there
You notice the flavor, and
independently it will likely taste fine,
and this burger independently, likely tastes fine. You mix the two together, into one product and it doesn't work out
and that's just the way of things that's just the
the physics of the McDonald's universe it just doesn't work out .
Aaand as a result it defeats the entire purpose of the sandwich because you're getting this sandwich
to try out the sriracha sauce, and it doesn't work, so that's an issue. Please, please be wary of that
Uh, it pretty much defeats the purpose of the entire sandwich
Maybe try the chicken variety I have a suspicion that this would work better with chicken to be quite honest
I'm going to do an assessment of that likely in the near future to see for myself
But I would recommend you probably take a gamble
You know take a little bit of a gamble
Try it with the chicken variety because I suspect that it might be better with that because this burger was a disappointment
In that regard I would say that this is not a buy I wouldn't recommend it
again the chicken variety is there it's a
it's - it's
It's unknown. I don't know how it would go, but again
I have a suspicion that it would probably taste a lot better than the burger does here that is my suggestion there
5 dollars and 13 cents
Uh
Not well spent. So again, I wouldn't recommend this I would pass on it
And maybe if you really really want to try this I would recommend you go for the chicken variety instead
Again, just a suspicion of mine therefore out of 10 what am I going to be rating the signature crafted sriracha burger from McDonald's out?
of 10 I'm just going to give it a 4.2 out of 10 because all the other ingredients are fine, but because that sauce just
Doesn't go off the sandwich, and it doesn't do anything good for the sandwich that they attracted a lot of points again
I wouldn't recommend this but McDonald's are pumping out so much new stuff all the time just stay tuned
They'll have a new release before you even know it and we'll just go from there
That's all that I have for you ladies and gentlemen have a nice afternoon stay cool, and we'll see you later
I'm TheReportOfTheWeek, take care.
*God has left*