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review i am your host the report of the week and welcome one and all i hope you're doing okay today
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we are here yes yes indeed we are somehow back at it again uh we're here we're trying
out a new release well at this point it's a fairly new release from wendy's this has been
highly requested i've actually gotten so many comments so many emails so many messages and at
this point in time i am left wondering is this going to be the burger that changes everything
you have to go all the way back to 2013 for this burger to even even be on the radar wendy's back
then released i think it was just called the pretzel burger or something to that extent
and i tried it out and i hated it i really did i despised it i tried that burger out back in 2013
and i said i can't stand it i thought it was disgusting i thought it was dreadful
and uh that was that well i don't think my viewpoint then was a very popular one because a
lot of people loved it and it's back and i figured you know what look i think this is a different
burger i think they kind of are taking some of the similar um ingredients and ideas you know from
uh how it was in 2013 and 2014 they're taking it they're maybe making it better or worse i don't
know i haven't tried it yet and they brought it back now it's been so many years since i tried it
look maybe i just didn't like it then maybe i got a bad one i really don't know but a lot of people
seem to have loved it and lots and lots of people are excited that it's back and they're saying hey
you got to try this review brah i thought 2020 was just a terrible year and this is what's making it
better so we're going to see is this is this really a life-changing burger we will find out
it's the pretzel bacon pub cheeseburger from wendy's it's got a lot of ingredients on it
so we're going to get to that in a minute one thing i just wanted to do real quick because
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this burger has everything now you see i did dramatic lean on the table into the
camera a little bit to show that i mean business that this is serious business
right i'm at a little bit of an angle so so this is proof that this does have everything
okay maybe not either way here's what this burger has it has a huge amount of ingredients so
it comes with a quarter pound beef patty warm beer cheese sauce bacon
smoky honey mustard sauce crispy fried onions pickles munster cheese
and then as they say an extra soft pretzel bun on the ad it says come for the bun
stay for everything else you can get this i got it for dollars and 39 cents uh other individuals have
said that they've got it around the six dollar range or five dollar range but to me it seems
again somewhere between the five and six dollar uh range but um yeah you know show up for for as they
say that a bun and um then stay for everything else so it's the bun that captivates people
you know what what the corporate says and this was a big trend years ago you know among among
those pesky millennials right as they say in the boardroom uh obviously you had the trends years
ago where sriracha was the big thing before that pretzel buns that was the that was a huge trend in
fast food they were saying you know you just put a pretzel bun on something and all the consumers
will flock toward it you know like like a moth coming over to a bright light but the pretzel buns
i've had them some of them were pretty good pretty good some worms just hit or miss type of stuff
it says your break fast could have been free
so it's kind of i don't know i feel like they're kind of rubbing it rubbing it in
your face it's like yeah your breakfast could have been free but you paid for it anyway
you know that's just the impression that i get from that but i don't mean to be that way all
right here's the burger you can see because of the lights it's all shiny and reflective
to my understanding it's got a lot on it it's been heavily requested
we're going to unravel it we're going to see what we've got all right so here we are
here we are there it is there i am with it you can actually see the for verification purposes
pretzel bun there i am with it right there we're probably going to do another thumbnail shot too
just in case people just want to see the sandwich i'm being honest with how we
we do things all right so there we go we'll just do another one like this or something
you know you can see the big glob of the white stuff there that is not marshmallow
i know some people are saying oh wow you know this is just like how it was
when i would go camping back in the good old days you know you get the burger and you
put the marshmallow there and you know that is not marshmallow all right so i will tell you that
um but yeah you can see it's got a lot on you can see the beef patty you can see the monster cheese
you can see the onion strings let's take the bun off we got the pretzel bun okay that must
be the beer cheese sauce if i imagine um you got the pickles there's some onions there you
got the sauce the other sauce i guess that's the honey mustard sauce on the top right and i
think we have visual on all the ingredients again there's the other view of some of the other stuff
pretzel bun looks a little thicker so we'll see but we're going to try it out uh we'll try to
taste as many ingredients as we can that's what it comes down to if if this really is everything
i might short circuit and that's going to be it and i'm just going to kind of
you know sit here like you know like they unplugged me and that's it because my brain won't
be able to process it all but we'll see pretzel bacon pub cheeseburger going in i'm just going
to pretend that i'm just down at the down at the pub having a pint and enjoying some some pub food
all right it's going in
can't really see it but there's a table right here you know it's a table
i can't believe we're in october you know can't believe it's the month of october already
i don't know where the time goes 2020. it's been such a crazy here you know it's
crazy crazy crazy times
all right i'm going to take one more bite and um and go from there
so what i do for these items and the number one if you're i know i kept you sitting here for 10
minutes that's good so you can leave right now and that's that's what it comes down to uh you
can just know that um of all the things that are on this burger i'll tell you what i can taste the
most of and what i can't um but honestly look for what it is the abridged version is that it's good
i like it this is so much better than what i remember the version of it that i had back in 2013
for some reason i hated that thing i was squirming around in the the chair i remember and i was
i was almost throwing it up on the camera i couldn't couldn't stand it um but this is great
i like it actually um it's got so many ingredients but they all blend together for the most part it
all ends up being good uh let's just go down the list i'll tell you what i like what i don't like
and we'll be quick number one the quarter pound beef patty i like it it's very flavorful it's
very juicy i mean it's just cooked perfectly and it's so flavorful it's teeming with flavor
um i'm like you definitely taste it in every bite it doesn't get lost and everything and uh that's
great so a big thumbs up for the beef patty the one thing that i really couldn't couldn't taste
all that much was the warm beer cheese sauce i can kind of taste it a tiny bit but it is extremely
mild extremely light and that's the one thing there it's like i don't know why they were saying
beer in it because i cannot taste that maybe that was supposed to be where like the pub type of
quality was coming from but i just don't taste it bacon is good bacon is there nice thick crispy
slab of bacon that's good flavor the smoky honey mustard sauce i could certainly taste and what i
liked about that is at least to me sometimes with the honey mustard it's like you can taste that
little bit of the um you know the sharpness of the mustard but the sweetness isn't really there
this time i could definitively taste that honey and that sweetness was just a really really nice
touch to this burger the fried onions again added a little bit of flavor i could taste that gave a
crisp to it the pickles also were a little you know they had that little bit of a crunch to them
a little bit of a sour note as well but that was good uh the monster cheese again definitely
gave it a little bit of a cheesiness and um the pretzel bun look right here i'll roll
it into a little bowl to prove that it is indeed you know it's soft it's a soft bun
a little chewy but largely soft and definitely does taste like that pretzel dough
so overall to me it's just a tasty burger the pretzel bun is totally accurate i thought that
the bun was gonna be a little overwhelming and i thought that all the ingredients
would be just a bit too much that would end up as like this disgusting swap um but as a matter
of fact it did not much better than i thought it would be my only complaint really is i wish
that the beer cheese sauce could be tasted a bit more otherwise that's that's my only complaint
and even though i can't really taste it as much i
it doesn't necessarily detract from the sandwich it's not like i'm sitting here thinking
if only i could taste that beer cheese sauce right i'm thinking no this is still good otherwise so
even without that yeah i could use that a little bit but it's still a good burger
i like it i'm impressed with it i would get it again five five to six dollar burger tastes good
i really don't have much bad to say about it i mean it's actually it's good
nine out of ten rating nine out of ten is what i'm going to give it because i like it
it's a good item uh i was expecting the worst but really it it's much much better than i thought
loaded with flavor and good for what it is again only that one little issue but even that is not
a critical flaw if you ask me so with that that's all that i have for you ladies and gentlemen i'm
your host the report of the week today we tried out the pretzel bacon pub cheeseburger from
wendy's that's all that i got thanks for watching and do take care and see you next time that's all