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i am breaking out today not even a regular wing collar but an extra spiffy detachable
wing collar just because i wanted to wear one quite frankly no other occasion um but also on
the same day that i am wearing this special collar wendy's has released a new item and i'm actually
pretty excited about this and i'll tell you why lately there haven't been a lot of new releases
in the world of fast food you know there's been a couple here and there of course there was the
dream burger that was released last week and then before that taco bell released something
but really unlike earlier in the year you know the amount of releases coming out has greatly slowed
now maybe there are big things being planned maybe they just ran out of ideas i don't know either way
it was just kind of refreshing to see a new item on the menu and uh always a lot of fun to just try
them out and see what's going on see what it's all about so we found ourselves at wendy's today and
obtained the new bourbon bacon cheeseburger it's called so what does it have on it you know the
bourbon bacon cheeseburger a lot of um you know a lot of questions are kind of arising right now
bourbon right and then bacon cheeseburger you know do you need to be 21 to order this
what's on it exactly etc um well number one you cannot get drunk from eating the burger so there
is no age limit or requirement or any of that so that answers that question uh all right here's
what it comes with though a quarter pound beef patty also comes with your apple wood smoked bacon
american cheese crispy onions right so already it just sounds like a you know pretty standard
bacon cheeseburger with a little bit of uh those crispy onion strings on it and then it also comes
with sweet and smoky bourbon bacon sauce so the sauce is actually called bourbon bacon sauce um i
thought maybe it was just like a type of bourbon sauce and then there's bacon on you know the
cheeseburger which of course there is um but it actually is a bourbon bacon sauce it's called you
can get it with anywhere from one or three patties you know a double single triple i got a double
those are around six bucks if you want to get a regular you know a single it's about five bucks
says your break fast could have been free
and here's it here it is looks like a pretty decent sized burger say so myself
very reflective so now we'll just un unravel it we'll see what it's all about
yes they threw in some barbecue sauce for good luck
okay there is i was worried for a second i saw the barbecue sauce i was thinking oh no
did they just give me like a a regular cheeseburger and then just put the barbecue sauce
on the side but no no all right here's what it looks like um pretty straightforward i would say
got the melted cheese there the bacon on the top and the onion strings of course
now you're not seeing a ton of sauce but kind of soaked into the top bun there
see that's what that's that's the sauce all right that is the blessed um bourbon sauce as they say
you know pretty basic sandwich i'd say um let's just find out what it's all about let's try it out
camera's focused a little weird there it is i'll just take a thumbnail shot real quick
before i forget you know i don't know we'll get this this angle here big smile for the camera
you know something like that and i don't know i have a feeling that this one might
be pretty good maybe not i i don't know sometimes those bourbon you know barbecue sauces they can
they can work really well for the burger sometimes they're better than you think sometimes
they're worse so we'll just try it out all right bourbon bacon cheeseburger from wendy's going in
i'm going to take two more bites or something
you ever stay up late in tonight and ponder what if there was like a bus or something that instead
of just using gasoline and use the bourbon bacon sauce as fuel you know what what would happen
well i don't know what would happen if if that did i don't know beats me
here's what we got i know like you might be seeing my reaction right now and you might
be thinking oh boy this one's gonna be bad no it's actually not i have one slight frustration
and i guess it's something that's like you know it's a frustration but not
not in an overwhelmingly bad way it's something that i think could be improved upon
because it would be even better with it i like the burger
i think that they legitimately did a good job here and compared to some of their releases
this definitely ranks in like that upper upper echelon of the you know of the wendy's releases
the thing with these sorts of you know bourbon barbecue type burgers they're always real hit
or miss it's like they're either really really good or they just miss the mark completely this
one's really good all right number one onto all the you know the more basic ingredients right
you got the beef patties here you can see that they're thick there's a good amount of meat um
certainly is juicy it's flavorful you're getting a good amount of it the american cheese although
you do have the two slices you know the one in between the patties and then the one
on top of the patties it's not overwhelmingly you know cheesy to excess or anything there's
still a good amount of cheese it ties it all together it kind of holds everything together too
not a problem works out as a nice cheeseburger there's um you know definitely a decent amount
of bacon i mean you know pretty crisp pretty flavorful etc um the onion strings i wish were
a little on the crispier side but still they're okay it's not like they're too soggy or anything
and again onions you know they can be very potent it's not overwhelming not underwhelming either
so here's what of course we're all focused on uh that bourbon bacon sauce
i really like it i like how it tastes i like that there is this sweetness to it it's exactly as they
describe it um there's a nice sweetness to it as i as i begin to taste it but then there's
this nice smokiness too it's like just a nice sweet and smoky you know not a barbecue sauce
of course a bourbon sauce but it just it just works with everything it works with the onion
it works with the bacon and it works with the beef patties this is the signature ingredient
ties it all together but there's a problem look at the sides of the sandwich and this is where
my frustration comes in right and now look at the amount of the bourbon sauce that's on it
a little bit soaked into the top bun there but not much more there a sauce that good
i really think that this sandwich would need a bit more of it now a lot of the time i feel like i'm
actually you know kind of saying oh this has too much sauce has too much mayo too much to this too
much that it drowns out the other flavors this is the opposite i think that this sauce is good
to the point where it really needs a bit more than what is already um there i would recommend going
forward if you get this order it with um some extra uh extra bourbon bacon sauce because it's
good i like it it's a nice almost like you know kind of smokehouse type burger or something to
that extent but the sauce is really good it ties it all together but i wish that there was more
because every bite that i have where it's like you just have a few a little hint of it a tiny
note of that sauce it's like you want more and you wish that there was more and you think about
it's a decent sandwich but how much better it would even be if there's more sauce
so it's just lacking in terms of that that i wish there were more but it's good in every other way
pretty much um you know but what a difference the sauce would make the burger that i got
um i would rate an 8.0 out of 10 you know because of just that sauce i would have rated it higher if
there were more sauce etc um but you know it's a wendy's burger it's not the best thing in the
world not the worst but certainly decent for what they did you know again i just wish there
were more sauce and if you get it i would just say you know add extra sauce i'd say could i get
it with extra um bourbon bacon sauce so with that that's all that i have for you i'm your
host the report of the week and today i tried out the bourbon bacon cheeseburger from wendy's
pretty decent needs a bit more sauce but i think that's an issue that could easily be solved when
you're ordering it all right everyone that's all that i have thanks for watching and take care