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
so i'm i'm going all out today you know i i am i'm going all out going with the contrast collar today
i know i usually go with just the white shirts but i figured let's let's let's change it up a little
bit for this uh for this one we're gonna go all out so you might be wondering all right what what
did burger king do now what did what did they do this time what's going on so here's what's going
on in terms of burger king to i guess directly and you know not any sort of creative way retort
to that so burger king has released a new menu item and the reactions to it thus far are a little
mixed i mean you have some very positive reactions but you also have some very negative reactions
and that's where i come in i'm here to say look let's try this item out let's see if
it's good let's see if it's bad etc um but first i just want to explain the situation so recently
burger king they haven't had too many new uh items out i think a couple months ago they started
releasing the new king sandwiches and after that they really haven't released anything new
um you know burger king was one of those chains that for a while would uh go out and you would
have like a new item every other week essentially but now it's slowed down a bit and i think some
people were eager for a new release especially maybe a new burger or something to that extent
so they came out with the single bacon king right you might say well sound sounds doable sounds uh
sounds pretty tasty so why would anyone be upset with that well some people were frustrated what
they said was a lack of originality perhaps in terms of this item and they they're saying
this is a this is really lazy um for them to do because burger king already has an item
called the bacon king and they released that oh gosh i had to have been years ago it
probably was like 20 i don't even know probably 2017 i'd have to assume or earlier and what the
bacon king is is it's a big burger come with two flame grilled beef patties bacon strips a good
number of them hence the name american cheese ketchup and mayonnaise that's the bacon king
the brand new item the single bacon king is all of that except instead of two patties it's just
one patty so i could understand why some people might be a little frustrated at that because
you might be saying well wait a minute this is an existing menu item nothing whatsoever has changed
i could go to the drive through right now and say could i get the bacon king but just with one patty
so what's what's new here absolutely nothing um now i think some people are a bit harsh in that
but i do understand that i think some folks are hoping for a little more originality when it
comes to a new um promoted right and menu item i should say and to only have the same burger with
an adjustment that anyone could have made at any time all right i understand what was also a little
bit of a just for me on their website i think there was a glitch a couple days ago where there
was this one burger it was called the spicy as fire whopper and it showed up on their menu out of
nowhere and i was thinking is this like a mistake is there going to be a new release of like this
this looked pretty interesting it was supposed to be some whopper with jalapenos and stuff on it
i thought this sounded pretty cool only for them to remove the item and i think it was just a
glitch or something and instead this came out so that's a little bit of a bummer but it is what it
is all right price for this the single bacon king to get the sandwich by itself is 5.49 which again
for just a one patty burger is a little pricey but it is also if you're looking for maybe a little
bit of a better deal um a two for ten dollar deal they also have we can get two entrees two
fries and two drinks for the price of ten bucks so um if you're feeling a little more a little
more hungry i suppose you can get that as well all wrapped up right here so let's do the unraveling
kind of hunched over a little bit but there's a little bit of a gap between the chair and the
so let's there we go and there it is and all its kingly glory see it's just one one patty
i guess there's a bacon strip the cheese
ketchup mayo bacon
and uh there it is in terms of its presentation though i mean
this is just the way it is with fast food why am i surprised at all i'm
not let's get a couple thumbnails real quick and then i'll tell you what my comment was
i'm going with like a little bit of everything you know semi serious
and i'll just do like a glaring one for the fun of it i don't think i'll use it
all right anyway aside from that i mean i'm not surprised if you look at it though on its way
on their website if you just take a look you compare to this it's just expectations versus
reality that's all that i can say they make it look like there's tons and tons of bacon
and it's this huge sandwich and you know it's just a burger so you can say um you know and the
bacon again seems a little lacking it's a little lopsided so i'll focus on this side of it i guess
i can get that bacon and we'll just try it out the single bacon king from burger king going in
two more bites
that was just water in there by the way so it's not like you know i was squeezing out
any of the the grease from the burger into the the receptacle and was guzzling that down
or anything to that extent so the single bacon king um well in terms of the item itself
generally unremarkable i would say average certainly not bad not bad at all um i would
say an average burger king burger i i just don't think that this necessarily deserves
all of the hullabaloo of saying either it's the best thing ever or the worst thing ever
and nor do i think that they necessarily needed to go all the way out and make this a new item
but in terms of taste it's not bad i really can't complain there burger king um despite any
sort of tacky promotional deals i would state that the quality of the burgers has gone up
i've used this example before but i used to really really hate anything from burger
king i detested it i said uh burger king yeah you know like everything they touch is just terrible
i used to say but it really has improved despite again a little bit of a sloppy appearance and i
think it could have used more bacon i mean they said three bacon strips now how many this is a bit
see there are only two bacon strips on this one so
if you wanted to be really picky you can say that they should have had three and you could just
really bash them for that but you know it if they do advertise to have three bacon strips it should
have three bacon strips so that is one thing just in my case that needed more bacon there
you know in terms of the bacon it is called the bacon king the bacon strips that were
there were decent i've seen other folks get much bigger strips these looked like they were more
or less just half strips but they were still good they were crisp you know nice crisp to it
very flavorful when you got it in the bite um but i do wish it had a little bit more
a little bit more bacon on it uh you know the beef patty in and of itself is still good
still maintaining the standards with that nice flame grilled beef right there good meaty flavor
in every single bite which is great and the ketchup and mayo they didn't seem to go overboard
this time around i've had burgers from burger king in the past that have had so much mayo that it's
just unbelievable and it it cancels everything out but in this case i think it was inoffensive
it added a little bit of moisture to it and uh again the american cheese was a nice accompaniment
so overall it's not a bad burger i would say average um nothing you know to rave about nothing
to harshly condemn either and that's exactly how the bacon king the original bacon king was
so you probably wasted 10 minutes of your your life with this video because all i'm
really saying here is that imagine a bacon king and then imagine it with one less patty that's
what this tastes like so now to 10 factoring that in though as an average sandwich um
average being 5 out of 10 you know this is going to get a 5.8 out of 10 slightly above average but
again nothing to rave about nothing to strongly um condemn either but a little sloppy and it
could use a little bit more bacon in my opinion hence the name so that's why it has the rating
that it has but definitely i think some people were being a bit mean to burger king i know some
folks they just get really you know they they pick their side it's like oh i i'm a fan of this
chain and everything that chain does is terrible i think some folks are just too quick to criticize
and um maybe that's where some of the harshest words toward burger king's release here um
came from but overall i mean i hope they come out with a new item soon that is a bit more inventive
but overall again this burger not the best not the worst and with that that's all that i have for you
thank you for watching that's all that i have i'm your host the report of the week