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You know, you've just kind of been haunted in a sense,
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Thank you for being here! Thank you for checking in. Great to have you! So first and foremost one one
beginning note:
Some people did contact me.
They're wondering, you know, "You're in Florida. Are you doing alright with a hurricane and whatnot?". All is well, everything's everything is going fine.
!o don't worry about that!
And to anyone who is...
dealing with that right now, I wish you the best! Let's get on with the review.
Wendy's has a new burger out. This is a new release a new a new one,
you know, as they as they like to say and
it's called the
S'Awesome
Bacon
Classic Single.
Now, for any of you truly
hardcore viewers.... And let me just change the camera angle real quick
I just want to move it a little bit so I get sent to myself. There we go.
For anyone who is a true hardcore viewer you remember the infamous
Wendy's
S'Awesome debacle with the chicken tenders?
Where I, I
travelled so far and
I tried to jump through so many hoops and over so many hurdles and
And
I never got the S'Awesome Sauce!
But finally, maybe they just understood my plight and the plight of all of us and they said, "Fear not
valued customer!
You don't have to worry about the S'Awesome Sauce and trying to get it as a side for some chicken tenders!
We're gonna showcase this on a burger. And as long as you remember that it's called
shwaa S'Awesome sauce, you're gonna be completely and totally fine!" because they just released a new burger as I said just yesterday
And it's called thus S'Awesome Bacon Classic Single. And that's the seagull translation for those of you who speak that language.
So this burger comes with a quarter pound of fresh beef, so it's a quarter pound burger, three bacon strips,
melted American cheese,
lettuce,
Onion, pickles, right?
So it sounds like a pretty standard burger so far.
Right? You get the beef, you get some toppings, get some bacon some cheese. Nothing special. And
then,
S'Awesome sauce and it's kind of drizzled on like a, you know,
garnished or so to speak and it's described as a sweet smoky and tangy sauce
(Aka S'Awesome sauce). That's "S
apostrophe AWES
OME". So it's
S'Awesome. Sometimes I call it Shaw'Awesome sauce or SAWsome
sauce.
But to say it more
Fluidly, it's S'Awesome sauce.
And
They described it as a masterpiece.
This is something that they're very proud of and as a result of that you pay a premium for this burger.
Get ready for this. Let me actually I got the receipt in the bag here. I was surprised but
Sometimes you know you get what you pay for so it is what it is. This burger was six dollars and
49 cents, which I think is a premium for a burger. No meal.
So it's not like you're you know, you're getting a drink and some fries or whatever. Just for the burger-
$6.49, so I guess that S'Awesome sauce is really highly sought after!
And here we go...
So not to confuse you it says hamburger. I actually did get a chicken sandwich.
So hopefully this isn't the chicken sandwich no, no, it's a burger. All right, very good. Very good.
Sure, I got a little bit of a
presumed, well you can't really see it, S'Awesome material on my finger, but I decided not to lick it off ... yet.
So here's what it looks like. Let's try and lift it up. This is kind of like a Wendy's
S'Awesome bacon classic single cradle so to speak.
And here's what it looks like. There's an up close... Oh, actually I got the double one my apologies.
Is that a double, you know, look at that. You can't even tell kind of yeah. All right, then it's the double one.
So the double one is $6. My apologies most of the time they serve it. Of course, it's a single or a double.
Got the double. I'm sorry there.
That's why the price is what it is. But anyway, well, the ingredients don't change
anyway, you know, it's just one patty or two patties, right?
There's that S'Awesome sauce!
They're giving you a ton of it. You can see there is kind of an onion in three pickles
hiding in the S'Awesome sauce. So it's really smothered man. You can just see once again for yourself.
That thing is it's just coated with the S'Awesome sauce and look at that...
Yeah S'Awesome sauce sliding down right there under the bun you got that that lettuce and bun action going.
You can see again. There's a there's another
slice of onion kind of
dwelling in the S'Awesome sauce. And
you can see some of the bacon strips, cheese and beef patties there - no Sawesome sauce
to be found. That's not to say that it's not lurking though.
But anyway, we know what's on it, right so we know that on this burger you get a
Beef bacon and cheese lettuce onion pickles and then S'Awesome sauce some and more
Sawwesome sauce and even more Sauceum sauce
and SawSemSauce on the top bun and Sawwwsome sauce on top of the lettuce and
those pickles are in the saucesome sauce and you have the onion in the sauceandsauce and S'Awesomesauce and let's just...
Eat it. It's the Wendy saw some bacon classic double goin in!
There are some gusty winds today from the hurricane but nothing as I said have any significance really.
I don't think the freshest S'awesome burger is gonna fly away or anything. It's weighed with two quarter-pound patties.
Look at that.
S'Awesome sauce is seeping out right there. It's a S'Awesome sauce slide
And
I'll just submerge myself in the pool of S'Awesome sauce so we can know we know what it tastes like.
Trying to get it focused. I'll just have to do it manually.
And that tangy sweet and smoky S'Awesome sauce, ehhh?
Well, I'm just gonna pretty much go through it fast because I want to talk about one thing and one thing only -
pickles.
No, the S'Awesome sauce. All right beef is what it is at standard Wendy's quality beef
Tastes good for what it is though standard don't expect anything more than that standard beef though
It is juicy. And in my opinion tastes better than Burger King. Soo you get a good amount of beef there
It's pretty good tastes good. The bacon strips have a little bit of a crunchiness to it. At least you can tell if they're they're
The lettuce is what it is, you know
Sometimes the lettuce it's not normally the star of the dish the American cheese kind of blends everything together works out
Well so far so good
You know pretty standard burger nothing to really talk about but then you get the onions the pickles and the smee swee
smoky and tangy straw S'Awesome sauce.
Here's my complaint:
the S'Awesome sauce...
I'm actually I'm not even I'm very underwhelmed by it to be quite frank!
It's tangy certainly has that tang to it.
Sweetness?
I wouldn't say it has.
Smokiness?
Doesn't have that either. But it's tangy.
Here's the issue though,
you have all these pickles that are
immersed in
the S'Awesome sauce
I mean, they're just bathing in it and you have the onion
You know that poor that poor those poor two onions that we're just being again submerged in the S'Awesome sauce
Pickles are tangy and onions are certainly potent and when the sauce is neither
Sweet or smokey kind of I thought, you know, maybe...maybe it's like a type of barbecue sauce? No. it's just this tangy sauce.
Really? It reminds me of like a salad dressing.
And it's just tangy and then you have these tangy pickles and the Tang, you know, it's not really tangy
But just a potency of the onion mixed in it's just a bit too much to be quite honest!
Just a bit too much Tangyness.
To really make the burger enjoyable
It's a valiant effort and I'm proud of them that they they actually put so much S'Awesome sauce on the burger.
But I'm disappointed in the Tangyness and
sheer access thereof. I think this would be much much better
If it was fully what they said that it was gonna be.
Whereas you could make out that sweetness and the smokiness of the sauce. I think there'd be a lot less to complain about
Because it would just it wouldn't just be that reliance upon the tangyness exclusively.
It's just way too tangy ends up just being like a salad dressing and as a result it detracts
significantly from the burger. So keep that in mind if you've ever had S'Awesome sauce before it's got a
S'Awesome ... good ... shaw
It's got a name that's interesting called S'Awesome sauce and
It might draw you in but you're gonna be underwhelmed by it.
And that's all that I have to say for you! Price-wise? For this a bit over $6. Again...
It's underwhelming, way too tangy, as a result
I'm gonna be giving this a 5.9 out of 10 because when there's so much sauce - ruins a good burger.
If you if you just like their burgers, just get a Dave's single or a
Baconator and forget about the S'Awesome sauce. My two cents. On a final note:
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I hope you enjoyed this review and I hope you have a "S'Awesome Good" Wednesday!