hello everyone this is running on empty food review well hello ladies gentlemen
and everyone watching this is running on empty food review i'm your host the report of the week
and thank you for checking in tuning in and for being here all right so i wasn't sure what i was
going to uh review today although the other day i was you know because i perused through these
these websites that you know kind of have news and information about all the different fast food
releases and burger king had you know i'd say like a week or two ago um released their cheesy
tots so i was thinking okay well maybe i'll try that you know i was looking at the burger king
website i was thinking all right you know i'll see if that's on the menu if i can get that etc
all of a sudden something else caught my eye that i hadn't even seen you know publicized yet
i thought wait a minute sourdough king you know i don't think they've always had that on the menu
i checked and sure enough today from this day forward from this day forth up until april 19th
uh the sourdough king is a new addition to their king uh family of of burgers so to speak and it's
going to be there again for about you know a month or so and i thought you know what let's do that
let's try out the sourdough king burger so i got it you can see a kingly sandwich it actually has
the crown this is a literal king you're looking at royalty right here so bear that in mind
all right the sourdough king what exactly is this sandwich so it's an expensive burger um
i paid eight bucks for this and other people have said actually that they've been paying
between seven and eight dollars for this sandwich as well so it is a pricey one but maybe it'll be
worth the price you know who's to say here's what it comes with a flame grilled beef patty you can
get one or two patties i was actually feeling a little adventurous today so i got two patties you
know i figure if this is a king we're just going to go all that we're going to go all out it also
comes with bacon american cheese mayo ketchup and then this is the big appeal because you might say
well why are they calling it the sourdough king right if they just put like a regular bun on
it maybe they're just pulling your leg and they just called it the sourdough king for no reason
but no it comes with instead of a regular bun it comes with a toasted sourdough um it's like a
slice of sourdough bread that's toasted so it'll be interesting to see so obviously the bread is
the big emphasis here but we're just going to see how it is as a sandwich if it tastes good
um if it's a hit or a miss or what it is and uh we'll go from there but that's the sourdough
king pretty basic straightforward part of again the king lineup look at that crown right there
you think the points on the crown right there there's five you think that represents anything
or i don't know i'm not even i'm just wondering i have no clue sd stands for south dakota
and let's open this up
and see what we have
so there it is that's a sourdough king
it's a pretty big burger i must say now you can see though this is not your standard bun you know
it's like a little loaf of the sourdough bread all right so you can see let's focus it in right there
you can see that cheese see the bacon the patties and um a little bit of ketchup here and there too
but obviously it's the bread the patties that's the big focus here so you know what's on it
i know what's on it we all know what's on it i was thinking about cutting this sandwich in half
i actually might do that you know this i don't know just something about this it's like screaming
cut cut me in half i think i'm going to do that right now i'm going to pause the camera for a
second i'm going to go get a knife i'll cut it in half and then we'll try it that way i don't know
just something i'm experiencing the calling to cut this sandwich in half so i'll be back in a minute
all right i have returned it's cut in two right there you can see and um now with that said
there's a good cross section of it i think you can see a better view of it now
so you know what's on it i know what's on it we all know what's
on it so with that said let's try it the sourdough king from burger king going in
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mm-hmm
well
i find myself in a little bit of a difficult spot right now and i'll explain why
the sandwich itself as i as i consumed it as i'm thinking about well how does it taste is
it good is it bad am i satisfied with it etc i enjoyed this burger i thought it was pretty good
quality of the beef is decent again i got the two patties you can just get one um but i thought that
they were just juicy they were flavorful burger king has really improved their patties lately they
really the quality has gone up and i've actually found myself uh patronizing burger king a bit
more from time to time the bacon is crisp you can see there is a you know a decent amount of
it definitely more than one little you know slice of the bacon to get a little bit of that in every
bite nice and cheesy that's the thing if you like your cheese i think this is a good burger for you
you can see didn't just have one piece of cheese that had the cheese between every patty there
definitely get that cheese in every single bite it's a cheesy burger nice cheeseburger pretty good
the mayo this is one thing that i'm happy about there was a time when burger king would really
just go overboard with the mayo and it would be so crazy you would be it would be just to the
point where it's just way too much and i'm not a big mayo fan but i found that this was it was a
good amount in that i thought it was enough that i think those who like mayo would be satisfied with
it but even those who aren't a big fan of it such as me um it's it's innocuous adds a little bit of
moisture it is not a dry sandwich it doesn't dry your mouth out that's fine the ketchup is nice it
kind of ties everything together i'm happy with the burger you might be saying well review bra
you're you're talking about everything except for the most quintessential component of this sandwich
right upon which it is named the sourdough bread so what do you have to say about that well
there's the problem the bread itself is so light in terms of its flavor if you told me to close my
eyes eat this sandwich and say what type of bread is it on i wouldn't say sourdough bread there is
no discernible or identifiable characteristic in the bread from what i could taste that made
me even have the slightest inkling that this is a sourdough um bread you know base to it
even as i eat the bread right now
you know directly
this tastes much more like just a slice of white bread as opposed to any sort of sourdough bread
now i mean this doesn't bother me it's a good sandwich i think it tastes good shoot i would
get it again um quite frankly i think it's nice it's pleasant to eat it's flavorful it's enjoyable
but it's a sourdough king and the bread doesn't taste like sourdough bread at all now there's
different types of sourdough bread there's some that you bite in it's definitely much more
identifiable than others but this bread is so light to the point
even eating it purely by itself it tastes like white bread it doesn't really taste
like sourdough bread at all now you factor that in with all the flavors of the sandwich
you cannot tell that this is on sourdough bread now that leaves me with a quandary though
all right it's not really what they say that it is i mean yes granted it has the base and
everything that you know they say it does it looks like how it's supposed to but when it comes
down to taste you can't taste that sourdough bread and that i feel is the whole marketing
aspect of the sandwich resultantly here's what i have to say it's a good sandwich
i liked it i enjoyed it i would get it again i thought it was tasty
and it doesn't bother me one bit but it's not as advertised so because i rate these items based on
how it is supposed to be and whether it deviates from
its intended concept i think people will get this expecting that sourdough flavor and they might be
disappointed despite it being a good sandwich it's not what they expected therefore i am going to be
rating this sandwich a 6.5 out of 10. it tastes good for what it is i enjoy it i get it again
but it is not true to its name that's the core concept of the sandwich and because again it
deviated therefrom that's why i'm just going to be rating it as it is but don't think that this is a
disgusting um tasteless horrid sandwich that you know you're going to be um curled up you know in a
ball in the burger king parking lot crying because you couldn't taste the sourdough bread um it's
still a good sandwich i enjoy it but i think i've said this enough you know you know the drill here
so bear that in mind just not the bread the key component not as flavorful as i would hope
eight bucks so an expensive sandwich but that might also be a factor all right with that
said that's all that i have for you ladies and gentlemen i'm your host the report of the week
and today's review is for the sourdough king from burger king yeah i just hoped it would have been
truer to its name but a good sandwich in the end but just bear that in mind that's all that
i have for you ladies and gentlemen i'm your host the report of the week take care until next time