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know how the angle is that's kind of setting up the shot a little bit but you know what
forget about the angle forget about everything in the video except for the fact that burger
king has a new item out so there you have it just forget everything else
but we have ourselves a whopper amount yeah burger king i feel like i was just reviewing them and uh
i guess well i guess quite frankly i was just reviewing them but maybe this will be a little
bit of a shot of redemption who knows i'm hoping anyway that this is going to be a good item but i
mean who even knows at this point lately it's just been one bad thing after the next after the next
and i just want something that's actually edible that would be nice and maybe this will be who's to
say burger king is releasing the new whopper melt they released this last week i finally
got my hands on it and here's what it is it's available in three varieties and you might be
saying like a whopper melt right a name like that is incredibly confusing there isn't all
that much that you could necessarily discern from such a thing you might be thinking melt you know
is it molten what is it so here's what it is it has it has two slices of toast
on the toast is a quarter pound of flame grilled beef of course their iconic flame grilled beef
american cheese caramelized onions and sauce they don't say what type of sauce just sauce
so there you have it you could also get this in two different varieties i got the regular whopper
melt because that seems to be the one that they're really promoting that they're really advertising
so that's the one that i got however you could also get a spicy whopper melt which is pretty
much the same thing just with spicy sauce you could also get a whopper melt with bacon
price again is seven dollars for the sandwich burger king
there it is
it comes with looks like some water melt
insignia
let's open this up
i feel like this is kind of a recurring trend
you know i'm not even going to really talk about it that much i always feel like
the picture always makes it seem way bigger than what it really is i look at this and it
i don't know it's just the picture makes it seem bigger but you know what i'm not really going
to get on them that much for it this time around there you have it the whopper melt you could see
that's the toast we were talking about it doesn't have much of a uh a crisp to it it's it's kind of
it feels more you know very soft and kind of doughy um i don't know if it was intended to
be crispy or not but that's just what i'm noticing you can see the patties the cheese
some of the onion right there and i presume if i were to de-bun it indeed there's some more onion
and sauce so there's a good view of it right there
very heavy on the onion i will say that there's tons of onions right there even more right there
so that's what we have the whopper melt from burger king
and uh that said let's just try it i like i said i think i'm just going to
do a straightforward review today so the whopper melt you know what it is you know
what's on it i know what's on it we all know what's on it whopper melt going in
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one more bite
the cross section for reference
you know one of my neighbors used to be a caramelized onion actually and i remember one day
you know i went over to the beach and uh if you've ever seen a caramelized
onion swim i mean you know it just wouldn't really go over well and
that's why i say one of my neighbors was you know used to be but um yeah it happens
that's why caramelized onions that's why they don't usually go to the beach it just doesn't
work if it's not it's the seagulls you know the whopper melt you know it's one of those items
where it has good qualities and it has uh something that i think it could improve upon
a little bit but by and large i will just say outright i wouldn't say i hate the item at all
it's just not for everyone but it's not bad either so that's just something to take into account
here's here's the main takeaway from this all right you're going to notice immediately
at least the one that i got anyway that the toast is doughy it's doughy and it's chewy it's chewier
than a standard burger king um bun so just bear that in mind you're gonna have just a little bit
more it's a stowy and chewy it's not the one that i got anyway wasn't crispy and people
might be anticipating that but that crunch was not to be found now as for the general flavors
of the burger itself i can't really complain the american cheese is fine it actually does
a nice job tying everything together the beef patties are you know they're pretty thick um
all things considered you get a good amount in every single bite uh the meat is pretty
tender and uh i wouldn't say that it's lacking in flavor it's what you would expect from burger
king it's your standard burger king um burger so that's you know that's the big takeaway there
there's no real surprises at this point uh in terms of the meat itself it tastes like what you
would expect it to taste pretty average but not bad overall so no huge issues there to speak of
the sauce in and of itself reminds me largely of the uh the stacker sauce the sauce that you saw
on their infamous um was it called the stacker saucers what was on the big king the last burger
king item that i tried anyway it's a similar sauce to that has a tiny bit of tang to it but um by and
large the sauce is just there again it's nice it adds a little bit of moisture to the sandwich
but it doesn't contribute too much in the way of flavor so here's the thing that i think some
people will like more than others if you like onion and you just love them onions as they say
again if you are friends with caramelized onions i guess that'd be kind of weird though if you
want to eat them but you're friends with them at the same time that would be a bit strange
um let's just say you really like onions and you enjoy it when they're integrated into every part
of your life uh be that you bathe in the onions you know you squeeze the onion juices into your
hair and massage your scalp with them right you bring them along when you're doing your taxes and
all that good stuff right if you want to be one with the onions and maybe you want to strengthen
the onion human relations then this may be the sandwich for you if you really like onions because
my goodness there are a lot of them and onions as we know can be quite potent they're certainly the
thing with onions and me is that they're not bad but i just don't like it when they're too
excessive and this is a sandwich where i would say that the helping of onions is a bit more
than i would personally like because there are so many of them again you could see on the top bun
right here
and they kind of blend in but you know you could see all that right there those are all onions
and then right here those are all onions too so there's tons and i would say the sandwich kind
of would only need the amount that's on one of those buns because again they're not bad
they they certainly it all works nothing tastes nothing clashes but i just think
that it's too heavy on the onions because like i was saying onions can be very potent
and it's just a very strong sandwich otherwise now again some people are going to love it though
and if you like onions you're going to like this sandwich because there are lots of them so just
bear that in mind if you're maybe sensitive to onions or you don't really like the way that they
taste etc this has a lot of onions on it and some people are gonna like it some people aren't for me
it's just a bit much um but by and large it's not really that bad i would just if i were to get this
another time i'd probably get this either light on the onions or no onions that's just my personal
um opinion but i know people will disagree with that which is why i kind of clarify
i just think it's a bit heavy on the onions for my liking
it's like it's too much of a good thing you know it works but then it just goes
a little overboard but i think some people will disagree and they'll say it tastes great you know
so that's just the one thing that i wanted to mention but otherwise it's pretty standard
nothing incredibly special about this but at least it's an item on their menu
that just doesn't taste terrible everything works it might be a little heavy on the onions for some
but it's all right otherwise it is a little pricey though for what it is seven dollars for that again
it's just the way things are there's going to be a day probably where it's going to be 14 bucks
and that's going to seem like a real steal um so at this point in time you just have to
accept the price for what it is and say this is the way it is now it's a seven dollar sandwich
and uh like it or not that's what you gotta pay so bear that in mind that said out of ten the
whopper melt not too bad uh not something that i've necessarily give rave reviews
but i certainly haven't many complaints about it either aside from the onions so
therefore out of 10 i'm going to give it a 6.6 out of 10. you know the onions detract from
it a little bit but i'm still all right with it and uh i imagine most people would be too
all right on one final note i'm not sure how many people this would really apply to
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