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Well, I finally got my hands on at the "Nightmare King"
from Burger King.
And you know to be quite honest, I'm sure a lot of you had seen the video that I did previously
where I was talking about my frustrations, you know, in trying to get this burger. And, I will say, and maybe this is giving, you know,
undue credit to Burger King or whatever,
but, you know, it was this burger from Burger King that that led to an important realization when it comes down to
doing YouTube, you know, doing what I do on this platform. And that's, you know,
you have to do you! You have to do what makes you happy. That's the most important thing.
That's what it all comes down to with YouTube.
You can't let, you know, the idea of trying to think that I have to do this video on this day because, whatever,
that's what I think that would get any views or people want to see, You can't let that control you!
You can't let that get the best of you and it's just a really important lesson,
you know, that I learned when it came down to it. And I said,
you know, from that point onward I'm gonna do what I want to do with YouTube. You know, forget about the releases!
I'm gonna do what feels right. And
then today, an interesting thing happened. I thought to myself, "Well, they probably have it at this point.
Wonder what it tastes like?" So I was able to procure it. And, you know,
we're just gonna try it just casual so to speak and we'll see what we'll see what the Nightmare King tastes like. Now,
What is it supposed to be?
Well, it's known for the infamous
Green bun right? It's supposed to be a
burger, you know, they're flame grilled patty, a piece of chicken on top of that.
It's supposed to have the cheese, some onion. believe bacon. We'll find out in a minute.
Mayo.
As I said the green bun, so it's probably going to leave a byproduct of a different color
once it is excreted out of your system and,
you know, that's the big appeal, you know.
So you can go and you could show it to all your friends and you say hey look, you know,
Look at what color mine is, you know?
That's like the talk of the town.
Right? And also apparently according to one study it was supposed to induce nightmares in the people who
got it or what not. That's not really true. What it's really supposed to do.
in the end, is
They said because of the way that certain proteins or whatnot
in it are, it's supposed to just allow for more vivid REM sleep. Which, yeah, could mean more nightmares.
Could mean more interesting dreams, maybe some more good dreams or no dreams whatsoever. I'll tell you this though
it was a nightmare the other day trying to get my hands on this thing. And
when I got it today, I was actually surprised at the response, that the person at the drive-thru actually had.
And they said, "Oh my god, finally! Someone ordered it." I was thinking to myself. Wow. That's a, you know, I just didn't expect that.
Anyway, let's open this up and
see
what we have.
Oh gosh...
I can't, I can't help it, you know.
The bun looks terrible man!
There it is, let's see if it...
That's what it looks like in the sunlight. Granted,
you can see it's just so so it's you know, this is what it looks like in better lighting though.
And uh
I just didn't really expect it. Like I knew he's gonna be green, right?
I didn't expect it to be like this kind of brown, you know, like like maybe pickle...
Dill pickle esque Green has lots and lots of sesame seeds on the bun. Probably the most I've seen in a
considerable amount of time. You can see the bottom bun is more standard color, you know.
You can see there's a little bit of that green there, but it's not not not that full green commitment, but that's alright.
Nightmare-inducing? Well, it already has! So that's fine.
This is the top bun. You can kind of see the mayo,
the bacon right there and some of the
onions.
Again, you know, the direct sunlight can do wonders can also kind of distort it a little bit but you can see the bacon is
a really outstanding there. You can see the bacon's there.
Crispy chicken patty
close-up coming at ya!
You can see the cheese.
And then you could barely, right, see there's the there's the beef patty. It's actually a sandwich that's more generally reliant upon
the chicken than it is the beef. You can see some there's there's some of that green right there
below the the beef patty.
So that's a full,
you know, full, I don't know what you want to call it.
Just a full overview, I guess, of the Nightmare
King from
Burger King.
What does it taste like? I have no idea. Let's just try it out and see what it tastes like. So it's the Nightmare King
from the
infamous Burger King at this point going in!
Two more bites.
I just want to try some of the bun by itself.
You know for all the hype and everything that's going around, it was seriously
underwhelming in terms of taste. And you just gotta remember this, right? When they're saying...
Like you always have to look at what they're marketing this sandwich to be.
This wasn't even being marketed in regards to taste right? The two main
focal points are, really, the three main focal points of the sandwich: Number one - the buns green.
Number two - It's gonna make your ... ... ... ... ....
Green. And...
Number three - The
potential, no matter how slim or otherwise, to give you "the nightmares".
Now, now, you have to remember neither of these,
at all, ever talked about what it tastes like or anything like that.
So, you know, people go in they might think, "Oh, I wonder what the bond tastes like?" You know?
Is it gonna taste like this or that or whatever?
No, not really.
As I said the main flavor is going to be that of
underwhelming, so to speak. It's, it's gonna be a very underwhelming sandwich.
Beef patty completely standard. Just another flame grilled beef patty.
Nothing more about it. They're crispy chicken? A little on the crispy side. Not too crunchy though.
Certainly juicy, you know, has some flavor. I mean it all blends together all right.
The bacon is what it is - standard Burger King quality bacon. The onions not necessarily too potent.
Isn't a lot of mayo, less than I would have expected there to be. And the cheese just kind of just glues everything together.
It goes, but there's nothing special to it. It's like...
You ordered a burger from Burger King and a chicken sandwich from Burger King.
You took a small bite of one - like maybe a Reviewbrah sized bite of one - and
a small bite of the other. Mix them together. And that's what it tastes like! So it just tastes very very standard,
average.
And that's all that there is to it.
You know, it's like a run-of-the-mill sandwich from Burger King.
Now with that, again, the marketing wasn't going on and it was gonna say like, you know, man is gonna be like
This it's gonna taste green. You know, it's gonna be a another worldly experience.
It's gonna take you to place is inconceivable by the human mind at least that our current understanding of it, you know.
They didn't say that in the commercial, kind of just like ... well, it's got a green bun and
green other things and
it might give you a nightmare. Maybe not though, you know, that's kind of on the on the bridge right there.
So as a result, it just tastes really really standard and that's not the worst thing in the world.
I went to Steak and Shake the other day and the burger there was ten times better than this.
So keep that in mind, you know, it's like it's Burger King and
That's where it that's where it comes down to in the end.
So with that let's factor in the price here.
$6.39 for this Nightmare King and for that it is a little bit pricey.
I'd say this is it, you know should be lowered down perhaps to a $5 sandwich at the very least. Alright?
So with that, you know, considering the little bit higher of a price than I would have preferred and the average tastes,
you know.
Then you have to say,
Well, the bun was Green now the bottom bun wasn't totally. So do we want to be picky with that?
Yeah, we can forget that. Did it induce nightmares? Well
That's debatable.
All things considered;
therefore, I'm probably gonna be giving this a 6.7 out of 10 - 6.7 out of 10 is the rating I'm going
to give the Nightmare King. And...
I don't think I really will need to keep you posted at all about the byproduct. I don't I can't see myself
live streaming the facts or doing whatever's popular nowadays with that.
So I don't know, you know, if look if it came out as a 4d cube, and maybe I'll say something. But otherwise,
you know, it is what it is.
And, yeah
That's all that I really had for you. I'm just doing me.
Just wanted to try this out and let you all know what it tastes like as well.
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