Back in the 70s, I considered the Whopper the best fast-food burger you could buy. Then they discovered microwaves, and they would make the burgers in advance and throw them in a bin, to be microwaved when you put your order in. They went from tasting flame-broiled to just tasting hot. They ruined the Whopper and lost me as a customer.
The Whopper of my youth was very good indeed. Steak and Shake's Steakburger used to be my favorite. Their Garlic fries still are. Things change and I now admit that Culver's has the best hamburger. The size is a couple of bites too small and it has that in common with the Steakburger. Other than that Culver's is both better and cheaper.
If there is a Culver's near you, you ought to at least try it. Fries there are nothing to brag about. Most others things are a clear step up from most places (a clear step up from anything in the same price range).
If Culver's would go to fresh sliced fries cooked in the tallow/mix Micky De's used to use (with a dash of garlic salt) McDonalds would go broke.
Its the New Coke of burgers. Sounds like they broke the critical piece, the flame broiled patty, which is why you go to BK and not Donald's, in the first place.
The old Whopper was my "go to" choice, but now? I'll have to give it a try. Surely this "improvement" was tested and retested, but then so was Coke when they tried to foist the New Coke on loyal customers. Perhaps this will suffer the same fate.
All the big burger and chicken chains are OK - just OK. But for the price of these things they should be more than just OK. I'm not rich or poor. I can afford it. But the experience seems more like robbery than a simple purchase.
I feel bad for the family of 4 that just wants to share a quick, reasonably priced, meal together.
I'd hate to see these chains go away; but if they get any more expensive they might well become just a footnote or a trivia answer.
I was last in a Burger King maybe seven or eight years ago, and have felt no reason to go back. Part of that is that there isn't a convenient location nearby anymore, but I was pretty underwhelmed. When I was growing up in the 90s, Burger King was my family go-to but at some point they stopped delivering the goods.
I wasn't aware they were marketing a "new" Whopper. Since it's been a while since my last visit to BK maybe I will check it out. Hopefully their onion rings are still as good as ever.
Burger King has been dead to me since they got rid of the Whaler, which was the only decent fish sandwich ever made by any fast food restaurant anywhere ever. Well, that and the fact that the Burger Kings in my locale lack any sense of basic cleanliness. Someone needs to open up a firehose of Pine-Sol on the Burger Kings around here.
Kinda my experience too. Since I normally eat fast food on road trips, mine are plain and dry which makes the meat more improtant. Definitely downgraded.
Now do In and Out and Whataburger please. The latter seems to have slipped in my opinion too.
Back in the 70s, I considered the Whopper the best fast-food burger you could buy. Then they discovered microwaves, and they would make the burgers in advance and throw them in a bin, to be microwaved when you put your order in. They went from tasting flame-broiled to just tasting hot. They ruined the Whopper and lost me as a customer.
When I saw the title, I thought you were going to be talking about a certain crooked Cambridge professor. (My bad.)
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I don't like to hear this. The flame-broil taste is the best part. Or was, I guess.
The Whopper of my youth was very good indeed. Steak and Shake's Steakburger used to be my favorite. Their Garlic fries still are. Things change and I now admit that Culver's has the best hamburger. The size is a couple of bites too small and it has that in common with the Steakburger. Other than that Culver's is both better and cheaper.
If there is a Culver's near you, you ought to at least try it. Fries there are nothing to brag about. Most others things are a clear step up from most places (a clear step up from anything in the same price range).
If Culver's would go to fresh sliced fries cooked in the tallow/mix Micky De's used to use (with a dash of garlic salt) McDonalds would go broke.
Its the New Coke of burgers. Sounds like they broke the critical piece, the flame broiled patty, which is why you go to BK and not Donald's, in the first place.
The old Whopper was my "go to" choice, but now? I'll have to give it a try. Surely this "improvement" was tested and retested, but then so was Coke when they tried to foist the New Coke on loyal customers. Perhaps this will suffer the same fate.
All the big burger and chicken chains are OK - just OK. But for the price of these things they should be more than just OK. I'm not rich or poor. I can afford it. But the experience seems more like robbery than a simple purchase.
I feel bad for the family of 4 that just wants to share a quick, reasonably priced, meal together.
I'd hate to see these chains go away; but if they get any more expensive they might well become just a footnote or a trivia answer.
That’s too bad. The Whopper was always one of my favorites.
I hope they didn’t change the Junior Whopper too; it was almost as good as the all-time great McDonald’s double cheeseburger!
I was last in a Burger King maybe seven or eight years ago, and have felt no reason to go back. Part of that is that there isn't a convenient location nearby anymore, but I was pretty underwhelmed. When I was growing up in the 90s, Burger King was my family go-to but at some point they stopped delivering the goods.
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Epic!
I always ordered mine minus the mayo. but that was 60 years ago.
I wasn't aware they were marketing a "new" Whopper. Since it's been a while since my last visit to BK maybe I will check it out. Hopefully their onion rings are still as good as ever.
Burger King has been dead to me since they got rid of the Whaler, which was the only decent fish sandwich ever made by any fast food restaurant anywhere ever. Well, that and the fact that the Burger Kings in my locale lack any sense of basic cleanliness. Someone needs to open up a firehose of Pine-Sol on the Burger Kings around here.
Kinda my experience too. Since I normally eat fast food on road trips, mine are plain and dry which makes the meat more improtant. Definitely downgraded.
Now do In and Out and Whataburger please. The latter seems to have slipped in my opinion too.