Related: 10 Unhealthy Fast Food Breakfasts — and What to Order Instead. - A couple slices of American cheese Atta boy, Burger King. 24 hours after ingesting it, literally the only impression that remains in my head of the experience is that there was mayonnaise involved. Related: Taste Test: The Best Fast Food Cheeseburger, Like us on Facebook to see similar stories. Here’s what you actually get, ordering a Bacon King. By the way, in case anyone wants to make the case that the Bacon King is somehow different than the Baconator, let’s run down the vitals, shall we? - Ketchup and mayonnaise. Nope, nothing at all to worry about when you see something like that in public. It's amongst the best in fast food, and it does a lot of heavy lifting with every sandwich it's on. The Fast Food Wars have had no shortage of surprise moves, but maybe one of the biggest was Wendy's surprise announcement of not only launching breakfast, but a breakfast menu of nine different sandwiches. You’re probably expecting a more traditional “review” at this point, describing the actual merits of the burger. With two quarter-pound beef patties, two slices of American cheese, mayo, ketchup and slices of applewood-smoked bacon between each patty, the Baconator was teeter-tottering the ‘I don’t want to die by eating this burger’ line at the time of its release. Although it's only a half-ounce different, this might be a way to up the sales of the Baconator and to put it in a better spotlight. Enter your email address below to get Food News delivered straight to your inbox. Per usual, when a new product like this comes out and makes me want to leap off something high, my first action is to go out and eat the thing so I can speak from some position of dubious authority. - Maple Bacon Chicken Croissant - Sausage, Egg & Swiss Croissant - Bacon, Egg & Swiss Croissant - Honey Butter Chicken Biscuit - Sausage, Egg & Cheese Biscuit - Bacon, Egg & Cheese Biscuit - Breakfast Baconator - Classic Sausage, Egg & Cheese Sandwich - Classic Bacon, Egg & Cheese Sandwich. It's pretty much the same ingredients but instead of two quarter-pounders, the Son Of Baconator offers two 2.25-ounce patties on one bun. It probably sounds like we were pretty mean to Wendy's here (because we were), but we cannot close out this taste test without recognizing something that is certain to change the fast food breakfast conversation. © 2020 Paste Media Group. It’s … a burger! Not to be outdone on the nutritional front, Burger King actually manages to make its version a smidge more unhealthy than the Wendy’s original: 1,040 calories vs. 950, and with slightly more fat, saturated fat and sodium to boot. Ah yes, the Baconator – one of the original fast food items that made us realize just how much we Americans love bacon. I’m sorry to say that I can’t provide that assessment for you. And the other patrons wouldn’t even think of moving to the other side of the restaurant to finish shoveling down their 2,000 calorie lunch in peace when they see you doffing a cardboard crown and grinning like a maniac. They’re simply meant to be bacon delivery vehicles (BDV’s, in fast food parlance). It's actually not far off from a Popeyes biscuit, and in case you're unaware, that is a gigantic compliment. One question for Wendy's, though, while we're on the subject: Why no ham? They both feature: - Two 4 oz patties I also remember that this meal somehow managed to cost $9, which seems even more impossible than anything I’ve written in this piece up to this point. You managed to even charge more than Wendy’s for their decade-old product. It's a shame that it's trapped on that weird science experiment of a bun, but Wendy's has gone full-on savory brunch mode here, and we can respect that. Amidst all the pomp and flair of Wendy's announcing an incredibly ambitious nine options at once, they casually introduced what just might be the best fast food breakfast potatoes in the game. Lots of bacon! When you traipse up to the counter to request a couple crowns for you and your compatriot, the unfortunate, dead-eyed employee standing there will surely be happy to spend a few moments of their $7.25-an-hour existence on grabbing them for you!
So that’s what I did. Maybe because the bacon craze is still driving people nuts across the country, introducing a mini-Baconator was probably a better marketing ploy than going viral with a Baconator Single, which just definitely doesn't sound as cool. Expect to see Tweets and pictures like the ones seen here: Will you go big or go small? Chipotle struggles with staffing as coronavirus cases rise. Featuring two 2.25-ounce patties instead of two 1/4-pound patties, the Son of Baconator features all the same ingredients of the original, just in a more compact form. Come on, gang — you hang your hat on your square patties. Unfortunately, dear friends, we've been duped. Your burgers are square, your sausage is square; keep that nastiness a-flowin' and give me some square eggs. He’s continuously impressed by Burger King’s cavalier attitude toward stealing decade-old ideas.
We should really get some researchers on this issue, to get to the root of why that is. The biscuit Wendy's is serving for (unfortunately only) three of their sandwiches is really something. What we're dealing with here is a piece of, I Can't Believe This Social Security Bonus Was So Easy, Americans Are Obsessed With New Blanket That Puts You To Sleep In Minutes, © David Dee Delgado/Stringer/Getty Images News/Getty Images North America, 23 New Gadgets That Will Sell Out Before the Holidays, 10 Unhealthy Fast Food Breakfasts — and What to Order Instead, Taste Test: The Best Fast Food Cheeseburger, actual home fries you might get at a diner. 2 on that list is the bacon. Now with the Son of Baconator, looks like there are double bacon cheeseburgers for every size! Despite the fact that Wendy sort of lost her mind with the Breakfast Baconator, she managed to regain an impressive amount of control with her BEC sandwich. Wendy's has stood the test of time for so long thanks largely to their famous Frosties, but an easy No. Dubbed the Son of Baconator, the burger is exactly what you’d imagine if the Baconator were able to have children. It may be that they wanted to make the amount on top appear more substantial. If you're like me and wanted to avoid the Baconator because there was just so much meat (pause), Wendy’s has a smaller alternative. YE GADS, man, avert your gaze! Oh look, affluent-looking white people ironically enjoying a children’s hat! Oddly enough, the classic Baconator already comes in a single patty form that features one 1/4-pound all-beef patty, which is equivalent to 4 ounces. You can follow him on Twitter. That is, I mean … it’s, uh … not terribly photogenic. Enter your email address below and we'll deliver our top stories straight to your inbox. The release of the smaller burger comes approximately five years after the birth of the original Baconator. That’s clearly a reasonable thing to do in the well-lit, clean, high-income neighborhood Burger King franchise that is no doubt around the corner from your abode. It’s safe to say that I have a bit of history with Burger King. Jim Vorel is Paste’s resident fast food geek. We imagine that you, like us, read the words "Sausage, Egg, & Swiss" or, "Bacon, Egg, & Swiss" and imagined a sandwich containing Swiss cheese. Wendy's recently debuted a scaled down version of the Baconator, dubbed (appropriately enough) Son of Baconator ($4.29). Over the past couple weeks, Wendy’s has been having a little fun promoting the Son of Baconator through the Baconator’s Facebook and Twitter pages. Have you ever noticed that mounds of red and white goo rarely are? It's the superior meat option here, so skip the sausage entirely. You'll not find any Swiss cheese on any of these sandwiches, no; instead, you'll find a sauce so indistinguishable from mayo that we literally thought they had forgotten Swiss cheese and had instead put mayo on a breakfast sandwich.