{"id":96,"date":"2008-07-28T03:55:47","date_gmt":"2008-07-28T08:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/28\/burger-king-sucks\/"},"modified":"2008-07-28T10:00:13","modified_gmt":"2008-07-28T15:00:13","slug":"burger-king-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/28\/burger-king-sucks\/","title":{"rendered":"Burger King Sucks"},"content":{"rendered":"

My last year in college, there were five fast-food restaurants within walking distance of my apartment. Now I won’t say I’m a connoisseur of the stuff, but I’ve had my share of drive-through-dinners (especially when coupons are involved). And I must say Burger King really stood out with their poor quality food.<\/strong> Unfortunately, they are now the only drive-through restaurant within a mile of my current apartment.<\/p>\n

Now, I agree that the Whopper<\/a> is a pretty good burger — better then anything from McDonalds<\/a> (but a little less tasty then a Sourdough Jack<\/a>). And the Cheesy Tots<\/a> do have their moments. And I have to give props to my local BK for carrying Dr. Pepper, unlike every Taco Bell I’ve been to in the Midwest. And I really<\/em> liked the creepy\/hilarious<\/a> “The Burger King”<\/a> commercials. (And don’t forget the Video Game<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

But outside of hamburgers… Burger King is just bad<\/em>. Almost all of their “chicken” products are mechanically separated<\/a> meat. Their Original Chicken Sandwich<\/a> is made of MSM, and has noticeably worse taste and nutritional value then the equivalent offering from Wendy’s<\/a>, made of whole chicken. Burger King is the only restaurant who’s coupons I’ve thrown away.<\/p>\n

Then there’s the health of it all, where Burger King gets low marks<\/a>: “Fried foods from Burger King are alarmingly high in trans fat, according to The Center for Science in the Public Interest. A regular-size order of Chicken Tenders with a large order of French fries has 8 grams of trans — more than someone should consume in four days.<\/strong>“.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My last year in college, there were five fast-food restaurants within walking distance of my apartment. Now I won’t say I’m a connoisseur of the stuff, but I’ve had my share of drive-through-dinners (especially when coupons are involved). And I must say Burger King really stood out with their poor quality food. Unfortunately, they are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[120,119,118,122,121],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcement","tag-burger-king","tag-chicken","tag-fast-food","tag-food","tag-mechanically-separated-meat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}