The really awesomely titled Pork Magazine says that Burger King will begin offering pork ribs at 300 locations in Las Vegas, Indianapolis, Greensboro, N.C., and Orlando, Fla. The ribs will be available in three, six or eight-piece servings. A dipping sauce will be included. Will you eat this? [Pork]
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You know, I have a pretty high tolerance for fast food and will try just about anything (the McRib, for example!), but this? Not even I would eat it, and that is saying something.
I shudder at the thought of ribs at BK.
This is no worse than Long John Silvers serving lobster......oh yes, coming soon if not already at your local LJS.
I would eat BK ribs before eating LJS lobster.
You can say, "only if you give me a million dollars" but it's possible that after eating these ribs, you'll need that million dollars to pay medical bills for getting yourself transported to the hospital by ambulance and for that subsequent stomach pumping and prescription antacid.
They have 300 locations in just those FOUR cities?
I will only eat ribs if they've been smoked with low heat for a long time done by either myself or some 60+ year old pitmaster that's been doing it since he could walk.
@CaptZ: It's not lobster lobster, it's lobster in-name-only, courtesy of this website: [consumerist.com]
No thanks, my town has real BBQ.
I'd be curious to try them but I really love the ones my wife makes.
I eat a lot of fast food, and I'm sure that it has been over 1 year since I ate at a Burger King. Their restaurants are disgusting. Their food is good, and I'd say fresher than McDonalds or Taco Bell, but their restaurants are rank, and all I think when I'm at them is that I'm on the ghetto's fringe.
No. But I might have to subscribe to Pork Magazine just on principle.
man i hope its a mcrib. i think id eat the mcrib everyday if mcdonalds served it.
Bring it on!
I can say I won't and talk about how nasty all fast food is but I know some night I am going to end up trying them.
I've posted this before and I stand firm behind it's important message, first that pork is the meat of kings and second that veggies need wedgies coz meat can't be beat.
who "dips" ribs in sauce?
I think I saw a Pork Magazine in an adult book store once, but the topic was totally different.
No, but to be fair, I don't eat pork ribs anywhere. I might make an exception though for ribs slow-smoked in the Southern BBQ tradition. We just don't have that available here.
@JohnDeere: I am probably just an idiot for asking this, but why doesn't McDonald's sell the McRib all the time? Just the fact that making something 'limited' makes it appear just that more awesome?
Damn! I can't believe they're not testing this in Georgia--especially Atlanta. I mean, it is Atlanta...
@calquist: i assume its so bad for me that they would probably have a lot of legal trouble when people started dying of mcrib overdoses.
i mean if food is good its bad for you right? and the mcrib is awesome.
Hmm. I try to avoid fast food and don't consider Burger King to be even marginal fast food. But if these things didn't have some sort of wheat based filler or coating on them I might try it out of utter desperation to find anything to eat when away from home.
If you want to break your fast food habit, become allergic to wheat or develop celiac disease. Everything in fast food seems to have it as an ingredient.
@joe18521: Las Vegas being one of them is strange, because I live here, and I can hardly ever find a burger king. I know of like, 4 in the entire city. None within a convenient distance to my house. (And even if there were, I live by an In N Out, Fatburger, and Del Taco. So...no.)
@jfielder23: They brought it back, and you know, I wasn't all that impressed. It was okay. I prefer their chicken wraps mmmmm.
@Porcelina: Del Taco is awesome. The one near my work charges 85 cents per debit/credit transaction, and I refuse to pay that (45 cents...maybe...more than my taco costs? no), but I really do love their fish tacos.
I agree: Hell No.
If I'm going to eat ribs I'll cook my own. They'll be way better than anything Burger King can put out.
Ok people I'm from Indy and they have had these ribs over here for at least two months now. I couldn't resist trying them. They are a little pricey for the amount of meat that you get, but they are awesome. I couldn't believe how good they were. Mine were a little burnt but they weren't dry and the meat fell right off the bone, very tender. Give them a try please before you pass judgement.
interesting... Greensboro is sort of the dividing line in NC for Eastern and Western style BBQ. I've had some good bbq up there at Stamey's next to the Gboro Coliseum.
I won't be touching those things! I can get a whole rack of ribs plus 2 sides and a roll for $13 at a mom and pop restaurant down the road from me! Those ribs are MUCH better than any fast food creation; plus, by the time I eat the sides I'm so full that I can take the ribs home with me.
How can you cook ribs fast enough for this to be done in a fast food restaurant? I mean, even if you're not slow cooking it it's not exactly fast is it?
Read Fast Food Nation, and then answer question...
I'd go to Burger King for a nice pulled pork sandwich, smoked or slow-cooked over open fire, with a nice tangy BBQ sauce. But yeah right, like that's going to happen!
@nakedscience: Why would Burger King ribs be any worse than a McRib? It sounds from the description as though BK's will be actual ribs instead of that hot pork jello from McDonald's.
I'm not saying they'll be good, mind you, but how could it possibly be worse than that?
@edwardso:
screw that, i'm buying a subscription for my cousin, the rabbi.
yeah, i'm going to hell. [insert obligatory "jews don't believe in hell" comment.]
but yeah, how did i not know there was a pork magazine?! that. is. awesome.
oh hell no.
I might, however, go to Burger King so that I can watch other people eating "ribs".