A Wendy’s restaurant outside of Winnipeg, Manitoba, has apparently been selling a 9-patty “T-Rex” burger to customers for several years, but shortly after the rest of the world got wind of it, the T-Rex has been made extinct. [More]
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Wendy’s Eatery Stops Serving 9-Patty ‘T-Rex Burger’ After World Finds Out About It
By June 13, 2013
This Burger Has Deep-Fried Lasagna Slices For Buns
By May 30, 2013
Americans have turned a number of things into glorious, glorious buns for our burgers and sandwiches, like grilled cheese sandwiches and pieces of fried chicken. This week, the restaurant PYT in Philadelphia has deep-fried slices of lasagna to use as hamburger buns in their aptly named “Lasagna-Bun Burger.” [More]
Is It Time To Say Goodbye To McDonald’s Angus Third Pounder?
By May 9, 2013
Nearly four years ago, McDonald’s added the Angus Third Pounder to the menu, making it the company’s first new burger offering in eight years, and leading to the inevitable rash of “anus burger” signs. But now comes a report that the sandwich is set to vanish forever. [More]
Comfort Food Crime Wave: Thief Tows Away Entire 40-Foot Shipping Container Of Hamburgers
By April 11, 2013
The crime wave carrying off the world’s comfort food by the truckload is only continuing and escalating. From maple syrup in Québec and Maine to Nutella in Germany and soup in Florida, criminals are carrying off many of our tastiest and most comforting foods. Now, criminals in New Jersey have made off with an entire refrigerated shipping container of hamburger patties. Not the burgers! [More]
How Far Would You Go To Tip Your Server?
By June 29, 2012
Many, many pixels have been on this site over the subject of tipping in restaurants, but how far out of your way would you go to give a tip? -Joe and his wife had dinner at Red Robin, paid for with a few free entrée coupons and a gift card. Only the gift card receipt didn’t have a line to authorize a tip, and the couple only had a dollar in cash between them. In a culture where we often don’t talk about tips, should they just leave the dollar that they had in their wallets and feel guilty about it, or actually address the problem and talk to the server about it directly? [More]
Creating A Burger Optimized For Photos, Not For Eating
By June 20, 2012
McDonald’s Canada is currently in the midst of a fascinating marketing campaign called “Your Questions.” They’ve solicited questions from the public about McDonald’s products, and are….actually answering most of them, clearly and honestly. Sure, there’s still some marketing speak in there–a questioner who wonders why products are so high in fat and calories is asked, “Have you tried our Fruit ‘n Yogurt Parfait yet?” but the overall goal appears to be clearing up misconceptions and urban legends about McDonald’s products. Which is where this video of food stylists creating the Platonic ideal of a quarter pounder with cheese comes in. [More]
Washington State Inspectors "Deeply Concerned" About Undercooked Beef At Burger King
By September 8, 2011
While most people are used to the grayish, overcooked burgers often served at fast food mega-chains, inspectors for the Washington Dept. of Health have found what they call a “disturbing trend” of undercooked beef being served at Burger King. [More]
BK Attacks Japan With Mini Spam Burgers For Women
By June 13, 2011
Swinging the pendulum away from their “Meat Monsters” offering, Burger King is dropping slider-style BK Bites on Japan in a variety of meat patties. Besides the usual beef, you can get a chicken patty or a Spam patty. That’s right, delicious Spam. And it’s for the ladies. “What Women Want, Women Get,” is the tagline for the Spam and BLT mini combo, which the chain describes as “lighter” and “suitable for women.” I can only hope something is getting lost in translation, but methinks it’s not really. [More]
Lady Weeps With Joy As First Texas In-N-Out Burger Opens
By May 12, 2011
Yesterday the first In-N-Out Burger join in Texas opened its doors. The chain is unlike others in terms of the fervent loyalty it engenders in its fans, and they came by the thousands yesterday to Frisco, Texas to partake in its offerings. Some of them wore paper hats. Some of them ran out of gas. And then there’s this woman, a Cali transplant, who openly cried on camera as she bit into the burger and memories of her childhood flooded back. That grilled patty was her madeleine. [More]
Use Lettuce To Save Your Buns
By April 30, 2011
Soggy bun syndrome has been known to afflict many a burger, but you don’t have to let it mess up your lunch. Sauces and toppings have a way of ruining the integrity of your buns, turning burgers into withering messes. [More]
So What Does A $777 Burger Actually Taste Like?
By November 24, 2010
For some reason we can’t fathom, our siblings at Consumer Reports didn’t include the $777 burger at the Paris Casino in Las Vegas in its survey of the country’s best and worst burgers. So it was left up to the folks at NPR to try out the high-priced hamburger for those of us who either can’t afford or would never, ever in a million years spend that much on a food product. [More]
Burger King Greases Palms With Oil From Company That Kills Fewer Trees
By September 6, 2010
Kings — especially ones with creepy face masks — are there to serve their subjects, so Burger King responded to complaints from critics by switching its source for palm oil in which to cook its delicacies. Led by Greenpeace, environmentalists had harangued the company from buying from a subsidiary of Sinar Mas, Indonesian outfit accused of deforestation. [More]
Possibly The Best Review Of Wendy's, Or Anything, Ever
By August 20, 2010
Although Zagat says Wendy’s makes the third-best burger of American fast food chains, this Google review may convince you that the House That Dave Built belongs at the top of the heap. Runt of the Web claims to have found this somewhere on Google but its source link comes up empty. [More]
Get Your Elk Burger On At Fuddruckers
By July 13, 2010
While KFC has its Double Down and Carl’s Jr. has its foot-long burger, Fuddruckers, the burger chain with the name that sounds more like a syndrome than it does a restaurant, is out to differentiate itself from the competition by offering up a selection of exotic meats to customers. It already has salmon and buffalo burgers on the menu, and in the last week it’s added elk to the list. [More]
Carl's Jr. Whips Out A Foot-long Of Its Own
By July 12, 2010
Figuring the hot dog and sub sandwich have kept an unfair stranglehold on the concept of the foot-long fast food for too long, Carl’s Jr. has struck out in favor of burgers’ rights by introducing the foot-long cheeseburger. [More]
McDonald's Wants You To Come In For A Drink
By June 28, 2010
Emboldened by its success with coffee and lattes, McDonald’s is about to take on Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts and your local coffee shop, and grab a bigger chunk of the $153 billion beverage market. Coming next month: McDonald’s smoothies, which the company hopes will lure customers away from Jamba Juice and other smoothie chains. [More]
Ketchup Tastes Behind Burger King's Israeli Flameout?
By May 13, 2010
Burger King is leaving Israel, after its local franchisee, Orgad Holdings, determined that customers preferred the burgers at its other eatery, Burger Ranch. “All the research carried out over the past few months shows beyond a doubt that the taste of Burger Ranch is the preferred taste for most Israelis,” said Orgad’s directors, who plan to convert their 52 Burger Kings into Burger Ranches. However, according to one Israeli burger lover and former BK manager, the culture clash is less about the beef and more about condiments.
White Castle Candle Promises "Bed-of-Onions" Aroma
By May 3, 2010
If you misspent your youth in a part of the country where White Castle dominates the roadside landscape, the smell of the chain’s onion-and-grease-laden sliders may have a Proustian effect on your olfactory nerve — or your bowels. Now White Castle promises to deliver that aroma on demand, minus the actual belly bombers, via the new White Castle scented candle. And here we thought selling frozen burgers in supermarkets was the worst idea White Castle ever had. [More]
