The Stacker is a bacon cheeseburger that comes in sizes from the unwise (two patties, four strips bacon) to the dangerous (three patties, six strips bacon) to the immoral (four patties, 8 strips bacon). The selling point, in addition to the immeasurable sum of meat you can put into your body in one go, is the total absence of anything plant-based on the sandwich. I presume ketchup and mustard are exempted.
Given that this was during The Colbert Report, I almost wanted to believe that it was a parody. But no, this seems to be a completely legitimate and salable product. I'm honestly in awe of this concept: do there exist people who have actually thought, "damn, I loves me a Whopper, but the onion, lettuce and pickle just make it too fucking healthy"? And even that leaves unanswered the question as to whether there truly are human beings who can eat one-half pound of Burger King meat in one sitting without falling over dead right there in the restaurant.
Also, it looks like this:
Picture taken from The Impulsive Buy.
It looks like they're trying to ape the In-n-Out monster-style four-by-four burgers. Which, really, why bother unless you're gonna go all-out and do the 100x100?
ReplyDeleteMeat quality is, of course, another very interesting question, and frankly, I feel ill.
Hooray for meatblogging! In the future, please resort to this whenever you come to the verge of metablogging. It's way more exciting.
It looks tasty.
ReplyDeleteI'm such a pig.
haha, i was going to say that there are two people in the world i can think of who would eat that, and one of them is Min Xiu.
ReplyDeleteGood grief, that's disgusting. I love how poorly real food photographs.
ReplyDeleteAnd in terms of meat quality, BK's is WAY above McDonald's and Wendy's, but I think Carl's Jr./Hardee's has it over them in the national fast-food burger chain division.
Hello, my name is Will, and I'm Cameron's second person (right?).
ReplyDeleteWendy's has the total edge, followed by BK and Carl's Jr/Hardees. Can we all agree that McD's beef ain't all that? In-N-Out and Fatburger take all of these out, but only Fatburger could count as "national" and it can't, really.
And according to the BK site, the Stackers burger doesn't feature ketchup or mustard, just "stackers sauce."
Yes dear, because who ELSE would be my second person?
ReplyDeletei thought will wouldn't eat this because of the cheese, though perhaps the cheese-exception has expanded beyond wendy's? I'm hopelessly out to date on Will's burger du jour (so perhaps he'll post.
ReplyDeleteOh, for some time now I've been getting the meat+cheese+bun+NOTHING ELSE combination most everywhere, sometimes allowing bacon to be added to that. So yes, the Stackers sandwich is totally within that realm. And I tried it. And it was okay, but BK's bacon leaves plenty to be desired.
ReplyDeleteI also felt I was going to die about an hour afterwards.