I don't venture to Burger King too often. No, I'm not a fast food snob, I just prefer the myriad of other drive-throughs along Hempstead Turnpike to Burger King's rubbery meat and cardboard fries. However, last night BK was participating in a fundraiser for my son's school, so off we went. I would suffer so that the sixth grade can have their class picnic.
Have you noticed the proliferation of salads among fast food places these days? It's like they all got together in a show of unity to figure out ways to combat the Atkins diet. Lettuce! Tomatoes! One for all and all for one! And then the CEOs went their separate ways and ordered their product and development teams to come up with a better salad than their competitors.
So McDonald's, Wendy's, Burger King and whatever other franchises are floating around out there all came out with tasty, fresh and exciting salads at the same time. Not Your Mother's Salad! Taste the mandarin oranges, the cranberries and sesame seeds and apples! It's a fruit! It's a salad! It's a dessert topping!
Anyhow. I went for the salad at BK last night even though, in my heightened state of starvation, those Angus burgers looked tasty (turns out, according to my husband, that they - surprise! - taste like rubber).
I had a bad feeling about ordering the salad, but that had more to do with the cashier's reluctance to speak or understand English than with the food itself. Once we got it clear that I wanted the Fire Grilled Salad (r) and I wasn't trying to tell her that her hat was on fire, and once I got past the fact that the odor wafting from her armpits was what one would imagine Michael Moore might smell like if he had just chased the ice cream man for ten blocks on the hottest day of the year, we proceeded.
You get a choice with the Fire Grilled Salad (r); chicken or shrimp. I have this thing against ordering anything that comes from the sea in a fast food place, but I was feeling daring so I stared the cashier right in the eyes, slapped my palm on the counter and whispered in a low, John Wayne-as-gunslinger voice, Shrimp. I'll try the shrimp.
Article comments
1 - NancyGail
McDonald's, however, will always make the better fries.
2 - john
wow what a snob u are i came by accident to ur site i was serching on google for "burger king rocks". Ur very snobby wow just wow....
3 - bLogTHeInTErNet
Great post. I created a post about my Burger King experience a few weeks ago, and tonight I went to google to search for other people that wrote about their Burger King experiences and I found a ton of content. I really enjoyed your post. I wanted to invite you to read the post I created on my Burger King experience. I am enjoying your site... take care.
4 - Brian
I loved your BK salad story, made me laugh
I didnt ever get to try the shrimp one =/
5 - Ruvy in Jerusalem
It's a damned shame Michele Catalano stopped writing for the site. Her restaurant review was so damned funny it was worth money....
Hmmmm....
If the cashiers at a Long Island BK stink like a locker room and refuse to talk English, I wonder about the Burger King in the St. Paul suburb that I used to manage.... It's been over six years, hey. America sure has gone down the tubes.
FLUSH!!!
6 - Henry
cant believe i read this whole thing...who can ramble this long about a burger king salad?
7 - Joanne Huspek
I came here via Henry. I thought this post was delicious! The salad, not so.
8 - BurgerKingGirl
Hmmm I love Burger King Tender Crisp Salads...what exactly do you eat on the regular because they are great!
9 - charles
Wow YOU are quite a snob despite mentioned earlier. I got halfway through this crap and realized this has nothing to do with salad more than it does with you explaining that your a snob.
Good job.
10 - Ralph Malph
Burger King salad? I guess they are better than your average salad bar--so self-serving.
11 - Scott
Good review, but the Cashier thing was something you should have of left out. But good review overall.
12 - Shelly
I read up til the Christina Aguilera part - totally unnecessary & very snarky.