We get our food and move over to the nearest table that could accommodate all of us, which turned out to be the table right under the air conditioner vent. This has nothing to do with the salad, but everything to do with creating the proper dining atmosphere. Granted, you're not going to get a quality dining experience when there are kids in the partly padded cell to the left of you throwing brightly colored balls at the plastic window in an effort to interrupt your conversation and ruin your dinner all at once. But let me tell you, it takes only one time for an adult to press their face against the window and mouth the words "I will eat you and your little sister for dinner if you don't stop throwing those balls right now" for a kid to really get it. The balls stopped coming at us and we made the attempt to get comfortable in the frigid air, though I had to keep putting my arms across my chest because apparently the town workers that were standing on line thought they could determine the temperature in the room by staring at my boobs.
So, the salad.
We didn’t get off to a good start. I could see as soon as I opened the plastic bowl that there was mostly Iceberg lettuce packed in there. Caesar = romaine. Caesar does not equal Iceberg. The sooner all restaurants figure this out, the better off we will all be. Upon further examination of the bowl, I saw that there was more than a handful of Romaine, and the Iceberg was mostly of the chunky variety (I hate wilty lettuce leaves), so I decided to suffer in silence.
Mixed in with the lettuce were a few cherry tomatoes, a fistful of shredded carrot and a couple of cucumber slices. I examined each vegetable carefully, noting the texture and quality of each. The tomatoes were the right consistency of hard, the carrots were the correct shade of orange and the cucumbers did not have the feel of hardened jello. Good start! However, the topping that pushed the salad over the "I'm going to dread this" line to "this just might be good" line was the Parmesan cheese. I expected a few sprinkles of some no-frills Parmesan that smelled like a cow's butt, but was instead pleasantly surprised with actual chunky shavings of real, doesn't-smell-like-cow's-ass cheese. The lettuce/topping portion of the salad judging over, I thought we just might be onto something more than mediocre here.
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.