PHOTOS: "Reality Check"...Wendy's Bacon Deluxe in the ADS, and what it looks like when you BUY one.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Reality Check: Wendy's Bacon Deluxe
Posted by Robyn Lee, October 31, 2009 at 12:00 PM
Note: In our Reality Check series, we take a look at fast food in the news and show you what it looks like in all its unstylized glory.



This month, Wendy's introduced a new burger, the Bacon Deluxe (with one to three patties), and replaced its previously used bacon with more premium, thick-cut applewood-smoked bacon. Here's what it looks like in real life:





The single Bacon Deluxe ($4.69) comes with a fresh quarter-pound patty, American cheese, four slices of bacon, iceberg lettuce, tomato, onions, pickles, mayonnaise, and ketchup.

I also got the Baconator ($5.99) made of two quarter-pound patties with American cheese, six strips of bacon, mayonnaise, and ketchup—aka, no veggies.





As my first time eating Wendy's burgers (I was a McDonald's kid growing up), I'm willing to say that I liked the burgers more than those from McDonald's and Burger King and the bacon wasn't bad, but it's not something I'd choose to eat again.

[yewberry]

1. "Previously used bacon"

:rofl:

Interesting word choices...!

[woo me with science]

2. Methinks you have the grist for a new regular feature on DU

to compete with Sunday's LOLCats and the DUzy Awards.



I, for one, will look forward to future editions of "Amerigo Vespucci's Reality Check"!

[Amerigo Vespucci]

5. In all fairness, it's "A Hamburger Today's Reality Check"...

...credit where credit is due, but thanks!

If you go to the link in my original post and scroll down, you will see that they have previously posted "reality checks" for Carl's Jr. and Burger King. The photos are even more dramatic in both...the "real" burgers are beyond pathetic.

:toast:

[Tobin S.]

3. They all look good to me, but then again I haven't eaten a hamburger in 10 months.

[yewberry]

4. I have a similar and yet completely different situation:

they all look awful to me, but then I haven't eaten a hamburger in 22 years.

(Hi Tobin...I used to be tofunut!)

[Tobin S.]

6. You changed your classic name! I did, too. I used to be Droopy

But I guess you already knew that. :)

Please forgive my omnivorous ways.

[yewberry]

21. Yup. Eh, unknown by any other name smells as sweet, right?

You're a good egg for remembering me, though.

I'm always glad to see you here...sounds like your life has changed a lot, so congratulations for that!

[Shell Beau]

7. They pump them up for the ads!

I would never expect it to look like that though because it never has.

[annabanana]

12. The things they use for ads aren't even FOOD. .

Completely inedible. .

[Kali]

8. they all look ok to me

but at wendy's I tell them no mayo or ketchup

[TK421]

9. I used to buy the Wendy's junior bacon cheeseburgers when I worked at the mall

I swear, they used to heap two tablespoons of fucking mayo on that thing....as far as mayo goes, I could take it or leave it but that much? I got sick after eating it and stopped ordering them

[Orrex]

10. That wasn't mayonnaise

[AsahinaKimi]

11. My friend used to say

"Wendy was a lying bi**ch and her burgers suck" ...
Well, what can you say? He worked at Jack-in-the-box.

[Danger Mouse]

16. Hey, off topic, but what does your sigline mean?

:hi:

[AsahinaKimi]

17. Nihon no bunka ga daisuki desuyo!

It means: I love Japanese culture!

[Amerigo Vespucci]

19. I WAS RIGHT! I WAS RIGHT! My Japanese is better than I thought.

I was posting my reply while you were posting yours.

I love Japanese culture too. There's a story that goes with that.

:toast:

[Amerigo Vespucci]

18. Here comes the gaijin version...

...based on my moderate skills in Japanese, it's "I love Japanese culture"

"Nihongo ga dai suki desu = I love Japanese"

"bunka" = "culture, humanities, liberal arts"

Nihon no bunka ga daisuki desuyo!

:toast:

[AsahinaKimi]

20. Honto desu..

Tadashii! correct
you get a cookie

[LostInAnomie]

13. To be fair, the ad burger probably isn't really a burger at all.

It's probably a plastic model or something else inedible.

That being said, nothing would stop me from eating any of them, even the plastic one.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

23. Here's a photo of the first burger I cooked on my new gas grill, about a year ago...

2 1-/4 LB. patties, leaf lettuce, red onion, tomato slice, 1000 Island dressing, 2 slices of REAL Tilamook Cheddar Cheese. FRESH sesame seed bun from the Safeway bakery, toasted on the grill.

So you can have one of MINE...PLEASE don't eat the plastic burger.

:toast:

:rofl:

[BrklynLiberal]

24. Wow...that looks like it is about this size in person..

[Amerigo Vespucci]

25. Not "exactly" that big, but I did have to cut it in half...

...a month or two ago I posted a thread on the world's largest, most expensive burger...from Japan...had black "squid ink" buns, and it had a photo of the chef turning it on an outdoor grill with a HUGE paddle.

It made the burger you posted look like a "slider."

:rofl:

:toast:

[BrklynLiberal]

26. The world's most expensive burger....wow....it must have been Kobe beef..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFPMOxQB1tg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9y-Zhep5GM&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSU5Iu9Z9qI&NR=1

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

14. I'd rather have the real one.

It took a few seconds to prepare, rather than an hour or so to prepare like the one in the ad.

Although truth be told, I'd rather have the Big Bacon Classic.

I appreciate improved bacon. But for some reason this new bacon just doesn't work with the rest of the burger. The BBC was a superior sandwich.

[Deja Q]

15. This is like that movie, "Falling Down", only funnier!

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6gew7_falling-down-i-want-breakfast-scene_shortfilms

(3:55 in)
:evilgrin:

[Amerigo Vespucci]

22. Oh, man, I LOVE that scene...the whole movie, actually, but ESPECIALLY that scene.

Dedee Pfeiffer..."Sheila," the Whammyburger waitress...was PERFECT.



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