{"id":17678,"date":"2014-09-30T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/?p=17678"},"modified":"2023-09-05T16:03:35","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T02:03:35","slug":"review-jack-in-the-box-spicy-sriracha-burger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2014\/09\/30\/review-jack-in-the-box-spicy-sriracha-burger\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW: Jack in the Box Spicy Sriracha Burger"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Jack<\/a><\/p>\n

I imagine there are a number of you who got really excited when you saw the the word \u201csriracha\u201d in the title of this review. In your head, you\u2019re probably yelling, \u201cSRIRACHA!!!\u201d But I am here to extinguish your excitement like milk extinguishes the capsaicin in your mouth when you eat something spicy.<\/p>\n

I can understand your excitement because my head was screaming, \u201cSRIRACHA!!!\u201d after I ordered one. However, my head was thinking something else after I ate it.<\/p>\n

The Spicy Sriracha Burger looks like a Sourdough Jack that\u2019s been given a make over by a Subway Sandwich Artist. It has a beef patty, hickory smoked bacon, shredded lettuce, tomatoes, pickled jalape\u00f1o slices, and a creamy sriracha sauce on a toasted sourdough bun.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not sure why Jack went with the shredded lettuce. Their lettuce is awful to begin with, so shredding it won\u2019t make it better. But shredding it does make the burger messy. Despite a kung-fu grip around my burger, the lettuce kept falling out. You might be thinking that\u2019s a good thing because the lettuce is so sad, but it\u2019s not because the sad lettuce was usually coated with the creamy sriracha sauce. So if I let the lettuce fall, most of the sauce won\u2019t be in the burger. <\/p>\n

Yup. I just spent an entire paragraph talking about lettuce. But the shredded lettuce isn\u2019t the worst problem.<\/p>\n

\"Jack<\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s the jalape\u00f1os.<\/p>\n

I raved about the flavor and heat of Jack\u2019s jalape\u00f1os in previous menu items, like their <\/a>Jalape\u00f1o Ranch Ultimate Cheeseburger, but that had \u201cjalape\u00f1o\u201d in its name. This menu item does not, but it sure tastes like it does. If you\u2019re hoping to get the sweet, spicy, and garlicky flavor of sriracha, I\u2019m sorry to say your hopes and taste buds are going to be smothered by the jalape\u00f1os\u2019 flavor and heat. Granted, Jack\u2019s creamy sriracha sauce, as I learned with their <\/a>Sausage Grande Breakfast Burrito, is noticeably mild compared with the Rooster Sauce, but it should be the sriracha that stands out, not the jalape\u00f1o.<\/p>\n

There were bites here and there when I could taste other ingredients in the burger, like the bacon’s smokiness and the thin, dry burger patty, but it was mostly The Jalape\u00f1o Show Starring Jalape\u00f1o Jalape\u00f1o with musical guests Jalape\u00f1o and cameos by Bacon and Beef Patty.<\/p>\n

So if the thought of sriracha excites you and makes you scream \u201cSRIRACHA!!!\u201d in your head, I\u2019d recommend skipping Jack in the Box\u2019s Spicy Sriracha Burger. But if the thought of jalape\u00f1o excites you and makes you scream \u201cJALAPENO!!!\u201d in your head, I\u2019d recommend Jack in the Box\u2019s Spicy Sriracha Burger.<\/p>\n

(Nutrition Facts – 691 calories, 411 calories from fat, 46 grams of fat, 14 grams of saturated fat, 2 grams of trans fat, 90 milligrams of cholesterol, 1612 milligrams of sodium, 478 milligrams of potassium, 38 grams of carbohydrates, 4 grams of fiber, 6 grams of sugar, and 33 grams of protein.)<\/small><\/p>\n

Item:<\/b> Jack in the Box Spicy Sriracha Burger
\nPurchased Price:<\/b> $7.49 (small combo)
\nSize:<\/b> N\/A
\nPurchased at:<\/b> Jack in the Box
\nRating:<\/b> 5 out of 10
\nPros:<\/b> Great if you love jalape\u00f1o. Flavor of bacon and beef patty pops up every so often behind the jalape\u00f1o. Good heat, thanks to the jalape\u00f1o.
\nCons:<\/b> Bad if you love sriracha because the creamy sriracha sauce isn’t noticeable. Thin beef patty. Sad shredded lettuce falls out easily, taking much of the sriracha sauce with it. The number of times I used “jalape\u00f1o” in a sriracha burger review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I imagine there are a number of you who got really excited when you saw the the word \u201csriracha\u201d in the title of this review. In your head, you\u2019re probably yelling, \u201cSRIRACHA!!!\u201d But I am here to extinguish your excitement like milk extinguishes the capsaicin in your mouth when you eat something spicy. 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