{"id":19275,"date":"2015-11-02T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/?p=19275"},"modified":"2023-08-12T14:22:27","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T00:22:27","slug":"review-the-works-reese-pbc-stuffd-burger-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2015\/11\/02\/review-the-works-reese-pbc-stuffd-burger-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW: The WORKS Reese PBC Stuff’d Burger (Canada)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Do I have to write this review? Can I just type the word “nope” a few hundred times, include some photos, and call it a day? Because seriously: NOPE.<\/p>\n

On the surface, the Reese PBC Stuff’d Burger seems like it should be an interesting novelty, cut from the same cloth as a doughnut burger, a McGriddle, or a Twinkie wiener sandwich<\/a> (okay, I don’t think that last one exists outside of UHF, but it should<\/i>). Sweet and salty novelty sandwiches aren’t exactly fine dining, but they can be tasty. <\/p>\n

Stuffing (and topping) a burger with Reese\u2019s Peanut Butter Cups seems, if nothing else, like it should be fun.<\/p>\n

Again: NOPE. <\/p>\n

Eating it is absolutely not fun, unless you consider eating disgusting food to be fun, in which case it’s a barrel of laughs.<\/p>\n

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

Aside from the peanut butter cups, the burger is also topped with a couple of strips of bacon, and a fairly generous pile of crispy onion strings. <\/p>\n

I don’t think I can be emphatic enough: do not, under any circumstances, order this hamburger. It is a disgusting, piping hot slurry of sickly sweet Reese\u2019s goo and shoddy, dry beef. <\/p>\n

You shouldn’t underestimate how face-burningly hot this thing is. I cut it in half, spent several minutes taking photos, and still managed to burn the Dickens out of my tongue on the first bite.<\/p>\n

I’m not going to say that’s because this is a malevolent, hell-spawned creation of pure, unrequited evil whose sole purpose is to inflict as much anguish as possible on the world, but… if the shoe fits. <\/p>\n

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

Aside from the mouth-searing temperature, the flavour is completely out of whack; it’s all cloying sweetness with no balance whatsoever. The crispy onions add some texture but are completely overwhelmed, and the bacon may as well not even be there. <\/p>\n

The burger basically tastes like dessert, only with beef and onions. It’s just wrong in a very fundamental way.<\/p>\n

It probably doesn’t help that the beef is awful — dry, tough, and studded with bits of sinew and gristle, it’s actually shockingly bad considering that burgers are this restaurant’s stock-in-trade.<\/p>\n

The longer I ate it, the more oppressive it became; I finished it, but I’m not sure why. <\/p>\n

It’s pretty clear that this was created entirely to get as much media attention as possible, with no regard at all for flavour. And on that level, I guess it’s a success? But ordering and eating it is essentially a metaphorical middle finger from The Works to you. They want that sweet, sweet free press<\/a>; all the people who have to suffer through actually eating it are just collateral damage.<\/p>\n

So for those keeping score, that’s The Works: 1, humanity: 0.<\/p>\n

(Nutrition Facts – Not available on The Works website.)<\/small><\/p>\n

Item:<\/b> The WORKS Reese PBC Stuff’d Burger (Canada)
\nPurchased Price:<\/b> $15.98 (CAN)
\nSize:<\/b> N\/A
\nPurchased at:<\/b> The WORKS Gourmet Burger Bistro
\nRating:<\/b> 1 out of 10
\nPros:<\/b> It’s food, I guess?
\nCons:<\/b> An affront to humanity. Shoddy beef. Off-putting flavour. Cloyingly sweet. Face-meltingly hot. Literal hot garbage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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