{"id":20176,"date":"2016-06-09T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/?p=20176"},"modified":"2023-08-25T20:35:54","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T06:35:54","slug":"review-wendys-bacon-mozzarella-burger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2016\/06\/09\/review-wendys-bacon-mozzarella-burger\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW: Wendy\u2019s Bacon Mozzarella Burger"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Wendy\u2019s<\/a><\/p>\n

Listen close, boys and girls: today\u2019s secret word is \u201ctwang.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yep, \u201ctwang:\u201d everyone\u2019s favorite flavor descriptor that\u2019s fun to overuse and hard to explain, but easily recognizable when you taste it. And every time I use it in my review of Wendy\u2019s new Bacon Mozzarella Burger, I want you to scream as loud as you can like it\u2019s Pee-Wee\u2019s Playhouse<\/a>.<\/p>\n

My apologies to any librarians reading this.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a lot going on in this sandwich, and as the kind of easily overwhelmed person who can\u2019t even decide which grocery aisle to go down first, it helps for me to quickly break it down into parts. So after fixing my hair in the bun\u2019s reflective gloss and becoming That Guy Publically Pointing A Camera At His Hamburger\u2122, I started dissecting. <\/p>\n

\"Wendy\u2019s<\/a><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s start with that Brioche bun: it has a hyper garlicky and buttery glaze on top of a fragile and well-browned shell that hides fluffy, doughy innards. It\u2019s addictively lick-able, but make sure you don\u2019t touch your camera lens after handling it, unless you like having your review photos look like something out of a hazy movie desert scene.<\/p>\n

The festive leafy greens on my Bacon Mozzarella Burger ranged from \u201cfresh, and crisp\u201d to \u201cdark and damp clumps that belong in an amateur production of Little Shop of Horrors<\/i>.\u201d However, every leaf does a good job of absorbing the addictive twanginess (AHHH!) of the Parmesan Garlic sauce.<\/p>\n

And speaking of Parmesan Garlic sauce: Parmesan Garlic sauce! It\u2019s easily the best part of this sandwich, as it combines a buttery base with a biting garlic twang and nostril-tickling notes of nutty cheese that\u2019s been carefully aged in the remote hills of Italy by a wise hermit.<\/p>\n

The combo of cheesy and creamy really did remind me of Italian restaurant Alfredo sauce. When doused in this sauce, the burger\u2019s raw red onions deliver a welcome two-pronged bite effect. That\u2019s right: this twang\u2019s got fangs.<\/p>\n

The beef burger itself is impressive, too. It tastes freshly browned and salted without being dry, while its core is juicy without being messy. I just wish the bacon and cheese had as much flavor. The Applewood Smoked Bacon tasted of neither apples nor fresh cedar planks, and it had little charcoal-smoked twang. <\/p>\n

The mozzarella, meanwhile, was smooth but practically tasteless\u2014it\u2019s a boring cheese choice that really puts the sleepy \u201czz\u201d in mozzarella. <\/p>\n

\"Wendy\u2019s<\/a><\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t matter too much, though. Just like in nature and in many other multi-ingredient burgers, when eaten as a whole, the Bacon Mozzarella Burger\u2019s strongly flavored ingredients swallow many of the weaker ones. In this case, the bun, burger, and Parmesan Garlic sauce dominate with a tasty trio of buttered garlic beef.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s like an Olive Garden meal (with breadsticks) in squeezable sandwich form and on a drive-thru budget. Though my single burger rang up at $5.99, the suggested price is $4.69. At that dollar figure, I\u2019d highly recommend this \u201cTaste of Fast Food Italy Burger.\u201d <\/p>\n

Even though some ingredients underwhelmed, the rest were impressive enough that you\u2019d think Wendy brought them back from a study abroad trip in Italy that she won\u2019t shut up about for the next five years.<\/p>\n

Now I think I need to stop licking butter off my camera and get out of this restaurant before the secret Wendy\u2019s police hauls me off kicking, screaming, and babbling about twangy Italian cheese hermits.<\/p>\n

(Nutrition Facts – Single burger \u2013 620 calories, 330 calories from fat, 37 grams of fat, 15 grams of saturated fat, 1.5 grams of trans fat, 120 milligrams of cholesterol, 1430 milligrams of sodium, 34 grams of carbohydrates, 2 grams of dietary fiber, 6 grams of sugar, and 37 grams of protein.)<\/small><\/p>\n

Purchased Price:<\/b> $5.99
\nSize:<\/b> Single
\nPurchased at:<\/b> Wendy’s
\nRating:<\/b> 8 out of 10
\nPros:<\/b> Italian-American fusion you can eat at 70mph. Buttery Brioche worth ruining technology over. Parmesan cave gurus. Everybody have fun tonight. Everybody Twang Chung tonight.
\nCons:<\/b> MozzZzzZZarella. Having to go to Home Depot for properly woody bacon. Burger price variability. Limp spinach swamp monsters. Eternally being \u201cThat Guy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Listen close, boys and girls: today\u2019s secret word is \u201ctwang.\u201d Yep, \u201ctwang:\u201d everyone\u2019s favorite flavor descriptor that\u2019s fun to overuse and hard to explain, but easily recognizable when you taste it. 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