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Oh Wendy, you flame-haired temptress of the square-shaped beef patty.<\/p>\n
Does your daddy know how you gently lull me into your old-fashioned restaurants with a diabolical siren\u2019s song of always-fresh, never frozen promises, only to leave me standing alone, naked and ashamed, clutching desperately to a lukewarm baked potato and a couple of double-stacks, mildly disappointed but always willing to take the blame nevertheless?<\/p>\n
Lessons never learned, the most recent entry in the current Smokey Mountain jamboree of fast-food foodstuffs we\u2019re seemingly in the middle of, the new Smoky Mushroom Bacon Cheeseburger, is a timely tune the beloved freckled-face spitfire is warbling to all within hungry earshot, promising the rich flavor of \u201csmoky\u201d portabella mushrooms, \u201csmoky\u201d mushroom aioli, crispy fried onions, Asiago cheese, and three strips of Applewood-smoked bacon on top of its signature beef and buns.<\/p>\n
Which, of course, all sounds absolutely entrancing, a medley of taste sensations crafting a ballistic ballet to an overture of distinct flavors as my mouth waters while simply standing in line, the professional photography teasing me with spilling sides of dense fungi and even denser cheese product, bacon scintillatingly peeking out with onion strings mingling sensually in the glistening drippings. And so then, order up, I take a bite deep and lovingly into it. And another. And then another<\/em>…<\/p>\n As the singular sadness of dine-in disappointment starts to set in, Wendy\u2019s has desperately made another promise they apparently couldn\u2019t keep; while absolutely loaded with said onions, mushrooms, and aioli, they are brutally rendered mostly flavorless and obsolete thanks to a spectacularly greasy overkill from the Wendy\u2019s beef and especially from the Applewood-smoked bacon.<\/p>\n Don\u2019t get me wrong — it makes for a good bacon burger of sorts, but there might as well be no \u2018shrooms at all on the thing, lest they simply need a name-brand filler to plump up this jam, unnecessarily loading it for dramatic sales effect. <\/p>\n Hey, it looked great in the pictures.<\/p>\n However, these same toppings are additionally offered on the similarly-named Smoky Mushroom Baked Potato, the must-have tuber of the year. Where they failed in burger form, Wendy\u2019s wonderfully hits the top of the pops here, with the smoky zest of the saut\u00e9ed mushrooms fully loaded and blending magically with the cheese drenching and moderate drizzle of bacon bits on top of a damp baked potato still soaking in its own sweat. It paired like a prince with my *sigh*<\/em> double-stacks.<\/p>\n In the pantheon of Wendy\u2019s hits or misses, the Smoky Mushroom Bacon Cheeseburger is to be considered a flawed flop, but it\u2019s got a hell of a B-side in its Baked Potato variant that\u2019ll go on to be a cult favorite. Regardless, I\u2019ll always keep an ear out for whatever your next pied pipings of edible tidings will be Wendy, but only \u2018cause I\u2019m a sucker for a redhead holding square-shaped slices of beef. \u00a1C\u00f3mpralo ya!<\/em><\/p>\n (Nutrition Facts – (single) \u2013 760 calories, 440 calories from fat, 49 grams of fat, 15 grams of saturated fat, 1.5 grams of trans fat, 110 milligrams of cholesterol, 1310 milligrams of sodium, 46 grams of carbohydrates, 4 grams of fiber, 6 grams of sugar, and 36 grams of protein.)<\/small><\/p>\n Purchased Price:<\/b> $2.99 Oh Wendy, you flame-haired temptress of the square-shaped beef patty. Does your daddy know how you gently lull me into your old-fashioned restaurants with a diabolical siren\u2019s song of always-fresh, never frozen promises, only to leave me standing alone, naked and ashamed, clutching desperately to a lukewarm baked potato and a couple of double-stacks, mildly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1440],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27174,"url":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2018\/02\/19\/fast-food-news-wendys-smoky-mushroom-bacon-cheeseburger\/","url_meta":{"origin":27456,"position":0},"title":"FAST FOOD NEWS: Wendy’s Smoky Mushroom Bacon Cheeseburger","author":"Marvo","date":"February 19, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Update: We reviewed it! Click here to read our review. Wendy's newest burger is the Smoky Mushroom Bacon Cheeseburger. 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\nSize:<\/b> N\/A
\nRating:<\/b> 4 out of 10
\nPros:<\/b> Makes for a great bacon cheeseburger. Plump with plenty of ingredients. Potato companion worth the add-on.
\nCons:<\/b> Can\u2019t taste the mushrooms over the meat. Too much bacon. Almost too greasy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"