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I realize it may not look like much, but the Carl\u2019s Jr. Beyond Famous Star is probably the fast food burger of the year.<\/p>\n
Yes, it may be only January, but God bless Carl\u2019s Jr. for unleashing this wonderfully unknowing beef-substitute on their many meat-weary fans and, even more so, those just looking for something not only a bit healthier, but deliciously different in the new year.<\/p>\n
Beyond Meat has been making a bit of a wave lately in fast food, making different partnerships with places like Del Taco \u2014 if you can find them \u2014 to live out its wholly utopian dream of replacing meat with a fully plant-based foodstuff. If its faux-beef patties taste this good \u2014 better even than the real thing, if you ask me \u2014 don\u2019t ever wake me up. Allow me to forever slumber in this world.<\/p>\n
The basic skeleton of the Carl\u2019s Jr. burger is all here: the buns, lettuce, tomato, pickles, ketchup, secret sauce, and so on, with the option of cheese or no cheese to make it a bit more tangibly vegan. And while the smell is different than a usual slab of burger beef on the grill \u2014 think of it more like a wafting scent of Sunday morning on the busy farm, if you will \u2014 the Beyond Meat taste is quite like anything I know I\u2019ve had, at the very least inside a Carl\u2019s Jr.<\/p>\n
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You may expect something like this Beyond Meat to be remarkably dry, but it is actually the perfect balance between perfectly juicy and properly flamb\u00e9ed, the signature Carl\u2019s Jr. mess running down the front of your shirt. Is it actually grilled? Who knows? But, like so many other things in this world, does it really matter when it tastes this good?<\/p>\n
You\u2019d really think that more fast food joints would offer the Beyond Meat as an option \u2014 or at least bring it to my town, won\u2019t you Del Taco? \u2014 easing the usual vegetarian-phobics, at the very least, into a solvable Meatless Monday solution, like Paul McCartney and PETA routinely says. <\/p>\n
I gotta say, this burger worked for me.<\/p>\n
However, while the calorie count is not as terrible as the chain’s standard burger, the sodium is well over 1500 milligrams, giving people trying to cut that back a small pause for concern. Still, if you\u2019re only eating one a week \u2014 that seems about fair, eh? \u2014 you should probably be fine. Just don\u2019t substitute these for an everyday meal, usually on your lunch break, especially when detrimentally paired with fries and a Coke.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m thoroughly surprised with Carl\u2019s Jr. latest endeavor for the vegetarian community \u2014 and the wannabe one \u2014 applauding its decision to go above and, yes, Beyond, with this latest call to a most tasty form of positively edible action. C\u00f3mpralo ya!<\/p>\n
Purchased Price:<\/strong> $6.29 I realize it may not look like much, but the Carl\u2019s Jr. Beyond Famous Star is probably the fast food burger of the year. Yes, it may be only January, but God bless Carl\u2019s Jr. for unleashing this wonderfully unknowing beef-substitute on their many meat-weary fans and, even more so, those just looking for something […]<\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1440],"tags":[1478,1477],"class_list":["post-34298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-carls-jr","tag-fast-food"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":39961,"url":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2019\/10\/09\/fast-food-news-carls-jr-beyond-bbq-cheeseburger\/","url_meta":{"origin":34298,"position":0},"title":"FAST FOOD NEWS: Carl’s Jr. Beyond BBQ Cheeseburger","author":"Marvo","date":"October 9, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"When Carl's Jr. first offered a plant-based meat substitute burger, it used a Beyond Meat patty with one of its most popular menu items -- the Famous Star. 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\nSize:<\/strong> N\/A
\nRating:<\/strong> 8 out of 10
\nNutrition Facts:<\/strong> 710 calories, 40 grams of fat, 0 grams of saturated fat, 0 gram of trans fat, 30 milligrams of cholesterol, 1550 milligrams of sodium, 61 grams of carbohydrates, 5 grams of fiber, 12 grams of sugar, and 30 grams of protein.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"