{"id":513,"date":"2007-08-08T00:01:51","date_gmt":"2007-08-08T10:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2007\/08\/08\/wendys-baconator\/"},"modified":"2023-08-25T20:36:26","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T06:36:26","slug":"wendys-baconator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2007\/08\/08\/wendys-baconator\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW: Wendy&#8217;s Baconator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/theimpulsivebuy\/7548843122\/\" title=\"Wendy's Baconator by theimpulsivebuy, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8025\/7548843122_07efc11253.jpg?resize=500%2C333\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Wendy's Baconator\"\/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The Wendy&#8217;s Baconator has a name usually reserved for those college students who fully take advantage of the all-you-can-eat breakfast bar in the dormitory cafeteria or the wingmen who takes home the fat chicks.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a simple burger that doesn&#8217;t have any secret sauces, fancy breads, exotic cheeses, special meats, or vegetables.  It&#8217;s just two lightly salted quarter pound patties of ground beef, six strips of bacon, two slices of cheese, ketchup, and mayonnaise in between a bun.  <\/p>\n<p>In this day and age of Ciabatta bread and chipotle peppers, the Baconator&#8217;s simplicity is comforting, like freshly baked chocolate chip cookies and milk or nestling my head in between the voluptuous bosom of a woman.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, what&#8217;s not comforting about the Baconator is its nutritional values, which makes the Big Mac&#8217;s seem small, like a penis after being dunked in the cold water.  <\/p>\n<p>While the Baconator has 830 calories, 51 grams of fat, 22 grams of saturated fat, 2.5 grams of trans fat, 170 milligrams of cholesterol, and 1,920 milligrams of sodium, the Big Mac has the less artery-clogging values of 540 calories, 29 grams of fat, 10 grams of saturated fat, 1.5 grams of trans fat, 75 milligrams of cholesterol. and 1,040 milligrams of sodium.<\/p>\n<p>With all that meat and its nutritional values, the Baconator is not a burger that you would want to eat often or during your recovery from triple bypass surgery or in the middle of a Weight Watchers meeting or in the lion&#8217;s den at a zoo or at a PETA protest.  But if you can eat several of these in one sitting, you should be given the nickname, &#8220;Baconator-tor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite its unhealthiness and fugliness in the picture above, the Baconator a pretty good burger.  It was smaller than I thought it would be, but it&#8217;s a pretty dense burger.  As a matter of fact, when I was carrying the paper Wendy&#8217;s bag it came in, it kind of felt like it was going to fall through the bottom.  <\/p>\n<p>As for its taste, the smokiness from the bacon complimented well with the juicy ground beef patties and the two slices of cheese.  The ketchup and mayonnaise added a nice creamy tomato flavor to it.  All together, it created a simple, classic taste, like something I would&#8217;ve gotten from a drive-in restaurant from the 1950s.<\/p>\n<p>But all is not perfect with this burger.  Wendy&#8217;s claims the Baconator has six strips of bacon, and it technically does, but those strips were awfully short.  I know bacon shrinks significantly when cooked, but it would probably take two or three strips from the Baconator to equal one strip of bacon from a package I bought from the store and fried on my own.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, it&#8217;s a really good burger.  Although, after eating one, I feel like my lifespan has shortened a little bit.  Again, it&#8217;s simple with a classic taste, which I really like.  <\/p>\n<p>I wish I could say the same for the type of women I like, which is high-maintenance, high heels, and with a high tolerance of me.<\/p>\n<p><b>Item:<\/b>  Wendy&#8217;s Baconator<br \/>\n<b>Price:<\/b>  $6.49 (Small Combo)<br \/>\n<b>Purchased at:<\/b> Wendy&#8217;s<br \/>\n<b>Rating:<\/b> 8 out of 10<br \/>\n<b>Pros:<\/b>  Simple burger with a classic taste.  Heavy burger.  Half pound of beef.  Freshly baked chocolate chip cookies and milk.  Resting my head in between the voluptuous bosom of a woman.<br \/>\n<b>Cons:<\/b>  Six strips of bacon were small.  Bad nutritional values that make the Big Mac&#8217;s look healthy.  2.5 grams of trans fat.  Eating meat at a PETA protest.  Eating a Baconator at a Weight Watchers meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wendy&#8217;s Baconator has a name usually reserved for those college students who fully take advantage of the all-you-can-eat breakfast bar in the dormitory cafeteria or the wingmen who takes home the fat chicks. It&#8217;s a simple burger that doesn&#8217;t have any secret sauces, fancy breads, exotic cheeses, special meats, or vegetables. 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