{"id":64912,"date":"2024-09-27T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/?p=64912"},"modified":"2024-09-26T21:16:22","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T07:16:22","slug":"carls-jr-the-ghost-burger-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2024\/09\/27\/carls-jr-the-ghost-burger-review\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW: Carl\u2019s Jr. The Ghost Burger"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Carl\u2019s Jr. is getting into the Halloween spirit with its new Ghost Burger. It features a charbroiled all-beef patty, ghost pepper cheese, two slices of bacon, sliced onion, lettuce, sliced tomato, pickles, and a soul-scorching sauce on a sesame seed bun. Unfortunately, mine didn\u2019t come with bacon. Or maybe, because I couldn\u2019t see, smell, or taste it, it came with ghost bacon.<\/p>\n

Even if mine came with actual bacon, I don\u2019t think it would\u2019ve been enough to overcome what I believe is a mildly disappointing burger.<\/p>\n

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With having a \u201csoul-scorching\u201d sauce AND ghost pepper cheese, I expected this to pack a prickly spicy punch that would make my mouth need some fruit punch. But with every bite I took from the burger, I wondered if the heat would at some point scare my mouth with an inferno and a BOO. But it never got there. Boo. The sauce didn\u2019t scorch my soul. Instead, it had some heat equivalent to lighting incense to purify my soul. <\/p>\n

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Oddly, I found the ghost pepper cheese more soul-scorching than the sauce. It had green specks throughout, which I assume are the ghost peppers, and just nibbling on a tiny piece lit a small fire in my mouth. However, eating the cheese on its own made me realize that the variety of vegetables between the fragile sesame seed bun was somewhat hot-blocking the full spiciness of the cheese and sauce, especially the onions, pickles, and head lettuce leaf.<\/p>\n

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The sauce\u2019s flavor was surprisingly a bit bland. Its lack of fire could\u2019ve been forgiven a little if it had a nice flavor, but other than some pepperiness, it didn\u2019t have much taste despite being slathered on both buns. Heck, the cheese seemed to be more flavorful.<\/p>\n

The Ghost Burger from Carl\u2019s Jr. does not taste awful; it\u2019s just a bit ho-hum. Besides the cheese and sauce, the single patty had a nice meatiness with a bit of char, and the vegetables were fresh and crisp. But if you want a burger with a lot of flavor and heat, you might be disappointed, like trick-or-treaters receiving only Smarties and SweeTarts on Halloween. Booooo!<\/p>\n

Purchased Price:<\/strong> $8.49*
\nSize:<\/strong> Single
\nRating:<\/strong> 6 out of 10
\nNutrition Facts:<\/strong> 720 calories. No other nutritional information was available on Carl\u2019s Jr.\u2019s website.<\/p>\n

*Because I live on a rock in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, things are a bit pricier here. You\u2019ll probably pay less than I did.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Carl\u2019s Jr. is getting into the Halloween spirit with its new Ghost Burger. It features a charbroiled all-beef patty, ghost pepper cheese, two slices of bacon, sliced onion, lettuce, sliced tomato, pickles, and a soul-scorching sauce on a sesame seed bun. Unfortunately, mine didn\u2019t come with bacon. 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