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Burger King is trash; they should just bring back the Whopper from the 80s and early 90s when it had the kitchen smokin'.
Yeah back in the 80's you could smell those flame grilled burgers once you were getting close to Burger King. My pops always took us there, we kids and he would be getting us double whoppers lol.Burger King is trash; they should just bring back the Whopper from the 80s and early 90s when it had the kitchen smokin'.
For real their whoppers used to have flavor. Every thing had flavor back then even kfc doesnt taste as good as it used to.Burger King is trash; they should just bring back the Whopper from the 80s and early 90s when it had the kitchen smokin'.
Man, the whopper used to taste like if someone grilled them in the backyard, they were so dayum good......smdh.
I google searched and found that taste buds weaken as we grow older so that good be it Also but im not sure i made a breakfast skillet yesterday and it was good.
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Shit is probably $13.78 fot thr sandwich alone. Just throwing it out there, but BK has the wotst fries in the commercial food industry.
Plus I stopped fucking with with them after I heard abouy the story of the guy wiping his ass with the chicken patties and putting them back like in the movie Road Trip.
Plus I stopped fucking with with them after I heard abouy the story of the guy wiping his ass with the chicken patties and putting them back like in the movie Road Trip.
nah they took out the trans fat oils that affected how you taste food. Food used to taste better up until 2006/2007
Stop with the ageism, bruh. Your only joke is "you're too old for this or that."
As for Burger King, that's not the reason the taste is different now.
Oh, the change in taste came when Burger King was bought out by private equity:
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By Sherri Day
Bradley D. Blum, the chief executive, laid out his plan on Thursday in Dallas at the company's annual meeting with its franchisees. Mr. Blum was named chief executive of the Burger King Corporation in December to try to reverse several years of declining sales.
''We're looking at a true reinvention of Burger King,'' he said yesterday in an interview. ''To do things that have never been done before is our goal.''
But, despite new marketing, the company will not be reinventing the burger anytime soon. The food will basically be prepared as it traditionally has, but the company will build an advertising campaign around what it sees as a point of differentiation -- burgers cooked over open flame -- from competitors.
''We feel that we have a different kind of company, and we're taking the brand in a different way with the fire grilling and having the best burgers and having the variety of healthy alternatives,'' Mr. Blum said. ''McDonald's doesn't have the ability to cook over fire, neither does Wendy's, neither does Subway. We think that's a very large strategic difference.''
Burger King, like many hamburger chains, has suffered from declining sales; it posted a 12 percent decline in operating profit in 2001. It has also lacked stability in its executive ranks. The company has had nine chief executives in the last 12 years and seven marketing leaders in the last seven. Until late last year, the company was owned by Diageo, the British liquor company. In December the Texas Pacific Group, a private investment firm known for buying troubled companies and turning them around, bought Burger King for about $1.5 billion.
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Fire-Grilling Instead of Flame-Broiling at Burger King
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By Sherri Day
- May 10, 2003
Bradley D. Blum, the chief executive, laid out his plan on Thursday in Dallas at the company's annual meeting with its franchisees. Mr. Blum was named chief executive of the Burger King Corporation in December to try to reverse several years of declining sales.
''We're looking at a true reinvention of Burger King,'' he said yesterday in an interview. ''To do things that have never been done before is our goal.''
But, despite new marketing, the company will not be reinventing the burger anytime soon. The food will basically be prepared as it traditionally has, but the company will build an advertising campaign around what it sees as a point of differentiation -- burgers cooked over open flame -- from competitors.
''We feel that we have a different kind of company, and we're taking the brand in a different way with the fire grilling and having the best burgers and having the variety of healthy alternatives,'' Mr. Blum said. ''McDonald's doesn't have the ability to cook over fire, neither does Wendy's, neither does Subway. We think that's a very large strategic difference.''
Burger King, like many hamburger chains, has suffered from declining sales; it posted a 12 percent decline in operating profit in 2001. It has also lacked stability in its executive ranks. The company has had nine chief executives in the last 12 years and seven marketing leaders in the last seven. Until late last year, the company was owned by Diageo, the British liquor company. In December the Texas Pacific Group, a private investment firm known for buying troubled companies and turning them around, bought Burger King for about $1.5 billion.
A reddit thread about the taste difference:
"When I was in highschool in 1993..lol...I worked at Burger King when whoppers were only 99 cents all the time... we'd drop the buns and burgers on one side of the machine...the bottom part was for the frozen patties and the top for the buns...this is how they were flame broiled on a machine where it was chain driven through flames...now days they ain't so much flame grilled as they are broiled...and yes they didn't taste"
"When I was in highschool in 1993..lol...I worked at Burger King when whoppers were only 99 cents all the time... we'd drop the buns and burgers on one side of the machine...the bottom part was for the frozen patties and the top for the buns...this is how they were flame broiled on a machine where it was chain driven through flames...now days they ain't so much flame grilled as they are broiled...and yes they didn't taste"
Another thread about it:
I havent ordered it in quite some time but if u want that taste u have to order it OB short (off the broiler) it will give u that taste
Man, it's not the same process as before so it won't taste the same as before. I haven't tasted that real Whopper taste in decades now.
peep this: this caused the real change in the taste....
October 12 2007 "Burger King reinvents flame broiling"
NEW YORK (Fortune) -- At Burger King, flame broiling will never be the same again.
After spending three years in development, the number-two fast food chain is quietly rolling out powerful new broilers that reduce utility costs, produce hotter, juicier Whoppers, and could allow Burger King to expand its menu to include items like rib-eye steak sandwiches and shrimp kebabs.
There's also a huge risk involved in tinkering with something so central to a brand's identity - Burger King (Charts) has been known for flame broiling since its founding in 1954.
The so-called "flexible batch broilers," currently in all 897 company-owned restaurants in the U.S. and Canada, represent a great leap forward from Burger King's old broilers, many of which have been around for decades.
Designed in 2004 by Burger King engineers who studied half a dozen prototypes before settling on the winning design, the new broilers cook food all at once in batches - say, eight Whoppers at a time - rather than having to constantly feed patties into a moving, conveyor-belt system. The new broilers are also fully enclosed, not open to the air, allowing them to heat up quicker.
In fact, the new self-contained broilers heat up so fast and run so hot that in a typical cooking cycle, the three separate burners (two on top, one on the bottom) will turn on and off multiple times. Cooking times and temperatures are pre-programmed, so employees only have to push a button.
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Someone remembers:
"I knew it!!! I thought I was going crazy...The taste of the Whopper is just not the same anymore...They have sort of a lighter fluid/chemically taste to them these days. It's really sad. Growing up in the 80's and 90's I loved BK Whoppers...Couldn't get enough of them...Remember when they would do 99 cent whoppers? That was Awesome!!!
These days I try to avoid BK just because of the nasty taste whoppers have...Every once in a while I'll order a whopper just to see if it was just a particular BK, however, I always end up disappointed. Man I miss those oldskool Whoppers..I hope one day they'll bring 'em back."
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"I knew it!!! I thought I was going crazy...The taste of the Whopper is just not the same anymore...They have sort of a lighter fluid/chemically taste to them these days. It's really sad. Growing up in the 80's and 90's I loved BK Whoppers...Couldn't get enough of them...Remember when they would do 99 cent whoppers? That was Awesome!!!
These days I try to avoid BK just because of the nasty taste whoppers have...Every once in a while I'll order a whopper just to see if it was just a particular BK, however, I always end up disappointed. Man I miss those oldskool Whoppers..I hope one day they'll bring 'em back."
Is it me or does the Whopper taste different? | Chicago - Yelp
I just had one the other day(I know bad bad bad). Anyway, It doesnt taste like I remember it growing up? Is it still flame broiled?I didnt see the big broiler conveyor machine that was there before.Does anyone remember that oven contraption?
Hot damn!! Thats an helluva explanation!! Sad too! Because if your company is known for this and it doesnt deliver..then your company sucks!! This is crazy and i wonder has it hurt sales!
This machine fucked up the burgers:
Man, private equity fucks up every childhood memory......
Here's an interesting comment from a forum:
Posted: Sep. 14, 2011 - 6:11 PM ET#11
Afford to stay in business?
Thats hilarious..corporate profits are at historic highs.
BK has gone down the crapper since they went public, now they are again owned by private equity firms who want to maximize short term profits and then chop them up and put them back into the market again (this is the third time for BK I am quite sure to flip back on and off the market).
This has nothing to do with the USD or Ben B, they are trying to max out profits and with declining sales what else can they do? Cut quality, cut portion sizes etc..
Wtf has burger king done to the whopper???
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Maybe you should stop being so sensitive as im referring to myself mainly.
If you say so, bruh. Cool dat.
Man, private equity fucks up every childhood memory......
Here's an interesting comment from a forum:
Posted: Sep. 14, 2011 - 6:11 PM ET#11
Afford to stay in business?
Thats hilarious..corporate profits are at historic highs.
BK has gone down the crapper since they went public, now they are again owned by private equity firms who want to maximize short term profits and then chop them up and put them back into the market again (this is the third time for BK I am quite sure to flip back on and off the market).
This has nothing to do with the USD or Ben B, they are trying to max out profits and with declining sales what else can they do? Cut quality, cut portion sizes etc..
Wtf has burger king done to the whopper???
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Confirmed!! Im not sure if you ever heard of a place called Portillos hot dogs...actually they are know for Italian beefs though and also they were bought by private equity!
I havent eaten there in a couple of years..i ate there a couple of days ago and portions were cut down a whole lot and food were over salted!
Burger King has evolved since my time working there at 15... back when ordering required using a loudspeaker. (I’m definitely dating myself). In my area, we have two Burger King locations: one close to the highway and another in the hood, and I can even notice a difference in quality between the two. Just sayin
Yup.....private equity are like vampires, they suck the profits and lessen the quality. I'm sorry to hear about your hot dog joint .... smdh. That's too bad, P.E. fukin' up more memories.
A deeper dive into how private equity ruins businesses for the consumer:
Burger King is trash; they should just bring back the Whopper from the 80s and early 90s when it had the kitchen smokin'.
Agree!!! The used to have a decent fish filet too but no more.
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