When these fast food companies decide that they want to pull in some adventurous suckers they invent a new version of an old favorite. Is this really “up to snuff,” or does this “Angry” burger really just sulk in the corner?I went a few days ago with one of my friends to experience this, for lack of better words, new experience in taste.  What we should have expected was that it was just another ploy to bring us in and eat something that is more than bad enough for us to warrant that we shouldn’t have bothered.  But that wouldn’t have made a very interesting post now would it have?  Although either way I would’ve given you the link so you can send someone an angry-gram: http://www.angry-gram.com/index.php
Let me describe the experience and maybe you can decide for yourself whether or not you want to partake in this fast food monstrosity.  First of all, I decided to go with the single whopper version.  One patty is enough, as I would imagine that a meal like I got is well over 1000 calories.  My friend on the other hand went with the triple.  Amazed I didn’t even remember that I had intended to get a hershey pie with my meal, but I would imagine that I shouldn’t have eaten it anyway… 

As for toppings, the “Angry Whopper” is a regular whopper patty on a standard whopper bun adorned with a mantle of pepper jack cheese, lettuce, tomato, seasoned battered fried onions, sliced jalapeños, a tangy red sauce of some kind, and a tablespoon and a half of mayonnaise.  It is a lot of food for your money, but fast food is usually more than you should eat for your low price anyway, so that comes as no big surprise.  

Taste-wise it’s surprisingly mild considering how much those farmers have supposedly mistreated those onions.  It does pack a lot of flavor, but is a little on the salty side.  It had way too much mayo and lettuce for my tastes, but maybe people like it that way?  The unknown reddish sauce was probably the tastiest thing to me personally.(and no it was not ketchup)  

It’s always fun to have some new variation of an old classic to try when you go out to eat, but it seems that sometimes they just aren’t inventive enough to warrant taking in the sheer amount of dangerously fatty calories that it obligates you to consume.  

I have come to but one conclusion from this experience: There is a reason that it only costs a couple more dollars than a normal whopper, because it’s all that they could get away with charging you for a mayonnaise and onion sandwich.

I think next time I’m hungry I’ll save myself some money and go get a limited edition “Adventure Snickers” at Wal-mart.

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