Burger King’s New Ribs – Crash
Ian on Jun 07 2010 | Filed under: Crash
Burger King’s New Ribs
There are a few shows on television that feature men (always men, women aren’t stupid enough to do childish things like this) that travel around the world and eat local gross and interesting weird cuisine shit. It never surprises me that these conquistadors of cuisine always take a bite and say how surprisingly delicious a partially developed chicken egg or a drink made from chewed and spit back out Kava root is.
It wouldn’t be good television if they put something in their mouth and spit it out in disgust, so, instead, they smile and praise the indigenous people for their delicacy. I, however, am going to eat one of the most unheard of dishes know to man, just for you mybbqblog.com readers and give you truth. I am going to give you a review of a dish that sounds so strange that it almost sounds made up; a dish that while easily found seems as though it should be as elusive as the Northeastern Sasquatch…dear readers, I’m talking about Burger King Fire Grilled Ribs.
When I first heard that Burger King was starting to sell bone-in ribs, my first reaction was that it was a joke, but when I realized that my friend was telling the truth, my feelings quickly changed to that of sheer and utter disgust. I can’t believe
that some marketing genius had the guts to bring that up in a meeting and all of the other people thought that it was a great idea. If that was the best idea that they had, I would’ve loved to have been in that meeting just to see the stuff that got voted down, because eating ribs from Burger Kings seems to be just as appetizing to me as going down on my own grandmother.
I started to feel bad because of all the assumptions I was making and decided that in the spirit of BBQ that I would be the blog pioneer and venture into fast food BBQ, so I drove to Burger King on Sunday to grab some lunch. Being in Memphis, I felt like someone that flew to Italy and ate at Olive Garden, but I did it on Sunday because I felt that if I needed to go to church and ask for forgiveness then I could drive straight there and receive my penance.
I walked up to the counter and ordered the 8 piece rib meal which included a small fry and small drink for the shocking price of $9.99 (before tax and tip) which isn’t a bad price for a half slab of ribs. The tax rate in Memphis is 9% and the tip was, “walk out of the door and never come back in here”, so the total damage was $10.91 and a little self esteem.
I ordered it to go, not because I was in a hurry, but because








