Carl’s Jr. is stepping into the Halloween spirit with its new Ghost Burger. It incorporates 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. Sadly, mine didn’t include bacon. Or perhaps, as a result of I couldn’t see, scent, or style it, it got here with ghost bacon.
Even when mine got here with precise bacon, I don’t assume it might’ve been sufficient to beat what I consider is a mildly disappointing burger.
With having a “soul-scorching” sauce AND ghost pepper cheese, I anticipated this to pack a prickly spicy punch that will make my mouth want some fruit punch. However with each chunk I took from the burger, I puzzled if the warmth would in some unspecified time in the future scare my mouth with an inferno and a BOO. However it by no means obtained there. Boo. The sauce didn’t scorch my soul. As a substitute, it had some warmth equal to lighting incense to purify my soul.
Oddly, I discovered the ghost pepper cheese extra soul-scorching than the sauce. It had inexperienced specks all through, which I assume are the ghost peppers, and simply nibbling on a tiny piece lit a small fireplace in my mouth. Nevertheless, consuming the cheese by itself made me notice that the number of greens between the delicate sesame seed bun was considerably hot-blocking the total spiciness of the cheese and sauce, particularly the onions, pickles, and head lettuce leaf.
The sauce’s taste was surprisingly a bit bland. Its lack of fireside may’ve been forgiven slightly if it had a pleasant taste, however apart from some pepperiness, it didn’t have a lot style regardless of being slathered on each buns. Heck, the cheese gave the impression to be extra flavorful.
The Ghost Burger from Carl’s Jr. doesn’t style terrible; it’s only a bit ho-hum. In addition to the cheese and sauce, the one patty had a pleasant meatiness with a little bit of char, and the greens had been contemporary and crisp. However if you need a burger with a whole lot of taste and warmth, you is likely to be upset, like trick-or-treaters receiving solely Smarties and SweeTarts on Halloween. Booooo!
Bought Value: $8.49*
Measurement: Single
Score: 6 out of 10
Vitamin Information: 720 energy. No different dietary info was accessible on Carl’s Jr.’s web site.
*As a result of I reside on a rock in the course of the Pacific Ocean, issues are a bit pricier right here. You’ll most likely pay lower than I did.