Bacon King
Burger King’s heavyweight. Two beef patties, thick-cut smoked bacon and cheese with only ketchup and mayo for company: no salad, no restraint. It exists to compete with Wendy’s Baconator and does a solid job. Expect to be full for the rest of the afternoon.
The story
Wendy’s spent nearly a decade proving with the Baconator that a large part of the market wants beef, bacon and cheese and nothing green at all. Burger King answered in 2016 with the Bacon King: two quarter-pound flame-grilled patties, four slices of cheese, six strips of bacon, ketchup and mayonnaise. The arithmetic is the argument. Where the Whopper is built around lettuce, tomato and onion, this one strips the salad out entirely and doubles what is left.
What’s inside
Make it at home
There is no copycat of the Bacon King yet. Until there is, these recipes on the site come closest to it, judged by what goes into the bun.
- Shares beef, bacon, cheese and a double stack
Peter’s Triple Bacon Burger - Shares beef, bacon and cheese
TOP 3McDonald's Big Tasty (Copycat) - Shares beef, bacon and cheese
Cheeseburger Wellington - Shares beef, bacon and cheese
McDonald's Bacon McDouble (Copycat)
The Bacon King on YouTube
Everyone who has cooked, copied or taste-tested it on camera.
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About Burger King
Burger King started in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1953 as Insta-Burger King, named after a broiler oven that did not really work. Two franchisees in Miami, James McLamore and David Edgerton, fixed the problem with a flame broiler, took over the company, and gave Burger King the one thing that still separates it from McDonald’s: burgers cooked over a flame instead of on a flat griddle.
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