Rodeo Burger
A tiny, cheap burger with a lot of personality. A small flame-grilled patty topped with crunchy onion rings and sweet, smoky barbecue sauce, and nothing else. It is one of the best things on the value menu precisely because it tastes like someone had fun making it. Add cheese and it becomes the Rodeo Cheeseburger.
The story
Onion rings on a burger with barbecue sauce is an American shorthand for the West, and it has been since Carl’s Jr. built the Western Bacon Cheeseburger around it in the early 1980s. Every chain eventually ran a version, and Burger King’s lives on the value menu rather than the main board, which is the whole point of it: rings and sweet sauce make a small cheap burger taste like a much larger one, for the price of two ingredients nobody has to cook to order.
What’s inside
- small flame-grilled beef patty
- onion rings
- barbecue sauce
- bun
Make it at home
There is no copycat of the Rodeo Burger yet. Until there is, these recipes on the site come closest to it, judged by what goes into the bun.
- Shares beef, barbecue sauce and crispy onions
Copycat Red Robin Whiskey River BBQ Burger with Onion Straws - Shares beef, barbecue sauce and crispy onions
Onion Bomb Burger - Shares beef and barbecue sauce
Duff Beer Sloppy Dog - Shares beef and crispy onions
X-Cell-Ent Burger
Similar burgers at other chains
Built around the same things as the Rodeo Burger.- Big Smoke Burger · beef, barbecue sauce and crispy onions
Oh Brisket - El Corral · beef, barbecue sauce and crispy onions
Texana - Red Robin · beef, barbecue sauce and crispy onions
SignatureWhiskey River BBQ - Carl's Jr. · beef, barbecue sauce and crispy onions
SignatureWestern Bacon Cheeseburger
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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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