- Jun 24, 2001
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I know. I never thought the technology to make a tasty microwave burger would exist in my lifetime. I work next to a 7-11 convenience store and sometimes find myself needing to find lunch there. I resorted to one of these the other day and I totally expected it to be vending machine quality, which is only technically edible, but hard to actually call such. Instead, I found that it was a substantially thick patty, moist, with the cheese perfectly melted and hot throughout, but the biggest surprise was that it was actually very tasty.
All I did was pop it in their machine and press 3 like the wrapper said to do... didn't even unwrap. That's another first: Microwave directions that actually WORK when meticulously followed. Yeah, for $2.29 at a chain I usually expect fresh condiments (lettuce, tomato, onion), but it actually tasted better than most chain burgers even without that and 00:45 + the lane and register time is still a damn sight faster than any fast food joint I've ever been to. I didn't even have to salt it to taste like some burger chains require (not surprising... salt is a preservative so packaged foods usually have excess sodium in one form or another).
Strangely, my sister enjoys the dog-meat burgers from Arco/BP. GACK! I'll have to introduce her to these. I don't know if they use the same beef at 7-11 stores nation-wide but they probably don't (especially internationally), so YMMV, but my experience was repeatably good.
If I could manage a complaint or two, it's that they are hard to open cleanly with stickers on both sides of the paper wrapper and that the bun is understandably moist.
All I did was pop it in their machine and press 3 like the wrapper said to do... didn't even unwrap. That's another first: Microwave directions that actually WORK when meticulously followed. Yeah, for $2.29 at a chain I usually expect fresh condiments (lettuce, tomato, onion), but it actually tasted better than most chain burgers even without that and 00:45 + the lane and register time is still a damn sight faster than any fast food joint I've ever been to. I didn't even have to salt it to taste like some burger chains require (not surprising... salt is a preservative so packaged foods usually have excess sodium in one form or another).
Strangely, my sister enjoys the dog-meat burgers from Arco/BP. GACK! I'll have to introduce her to these. I don't know if they use the same beef at 7-11 stores nation-wide but they probably don't (especially internationally), so YMMV, but my experience was repeatably good.
If I could manage a complaint or two, it's that they are hard to open cleanly with stickers on both sides of the paper wrapper and that the bun is understandably moist.
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