{"id":47,"date":"2009-06-10T09:00:32","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T16:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hamburgersaremylife.wordpress.com\/?p=47"},"modified":"2009-06-10T09:00:32","modified_gmt":"2009-06-10T16:00:32","slug":"coalinga-ca-burger-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=47","title":{"rendered":"Coalinga, CA – Burger King"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ugh.\u00a0 I am changing my core belief about “any burger in a storm”…..even though I have been consuming burgers for the entire 116 years of myvexistence,\u00a0 I have never had a BK whopper.\u00a0 Wait, maybe I did have one once when I lost a bet with a vegetarian friend.\u00a0 On my recent “playing kerouac”tour of America, I was attempting to crisscross the country several times on varying limited daily food budgets.\u00a0 This segment I had limited myself to $3 a day, which in turn, pretty much restricted me to the various dollar menus.<\/p>\n

Today’s stop was a Burger King out on\u00a0 the fringes of the San Joaquin Valley, and at damned near the epicenter of the San Andreas Fault. (everyone has a fault, mine happens to be in California).<\/p>\n

I perused the offerings of the dollar menu at the BK, while carefully adjusting the paper crown on my head, to get the full effect of the regal treatment of being a burger “king.”<\/p>\n

I chose the Whopper Jr and the 6 portion order of “Cheesy Tots”.\u00a0 Both were a disappointment of course, I’m not sure how much the patty weighs on the Whopper, Jr., about the same at the McDouble, I would suppose, probably tipping the scales at perhaps 2 full ounces (pre cooked weight).<\/p>\n

I often wish I had started weighing the McD quarter pounder patties when they first came out, as I am convinced they are getting smaller and smaller. If you have a chance to try the Whopper, Jr….. you should pass.\u00a0 Even sitting on top of the San Andreas Fault, chomping into one of these won’t make the earth move.<\/p>\n

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Ugh.\u00a0 I am changing my core belief about “any burger in a storm”…..even though I have been consuming burgers for the entire 116 years of myvexistence,\u00a0 I have never had a BK whopper.\u00a0 Wait, maybe I did have one once when I lost a bet with a vegetarian friend.\u00a0 On my recent “playing kerouac”tour of… Continue reading Coalinga, CA – Burger King<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}