Pictured: the new size bacon double cheese burger. Can confirm definitely smaller than it used to be, rather dissapointed, though the XL remains quite large.
Anyone else spotted any more awful shrinkflation out in the wild this week?
by metalgearnix
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Needs a sky remote or a banana.
Deffo needs a banana for scale. That could be Andre the Giants hand.
Same hand, regular bank card, my attempt to provide scale… Sorry
I can’t lie, this looks about right imo. Had this been the XL I’d share your concern
Years ago, say around 2016 or something Burger King used to do a double Angus burger meal. It had 2 thick beef patties in it, bacon, salad and cheese. It was less than a tenner as well. It was so heavy that I would not even be able to finish the burger and Im a fat bastard as well. I would get near to the end of it and wouldnt be hungry any more, I couldnt even attempt the chips. Its a big change looking at this.
I thing the word you’re looking for is “deflation” 😀
Are you now 40 instead of 16yrs of age🤔👍
The last time I had one I was pissed and it took so long to finish walking home it was cold way before I got there. This is measly in comparison.
What’s the price for this one? I don’t mind smaller options, at least when the price matches personally.
They’ve been at it for years.
This was a comparison I made about two years ago (my pics, both pics from August 2022):
Over twice the price McDonald’s charged (at the time, both prices have gone up since then) and way less fries by weight/volume.
My local BK also can’t provide hot food. They must pre-cook the patties, because whenever I get a burger from there (not very often these days) the cheese isn’t even slightly melted, indicating that that patties were cold when the burger was assembled. Most reviews on Just-Eat and Deliveroo for my local BK (Basingstoke) complain about cold food and tiny fries portions.
They also had various bundles on their own app and on third-party food delivery sites. Earlier this year they removed the drinks from them and bumped the prices and they even still call them the same. For example “Bacon Double Duo – 2 x Large Bacon Double Cheeseburger Meals.” Their meals come with drinks, but this bundle does not anymore, even though it says it’s two meals. Last year that bundle cost £13.99 and came with two 500ml bottles of drink, e.g. Coke. This year, no drinks and costs £14.99. You only get drinks with stand-alone meals now (or if you buy them separately, but nobody is dumb enough to pay £3 for a 500 ml carbonated fountain drink on its own, at least, I hope they’re not!), every single bundle had a drink last year, this year none do.
They’re even tight when you ask for ketchup sachets.
Screw BK. Their greed has become absurd over the last five or so years.
As an aside, has anyone ever managed to get a delivery through their app? I’ve tried many different postcodes and their app always says “sorry, we’re not there yet” despite the fact that their app delivery partner operates in every postcode area I tried and you can go on the third-party sites and order from the same BK restaurant that won’t give you delivery through their own app!
Taste better than mcdonald’s 😉
There goes a month’s wages
Even the paltry scattering of sesame seeds looks really sad lol
🤬
The standard bacon double cheeseburger has been small for so many years. That’s my normal burger choice at BK
That’s beyond ridiculous.
It’s an insult.
The solution is to stop buying from these places altogether, else they’ll just keep on ripping people off.
Buy local ! It’s better for your local economy and keeps your village economy healthy.
That’s a giants hand if ever I saw one
Don’t tell me that’s the bacon double cheese xl, dw just actually read the full post. Still pretty poor though come on bk
The lack of seeds is also upsetting me
I would think that would legally qualify as a slider, not a burger.
Phew, I thought you were gonna say this was a whopper
I was at a BK in a service station the other day, and they had a triple bacon cheese XL, first time seeing it. And Jesus Christ it was enormous. Love a BK.
Currently 441 calories but was 428 calories in 2020 so has actually increased in size slightly
I usually only ever order an XL bacon Double Cheeseburger from BK but I decided to try the KING BBQ Stack which at least made it sound like it was a larger burger, it was tiny.
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Needs a sky remote or a banana.
Deffo needs a banana for scale. That could be Andre the Giants hand.
Oh come on! Can’t you see the poor fellas cold?
https://imgur.com/a/bSVhn6n
Same hand, regular bank card, my attempt to provide scale… Sorry
I can’t lie, this looks about right imo. Had this been the XL I’d share your concern
Years ago, say around 2016 or something Burger King used to do a double Angus burger meal. It had 2 thick beef patties in it, bacon, salad and cheese. It was less than a tenner as well. It was so heavy that I would not even be able to finish the burger and Im a fat bastard as well. I would get near to the end of it and wouldnt be hungry any more, I couldnt even attempt the chips. Its a big change looking at this.
I thing the word you’re looking for is “deflation” 😀
Are you now 40 instead of 16yrs of age🤔👍
The last time I had one I was pissed and it took so long to finish walking home it was cold way before I got there. This is measly in comparison.
What’s the price for this one? I don’t mind smaller options, at least when the price matches personally.
They’ve been at it for years.
This was a comparison I made about two years ago (my pics, both pics from August 2022):
[https://i.ibb.co/P94tf2J/BK-vs-Mc-Donalds.png](https://i.ibb.co/P94tf2J/BK-vs-Mc-Donalds.png)
Over twice the price McDonald’s charged (at the time, both prices have gone up since then) and way less fries by weight/volume.
My local BK also can’t provide hot food. They must pre-cook the patties, because whenever I get a burger from there (not very often these days) the cheese isn’t even slightly melted, indicating that that patties were cold when the burger was assembled. Most reviews on Just-Eat and Deliveroo for my local BK (Basingstoke) complain about cold food and tiny fries portions.
They also had various bundles on their own app and on third-party food delivery sites. Earlier this year they removed the drinks from them and bumped the prices and they even still call them the same. For example “Bacon Double Duo – 2 x Large Bacon Double Cheeseburger Meals.” Their meals come with drinks, but this bundle does not anymore, even though it says it’s two meals. Last year that bundle cost £13.99 and came with two 500ml bottles of drink, e.g. Coke. This year, no drinks and costs £14.99. You only get drinks with stand-alone meals now (or if you buy them separately, but nobody is dumb enough to pay £3 for a 500 ml carbonated fountain drink on its own, at least, I hope they’re not!), every single bundle had a drink last year, this year none do.
They’re even tight when you ask for ketchup sachets.
Screw BK. Their greed has become absurd over the last five or so years.
As an aside, has anyone ever managed to get a delivery through their app? I’ve tried many different postcodes and their app always says “sorry, we’re not there yet” despite the fact that their app delivery partner operates in every postcode area I tried and you can go on the third-party sites and order from the same BK restaurant that won’t give you delivery through their own app!
Taste better than mcdonald’s 😉
There goes a month’s wages
Even the paltry scattering of sesame seeds looks really sad lol
🤬
The standard bacon double cheeseburger has been small for so many years. That’s my normal burger choice at BK
That’s beyond ridiculous.
It’s an insult.
The solution is to stop buying from these places altogether, else they’ll just keep on ripping people off.
Buy local ! It’s better for your local economy and keeps your village economy healthy.
That’s a giants hand if ever I saw one
Don’t tell me that’s the bacon double cheese xl, dw just actually read the full post. Still pretty poor though come on bk
The lack of seeds is also upsetting me
I would think that would legally qualify as a slider, not a burger.
Phew, I thought you were gonna say this was a whopper
I was at a BK in a service station the other day, and they had a triple bacon cheese XL, first time seeing it. And Jesus Christ it was enormous. Love a BK.
Currently 441 calories but was 428 calories in 2020 so has actually increased in size slightly
I usually only ever order an XL bacon Double Cheeseburger from BK but I decided to try the KING BBQ Stack which at least made it sound like it was a larger burger, it was tiny.
Only gonna order XL’s BDC in future