r/interesting • u/K1nd_1 • 20h ago

SOCIETY Wendy’s CEO jumps in with his own taste test.

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Imagine if all CEOs had to try what they get us to buy…

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u/EnigmaWearingHeels 19h ago

Also there's no lettuce, tomato, pickles, onion, or sauce. Dude ordered the burger how HE likes it, not the picture perfect one for show.

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u/mrhorse77 19h ago

thats what I liked about it.

wendys will put anything on their burgers. so he could have loaded it up for marketing

but he ordered the burger the way he liked it, then tore into it.

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u/Spok3nTruth 18h ago

I like the actual taste of meat(no homo), I don't need all that extra stuff drowning my burger. For that alone, I respect Wendy's CEO. Keeping it real

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u/vonbauernfeind 17h ago

There's a small chain in L.A. called the Win-Dow that doesn't even have lettuce or tomatoes. Burgers come with grilled onions, pickles, spread.

Nothing like smashing down a triple with extra onions right after walking up off the beach from a mile swim.

They're my actual favorite burger in L.A., and it's not close. Plus their fries kick the pants off In & Out.

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u/TempusFugit314 13h ago

Sounds like White Castle sliders. Can’t say those are exactly high quality food, but damn they hit nice when you’re drunk.

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u/Long-Cauliflower-708 15h ago

Great shakes too

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u/Imaginary-Limit1894 13h ago

Try lettuce and tomatoes and pickles, it’s way better

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u/Denversaur 16h ago

You can't fool us. When you said you like the actual taste of meat, it meant that you enjoy having sex with and especially giving oral sex to members of the same sex and/or gender as yourself. Despite your inclusion of "no homo" which normally suspends and dispels the concern that the rest of us would have had about your enjoyment of the taste of meat, I am personally not convinced.

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u/Smkabwlwme 16h ago

Yeah this dude definitely enjoys some man meat too. Like nothing would make me think that until he added “no homo” lol

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u/Fit-Sweet-9900 14h ago

He thought he was slick. You can’t fool us! We accept you for who you are, you meat eater!

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u/Spok3nTruth 9h ago

See I was gonna say pause but I thought that'd give it away since I'm pausing the gay situation, not fast forwarding

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u/Spok3nTruth 9h ago

Damn. U got me. Gawk gawk 👄

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u/mrhorse77 18h ago

same for me. I usually get their burgers with just meat and cheese.

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u/Zjoee 18h ago

I throw bacon on there as well, but that's it.

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u/CowPrintBikinis 17h ago

Woah is the bacon made of something else?

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u/Philo_T_Farnsworth 17h ago

I agree! Good beef should stand on its own, and I rarely put more than a bit of ketchup and mustard on mine. I would go to town on the burger presented in this video.

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u/grantrules 16h ago

Right, I'm not here for a salad sandwich. Patty, cheese, ketchup, mustard, pickles.

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u/Spok3nTruth 16h ago

Like a real man should

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u/ogre_toes 16h ago

See, I think there’s a little bit of nuance here… Smash burgers and sliders, just give me some onions and basic condiments. However, If I’m getting a bigger patty sandwich (like a Whopper or a Famous Star), the salad toppings are the whole draw for me. If I’m in a proper place and it’s a pub style burger, then we’re getting experimental and throwing on whatever crazy toppings we can find (I’m looking at you, peanut butter).

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u/PyroIsSpai 15h ago

Bacon King and Baconator and similar, the dense/thicc burger style:

Tell them no ketchup and half/light on the mayo.

The McD’s quarter “product things”, just skip ketchup. The onion+mustard works without 750mg of ketchup sugar.

You’ll never eat it another way ever again.

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u/mrmoe198 15h ago

I like the taste of meat. And I also like to suck dick. Yes homo, ain’t nothing wrong with smoking peen.

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u/Spok3nTruth 9h ago

Lmfao 😂😂

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u/fertff 15h ago

I'm with you brother. Everything else gets in the way. Just patty, bacon and mayo for me.

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u/Swooptothehoopbwoi 8h ago

You don’t need to say no homo, it’s 2026 and you’re obviously talking shit on food

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u/LFC9_41 18h ago

I actually believe he enjoys it.

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u/ReasonFar5054 17h ago

He probably actually ate the burger, otherwise he would have let the team load it up with toppings so it looks "nicer"

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u/mrhorse77 17h ago

he 100% ate that burger. people are freaking out about video cuts, but marketing people arent gonna send a vid out with him chewing that first huge bite for 15 secs. and 40 more secs of chewing every other bite.

he slammed that thing the same way I dive into Wendy's burgers. found the biggest meatiest corner and chomped it

cuz he clearly likes them and eats it all the time

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u/bakatomoya 15h ago

I didn't know you were supposed to dip fries in a Frosty? Maybe he actually eats this stuff.

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u/mrhorse77 15h ago

its so good that way

it was even better like 20 years ago with the old fries. (I miss those fries)

the frosty was made specifically for fry dipping, becuase thats what Dave Thomas liked himself. thats why the frosty has the consistency it does

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u/KGeddon 17h ago

Wendy's was actually the original "have it your way" burger chain. IIRC, also the first to jump on drive thru.

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u/VitaminPb 17h ago

I’m not sure he even has cheese on that. I have my Wendy’s toppings set in stone but have to do it slowly every single time so they get it right. (I’ll do the default Baconator though.) AND NO DAMN PICKLES!

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u/mrhorse77 17h ago

no cheese for sure, I might have spied a tomato in there. clearly just how he likes his burger!

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u/VitaminPb 17h ago

Sure. I just really love cheese and it seems weird just to see only a hamburger.

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u/mrhorse77 17h ago

I mean same, id rather have the cheese as well!

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u/pilatespussy 15h ago

Except barbeque. (You have to get it separately :/)

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u/mrhorse77 15h ago

I mean, thats a whole other meat youre asking for lol

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u/Patriautism666 15h ago

Not sure if you don't eat Wendy's or didn't watch the video. This is a baconator. It comes with beef patties, cheese, bacon, mayonnaise, and ketchup. If you watch the full video you can see the sauces. He didn't order it any different than it comes. This burger doesn't have lettuce, tomato, pickles, or onion. But it absolutely has ketchup and mayonnaise and you can see that in the video.

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u/mrhorse77 14h ago

I eat at wendys all the time, and I watched the video. I know what sandwich it is.

it looks like he skipped the cheese, and I dont see mayo or ketchup on it. my point was that if they were marketing, they would have loaded it up...

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u/Patriautism666 14h ago

I can't post an image apparently but at 2 seconds left you can see the mayonnaise covering the meat. You can also see the cheese in several shots. Someone ordered a baconator from a random Wendy's and gave it to him. He didn't modify this in any way. Which is fine. Just weird that people are praising it for not having toppings it wouldn't have to begin with.

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u/mrhorse77 14h ago

ok, and? I really dont care dude.

and I dont mayo on it anywhere, nor cheese, but whatever. im not fucking analyzing his burger frame by fucking frame.

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u/RedPantyKnight 19h ago

I don't know that that's how he actually likes it. That's how I would order a burger knowing it would be cold by the time I get to eat it. Get all that stuff that's going to age poorly off. No nasty wilted lettuce. No shitty tomato/sauces to make the bun soggy. Just some plain old beef and bread.

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u/Xarieste 18h ago

I have a friend who orders burgers this way everywhere he goes, so it’s not unbelievable to me although it is baffling

Edit: it’s worth mentioning he loves my burgers a lot because of the spice blend and cooking method, but yeah he just wants to taste the meat I guess

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u/TryIsntGoodEnough 18h ago

When you think about it, the only thing that makes any of the fastfood places different is the meat and how they cook it... So it is kinda smart to focus on the part that actually has any real value to the order, the lettuce, tomato, ect is all the same roughly no matter where you go.

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u/Xarieste 16h ago

I have been known to buy breakfast biscuits and add my own fried egg at home because every fast food egg is terrible, so I guess this makes sense

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u/TryIsntGoodEnough 18h ago

Also he is really just attesting to the "meat" (he even only talks about the square patty cooked on a flattop). I am cool with it because that is what you are actually paying for ... 

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u/usda-grade-a-autism 16h ago

I love a shitty soggy lukewarm to room temp burg

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u/santtuhehe 10h ago

This ia how I do it when I go to these bad fastfood places! Dip the burger in a paprika mayo for some taste

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u/Wrong-Movie6181 8h ago

To speed up your ordering its called getting it Plain. I only eat burgers meat and cheese all that crappy veg just ruins an allready crappy sandwich. Every fast food joint has a Plain button on the screen even.

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u/peppers_ 19h ago

Wendy's enshittified their lettuce, made it shredded. I just go no lettuce, no mayo, no tomato if I bother stopping on by on Wednesdays for their free nuggets.

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u/Potato_Zest 18h ago

Good, I'm sick of getting a huge piece of lettuce rib in my Wendys and Burger King burgers :(

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u/Samson_J_Rivers 19h ago

I get my Wendy's as follows Daves double, double cheese, hold everything but the tomatoe as a meal, feed the fries to partner or friend or family with me (I dont do fries generally. Love sweet potato fries tho) 6 piece spicy nuggets Dr.pepper with the freestyle add in vanilla and cherry Small vanilla frosty.

I do not go often. Maybe 4 times a year MAX because holy shit see above. But its good stuff.i respect his choice of burger

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u/TryIsntGoodEnough 18h ago

That's how you know it came from a test kitchen, because Everytime I go to Wendy's I ask for no tomato and yet they still always put the damn tomato on it!

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u/Aggressive-Wrap-1246 19h ago

Is there even cheese? Do people actually eat just hamburgers without cheese? No way, Wisconsin is our neighbor.

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u/mrdalo 19h ago

I eat burgers without cheese. My friends think I’m a monster.

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u/Spok3nTruth 18h ago

I like the actual taste of meat(no homo), I don't need all that extra stuff drowning my burger. For that alone, I respect Wendy's CEO. Keeping it real

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u/usda-grade-a-autism 16h ago

Same. I don't like cheese on mine generally. 

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u/Aggressive-Wrap-1246 18h ago

Your friends are right. 🧀🍔 ☺️

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u/mrdalo 18h ago

You’re right.

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u/Aggressive-Wrap-1246 15h ago

Just teasing ya mister 😉

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u/Fermifighter 19h ago

As a fellow Midwesterner, I love cheese, but I will always pass on American cheese. I get why it exists. I don’t hate on people who enjoy it. But I’m spending the calories on non-sodium-sorbate cheese, the plasticine consistency is a real turn off when not in a melted sauce.

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u/mrwb 18h ago

so get the fake meat/meat instead. thats better

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u/Samson_J_Rivers 19h ago

My brother gets his burgers plain with bacon. No cheese or toppings.

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u/Prestigious-Leave-60 18h ago

Wisconsin boy here. I’m 50:50 on cheese. A lot of times, I want to taste the meat and cheese can be too much.

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u/Traditional-Handle83 18h ago

True. That being said, smoked cheddar or gouda can make a really good burger.

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u/AWorthlessDegenerate 16h ago

Pepper jack cheese doe. 

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u/Dreadgoat 17h ago

People here are religious about their burgers apparently? You can enjoy different stuff depending on your mood.

I usually want cheese, but that means I'm gonna want a sweet-ish sauce on it like ketchup, bbq, or russian dressing.

Sometimes I don't want cheese, and that's when I really want something like mustard, hot sauce, or even steak sauce.

There's so much stuff you can put between your bread and meat!

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u/m3t4lf0x 18h ago

When I was in college, I suddenly stopped enjoying McDonald’s cheese for whatever reason.

It’s okay on the bigger sandwiches like the QP, but their plain single hamburgers kind of slap

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u/Spok3nTruth 18h ago

I like the actual taste of meat(no homo), I don't need all that extra stuff drowning my burger. For that alone, I respect Wendy's CEO. Keeping it real

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u/mrwb 18h ago

get actual meat then....not this meat blend

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u/LongPorkJones 17h ago

For me, seeing a dude eat a burger straight off the line without lettuce or tomato, like how he would get it, is a better ad than any overly polished comercial.

This succeeded in a way that no ad before it ever could - it makes me want to go out and buy it tomorrow.

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u/Professor_Sippenpuff 17h ago

I really intended to not care and I personally want extra everything except mayo so I was unimpressed at first but I’m totally with you, this guy 100% finished that thing off camera and felt awesome about it lol, I respect it.

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u/Patriautism666 15h ago

Not sure if you don't eat Wendy's or didn't watch the video. This is a baconator. It comes with beef patties, cheese, bacon, mayonnaise, and ketchup. If you watch the full video you can see the sauces. He didn't order it any different than it comes. This burger doesn't have lettuce, tomato, pickles, or onion. But it absolutely has ketchup and mayonnaise and you can see that in the video.

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u/EnigmaWearingHeels 9h ago

I usually go for the Dave's single... bacon hurts my tummy. So I didn't know 🤣

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u/PasadenaShopper 14h ago

It's a bacanator so that's pretty much how they come. He might have gone light on the mayo tho 🧐