Burger King Ketchup

We had lunch at BK today, mainly because my grandson wanted to go there. My wife and I haven't been to one in at least two or three years. I demand thick ketchup for my fries. Today the BK ketchup was more like tomato juice. Has anyone else had that experience? I don't believe we will be returning because of that watered down ketchup.

Don't want to be rude, but if your grandson wants to go to Burger King while living in the land of Wataburger someone is falling down on the job.....
Just sayin'......;)
 
...For fries I use sriracha, Ruthie uses tartar sauce, Logan uses Frank's and JR uses honey mustard.
I like this image of a family enjoying its fries together while each member indulges hizzer own particular taste preference. Speaks well, in a small way, of an environment fostering mutual tolerance and respect for one another's eccentricities.

Surely, a happy family!
 
I like this image of a family enjoying its fries together while each member indulges hizzer own particular taste preference. Speaks well, in a small way, of an environment fostering mutual tolerance and respect for one another's eccentricities.

Surely, a happy family!

You should see our cereal collection.
 
I just read every post in this thread, and I'm surprised, no, make that shocked, that there has not been even one mention of "fry sauce"!

Fry sauce is a mixture of mayo and ketchup, and whatever spice you want to add (I think the original, made popular by Artic Circle, had garlic), and is like thousand island dressing with no relish.

I use it all the time, for fries, potato chips, and sandwiches. I spice mine up with Trader Joe's Green Dragon sauce, which is similar to siracha but made with green chili peppers. It's particularly good on a chicken sandwich with cilantro and jalapenos.
 
I just read every post in this thread, and I'm surprised, no, make that shocked, that there has not been even one mention of "fry sauce"!

Fry sauce is a mixture of mayo and ketchup, and whatever spice you want to add (I think the original, made popular by Artic Circle, had garlic), and is like thousand island dressing with no relish.

I use it all the time, for fries, potato chips, and sandwiches. I spice mine up with Trader Joe's Green Dragon sauce, which is similar to siracha but made with green chili peppers. It's particularly good on a chicken sandwich with cilantro and jalapenos.

I've never heard of "fry sauce". It sounds quite unappetizing, but our tastes vary widely and wildly.
 
I just read every post in this thread, and I'm surprised, no, make that shocked, that there has not been even one mention of "fry sauce"!

Fry sauce is a mixture of mayo and ketchup, and whatever spice you want to add (I think the original, made popular by Artic Circle, had garlic), and is like thousand island dressing with no relish.

I've never heard the term, but I do put mayo and ketchup on hotdogs and hamburgers. I don't know why I've never tried it on fries, but I will the next time I break out the air fryer and some frozen fries or tater tots!
 
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What was described as fry sauce seems much like Thousand Island salad dressing. Also I believe it was McDonalds special sauce for the Big Mac. Remember "Two all-beef patties, special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun"?
 
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What was described as fry sauce seems much like Thousand Island salad dressing. Also I believe it was McDonalds special sauce for the Big Mac. Remember "Two all-beef patties, special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun"
Yeah, McDonalds "special sauce" is just some form of thousand island dressing.

FWIW, a local chain here in eastern WA and north Idaho - called Zips - offers what they call "camp fire sauce" with their fries.

As far as I can tell it is just a mayonnaise and hot sauce concoction. Seems pretty popular with the locals though...

Personally, I still prefer regular old ketchup, but to each his own...
 
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What was described as fry sauce seems much like Thousand Island salad dressing.

That's exactly what it is, minus the relish. When I was in high school there was an Artic Circle ( a fast food restaurant based mainly in the West) here in town, and for a couple of dollars you could get a bag full of food. That was the first place I saw it.

There still are AC's scattered around, and I seriously doubt that I'd eat there anymore. I remember it being great food ( I WAS in high school!) and I wouldn't want to ruin the memory. But I do still like the sauce.
 
That's exactly what it is, minus the relish. When I was in high school there was an Artic Circle ( a fast food restaurant based mainly in the West) here in town, and for a couple of dollars you could get a bag full of food. That was the first place I saw it.

There still are AC's scattered around, and I seriously doubt that I'd eat there anymore. I remember it being great food ( I WAS in high school!) and I wouldn't want to ruin the memory. But I do still like the sauce.

I've eaten at an Arctic Circle FF burger joint in the Seattle area years ago.

Nothing special IMO. AFAIK they aren't even still in business anymore - they folded up their tents about 20 years ago...
 
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I've eaten at an Arctic Circle FF burger joint in the Seattle area years ago.

Nothing special IMO. AFAIK they aren't even still in business anymore - they folded up their tents about 20 years ago...


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Don't want to be rude, but if your grandson wants to go to Burger King while living in the land of Wataburger someone is falling down on the job.....
Just sayin'......;)

I don't venture in either one, Whataburger was second rate before the ownership change and is now worse.
I'll stop in Freddy's or Smashburger now.
 
I apparently miss out on a lot by not being a hard core fast fooder.

Yeah, like the experience I had one day. On the way home from a day spent hunting I stopped at a McDonald's and got a cup of coffee and a fish sandwich. The sandwich was laden with a huge dose of whatever the sauce is they put on fish. I wiped some off and ate the fish and drank the coffee outside in my truck and started for home. In less than thirty minutes I realized I had food poisoning. Alternating chills and sweating followed by extreme dizziness. Pulled off the road until the dizziness subsided enough that I was able to drive to a roadside park not far away and hobble into the restroom for both diarrhea and vomiting before getting back on the road. I have bought burgers from McDonald's since then but never again will I buy another fish sandwich :eek:
 
It's quite obvious from reading these posts that some are sensible eaters but many will eat virtually anything; makes no difference whether it's good, bad, or somewhere in between.

Thousand Islands dressing was mentioned in an earlier post; I figured that stuff died a welcomed and necessary natural death years ago. Guess not. It's as foul as Ranch dressing. I guess many prefer a salad dressing that completely masks the flavor of the salad or whatever they apply it to.
 
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Yeah, like the experience I had one day. On the way home from a day spent hunting I stopped at a McDonald's and got a cup of coffee and a fish sandwich. The sandwich was laden with a huge dose of whatever the sauce is they put on fish. I wiped some off and ate the fish and drank the coffee outside in my truck and started for home. In less than thirty minutes I realized I had food poisoning. Alternating chills and sweating followed by extreme dizziness. Pulled off the road until the dizziness subsided enough that I was able to drive to a roadside park not far away and hobble into the restroom for both diarrhea and vomiting before getting back on the road. I have bought burgers from McDonald's since then but never again will I buy another fish sandwich :eek:

The moral of the story is: Never eat fish that is square.
 
It's quite obvious from reading these posts that some are sensible eaters but many will eat virtually anything; makes no difference whether it's good, bad, or somewhere in between.

Thousand Islands dressing was mentioned in an earlier post; I figured that stuff died a welcomed and necessary natural death years ago. Guess not. It's as foul as Ranch dressing. I guess many prefer a salad dressing that completely masks the flavor of the salad or whatever they apply it to.

Salad sucks so yeah, I load up on ranch
 

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