Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Fast Food Review: Carl's Jr. Sausage Biscuit

I was out for a walk the other morning when I passed by Carl's Jr. A banner read: "Free Sausage Biscuit, Novemember 16th, Until 10:30 AM." I looked at my phone: November 16, 9:55 AM. But I didn't have my camera with me. So I went home, got the camera and the car, and went back.

"I'd love to try the sausage biscuit" I said to the woman behind the counter.

"Would you like anything else?" she asked.

I told her no thanks, she made a couple of motions at a lightning speed, and next thing I knew she was handing me a wrapped biscuit in a paper sack. I took it out to the car.

It was barely warm, but I'm not complaining. I'm sure they made a bunch of them ahead of time and left them under heat lamps. They couldn't be expected to make free biscuits to order.

It was still good - or rather, the buttermilk biscuit was good. It was flaky and tasty. The sausage was merely okay. The only other fast food sausage biscuit I have ever had is McDonald's, and this was about the same: surprisingly little flavor considering the amount of fat.

Would I rather have this sausage biscuit than the McDonald's version? Sure. But I live three blocks from McDonald's and the nearest Carl's is three miles away. And, to be honest, I prefer the frozen Jimmy Dean turkey sausage biscuits over either. So I don't think I'll ever be trying one of these again. But it was better than I was expecting. And, of course, it was free.
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10 comments:

  1. AnonymousNovember 22, 2011 at 3:22 PM

    If the nearest Carl's is 3 miles away and you were walking, how did you get home and come back to Carl's by 10:30 am?

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  2. JustinMNovember 22, 2011 at 8:38 PM

    Perceptive question. The Carl's Jr. I went to is not the nearest one to me, it is the nearest one to my parents' house, which is where I was out walking. So only perhaps a mile away. When I said I went home, I meant their house.

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    1. NathanNovember 30, 2012 at 5:01 AM

      The average person walks at about 3 miles an hour. That would make your 3 mile walk aprox. 40 min without stopping. You say you picked up a car AND a camera,which would add a few MORE minutes To your total time. My guess, according to your story, is that this would have taken you 45-50 minutes minimum to get back to CJ.This story does not add up. I hereby call your bluff and say that none of the above events ever took place. I will day however CJ biscuits are moist and delicious and worth every penny. Well played mickey D's ,Well played.

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  3. Banana WonderNovember 23, 2011 at 1:53 AM

    just sausage and biscuit? well maybe they are looking for a cage free supplier now that mcd is going that way.

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  4. Nosh GnosticNovember 23, 2011 at 6:31 PM

    You could put anything on that biscuit and I'd eat it. It's making me salivate!

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  5. JustinMNovember 23, 2011 at 9:44 PM

    I will make you one with dill and El Cholo's watery salsa.

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  6. Nosh GnosticNovember 24, 2011 at 1:27 AM

    Bastardo! You tricked me!

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  7. Granny AndyNovember 29, 2011 at 9:51 AM

    Not bad but does seem a little dry. Needs some kind of sauce or cheese. I got 2 for $1.00 using a coupon. Found an interesting article on qsrweb.com "Carl's Jr. adds Hardee's Made from Scratch Biscuits in SoCal".

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  8. JustinMNovember 29, 2011 at 9:58 AM

    I agree. If I had paid for it I would have asked for some kind of sauce, but being that it was free, I didn't want to.

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  9. JustinMNovember 30, 2012 at 10:13 AM

    Any time you try to analyze my behavior by starting out "The average person..." your methodology is flawed. I walk at least 50% faster than that, about 4.5 miles per hour.

    However, as I mentioned in the above comment - that you probably didn't read - this was not the Carl's Jr. closest to my home, it was the one closest to my parents', my childhood home.

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