They are akin to Carl’s Jr (if you live in the west of the USA) or Hardees (if you live anywhere else). Their “icon” is a big yellow star.
Anyway, I went to one the other night and tried, for the first time, one of their Six Dollar Burgers. I thought it was a bit pricey at first, but I hadn’t seen the burger yet.
When I got home and opened it (it came in a carton rather than a wrapper, much like the Big Mac), I found it to be one of the biggest burgers I’d ever seen.
It was SO big that trying to eat it, even with two hands, was next to impossible for me. So I had to…ashamed…actually cut it in half.
Nevertheless, it was the best damn burger I’d had for a long time. The Guacamole Bacon.
I don’t know about where you are, but here The Six-Dollar Burge is a burger sold by Carl’s Jr, whose logo is a big yellow star. It’s not a restaurant.
And The Six-Dollar Burger is the bomb-diggity. There’s a Carl Jr’s near my work, and I get one once a month or so. They are delicious.
No cheese and extra pickles. They use those sweet pickles (bread and butter pickles?) you know. Yum.
Just to clarify (or re-state, if I speed-read over it) the Six Dollar Burger doesn’t cost six dollars. They just call it that because their ad campaign said that that’s how much you’d pay for a burger like this at TGI Fridays or someplace. (Actually, I think TGI Fridays is more than six bucks.)
I tried one. IMO, they taste pretty much like a Super Star but with red onion. Somehow, the Super Star tastes better. More surface area to char, I guess. And the Super Star is cheaper.
Do they have the exact same Six Dollar Burger at Hardee’s? I’ve been to Hardee’s before I moved here where there are none, and their burgers were dry and nasty to me. Is Hardee’s associated with Carl’s Jr?
I like Carl’s Jr. okay. But one time they came out with a buffalo-chicken salad and I was all excited to try it- it sounded so good. What I got was a container full of those big white core pieces of lettuce-yuk- with four tiny pieces of chicken and some blu cheese dressing. It was so disappointing, especially considering their salads are very expensive.
I’ve fallen for one of their latest creations.
Step 1: start with a six dollar burger (no pickes, but red onion, lettuce, tomato, and a decent mustard)
Step 2: add an inch of pastrami
Step 3: Profit!
Carl’s Jr is the closest fast food to my work, so when I go for fast food (I usually Brown Bag), I go for a SDB. They’re about $4, but worth it, I think. Last time I did go for the Pastrami burger, and wasn’t impressed, the Pastrami came across like so Much Peppery Bacon, not lean and firm like real pastrami.
So, what’s the Straight Dope on the Carl’s Jr / Hardee’s connection? Wasn’t Hardee’s the one that introduced that Cholesterol Bomb anti-health food lard burger a few month ago? Carl’s Jr never did anything like that.
They don’t have the same menu, though, do they? The Hardees I’ve been to in the South (10 years ago) had, along with nasty dryburgers, fried chicken (quite good, I thought- do they still have that?) and steak, chicken, and ham bicuits. Does Hardees have the SDB?
Hardees was aggressively trying to fight KFC all over the country with their fried chicken selection.
For the most part this effort failed and most Hardee’s don’t sell fried chicken anymore and it really isn’t advertised much.
These restaurants are franchise establishments, which means the menu can vary from restaurant to restaurant. Certain things are typically required to be served at all with any franchise (for example McDonald’s sells culturally appropriate foods in their Asian restaurants, and some McDonald’s serve biscuits & gravy, some don’t, but all of the ones I’ve ever been to even in Asia sell the Big Mac.)
As far as I know, they were seperate companies until recently when Carl’s Jr. bought them out. My mom used to be a manager at Hardee’s about fifteen years ago and I was well acquainted with their menus and they’re nothing at all like they used to be.
I love the SDBs. I didn’t think I would because I don’t really like Carl’s Jr., but I was so, so very wrong. Unfortunately, I have a pretty small mouth so by the end of the meal my face resembles a clown with a bad greasepaint job. Imagine a streaky “smile” of grease and mayo stretching back toward the ears.
The closest CJ to here that I know of is a good 160 miles away. It’s kind of distressing when I read threads like this that remind me of the good things I’m missing by living in a small-ish town. (Starbucks, Borders, Starbucks in a Borders, etc.) That could be a fortunate thing for me, though.
Our company bought lunch for us one day from a place called Hackneys. The burger cost about 6 or 7 dollars. It was the nastiest damn thing I’ve ever tasted and will never eat from there ever again.
