What is a quarter pound king at Burger King?

Burger King adds a new entree option their popular 2 for $6 Mix n’ Match menu promotion with the introduction of the new Single Quarter Pound King.

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The Single Quarter Pound King features a quarter-pound flame-grilled beef patty topped with melted American cheese, sliced onions, pickles, ketchup, and mustard all on a toasted sesame seed bun.

Burger King fans will recall the brand first introduced the Double Quarter Pound King back in January 2018 as a limited-time offering. While not a true King in size, the new Single version allows Burger King to serve up real King flavor in a new value option.

The Single Quarter Pound King replaces the Single Bacon King on the current 2 for $6 menu, which now includes the following offerings:

• Single Quarter Pound King Sandwich
• Whopper Sandwich
• Big Fish
• Original Chicken Sandwich
• 9-piece Chicken Fries
• Impossible Whopper Sandwich

YouTube reviewer and fellow Chewer Peep This Out! took the new Single Quarter Pound King for a test ride at his local BK in Southern California this week. You can check out Ian’s review below for all the Kingly details:

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• 2 for $6 Mix and Match
• Burger King
• Peep THIS Out!
• Quarter Pound King

This is the world we live in now.

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Burger King announced a new burger today, and it looks a lot like a certain, already-existing burger. With a name like "the Double Quarter Pound King Sandwich," you can probably guess what the Double Quarter Pound King Sandwich is, but for clarity's sake, the King's latest thing is constructed from two beef patties, American cheese, sliced onions, pickles and ketchup, all on—what else?—a toasted sesame seed bun.

If you're thinking that this sounds a lot like a Double Quarter Pounder with cheese from McDonald's, know that you can trust your judgment here. None other than Burger King itself all-but-identified the internationally available burger-topped burger product it's taking aim at in a statement that says: "We’d like to offer our deepest condolences to all the flat-top fried double quarter pound burgers out there. We’re flame-grilling the competition."

Do you want to know what makes the Double Quarter Pound King Sandwich different from McDonald's Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese? Well, get your notepads out, because it's very specific. BK's version has 900 calories and 54 grams of fat, while Mickey D's take has but 770 calories and 45 grams of fat. The new King burger also differentiates itself from Burger King's own Double Whopper by forgoing lettuce, tomato and mayonnaise, meaning there are now that many more choices to make at Burger King.

Costing $5.39, it's a bit more than anything on McDonald's new $1-$2-$3 dollar menu, which has won plaudits from Chrissy Teigen and Wall Street alike. But when you're an absolute burger monarch like the Burger King King, it seems you can do whatever you want, burgerwise. With the fast food battles heating up to include price battles, social media feuds and these, it's like some kind of fast-food Hunger Games out there.