Anonymous ID: 6540d8 March 11, 2022, 10:44 p.m. No.15845480   🗄️.is đź”—kun

Nearly three decades ago, the Beastie Boys released “Ill Communication,” an album largely recorded in Los Angeles in the early 1990s, many years after the city’s golden age of drive-in restaurants had faded to black. But on the album’s cover, the hip-hop group unearthed a mid-century L.A. treasure: They featured a photo, taken by Bruce Davidson in 1964, of a customer parked at Tiny Naylor’s, a once-beloved SoCal chain whose original location looked like a Concorde jet ready for takeoff.

 

The cover was a cool homage to the Beastie Boys’ adopted city, many miles from their New York home. It was also a reminder that American culture is often about reinvention and recycling, themes with which the group were very familiar.

 

What does any of this, you might ask, have to do with Burger King’s latest creations, the Whopper Melt and its two variations, the Spicy Whopper Melt and the Bacon Whopper Melt? Good question.

 

Fast food chains — companies that pride themselves on consistency from coast to coast — have been working overtime in recent years to remain relevant in a consumer marketplace that changes fast. Plant-based meats. Digital ordering. Better and more healthful ingredients. Limited-time offerings. These have all been ways fast-food giants have tried to reinvent, or at least reinvigorate, their brands for a new generation of diners who demand more and want more.

 

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2022/03/11/whopper-melt-review-burger-king/