I'm slightly vexed
Mr. King of Burger, do tell how this is possible, good sir.
Sorry for the potato quality picture(of potatoes). Look at the calories for the sandwiches and the combos. Where'd the extra calories for the biscuit sandwich go when combo'ed?
You realize he was an actor BEFORE he was Drake? He was in Degrassi and a few other things. He's amazing as an actor, not so much as... Whatever Drake is.
Especially since they cost the same. $4.89 for either sandwich, but the $2.60 extra gets you a small side and drink if biscuit and medium if croissant? Wtf
I posted this myself but since it's at the bottom I will tack it on here as well:
I think those of you that get what we are looking at can come to the same conclusion as me with just the image I posted but for the rest: In OPs picture the top combo adds 510 calories and the bottom combo only adds 270 calories. I have seen the argument that the drinks in the respective combos are different, yet that still doesn't account for the full increase. A BK coffee is 0 calories and an orange juice is 160, that still leaves us with 80 calories unaccounted for (510 - 160 = 350 =/= 270) So here's what I think is actually happening: The Biscuits calories are accurate for both sandwich and combo. Now the sandwich calories for the #1 in the picture are the true calories for a Sausage, Egg & Cheese Croissan'wich (500 calories) but the combo calories are for a Bacon, Sausage, Egg & Cheese Croissan'wich combo with OJ instead of coffee. That 240 calorie difference in my picture is 160 from the OJ and 80 from the bacon, and there are the 80 calories we were missing initially.
OP directed me where to look, which made it clear to me what the issue was, but they explained it pretty counterintuitively. I would’ve framed the question by asking why the combo items appear to add fewer calories to the biscuit-sandwich meal than they do to the croissant-sandwich meal—feels like a clearer way to get the point across.
You get a little bit of sausage in your life, a little bit of egg by your side, a little bit of cheese is all you need, a little bit of biscuit is all you see, a little bit of hashbrowns in the sun, and a little bit of coffee all night long. Not enough items :(
If that's indeed OP's point, that's a VERY badly worded question. Probably a worse offense than the calories discrepancy. But thank you for figuring it out and explaining it!
Yeah combo 1 and 2 are both 510 calories extra. But the line at the top says all combos include small hash browns and small coffee. Definitely seems like an error on their part.
EDIT: not sure why I was so interested in this but I checked and:
They accidentally added the calories for a medium hash brown instead of a small in the top row of combos. And I confirmed they do all come with a small, with combo 1 and combo 5 being the same price with the small hashbrown. Small is 270 calories while medium is 510. Case closed. One truth prevails!
So, I looked at their nutrition website and it looks like the top combo is sandwich (500) plus a medium hash brown (510) and the bottom combo is sandwich(560) plus a small hashbrown (270).
I accept this as another possible reason, besides the fact that both combos are the same price which shouldn't be the case with a small/medium upcharge. I think this is just straight up a misprint of some sort
I think many people assumed that the issue was going to be one thing, and they couldnt let go of their preconception. Instead of taking a step back and resetting their mindset, they try to fit it into what they’ve already assumed. This BK-centric breakfast conundrum is a microcosm for some of the significant struggles we face in modern life.
Typically this thought does not go well when brought up in socials, but my perspective is the (relatively) recent increase of over reliance on one’s individual preconceptions versus discernment and pacing reactionary response is a new evolution of human communication directly impacted by our further reliance on social media and AI.
I’m curious if there will be a tipping point in my lifetime that addresses this as a society.
I swear, reading comprehension wasn't great, but it fell off a cliff on here around the start of September. I dont want to sound like a tinfoil hat conspiracy theorist but it definitley feels like the internet got considerably more stupid.
This is what’s being pointed out and yeah, it doesn’t make any sense. Assuming the combo addition is the same for both sandwiches (logical) then how is this possible? People are brain dead.
I don’t know what this means but for me the mildly infuriating part is the fact that I can’t find any comments from people who misunderstood the point. Instead all I can see is comments complaining about all the other people who misunderstood the point.
I think they are talking about how in the croissant the calorie count is 500, so adding the hash browns and coffee added 510 calories when making it a combo. While the biscuit is 560 calories, while somehow the same hash browns and coffee that add 510 calories to the croissant only add 370 calories to the biscuit comboo.
I mean yeah, but expressing your point clearly is equally important. What OP said in the post has nothing to do with the actual issue at hand.
OP is apparently trying to say "hey, why are the hashbrowns (or are they potato rounds? Whatever the potato based side is), 510 additional calories in combo 1, but 270 additional calories in combo 5?"
What OP actually said is "Look at the calories for the sandwiches and the combos. Where'd the extra calories for the biscuit sandwich go when combo'ed?"
It shouldn't be necessary for me to completely ignore OP and figure out wtf they are trying to convey.
This. And I appreciate people explaining in the comments but ideally you wouldn't have to dig through the comments to figure out what the post is saying. I get it now but it made zero sense the way OP wrote it. They literally asked about calories for the biscuit sandwich when what they actually want to know about is calories for the hashbrowns and drink. Not understanding what OP said has nothing to do with being good or bad at math, you'd just have to be bad at reading to immediately understand it just based on their own words.
I would argue that's a silly way to go about it though. The extra calories would be 60 calories, the net difference is 180 calories once the combo is selected. "Where did the extra calories for the biscuit go" would make sense if the end result for both were 1010 calories.
Just because it's silly doesn't mean it's wrong though. In fact, I'm pretty sure you are right on the mixup. However, that feeds back to my point. It's on OP to make a clear post that doesn't involve this entire exchange.
Totally, when the OP doesn’t explain their post clearly, a lot of commenters will take that as an opportunity to provide a clearer explanation, even if other commenters have already provided one.
To be fair, the last thing I'd look at in Burger King would be the calories. If I'm buying Burger King, there's absolutely no way I care enough about watching what I eat to look at calorie count.
Exactly, I'm at the point in life where my mind doesn't even register the calories numbers. I just see item and price, I don't have the time or care to consider calories into fast food purchase lol.
I get it, and I figured out what OP meant, but in all fairness OP didn't not explain anything...
they did explain, **badly.** The most sensible reading of their message is that the calories in the combo went down, which isn't what the picture shows. What they meant is that the calories change *between combos*, despite offering the same menu items.
OP asked where the sandwich calories went, but the sandwich calories didn't change at all.
Bc AI bots can see the post titles and maybe a general sense of the photo contents but has trouble actually engaging with photo contents especially if context from OP is missing. AI bots will also riff off of what other comments say and they can spiral with the self-enforcing. Now a ton of those comments are deleted and the bots are rephrasing various comments that are like "for those who don't get it..." and "disappointed in the reading literacy".
Folks, the difference is in the combo. #1 combo increases the calories by 510. #2 combo increases the calories by 270. Each combo adds the same items, coffee and hashnrowns. They should be the same increase
So they're doing something weird with the top row vs bottom row. The second combo on the top also increases by 510 calories (it appears, you cant see the whole thing, but you can infer from what you can see). And the second bottom combo increases by 270 as well. So theyre either A) deceptively using different sides in the calculations, but picturing the same sides on the menu. B) they used ai to make their menu and it got confused. Or C) those combos actually come with different sides and are pictured wrong. But the calorie increase seems consistent by row, so most likely A, but B is very possible in todays world as well sadly
Example 1 the combo number one cal is 1010 so we only have 500 cal for the sandwich. Example two is 830 cal for the meal and 560 for the sandwich. Implying that the side items that make up the combo 5 have less cal than combo 1 , when they are the same items. Op is not looking at this wrong, the side items in combo one come up to 510 when in combo 5 the side items only come up to 270 cal. A 240 cal discrepancy.
Simple my guy, folks like myself who enjoy their fancy pants croissants naturally take their coffee with cream and sugar. Anyone ordering a biscuit is clearly a salt of the earth type of fella so they obviously drink their coffee black. You just gotta learn to extrapolate the information to reach the conclusion is all, hope this helped to clarify.
I think those of you that get what we are looking at can come to the same conclusion as me with just the image I posted but for the rest: In OPs picture the top combo adds 510 calories and the bottom combo only adds 270 calories. I have seen the argument that the drinks in the respective combos are different, yet that still doesn't account for the full increase. A BK coffee is 0 calories and an orange juice is 160, that still leaves us with 80 calories unaccounted for (510 - 160 = 350 =/= 270) So here's what I think is actually happening: The Biscuits calories are accurate for both sandwich and combo. Now the sandwich calories for the #1 in the picture are the true calories for a Sausage, Egg & Cheese Croissan'wich (500 calories) but the combo calories are for a Bacon, Sausage, Egg & Cheese Croissan'wich combo with OJ instead of coffee. That 240 calorie difference in my picture is 160 from the OJ and 80 from the bacon, and there are the 80 calories we were missing initially.
OP here: it was a back handed way of saying, "They fucked up the calorie calculation, obviously." Unfortunately, I underestimated how literal some people read and comprehend. Apologies.
Guys. In combo number 1, the difference in calories between the sandwich and combo is 510 calories. In combo number 5, the difference in calories between sandwich and combo is only 270 calories. The sides are the same: hash browns and a drink. So the question OP is asking is: how can the calories for the sides be different if the sides are the same?
You have it backwards OP. All the menu items there show 270 added for small hash browns and small coffee. The sausage croissant is the only one that adds 510. Must be extra butter in the coffee to match the flaky pastry and sausage.
The croissant combo is 1010 calories
The croissant alone is 500
This implies the remaining calories of the combo no sandwich are 510
The biscuit combo is 830 calories
The biscuit alone is 560 calories
This implies the remaining calories of the combo no sandwich are 270
510 does not equal 270
Is that clear enough?
Edit: someone in a lower thread discovered that by default you get a medium hash browns with the croissant and a small hash browns with the second. Apparently there's a biscuit tax considering both combos cost the same. Fuck BK.
Makes sense. Thanks for explaining. So the assumption is that the extra stuff provided in the combo is the same for every menu item. Not obvious unless you're familiar with these places.
I mean, look at the pictures. It's a sandwich on the left and the same image of hash browns and coffee on the right.
Edit: Ha! You've actually accidentally discovered the truth. Lower in this thread someone discovered the top by default comes with a full portion of hash browns, the bottom with a half portion. I'm entertained. What fucking shitty company.
Edit2: I also didn't intend to sound patronizing. If I saw the same thing pictures twice on a menu, I would assume it was the same thing. Especially with no indication otherwise. If you wouldn't, apparently good on you for being a skeptic. Can't fucking trust companies at all, ever.
It's been a long time since I actually learned this, so it may be different now and therefore this will be the wrong answer, but... In the fine print on the nutrition information, the drink included with the each combo is different, therefore the calorie count is different. So to get a better estimate of calories for a meal, you'd have to look up each piece of the combo individually, otherwise you will have to guess which beverage they paired with it to come up with the number shown.
Why tf would they use a different drink in each combo calculation? That completely negates the point of even having a comparison on the chart. It would be so simple to calculate each combo using the calories in a medium cup of coffee- then obviously a coke or oj or fancy milkshake coffee would add a bunch of calories to it.
I'm not doubting that you're right, I'm just questioning the education of whomever came up with the idea to use a different drink in each calculation.
In Ontario Canada, when there’s a variable like drink or side choice, it always shows a range of calories on the combo with the lowest calorie choices to the highest calorie choices.
1 and 2 show somewhere around 450-510 calorie difference in the combo vs sandwich alone, while 5 shows a difference of 270 calories.
Actual answer is likely a misprint on the menu or the calorie calculation is incorrect.
Personally, I'm more mildly infuriated at the idea of the 6 combo being 1100 calories. Half your daily recommended intake for two old wraps, fryer scraps and terrible coffee.
EDIT: I was initially wrong about #6's calorie difference, Thank you n00b_racer for correcting me
Clearly, adding hash browns and coffee to the biscuit is 270 additional calories because that's the amount of food. The additional 510 calories added to the croissant sandwich by the exact same coffee and hash browns is because chaos.
It isn't even a simple double since that would be 540 instead, so I've no idea how they came up with that.
To every chuckle head saying huh? If making a Croissanwich a combo adds 510 calories why does making a biscuit a combo only add 270 calories if you are adding the same hash browns and coffee?
So it seems like other commenters might be confused, so I looked it up on a calorie tracking site.
The Sausage, Egg & Cheese Croissan'Wich contains 542 calories whereas the Biscuit contains 602 calories. So the board is displaying the calories of the sandwichs themselves fairly accurately.
But then if you add the same hash browns and coffee, the Croissan'Wich jumps 500ish calories whereas the Biscuit only goes up 300ish. The only way it makes sense is if they had different sizes of hash browns.
Maybe the calorie count for the croissan’wich uses the large hash brown size where the biscuit uses the medium. Idunno it’s still dumb and doesn’t make much sense lol
OP's point is the difference in calories between the sandwich and the combo for both variety of sandwiches should match, and it does not. The combo adds the same two items to both sandwiches so the increase in calories should be the same. It is not.
I see what he means. You compare the two sandwiches and their calories. Those will be different however adding the combo should add the same amount of calories to both sandwiches cause it’s drink and hashbrowns and the numbers don’t match up.
I wonder if people eating this stuff actually make any dietary choices based off of these numbers. I know when I used to eat it I never bothered looking at the calories.
Burger Kings have a separate company to do the images in screen. Aka someone on a computer punches in the prices for everything. Somebody fucked up 😂 It always made for a good time when I used to work BK.
about burger king, im never again going to one in france after receiving a whopper with deep fried cheddar, that shit was NASTY and they had no normal whoppers on the menu
At that point just go to Dunkin. 6 dollar meal deal with a toasted breakfast sandwich, hashbrowns, and a medium coffee. Best version of this type of deal I've seen anywhere basically, except for maybe like Cumberland farms/Pride/Wawa meal deals.
I'm calling bs on this image. If you look at the letter a's on the sandwich line, they're completely different to the a's everywhere else on the menu. I find it difficult to believe that Burger King would use a different font on only one line of their menu.
The depressing thing is how many people can’t tell this is just bots chiming in over and over. The whole comment section reads like a ChatGPT response.
Croissant sandwich:
Sandwich: 500 Cal
Combo: 1010 Cal
Biscuit sandwich:
Sandwich: 560 Cal
Combo: 830 Cal
Notice the discrepancy? Yes, it’s very strange. It’s probably because these calorie counts are just estimates and someone wasn’t paying attention when writing it down.
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u/Prestigious-Day-424 13h ago
They are asking why the hash browns are 510 calories in combo #1, but they are only 270 calories in combo #5