Certainly not a burger king fan or anything, but let me tell you I was actually really impressed with the recent Ghost Pepper Whopper. It was everything you wanted in a tex-style burger: Crunchy texture bits incorporated with lots of cheese flavor that blended well with the beef, but the thing I was most proud of BK accomplishing was the heat level. It was one of the actually decently hot (spicy hot) sandwiches on the fast food market.

It's the only sandwich I've had in years that has left me CRAVING Burger King unironically. Something that I thought was impossible.

Now these new patty melts are supposed to be the replacement, but let me tell you how awful it was my first time the other day.

I paid the same as I paid for my ghost pepper whopper, for a sandwich that was a half of the size of a normal whopper. I was pissed but got it home and tried it.

The sweetness of the caramelization clashed so harshly with the mayo-based sauce that it was like eating a chunky yogurt flavored reduction that had been smashed into the beef. For something called a "patty melt" the "melt" part was lacking, the cheese was all you could taste, and it was not hot enough to properly "melt." Not only all of that, but afterwards, I swear it made me feel sick, not like vomit sickness, but general nausea of stomach cramping for an hour afterwards. I am convinced that the sandwich made me sick, because it shortly passed after an hour, but I didn't finish it.

TL'DR: BK got a lot of money out of me when the had the Ghost Pepper Whopper... Now that the party melts replaced it, that won't be happening anymore.