Burger King continually tries to find new ways to top its signature Whopper, and in 2024, the fast-food chain let its customers come up with ideas. The brainstorming session was dubbed the Million Dollar Whopper Contest, which drew over a million submissions. Three of those entries have now been turned into handheld realities: the Mexican Street Corn Whopper, the Maple Bourbon BBQ Whopper, and the Fried Pickle Ranch Whopper.
The latter is apparently such a winner at BK HQ that management is also launching Pickle Fries as a side order. Deep-fried pickles are widely recorded as becoming a thing when Bernell "Fatman" Austin dreamed them into being, at his Duchess Drive-in in Atkins, Arkansas, back in the summer of 1963. His son David Smith shared the story with in a 2014 interview.
"He thought, well, there's got to be a way to cash in on that pickle," Smith recalled. "Of course, this is the South — where did it go? In the deep-fryer." Over the decades since, this creation has proven to be a winning side dish, although there's some .
While plenty of restaurant chains have picked up on the awesomeness of this Southern specialty, it's taken a while for industry executives to realize that . Before we applaud Burger King for finally picking up the mantle and offering their own Pickle Fries, we wanted to find out something important: Are they actually any good? The Takeout staked out a seat at our local BK to find out. This chew and review is based on taste, fried goodness, value, a.
