Rev up those fryers, because I am sure hungry for one collaboration between Wendy’s and SpongeBob SquarePants.
SpongeBob SquarePants, the beloved Nickelodeon character, turns 25 in 2024. To celebrate, Wendy’s has recreated the most beloved meal in all of Bikini Bottom — the Krabby Patty. As if that wasn’t enough, they even made a new Frosty to go with it.
Much of the iconic animated show takes place at the Krusty Krab, the fast food joint where SpongeBob works. Anyone who has watched the show has wondered what made the restaurant’s eponymous dish so delicious. I mean, Plankton was always trying to steal the secret recipe for a reason, right?
Well, the secret’s out. The Krabby Patty Meal came to Wendy’s on Tuesday. For $10.79, you can get your hands on a Krabby Patty Kollab Burger topped with American cheese, tomato, pickle, onion and “top-secret Krabby Kollab” sauce on a toasted bun, a medium order of fries and a Pineapple Under The Sea Frosty. While seasonal Frostys are nothing new for Wendy’s, this one includes a “pineapple mango flavored puree swirl” in a vanilla Frosty base.
That all sounds unassailably delicious, right? Wendy’s doesn’t really miss when it comes to burgers — it’s the best national burger chain, hands down. And while I’ve had my qualms with some of their Frostys, their biggest crime has always been that the original chocolate version is flawless. So I went into this with high expectations.
Turns out, the redheaded girl and yellow sponge guy are a match made in fast food heaven.
While the Krabby Patty Kollab Burger is hardly the most ambitious thing a burger joint has ever done, it’s objectively delicious. Wendy’s burgers are elite and don’t need much more to shine. The addition of the secret sauce, which tastes pretty much like typical burger sauce, made this one of the better fast food burgers I’ve had in a long time. It kind of tastes like if Wendy’s made a Big Mac.
The Frosty wasn’t quite as impressive. The pineapple mango puree tasted painfully artificial at first — considering Wendy’s hasn’t been able to make peppermint or strawberry taste real, it’s unsurprising they’d struggle with even more ambitious flavors. But after a few bites I started to like the fruit flavoring better, even if it was more mango than pineapple. Though by that point the puree was gone and I was mostly just eating a vanilla Frosty.
Wendy’s says the Krabby Patty meal is only available for a limited time, which is a bummer — I’d get this burger all the time if I could.
Now if, someone wants to make the Krusty Krab pizza...
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