This fast food chain is making millennial dreams come true with its new meal

If you grew up successful the 00s, I’ll stake there’s one food point you’ve ever wanted to effort — a Krabby Patty.

The fictional burger from SpongeBob Squarepants was thing we saw week in, week retired connected TV arsenic the iconic yellowish cartoon worked the grill astatine The Krusty Krab.

Perhaps it had thing to bash with the look being shrouded successful mystery, oregon possibly it was SpongeBob’s enduring emotion for the burger, but there’s ever been thing captivating astir it, leaving galore hopeless to devour one.

And present this foodie imagination tin go a reality, arsenic a fast nutrient chain has teamed up with Paramount to motorboat a Krabby Patty Kollab, with 2 caller paper items that look consecutive retired of Bikini Bottom.

To people the 25th day of the fashionable cartoon, Wendy’s is selling a Krabby Patty burger, which features a 4th lb of beef, 2 slices of melty American cheese, lettuce, tomato, pickle, onion, and a top-secret Krabby Kollab sauce, each served connected a toasted bun.

If this weren’t enough, the concatenation is besides launching different SpongeBob-themed item, that’s a twist connected their celebrated Frosty. The icy vanilla product, that’s determination betwixt an crystal pick and a milkshake, volition present travel with a Pineapple-flavoured puree swirl.

The items are already disposable to bargain successful the US, and they’re coming to Wendy’s UK from November 1. But you’ll person to beryllium speedy if you privation to get your hands connected them, arsenic they’ll lone beryllium astir for a constricted time.

The Krabby Patty repast successful the US has garnered mixed reactions from customers truthful far. Some were truthful excited to effort it, with Reddit idiosyncratic u/oni__002 claiming the announcement had them feeling ‘like a kid waiting for Christmas.’ 

Others shared jokes astir the launch, with @astrobanana_memes2 saying connected Instagram: ‘Nah Wendy’s got the look earlier Plankton, and helium been trying for years.’ And @j_a_r_e_d5 claiming: ‘IF SPONGEBOB AIN’T BEHIND THE GRILL WE RIOT.’

A fewer who had eaten it claimed it was ‘decent’, portion @perfect_bih connected X posted: ‘@Wendys I felt compelled to archer you that my Krabby Patty was truthful cleanable it’s arsenic if SpongeBob himself prepared it.’

The pineapple Frosty proved popular, with immoderate comparing it to the Dole Whip that’s beloved astatine Disney parks.

However, not everyone was thrilled astir the burger launch. Die-hard SpongeBob fans were upset that a existent Krabby Patty was being made, arsenic they felt this went against what the show’s precocious creator, Stephen Hillenburg, would person wanted.

In a 2004 interrogation with the New York Times, the animator confessed helium didn’t deliberation a existent beingness accelerated nutrient tie-in wherever radical could bargain Krabby Patties was a bully idea.

He said: ‘My instrumentality connected that is that we shouldn’t bash that. In the show, the full constituent of accelerated nutrient – the information that SpongeBob loves being portion of the fast-food chain, and that being a manager is his eventual dream: it’s ironic. It’s thing that astir radical don’t deliberation is simply a large happening to effort and achieve. And we didn’t privation to abruptly go the radical serving up nutrient that’s not that bully for you – particularly kids. 

‘We enactment with Burger King, and they marque toys and watches. But to really instrumentality the measurement of pushing the food, that’s crossing the line. I don’t privation to beryllium the Pied Piper of accelerated food.’

And respective Wendy’s customers connected Instagram besides said they were ‘disappointed’ by the nutrient itself – peculiarly the deficiency of sesame seeds connected the bun.

@heymotherwolf writing: ‘This was much similar the CHUM BUCKET collaboration.’ While @snug4bear commented: ‘Disappointed.. determination was truthful overmuch that could’ve made this fun. Is it truly a collab?’

We’ll person to hold and spot however the repast goes down with UK customers… Will you beryllium trying it?

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