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Starting Today – Bacon Sundae at Burger King

If any El Cerrito Patch readers avail themselves of the opportunity to indulge in Burger King's new summer treat being introduced today – a bacon sundae – we'd be mighty glad to hear your report on the experience in the comments below.

You may have heard the news by now.

Today, June 14, marks the mass debut of an unexpected creation on the culinary stage. In celebration of summer, the world's second biggest hamburger chain, , is introducing to its menu "a cool collision of salty and sweet" — a bacon sundae.

It's a marriage of vanilla soft serve, chocolate fudge, caramel and crumbles of BK's "thick hardwood smoked bacon." And presiding over the concoction is a strip of uncrumbled bacon standing up in the cup.

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Those keeping a nutritional scorecard can record 510 calories, 18 grams of fat and 61 grams of sugar, according to the Associated Press.

This gastronomic maverick made its debut earlier this year in Nashville, TN, the Associated Press said.

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We at El Cerrito Patch are quite busy just now and fear that we may not be able to make it down to our at Central and San Pablo Avenues. So we are most curious to know if any of our readers with a taste for adventure will try it.

If so, please send us a report in the comments below. We'd like to know what it's like. And besides, you may win undying appreciation, if not admiration, from those of us with less culinary curiosity and courage.


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