The fans of Pop's Place are going to start noticing a pattern in the names of As's burgers. Not entirely coincidental. As I've mentioned elsewhere, they have the same owner.

In theory, this burger should be a monumental improvement over Pop's Original California Classic. It ditches the pickle and adds bacon. Amazing. Alas, few things in life are that simple.

There were two issues with this burger that force me to rank it lower than the OG. First, the bun on this burger was simply not on par with Pop's. Second, the bacon was not prepared as well as I had hoped. It considerably lacked crisp and was just generally not baked/seared sufficiently. I hope it was just my copy but that's what I had to go on. If I revisit this in the future and detect an improvement, I shall update the score.