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Sometimes getting in your car and going down the street is just too much work, but you still have to eat at some point. That’s why Burger King is planning to try out a delivery service in certain U.S. markets. Presumably, if the plan goes well there, the service will expand to the rest of the U.S. Would you order delivery from BK or would you rather just head over to the drive through?
Link Via The Consumerist
Image Via scriptingnews [Flickr]
I recently posted an article about discontinued snack foods, and many of our readers pointed out that some of the foods were still available in other countries. As it turns out, fast food companies operate in a similar manner, offering local favorites to other countries that they would never consider selling in America. Here are a few American fast food establishments and the dishes they don’t offer in America.
In Canada, poutine, fries covered in cheese curds and gravy, is offered at almost every fast food restaurant, but BK offers their own varieties that fit in with the rest of their food –most notably, the Angry Poutine with fried onions and peppers on top.
In Puerto Rico, mallorcas, sweet pastry buns, are a popular breakfast treat and Burger King takes full advantage of the popularity of these buns by offering the King Mallorca, filled with ham, eggs and three different cheeses. If you want something even more filling, you might want to try their Enormous Omelet, which isn’t an omelet at all, but actually one of the restaurant’s long hamburger buns filled with a hamburger patty, two eggs, bacon and cheese. Later in the day, you can always snack on some King Wings, which are buffalo wings marinated in honey –why aren’t these sold in America yet?
In many countries, including the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Colombia and Mexico, you can enjoy the deliciously fatty Cheesy Whopper, which features a deep fried disc of cheese on top of a standard Whopper.
Personally, I want to try the Hawaiian BK Chicken available in New Zealand, which is like all the other chicken sandwiches Burger King sells, only it features bacon and pineapple. Sign me up!
The variety of KFC’s international menus is simply astounding, as the American version exclusively limits itself to fried chicken and a few sides, while the international franchises seem to have no limits on what they serve. On the more standard side, there is the Fillet Tower Burger, which is available throughout Europe and other locations, which is essentially just a chicken sandwich topped with a hashbrown. On the other end of the spectrum is the menu from Thailand, which features stir fries, a tuna and corn salad, fish fingers (like chicken fingers, but fish) and a donut filled with shrimp meat. China offers a similarly strange menu compared to the standard KFC fare, as it includes corn salad, beef wraps, red bean porridge, shrimp burgers and an egg and vegetable soup.
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The Russian mob is powerless against the magic experienced while eating in Burger King restaurants, at least according to this wacky Russian commercial. It’s like clubbing and a magic show, all while chowing down on tasty burgers!
–via Geekosystem
Now this is super-sizing! Behold the Pizza-Size Burger from Burger King of Japan:
Wide is what you get with Burger King Japan's 8.8 inch (22cm) diameter Pizza-Size Burger. Note that only the buns are extra-wide, in between are four regular Whopper-sized beef patties arranged in a four-leaf-clover pattern. The fillings and toppings are also normally sized but at least they're provided in abundance.
Faster, faster! We’re at the 24-minute mark! Don’t stop; you can breathe later!
If you order a Whopper set meal, you can order as many extra Whoppers as you can eat within a 30-minute period
The Whopper is Burger King’s symbol all over the world.
Burger King ran this campaign last year as well, and said it was a success, even though it might be likened to a speed-eating contest in the hands of some gluttonous customers.
Link -via Ace of Spades HQ | Photo: Flickr user shinya
First
it was the Arab Spring,
then came revolution in the fast food empire with the latest casualty
of the monarchy Burger King (the creepy King is dead, long live the creepy King).
The Smew (yes, like The Onion) reports:
Continued peaceful protests by Moncton youth and menu higher-ups alike—including Whopper Jr., long considered the heir apparent to the burger throne, and Tendercrisp Chicken, an advisor revered for his ability to see seemingly contradictory sides of any question at the same time—have led the Mountain Road Burger Monarchy to abdicate the throne, leaving the way open for the creation of a Burger Democratic Republic.
“We’ve spent hours—days, even—demanding our rights to equal burger representation, to a flat-top that expresses the needs of the people, whether they be stoned teenagers or fat, sad divorcés,” said Brad Wilkinson, 16, one of the leaders of the rebel movement. “No more will we live under the benevolent tyranny of, ‘Have it your way.’ Today, all our hard work has finally paid off.”
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Ever since BK’s titular mascot, the Burger King himself, returned to commercials a few years ago, much has been made of how very creepy he is. But see, that’s nothing. Wait until you get a load of his sidekick, Sir Shake-A-Lot.
This Burger King commercial from 1980 falls into the “what the **** were they thinking?” category. Sir-Shake-A-Lot shimmies like a speedfreak after snorting a line of crystal meth the length of John Holmes’ blue-veined-blood-bomber. Sir Shake needs some Thorazine, quick! The dude is fried.
For a limited time, Burger King restaurants in Britain are offering Whoppers that come with Brussels sprouts. They vegetables are ground into a paste, mixed with Emmentaler cheese, and formed into a patty.
Link via Geekosystem | Photo: Burger King
Burger King has just released a new food item that will surely have purists (and perhaps normal people) seething in rage: the bastard child of the unholy mating of burger and pizza:
The New York Pizza Burger ($12.99) is a 9-and-a-half-inch wide burger made with four Whopper patties topped with pepperoni, mozzarella cheese, marinara sauce, and Tuscan pesto sauce.
Link – Thanks Larry!
Update 8/20/10 – Oops, the original posts and photos are from Me So Hungry and A Hamburger Today – Thanks Robyn!
Are you dying for a Whopper right now, but don’t have a dime to your name? Do you have Facebook? Well, problem solved – download the Whopper Sacrifice application. If you have 10 friends you’re willing to dump on Facebook, Burger King will send you a coupon for a free burger. Plus, the people you ditched get e-mails saying that the King means more to you than they do. I think that’s weird, and pretty crappy. But I guess if you get 10 friends in on it and warn them that you’re going to dump them but not to be offended, you can have yourself a pretty painless, free Whopper. Or you could just dig around in your couch cushions and check the dryer for coins. You can probably come up with a couple of bucks for a Whopper.
Previously on Neatorama: Whopper Perfume. I have to say, their marketing gets my attention. It doesn’t send me to Burger King, but it does get my attention.
As if the Burger King isn’t creepy enough all on his own, now you can smell like him. I’m still hoping this perfume is a joke. It’s called Flame, and for a mere $3.99, you can smell like “the scent of seduction, with a hint of flame broiled meat.”
That’s really all I can say about this. Color me flabbergasted.
Link via Slashfood. Photo from Adland.
