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Burger King’s Halloween Whopper has unexpected side effect
Fox 31 Denver ^ | October 6, 2015 | CNN Wire

Posted on 10/06/2015 1:33:38 PM PDT by beaversmom

MIAMI — You don’t have to go to Japan to try Burger King’s black-bunned Whopper.

Burger King is bringing it to the U.S. just in time for Halloween.

“Something wicked is coming,” the burger chain on Twitter, with a brief promo video featuring thunder and lightning and a lunar eclipse, with a burger standing in for the moon.

But it’s not just the color, insists Burger King. It’s also the flavor, with A.1. sauce baked into the bun. According to Burger King, it’s the sauce that turns the buns black.

“While the pitch-black bun gives the Halloween Whopper sandwich a look that may make some think ‘hmmmmm?’ the burger’s classic A.1. flavors will have tasters saying ‘mmmmm,'” Burger King said.

Burger King has been selling colored Whoppers in Japan. As part of a summertime promotion, the chain sold “samurai burgers” with red or black buns.

In the U.S., the black Whopper has 710 calories, 43 grams of fat and 1.5 grams of trans fat. That makes the nonblack Whopper look relatively slim, with its 650 calories, 37 grams of fat and 1.5 grams of trans fat.

The black-bunned Whopper is only the latest of a series of experiments that Burger King is conducting. It recently launched a “burger merger” with several other burger chains, including Wendy’s, to create hybrids of their rival burgers.

While the Whopper looks appetizing, it appears to have some unpleasant residual effects in the toilet. People have been taking to Twitter to say the black bun is turning their poop green.

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TOPICS: Food; Health/Medicine; Humor; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: black; burgerking; halloween; whopper
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1 posted on 10/06/2015 1:33:38 PM PDT by beaversmom
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Had one of these the other day. Mystery solved.


2 posted on 10/06/2015 1:34:02 PM PDT by beaversmom
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They can re-introduce it for St. Paddy’s...


3 posted on 10/06/2015 1:35:07 PM PDT by null and void (The voter pool needs chlorine, or maybe formaldihyde...)
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LOL! A bun for all seasons.


4 posted on 10/06/2015 1:35:48 PM PDT by beaversmom
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#BlackBunsMatter


5 posted on 10/06/2015 1:35:51 PM PDT by QT3.14
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This cannot be healthy.


6 posted on 10/06/2015 1:35:53 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (A businessman gets things done with own money. A politician takes money and gets nothing done.)
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To: beaversmom; GraceG; lefty-lie-spy

7 posted on 10/06/2015 1:36:09 PM PDT by KC_Lion (This Millennial is for Cruz!)
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To: beaversmom

I hear the ink used to dye the buns can cause GI distress and uncontrollable diarrhea in some people.

Actually I just made that up.


8 posted on 10/06/2015 1:36:45 PM PDT by T-Bone Texan (The economic collapse is imminent. Buy staple food and OTC meds now, before prices skyrocket.)
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To: beaversmom

And if you eat beets it turns your poop red


9 posted on 10/06/2015 1:36:58 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: beaversmom

dark color cake icing has the same effect...


10 posted on 10/06/2015 1:38:06 PM PDT by shotgun
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lol...I had some kind of food poisoning the other day. But I ate the BK burger after that.


11 posted on 10/06/2015 1:38:13 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: beaversmom
Burger King has been selling colored Whoppers. . . .

Whoppers of color.

12 posted on 10/06/2015 1:38:43 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson
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To: shotgun

Yes...and one of the off brand fruit loops.


13 posted on 10/06/2015 1:38:55 PM PDT by beaversmom
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Remeber Shamrock shakes? They gave my little brother green diarrhea.

Wow, 2 posts in a row using the word diarrhea. I will never top that.


14 posted on 10/06/2015 1:39:39 PM PDT by T-Bone Texan (The economic collapse is imminent. Buy staple food and OTC meds now, before prices skyrocket.)
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I guess “negro whoppers” is no longer appropriate. Hard to keep up.


15 posted on 10/06/2015 1:40:16 PM PDT by beaversmom
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I am only surprised that Twitter hasn’t been swamped with pictures of green poo. That place is a cesspool.


16 posted on 10/06/2015 1:40:27 PM PDT by ponygirl (An Appeal to Heaven.)
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To: QT3.14

#GreenPoopMatters


17 posted on 10/06/2015 1:41:01 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Step away from the Koolade.)
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To: beaversmom

How was it?


18 posted on 10/06/2015 1:41:04 PM PDT by Ken522
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Wow, 2 posts in a row using the word diarrhea. I will never top that.

I hope you never have reason to!

19 posted on 10/06/2015 1:41:42 PM PDT by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: Sarah Barracuda
And if you eat beets it turns your poop red

And if you forget that you ate beets, you will have a panic attack.
20 posted on 10/06/2015 1:43:04 PM PDT by needmorePaine
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