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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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To: Irish Eyes

“I think that there is more in the bun than A1 sauce to make it black.”

Yep, they have been busted. I guess food colouring. I want a healthier choice! ;)

How do you make black out of food coloring?
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061030125603AAc2VDJ


41 posted on 10/06/2015 2:08:11 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: MrB

What?..my joke didn’t deserve a “rimshot”


42 posted on 10/06/2015 2:08:33 PM PDT by tophat9000 (King G(OP)eorge III has no idea why the Americans Patriots are in rebellion... teach him why)
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To: truth_seeker

{ Raising hand meekly... ]


43 posted on 10/06/2015 2:09:28 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: beaversmom

Probably colored with food-grade carbon black. Inert, and claimed to have beneficial cleansing effects by some health food types.


44 posted on 10/06/2015 2:34:05 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: SpaceBar

Like eating a laserjet toner cartridge.


45 posted on 10/06/2015 2:35:04 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: beaversmom

Bought one for the girlfriend last night. This morning she was screaming, “ Bruce I just shit an alien.!!” I rolled over and went back to sleep.


46 posted on 10/06/2015 2:37:54 PM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: T-Bone Texan

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

You can do it! I believe in you.


47 posted on 10/06/2015 2:59:26 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: beaversmom
Finally Roddy gets a burger. ;)


48 posted on 10/06/2015 3:06:45 PM PDT by anymouse (God didn't write this sitcom we call life, he's just the critic.)
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To: beaversmom

Should have named it after Obama. The executive black Anus burger.


49 posted on 10/06/2015 3:14:46 PM PDT by Autonomous User (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: Charles Henrickson

Once you’ve gone black...


50 posted on 10/06/2015 3:25:37 PM PDT by bgill ( CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: needmorePaine

And that is why I dont eat beets, the last thing I want to see after I poop is red poo I think I would drop dead


51 posted on 10/06/2015 3:31:54 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: shotgun

dark color cake icing has the same effect


Try about 10 pints of Guinness....you always wondered where the color went.


52 posted on 10/06/2015 3:42:39 PM PDT by o-n-money (We should rename California to Newer Mexico.)
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To: beaversmom

Ah, green vegetable attack solved!


53 posted on 10/06/2015 3:59:24 PM PDT by nomad
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To: T-Bone Texan

Here.......

The Haribo sugar Free Gummi Bear Saga.

http://www.amazon.com/Haribo-Sugar-Free-Gummy-Bears/product-reviews/B008JELLCA

Have a box of tissues ready as you FOTFLOL!!!!!

You’ll be laughing so hard, you’ll cry.


54 posted on 10/06/2015 4:02:34 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Sarah Barracuda
And if you eat beets it turns your poop red

OH, MY GOD, I'M GONNA DIE!!!!

No, wait... beets.

whew.

55 posted on 10/06/2015 4:04:44 PM PDT by roamer_1 (Globalism is just Socialism in a business suit.)
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To: roamer_1

Chik-fil-a All the way.

bk gives me diarrhea.


56 posted on 10/06/2015 4:47:00 PM PDT by bicyclerepair (Ft. Lauderdale FL (zombie land). TERM LIMITS ... TERM LIMITS)
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To: bicyclerepair

Interesting you should say that...
Hadn’t linked the two events, thanks for the heads-up.


57 posted on 10/06/2015 5:08:47 PM PDT by moose07 (DMCS (Dit Me Cong San ) - Nah)
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To: beaversmom
In the U.S., the black Whopper has 710 calories, 43 grams of fat and 1.5 grams of trans fat.

Not if you order a double.

58 posted on 10/06/2015 5:12:00 PM PDT by Libloather (Embrace the suck)
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To: metmom

I read that a while back. Laughed my ass off, mostly because I had a very similar experience with Dilettante Sugar Free Chocolate Cherries. (They sell them at Costco at Christmastime.) I thought I was going to die. It was not a very Christmas-y experience.


59 posted on 10/06/2015 6:01:52 PM PDT by ponygirl (An Appeal to Heaven.)
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60 posted on 10/06/2015 6:16:30 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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