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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at kdvr.com ...


TOPICS: Food; Health/Medicine; Humor; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: black; burgerking; halloween; whopper
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To: Sarah Barracuda
And if you eat beets it turns your poop red

Similar issues when I eat a whole package of Oreos.

But I digress....

61 posted on 10/06/2015 6:16:33 PM PDT by llevrok (To liberals, Treason Is the New Patriotism)
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To: ponygirl

Reading the reviews is almost as addictive as the candy sounds to be.

And yes, if it’s the sugar substitute, then it could happen with any sugarless candy.


62 posted on 10/06/2015 6:17:32 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: tophat9000
You know the first entrepreneur that makes a food or food additives that makes your poop “Rainbow Colored” will make a fortune selling it to Gays...
Only the ones that own glass coffee tables....
63 posted on 10/06/2015 6:45:13 PM PDT by Aut Pax Aut Bellum (I love my dog, but a .45 is man's best friend...)
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To: KC_Lion

Haha, I remember that episode.


64 posted on 10/06/2015 7:04:19 PM PDT by Politicalkiddo ("Those who know the least obey the best."- George Farquhar)
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To: beaversmom


65 posted on 10/06/2015 7:24:08 PM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: metmom

Yes, I think some aspiring writers have taken to Amazon to express their creativity. When I read those a while ago, I remember one where the guy ate a handful of those bears before going into a job interview and the Hariboo came for him in the middle of the interview. He said it had happened years ago and he had never known it was the Bears that had ruined his life until he had heard about the posts on Amazon.


66 posted on 10/06/2015 7:31:50 PM PDT by ponygirl (An Appeal to Heaven.)
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To: JoeProBono

That “chicken patty” seems to have some appendages.


67 posted on 10/06/2015 9:13:00 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: ponygirl

I’ve wondered if some of those accounts really happened or not.

But it makes for amusing reading anyway.


68 posted on 10/07/2015 1:29:09 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: beaversmom

I’m goin’ green!


69 posted on 10/07/2015 1:51:55 AM PDT by uglybiker (nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-BATMAN!)
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To: uglybiker

ROTFLOL


70 posted on 10/07/2015 1:54:49 AM PDT by beaversmom
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To: beaversmom

Ha, ha, ha. Vegan, good one. Actually I’m not vegan or anti BK. I actually had a whopper a couple of months ago and it was pretty awful. Not what I remembered.

Happy FReeping!


71 posted on 10/07/2015 7:31:36 AM PDT by subterfuge (TED CRUZ FOR POTUS! TED CRUZ FOR POTUS! TED CRUZ FOR POTUS!!!)
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To: MrB
So many ways to extend your joke... but I’m not going there.

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I'm not going to either

72 posted on 10/07/2015 11:49:25 PM PDT by Cowman (As Jerry Williams used to say --- When comes the revolution....)
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To: T-Bone Texan

>>>They gave my little brother green diarrhea<<<

I hope you just took his word for it. #;^)


73 posted on 10/07/2015 11:55:56 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Missing Tagline. Reward for return.)
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>> An unexpected side-effect...

Before getting into the excerpt, figured the swarthy buns had too much fiber for the typical Whopper chomper.


74 posted on 10/08/2015 12:09:33 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: beaversmom

I figured since it originated in Japan they probably used squid ink there to make the buns black and I wondered what they would substitute here.


75 posted on 10/08/2015 12:16:05 AM PDT by kalee
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To: beaversmom

Miss Piggy gets even with Kermit for dumping her.


76 posted on 10/08/2015 12:20:36 AM PDT by kalee
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To: beaversmom

77 posted on 10/08/2015 4:05:22 AM PDT by Daffynition (*We are not descended from fearful men*)
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