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Posted on 06/13/2025 7:36:37 AM PDT by DallasBiff
To get a Burger King crown, the most common way is to simply ask for one when you’re ordering your meal. Burger King often keeps a supply of paper crowns on hand for customers who want to have a little fun while enjoying their meal. All you have to do is politely ask the staff for a crown, and they will be more than happy to provide you with one. It’s a simple and easy way to add a bit of whimsy to your dining experience at Burger King.
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It's a two-fer, crowns and a burger restaurant to vegan, soy and etc.
The caller said the crowns were to be used for a birthday party, which is not a lie(250th birthday of the US army and president Trump's birthday)
I like it.
If I go to a Burger King and eat, I can usually get a crown. Most importantly, after the meal, I get to sit on their throne as well. :)
Yes!
and I have a Coupon which gets me
A Whopper Combo for about 7 bucks!
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He Scores!
Don’t you have to go to the counter, ask the Queen that was once a King, for your crown ?
On my latest visit, the local BK had 2-3 crowns on every table, and a couple dozen more near the soda fountain.
Take all you want, have it your way.
Don’t forget it’s Friday. No meat for some of us.
How about BK increase the likelihood of me getting a good Whopper from 10% up to around 60%.
Something great to wear tomorrow on No King Day!
Too bad the Whopper taste like s#*t these days.
“…for customers who want to have a little fun while enjoying their meal”
It’s even more fun to go burn some cars.
Gee, thanks for the brilliant idea. /s
How many calories are in a bit of whimsy?
Why no meat? Jesus did away with the Old Testament law.
I haven’t been to a Burger King in a while, but they used to be stacked on a table for people to just go up and take.
One of the better fast food burgers out there!
I also like Dairy Queen, which I got to sample during my wife’s 6 week intensive care stay after a routine gallbladder surgery. There is a Dairy Queen by the hospital.
What is your favorite fast food chain burger???
Yeah. It's nasty nowadays.
Too bad because it used to be a decent burger.
It is not a precept of the Old Testament food laws which, as you correctly point out, do not apply to Christians. It is meant as a small act of of penance, remembrance, and solidarity with Christ's sacrifice on the Cross on Good Friday:
The purpose of these laws of abstinence is to educate us in the higher spiritual law of charity and self-mastery.
This spiritual purpose can also help us to understand the reasons for excluding flesh meat on penitential days. There was a once-widespread belief that flesh mean provoked and excited the baser human passions. Renouncing these foodstuffs was considered an excellent means of conquering the wayward self and orienting one’s life toward God.
The ascetic and spiritual purpose of fasting and abstinence can also help us to understand why it has always been tied to almsgiving.
In this way, it makes little sense to give up steak so as to gorge on lobster and caviar. The idea of abstinence is to prefer a simpler, less sumptuous diet than normal.
We thus have something extra to give to those less fortunate than ourselves and also train ourselves in freedom from slavery to material pleasures. Even a Catholic vegetarian can practice abstinence by substituting a typical, yet more expensive, element of the diet for something simpler. In the developed world the vast array of assorted foodstuffs available at the local supermarket make living the laws of abstinence relatively easy. In most cases one can forgo meat and still maintain a simple yet well balanced diet.
However, while being faithful to these laws we must always strive to penetrate the inner reasons for fast and abstinence and not just stay on the superficial plane of rules for rules’ sake.
The spiritual motives for practicing abstinence are admirably expressed by St. Augustine in his Sermon on Prayer and Fasting: Abstinence purifies the soul, elevates the mind, subordinates the flesh to the spirit, begets a humble and contrite heart, scatters the clouds of concupiscence, extinguishes the fire of lust, and enkindles the true light of chastity.
This is summarized in the IV Preface of Lent: “For through bodily fasting you restrain our faults, raise up our minds, and bestow both virtue and its rewards.”
In short, the Church mandates fast and abstinence in order to help free us from the chains of slavery to sin. Rather than an onerous obligation it is a cry of freedom from all that binds us to ourselves and to our passions.
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