Burger King introduces "Proud Whopper" (the other kind of Big Gulp....)

[quiller]

Bah. Let these people go bankrupt.

Burger King surprised many customers when it recently began offering something called a Proud Whopper at a location in San Francisco. The fast-food chain chronicled the experience in a video above.

"What? So it's like a gay burger?" asked one man in the video.

"Do gay people even eat fast food?" said another.

"The meat tastes ... sweeter," said one woman after trying the burger.

The Proud Whopper is actually a traditional Whopper packaged in a rainbow-colored paper wrapper that reads, "We are all the same inside."

The burger is available through Thursday at the Burger King at 1200 Market St. in San Francisco, which is on the route for last weekend's pride parade.

"It showcases who we are as a brand," Fernando Machado, senior vice president of global brand management at Burger King, told USA Today. "It shows how we, as a brand, believe in self-expression."

The burger accompanies an altered version of the brand's slogan, "Be your way" instead of "Have it your way."

After eating the burger, some were brought to tears.

"It makes me feel supported and it makes me feel proud," said one woman in the Burger King video. "It's just a burger, but baby steps all the way."

The Proud Whopper is $4.29, the same price as a traditionally wrapped Whopper. All sales of the burger are being donated to the Burger King McLaore Foundation for scholarships benefiting graduating LGBT high school seniors.

There are no plans to expand the promotion at this time.

http://www.latimes.com/food/dailydish/la-dd-burger-king-sells-a-proud-whopper-for-gay-pride-20140702-story.html

[Solar]

Excuse me, I need to go throw up.

[supsalemgr]

Bah. Let these people go bankrupt.

http://www.latimes.com/food/dailydish/la-dd-burger-king-sells-a-proud-whopper-for-gay-pride-20140702-story.html

Just tugs at your heart doesn't it?

[DaisyJane]

I didn't know what it meant at first!

Now that I do - barf!  I think it's a local promotion, not nationwide as yet.

DaisyJane   

[Ek Ehecatl]

One way or the other.....I'll never look at a Double meat Whopper with cheese the same way again...

Damn...

[TboneAgain]

I didn't know what it meant at first!

Now that I do - barf!  I think it's a local promotion, not nationwide as yet.

DaisyJane   

Actually, it's a promotion limited to a single restaurant in -- you won't believe this -- San Francisco. I was tempted to stop at my local Burger King today (Ohio) and order a GayBurger, but I doubt if the news has traveled to that level.

I like to think that they took the colors for the GayBurger wrapper from the hair colors of the nice folks who work at that local restaurant.

[supsalemgr]

Actually, it's a promotion limited to a single restaurant in -- you won't believe this -- San Francisco. I was tempted to stop at my local Burger King today (Ohio) and order a GayBurger, but I doubt if the news has traveled to that level.

I like to think that they took the colors for the GayBurger wrapper from the hair colors of the nice folks who work at that local restaurant.

Asheville will probably be the next test market. 

[quiller]

Asheville will probably be the next test market. 

You can't have it your way. You wouldn't WANT it their way. So with Burger King, it's NO WAY.

[keyboarder]

You can't have it your way. You wouldn't WANT it their way. So with Burger King, it's NO WAY.

:lol:We had it our way in Inman, SC and the Burger King there is closed down.

[CG6468]

I rarely go there, but Burger King will never see me again.

[taxed]

I'll never forget when I was 16 and worked at BK for an Indian owned store.  I dropped a pattie on the floor and threw it away.  The wife of the owner had a cow and told me we never ever throw anything away.  I informed her it fell on the floor, and she doubled down and said we never EVER throw anything away EVER.  I was a smart ass pretty hard core back then, if you can believe that, and  I told her to her face that's not how we do things in this country.  I wasn't being principled really, I wanted to quit and take a jab at her because I didn't like her.  Anyway, I can't eat at BK to this day because it grosses me out -- even though it was a particular owner and not franchise-wide.

I saw that guy on the news some years later for some health-inspection related thing and laughed my ass off.

[Solar]

Well one more reason to avoid Burger King, aside from the fact they're no better than Jack n the Crack.
Both have the shittiest food.

[TboneAgain]

I'll never forget when I was 16 and worked at BK for an Indian owned store.  I dropped a pattie on the floor and threw it away.  The wife of the owner had a cow and told me we never ever throw anything away.  I informed her it fell on the floor, and she doubled down and said we never EVER throw anything away EVER.  I was a smart ass pretty hard core back then, if you can believe that, and  I told her to her face that's not how we do things in this country.  I wasn't being principled really, I wanted to quit and take a jab at her because I didn't like her.  Anyway, I can't eat at BK to this day because it grosses me out -- even though it was a particular owner and not franchise-wide.

I saw that guy on the news some years later for some health-inspection related thing and laughed my ass off.

That sort of thing is hardly limited to BK. I worked as a teen at a Howard Johnson's and got into an almost identical situation -- and an almost identical conflict -- over a dropped hamburger patty. My manager actually scraped the raw patty off the tile floor and put it on the grill, which I was working at the time. I told him he better stick around for a while, in order to completely cook it, prepare the sandwich, and serve it in person, because I wouldn't touch it and would let it slowly incinerate exactly where it was. I think I also told him that if he did serve it to someone, I would personally tell that person that the store manager had scraped the patty off the dirty tile floor.

Yes, I was always sort of a pain in the ass.