TIL that in 2020, Burger King ran an advertising campaign featuring a picture of a moldy Whopper, to prove that their burgers are made without preservatives. This unconventional advertising method worked, increasing sales by 14% (according to multiple sources.)
Reminds me of the guy who bought the last ever Big Mac in Iceland, and put it on display and it didn’t go mouldy.
Don’t know how true that is but it’s a good story!
There was a book by Morgan Spurlock that told how a man put an extra cheeseburger in his winter coat, only to forget it, and found it in the same condition the following year. My stepkids didn’t believe me, so I put one on the mantel where it sat for months… unchanged. No smell. After about six months they believed me and begged me to throw it out. They refused to eat McDonalds after that.
I used to work next to small commercial bakery, and they would give us stuff from time to time if it was near the sell-by date and they hadn’t scheduled a shipment.
One day they gave us some of those tiny vending packs of muffins, the ones with two little colorful things in plastic. They were awful. So bad we bet that even the ants wouldn’t touch them if we left it out.
It’s been three years now and that muffin is still there, identical to the day we set it down (not counting the dust).
I did this in my car by accident multiple times way back in the day (like 2004). Stop for food after work, eat the fries and forget about the burger, which gets buried under stuff (I keep my car generally cleaner these days; I was a teen). It dries out completely with no actual change in appearance, smell, nothing but turning rock hard. Gross.
Needless to say, I haven’t eaten there in almost 20 years, other than an occasional fries on a road trip when that’s all there is.
The burger turned ten years old back in 2019. Sadly, it looks like the live stream is no more, and perhaps neither is the hostel that was the burgers home.
I don’t know if it would work with a Big Mac but I’m curious to know. I imagine the lettuce would have to mold, but McDonald’s shreds their lettuce so maybe it would have time to dry out ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I know it’s been done with a McDonald’s burger and fries before though, and I think it looked the same after a decade or more.
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Your title either got cut off or you didn’t finish it. It ends with “it wor”
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Speaking of. On an off chance, I went to BK a few days ago and got a Whopper. Like $12 for the meal, and just like the other fast food chains, the patty was so thin I couldn’t taste anything besides the bun, ketchup and mayo.
Pretty much cured me of any further fast food spending. What a scam!
I don’t think their patties have changed size any, though I wouldn’t swear to that. Also, at least in my area, BK regularly sends out pages of coupons in the mail. I think with the coupon you can still get a large sized Whopper meal for around $7. Without a coupon (again, in my area, maybe not all) you can get a Whopper Jr., 4 pc nuggies, small fry and small drink for $5.
I don’t eat fast food much but I am a bit of a BK Stan. So much better tasting food than the clown house.
Must vary regionally. I used to work at BK in the 90s, got the free meal regularly, and I won’t touch any BK here anymore because the quality of everything is far below even McD standards (which is a 50/50 gamble itself).
A shame because the original Whopper was a great product.
I mean, I HATE McDonald’s with a passion, but I’ll eat there over BK all day, every day. That rubbery patty that tastes like it was drug through an ashtray? No thanks. Both are terrible but I’ve eaten at McDonald’s 10-15 times in the last 20 years? BK once. And it reminded me never to eat there ever again. Last time I ate at Hardee’s, their new char broiled burger reminded me so much of Burger King that I won’t eat there anymore, either except for breakfast. Their breakfast is hands down the best breakfast in all of fast food.
