land of the free and the home of the blank. home of the whopper
the burger that made Burger King a household name and
forced competitors like McDonald's to up
their burger game is the mighty whopper
over the years the whopper has undergone
several changes and has been subject of
several controversies and rumors
check out these ten whopper secrets that
even Burger King will find shocking the
whopper was originally priced at 37
cents I need about three-fitty
Burger King has been around since 1953
but it was not called Burger King back
then the founders had named it inste
Burger King but the restaurant didn't
immediately take off and the owners of
inste Burger King suffered heavy
financial losses for the next few years
soon though two of its franchisees
bought over the company from the
founders and revamped the entire image
of the restaurant including the name
which was changed to the now legendary
Burger King after taking over the
operations of the Burger King Outlet in
Miami one of the new owners
James McLemore tried to solve the
mystery of the company's falling profits
McLemore noticed that another nearby
restaurant profited tremendously by
serving a larger sized burger the astute
McLemore promptly created a larger
burger and named it whopper McLemore
vision and creating the whopper was to
convey an imagery of something big when
it made its debut in 1957 the whopper
was priced at just 37 cents the whopper
was very well received and went on to
achieve cult status among fast-food fans
while it is no longer available for 37
cents Burger King's signature product is
still priced very competitively it will
set you back about 4 bucks now the angry
and angriest whoppers calm down soon
after its introduction the whopper
became Burger King's signature product
and a surefire way to attract customers
at its outlets not just in America but
across the world with its ingenious
marketing tactics and relentless
advertising campaigns Burger King has
transformed the humble Burger to the
mighty whopper that we know
love while Burger King has introduced
various versions of the whopper over the
years the most standout variation has
been the angry whopper why angry you ask
well it contains angry onions and an
angry sauce besides the regular whopper
ingredients that make this whopper an
angry whopper amazing the angry onions
are spicy and crispy onions and the
angry sauce is a signature sauce that
gives this version of the whopper a
fiery taste for an added kick the angry
whopper also has jalapenos and pepper
jack cheese
the angry whopper made its debut in
Europe before making its way to America
towards the end of the 2000s to take
things up a notch in 2016 Burger King
introduced a variation of the angry
whopper the angriest whopper needless to
say it was an instant hit with customers
the angriest whopper was the angry
whopper but with a signature red bun
that got its color from a hot sauce that
was baked into the bun for an extra dose
of spiciness a meatless whopper for
vegetarians the juicy tasty and meaty
whopper is a true fast-food delight but
it is not exactly vegetarian friendly
considering the fact that the main
ingredient in the whopper is a
four-ounce flame-grilled beef patty
vegetarians have been left out of the
whopper movement for far too long
but not anymore developed in
collaboration with impossible foods who
are known for their plant-based meat and
dairy substitutes Burger King has
recently introduced a meatless version
of its world-famous whopper called the
impossible whopper
first tested across 59 Burger King
outlets in st. Louis Missouri
the impossible whopper is a meatless
marvel introduced in April 2019 the
impossible whopper has an all-natural
vegetarian patty made from plant
proteins water coconut oil and other
natural ingredients and has a taste
color and texture similar to that of a
beef patty while the original has 660
calories the impossible whopper is a
close second at six hundred and thirty
calories the impossible whopper was a
resounding success with an increased
foot traffic of about eighteen percent
in the st. Louis outlets Burger King
announced on April 29th 2019 that a
nationwide rollout was expected soon
what came first whopper or Big Mac yeah
now all you have to do is hold the
chicken much like the classic what came
first the chicken or the egg debate fans
have always wondered what came first
Burger King whopper or McDonald's Big
Mac McDonald's definitely predates
Burger King but that is not the case
with their signature products the Big
Mac and the whopper the whopper was
first introduced by the then owner of
Burger King James McLemore in 1957 and
it reigned supreme for quite some time
more than 10 years almost for its
closest rival McDonald's only introduced
the Big Mac in 1968 but most experts say
that the real rival to the whopper
wasn't introduced until 1972 almost 20
years after the debut of the whopper and
it was the legendary McDonald's quarter
pounder we make our hamburgers hot and
juicy competition brand Wendy's created
a similar burger called the big classic
and McDonald's went on to create a
variety of versions including the mcdlt
big and tasty arch deluxe etc while the
Big Mac big classic and other competitor
burgers are good too the whopper is the
Big Daddy of all burgers the happy
accident whopper jr. but I like
cheeseburgers soon after enjoying
unprecedented success across mainland US
Burger King began opening outlets in
Puerto Rico to at one such opening in
karoliina Puerto Rico in 1963 the man in
charge Louie
Lorena's Perez was in a mighty pickle
the molds were making the buns for the
signature dish the whopper had not yet
arrived from the mainland
the grand opening date was upon him and
he had to make a choice either wait for
the molds to arrive and delay the
opening date or improvise and honor the
opening date he chose the latter and
fast food fans the world over can thank
him for making that choice for that was
the day the whopper jr. came into being
you always have it your way his girl and
made-to-order perez decided to make
smaller burgers using smaller buns that
were made from molds that were available
locally in Puerto Rico and he decided to
call the hamburgers a whopper jr. the
newly created whopper jr. was a massive
hit with customers in Puerto Rico and it
was even adopted by mainland Burger King
outlets as a result Perez was made the
CEO of Burger King of Puerto Rico and
achieved legendary status when he was
inducted into the Burger King Hall of
Fame there was once a Windows 7 whopper
over the years Burger King has
collaborated with many brands companies
and commemorated several events through
its product lines one of the most
unusual product variations that Burger
King has ever released has to be the
windows 7 whopper it may sound like a
prank or a hoax but it's not in 2009 to
celebrate the launch of Windows 7 in
Japan Burger King collaborated with
Microsoft to create a unique version of
Burger King's signature product the
whopper and decided to call it the
windows 7 whopper you told us windows 98
would be faster and more efficient with
better access to the Internet this
limited time only burger was a mammoth
one containing seven beef patties
stacked on top of each other along with
the usual whopper ingredients this be
your last fight the combined weight of
this Windows 7 whopper was about 2.2
pounds but that did not deter customers
from trying it out for about 6,000
Windows seven whoppers were sold in the
first four days and about 10,000 in a
week exchange your Facebook friends for
a whopper with friends like you who
needs friends known for their creative
marketing campaigns
our King knows how to manipulate
customers to promote their products as
part of a marketing strategy to boost
sales numbers of the whopper Burger King
launched a whopper sacrifice Facebook
promotion in 2009 simply put the
campaign promised a free whopper for
every 10 friends that you deleted or
unfriended from your Facebook account
the campaign involved the use of an app
by means of which users could get a free
coupon after they had deleted 10 friends
from their Facebook accounts but the
controversial nature of the campaign was
that the app would send a Facebook
notification to the deleted friends that
they had been unfriended by one of their
Facebook friends and that their
relationship did not stand a chance
against the mighty whopper I'm not a bad
guy this controversial bit of gimmick
met with much flack from Facebook which
promptly asked Burger King to remove the
notification message
Burger King had to stop the campaign and
that was the end of the whopper
sacrifice saga but it came at a cost
estimates suggests that a reported 234
thousand friends had been lost over the
period of the campaign Whopper virgins
just the way I like it frame broiled as
popular as Burger King is for its tasty
offerings viral marketing campaigns and
unique customer pranks it is no stranger
to controversy it's 2008 advertising
campaign called the Whopper virgins
challenge created a huge stir it
featured villagers from Thailand remote
inhabitants of Greenland and farmers
from Romania taking part in a whopper
vs. Big Mac taste test gingivitis is the
number one cause of all tooth decay the
commercial claims that these people had
never even heard of a burger let alone
tasted one they were given a whopper and
a Big Mac and asked for their preference
while the advertising campaign was
creative it was quite controversial and
prompted a huge backlash from the media
and activists it was deemed to be
insensitive and culturally inappropriate
but the agency hired by Burger King to
carry out the advertising campaign took
it in a positive light and stated that
the idea of the campaign was to get
people talking about the whopper it's
certainly managed to do that
Loen whoppers I got it wrong burger
king's flagship product the whopper has
undergone numerous changes over the
years and multiple variations of the
whopper have also been introduced one of
the most iconic and beloved iterations
of the whopper is the Halloween whopper
first introduced to American customers
in 2015 the first version of the
Halloween whopper had an odd-looking
charcoal black bun it was also called
the a1 Halloween whopper because of the
famous a1 steak sauce used to give the
bun a dark color and a smoky flavor
the spooky-looking burger also came
wrapped in a creative wrapper that
depicted these spooky eyes of a mummy
peeking through its bandage wrappings
the next variant of the Halloween
whopper came in 2018 where Burger King
treated fans to a creepy-looking
Halloween whopper that had a bright
green bun it was nicknamed the nightmare
King whopper and the company revealed
that the green tint was derived from the
natural coloring of watermelons I was
just sitting here on the couch and I had
another nightmare about that horrible
monster Burger King also joked that the
green Halloween whopper was guaranteed
to give you nightmares there are
thousands of ways to have a whopper hey
little boy I am as the company's
flagship product a significant amount of
advertising budget has been dedicated to
popularizing it over the decades a
variety of catchphrases taglines and
slogans have been attributed to it
including the famous
there are 1,024 ways to have a whopper
there's Punch a real kick this was one
of the very first slogans created for
the whopper and versions of it have been
reused over the years but are there
really that many ways to have a whopper
the answer lies in probability
calculations without getting into the
complicated mathematical details the
logic can be simply explained as follows
customers have a certain number of
ingredients available to them to
customize and design their whoppers and
the addition or deletion of each
ingredient will create a unique whopper
all these combinations of ingredients
add up to about 1,024 unique ways of
creating a whopper but when this slogan
was introduced there were fewer
ingredients available to design the
whopper with the expansion
of the ingredient list the number of
possible permutations and combinations
of the Whopper also changed those were
you
thus the slogan was revised to there are
two hundred and twenty one thousand one
hundred and eighty four ways to try a
whopper that's a lot of ways to try the
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