offer most people a whopper and they will respond with an overwhelming
yes please but the chain has released plenty of other items into the world
only to have the world tell them to please take them away
these are the marbles even the hungry hungry hippos didn't want to eat
the 10 biggest flops in burger king history
flame broiled meatloaf the meatloaf we want it now just because their flame
broiled burgers are delicious doesn't mean that burger king can flame
broil anything and people will like it and proof of
that is the flame broiled meatloaf while there is a good chance most folks
don't even remember this early 90s concoction most people
who were alive back then and owned a television set will probably
remember the commercials remember dan cortese well the former mtv
vj was the star of one of the ads they ran
in the commercial cortez has a baseball cap on backwards and is yelling right
into the camera wendy's doesn't have it mcdonald's
doesn't have it this is sure to bring back some pop
culture memories for some of you the problem was that for some reason
people didn't want a meatloaf sandwich flame broiled
or not meat loaf is a hard sell while there are
some hipster foodie places doing elevated meatloaf these days
back in the 90s it was still the boring meal
mom made every sunday the chain did everything they could think of to make
the sandwich sound cool but people weren't buying it literally
so as it turns out wendy's and mcdonald's were probably
pretty happy that they didn't have it say it again
the super 7 incher sometimes it isn't the food itself that
causes it to fail sometimes it's the ad campaign that's
the reason an item is taken off the menu as was the case with burger king's super
7 incher in 2009. we'll give you three seconds to guess
what the problem was and don't worry about trying to come up with your own
double entendre innuendos because burger king already
did it for you in the marketing of this big burger so
the burger itself as the name suggests was a
long burger on a seven-inch bun and sure they could have called it the mega
whopper the whopping whopper the burger grande or any number of
things but they went with the super 7 incher
and the ad campaign that followed saw posters featuring a woman's head
in profile with her mouth wide open and the burger a few inches from her
face and they nailed the point home with the tagline
it'll blow your mind away and there was even more copy
telling consumers that the burger would fill your desire
for something long juicy and flame grilled
they say that sex sells but not in this case
when it came to this ad campaign the public backlash was pretty harsh
and the chain pulled not only the ads but the sandwich as well i deserve it
satisfies satisfy tammy satisfied freaking everybody as the
general public has become more concerned with eating healthy
fast food chains have all jumped on the bandwagon over the last couple decades
trying to come up with menu items to attract the health
conscious among us one such attempt was the satisfies from burger king
burger king has never really been known for their french fries in general but
with 40 less fat and 30 percent less calories
there was no way these fries were going to taste
as good as regular fries however there were probably bigger factors at play
with this failure the problem is that most healthy eaters
aren't going to burger king to begin with
as one executive at a research company put it french fries
are an indulgence just like ice cream you don't eat them if you're worried
about your diet it's really too bad because honestly
that name satisfies is gold oh dear
my good name is ruined the enormous omelet sandwich
whisper dreams into omelette in 2005 burger king claimed that they
were getting a lot of feedback from consumers about wanting something more
filling for breakfast well if it was more filling they wanted
burger king definitely delivered on that request with the enormous omelet
sandwich this offering consisted of a two egg
omelet a large sausage patty three strips of bacon and
cheese and all of this was served on a toasted hoagie roll so
there is no doubt that it was going to fill you up
the problem was that it was filling you up with
calories the whopper only has 700 while the sandwich did make its way into
plenty of i ate that review videos the enormous
sandwich just wasn't a hit with the general public in the united states
not in canada though be it the climate the love of hockey
or some other reason america's neighbors to the north
can still get themselves an enormous omelet sandwich yes i canada
shake em up fries shake em up fries or pack it burger king
the idea for shake em up fries was pretty simple customers would get a bag
of regular burger king fries and a cheesy flavor blast packet all you had
to do was empty the packet into the bag then seal the bag give the bag a shake
and voila you could now chow down on some
now orange cheesy flavored french fries it actually sounds pretty fun and a
perfect opportunity for a james bond themed commercial i'll have some french
fries shaken not stirred unfortunately for some reason the fries
never really caught on while the shake-em-up fries failed with
burger king customers back in 2002 the idea didn't die there 13 years later
it was mcdonald's testing out their version of seasoned fries in a bag
the home of the big mac tested the idea in a california franchise back in 2015
and by all reports it was pretty much the exact same concept as what burger
king had tried at the turn of the century
bag of fries season packet shake eat but just like it did 13 years prior the
concept didn't catch on with consumers or at
least that is what we can assume based on the fact that after the testing
the golden arches never introduce them nationally shake it
off oh no shaking no shaking grilled hot
dogs my hot dog hamburgers and hot dogs go
together like chocolate and peanut butter like ross
and rachel like wine and cheese like you get the
picture although it seems like every time one of
the big fast food burger players tries to introduce hot dogs to their menu
they end up like ross and rachel when they're
on a break
okay not exactly since the hot dog just gets taken off the menu
and the burger doesn't go and hook up with the girl from the copy place
and that is how it went back in 2016 when burger king decided it was time for
them to try and do the hot dog thing and again it would seem to make sense
they have the grills and people have been grilling hot dogs in their backyard
since backyards were invented but it just didn't work even with snoop
dogg as one of the spokesmen for the launch
or the grilled dogs training ambassador as he was billed in the ads
wherein he would train employees on how to properly prepare a hot dog
maybe burger king thought that enough time had passed since mcdonald's had
tried and failed introducing their hot dogs
back in the 1990s or maybe they thought that the grill
would absolutely make the difference whatever they saw they were wrong and
once again the people voted with their wallets
and said they really didn't want hot dogs
no the hot dog stand is closed yumbo the yumbo is a ham and cheese sandwich
and while that sounds kind of boring this one might be the most impressive
item on this list in that it actually failed
twice the yumbo was first introduced in 1974
and didn't spend too long on the bk menu before getting the axe
then 30 years later in 2014 burger king decided it was a good time to bring the
yumbo back which they did with a retro nostalgic
1970s themed ad campaign why they thought this basic ham and
cheese sandwich would be a hit this time around
only the bk king knows but needless to say
it wasn't it didn't bring back memories for loyal guests as
burger king had said it would in a statement at the time maybe it just
wasn't as yummy as the name wants you to believe
and not only did it fail to bring back many fond memories for customers
but there was even a rumor that circulated claiming that there never was
a yumbo in the 1970s and that burger king was just trying to create
fake nostalgia well regardless of people's vague memories
the claims that the sandwich never existed weren't
true there really was a burger king yumbo in the 1970s
however the fact that the rumor gained as much traction as it did is evidence
that burger king made a huge misjudgment on the nostalgic value of this
ham and cheese sandwich this sandwich has six dollars worth of ham in it
the halloween whopper it's halloween this one wasn't actually a bad idea
unlike some other ones on this list to celebrate the 2015 halloween season
burger king had the idea to create a halloween whopper
and what that entailed was just taking a whopper
and dying the bun black no it wasn't going to scare
anyone but it did fit the theme and it even looked pretty cool
however the problem wasn't with the coloring used in the buns going into
people but instead what color was coming out of
them this next part might not be appropriate
for the squeamish among you customers who tried the black
bun whopper and then went to the bathroom noticed
that their number twos were looking very green
it wasn't long before the social media toilet overflowed with reports of the
green discharge and the color of the burger was no longer what everyone was
talking about the story reached such a level that even
major news outlets were running stories about it and talking to doctors about
why the color change was happening spoiler alert it has to do with the dyes
that burger king already puts in their buns
and how those react with the black dye this then
interacts with your bile to reach the final destination
looking green needless to say burger king didn't
bring back the halloween whopper again the following year
we can not miss halloween the pizza burger
mutant and proud this might be the craziest sounding item on this list
as well as the one we would most want to try
get a load of this a huge hamburger topped with pizza toppings
marinara sauce mozzarella pesto and pepperoni
on a nine and a half inch sesame seed bun
then the whole thing is cut into triangle-shaped sections
just like a pizza would be the mega meal was cut into six sections and was meant
to be shared among six people burger king introduced this monstrous
meal back in 2010 in its new york city locations only
but as ridiculous and we must admit delicious
as it sounds the pizza burger just never caught on
maybe it was the need to have a group of people to share it with
or the fact that if you didn't want to share it you would be consuming 2
500 calories if you were to eat the whole thing yourself
not including any soda and fries you got with it when you do the math
it means that if you and two friends went in on the pizza burger
that's two slices each which doesn't sound so
crazy that's over 800 calories right there
which is over 100 more calories than a whopper
still sounds good though my diet starts tomorrow
turkey burger turkey turkey turkey turkey nobody's gonna kill you
burger king appears to have been talking out both sides of their mouths for about
a ten year period between 2005 and 2015. while on the one hand it was
during this period that they introduced a couple of their most monstrous
calorie heavy offerings the pizza burger and the enormous omelet sandwich
it was also during this same time frame that they brought us the healthy-ish
satisfries and the turkey burger the turkey burger was introduced in 2013
and as burger king's head of global innovation told
cbs news back then turkey burgers as a category is growing pretty rapidly in
the restaurant space that might have been true at the time
but in the burger king restaurant space the turkey burger made a quick
exit from the menu turkey burger offerings weren't something new
they had been introduced by competitors such as hardee's and carl's jr
and had found success at both chains but for one reason or another
burger king customers weren't as enamored
and as it turns out the health factor might not have been as
relevant as one would assume the turkey burger from burger king
came in at 530 calories which is just over 100
less than the whopper and 60 more than the chains grilled chicken sandwich
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