Burger King in Spain decided to jump on the whole blind box craze popularized by Labubu and is now selling Mystery menus. Yes, you don't know what burger you are going to get. You can now gamble on food.
https://www.burgerking.es/en/mystery-king-by-brujillo-juan
Is it just me or is that a little bit fucked up? What are they going to invent next? Mystery bag of groceries? Random amount of gas when refueling?
57 Comments
kubica@fedia.io · 60 pts · 271d
Leftovers Burger doesn't have the same ring.
FatVegan@leminal.space · -3 pts · 271d
I remember reading a few years ago that Nespresso is selling Vintage coffee capsules now. Because everyone who likes coffee, knows that coffee beans are only really good when they are ground up and stored for a decade. But people pay extra for it, so who am i to judge.
Kernal64@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 270d
I have a friend who worked there a few years ago and this isn't real.
Sunsofold@lemmings.world · 33 pts · 271d
AKA a way to get rid of whatever's been sitting there the longest?
jordanlund@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 271d
Bad for people with food allergies...
Rhaedas@fedia.io · 21 pts · 271d
I think the idea is stupid too, but if you know you have a food allergy and willingly walk into problem areas... imagine knowing you have reactions to pickles, but you don't order no pickles on something that comes with pickles, hoping that maybe they'll forget this one time. YOLO?
6nk06@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 271d
Bad for people who don't want to become obese and die too.
otacon239@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 271d
Most of the time, I choose the smallest offering when I go out because even that’s more than enough. I don’t think I would be happier with a triple bacon monstrosity.
jordanlund@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 271d
Some of the stuff Wendy's does is obscene.
https://www.wendys.com/en-gb/menu-items/baconator
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 271d
Obscenely awesome.
CannedYeet@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 270d
I think the lack of veggies is worse than the excess of meat. This way it just sits in your colon causing cancer.
jordanlund@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 270d
+ cheese. Soooo much cheese.
There's actually a whole reason behind that too:
https://fee.org/articles/why-does-the-federal-government-have-14-billion-pounds-of-american-cheese-stockpiled/
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 271d
You're an idiot woth a death wish if you have food allergies and are going to a fast food place. Everything contaminates everything in those kitchens.
Railcar8095@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 271d
Might vary by restaurant and managerial staff, but on my days in MacDonald an order with allergy notice would be handled by an experienced member who would open new bag of everything.
They were a chore, but very rare.
Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 270d
Seriously. All the regulations and corpo speak in the world doesn't change that working conditions are absolutely shit and the employees are doing less than the bare minimum because they are being paid less than the bare minimum.
halfeatenpotato@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 270d
As someone with celiac disease, I never expect a ton of legit options at a restaurant so this feels like a weird take. Much less a fast food restaurant.
deathbird@mander.xyz · 23 pts · 271d
Ngl I kinda think it could be neat.
There's a food app called Too Good To Go that lets you pick up mystery bags of leftover food from restaurants for cheap, and if you're not too picky it's actually kinda fun paying $5 for a random meal.
Railcar8095@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 271d
Discount + avoid wasting food on local restaurants != megacorp charging full price for garbage food
Blackmist@feddit.uk · 20 pts · 270d
Spoiler: you're getting whatever they made earlier but didn't sell.
titanicx@lemmy.zip · 18 pts · 270d
Lababu popularized blind boxes? How old are you? Cause that shits been around for decades longer then lababu had existed.
markz@suppo.fi · 4 pts · 269d
What the fuck is a lababu
frog_brawler@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 269d
collapse_already@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 265d
Yeah, baseball cards are a thing. My Dad had them as a kid in the 40s and 50s and they were not new then.
Solumbran@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 271d
Heh, how else would they sell you their leftovers?
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 270d
Sure. Let's just make everything a lootbox.
Agent641@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 270d
Fucks sake, another Toyota Camry?! I was hoping for a LandCruiser!
Aeao@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 270d
“Will the defendant please rise and open the pack… damn death penalty. Rough luck buddy”
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 269d
The Camry will last a lot longer
Agent641@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 270d
Some time ago I came up with an idea for a pizza restaurant called Send Pizza that was delivery only, and it had an app, and the app just had one button that said Send Pizza and when you push it we would just send whatever the days' pizza was, no choosing or customising. I thought it would be ideal for parties, hangovers, and weeknight family meals.
Then again, the plan was to have a set schedule, cheese Thursdays, pepperoni Fridays, bbq chicken Saturdays, Neapolitan Sundays, mushroom mondays etc. so at least you'd know what you were getting depending on the day of the week.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 271d
Mythic rare burger?
roserose56@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 271d
Yea I got the [input burger name]. Which one did you got ? Do you want to trade Burgers?
massive_bereavement@fedia.io · 3 pts · 271d
[Legendary] {set 1 of 6} (CURSED) - Crack of The Heavens Grand Burger
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 271d
Bro that's such bullshit, it would have been epic if it wasn't cursed.
darkmogool@feddit.org · 7 pts · 270d
That's a good way to get rid of shit nobody wants, terrible for people with allergies, and 100% not invented by Labubu.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 7 pts · 271d
"This is poop from a butt."
FoolishObserver@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 271d
Have it whose way?
isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 271d
Have it in a way
Maeve@kbin.earth · 6 pts · 270d
Oh hey! Everything old is new again: https://wordhistories.net/2017/01/02/pig-in-poke/
I'll take "swindle" for a thousand.
Actionschnils@feddit.org · 2 pts · 268d
The Variant "To buy a cat in a sack/bag" (Die Katze im Sack kaufen) is the typical German version. A Pig tbh makes a little more sense :)
Actionschnils@feddit.org · 1 pts · 268d
The Variant "Die Katze im Sack kaufen" (to buy a cat in a sack/bag) is the typical version in German :)
desmosthenes@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 271d
fuck this noise
massive_bereavement@fedia.io · 5 pts · 271d
Can't wait for gas stations to give you mystery gas station drugs.
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 271d
Not in the US...
I follow a YouTuber who lives in Japan, I think he's American or English, either way, Burger King does some wild stuff over there. Some of it sounds really nasty. Some of it, I'd be willing to try — this is coming from someone who does not eat fast food. Like, I can make an awesome burger at home, in my air fryer, and honestly so can anyone. I get the convenience aspect and I try not to judge those who go for fast food, it's just not for me.
I didn't know they did different stuff in Spain, too. It seems like it's just America that is boring for fast food places. This seems fun. It's not something I'd partake in because I like certainty (goes more into how I prefer my cooking to theirs) but it's a fun concept. I have worked in fast food before and I know there's no way in Hell they're making fresh food for this. You're getting whatever they have left over. If they have nothing left over, maybe there's a new "random" button on the register that picks a protein, picks a bread, picks toppings, and to the line workers, it's as though the person actually ordered that weirdness. And they just make it.
tiredofsametab@fedia.io · 1 pts · 270d
I can't remember BK doing anything too crazy over here. Currently, the special thing is just a garlic sauce/topping, it appears.
shiroininja@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 270d
That would help sooo much with my indecisiveness. But I also hate Burger King.
umbrella@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 271d
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 271d
This isn't a new concept by a long shot. This type of mystery bag is a staple in Japan. Gacha systems are everywhere.
Hell, you have to enter a lottery just to get a chance to stand in line to buy launch products for almost everything.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 271d
Mf forgot about baseball cards and ccgs
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 270d
Capitalism is tapped out. Grasping for straws.
Aeao@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 270d
What’s that soup place I used to go to…. I swear every time you ordered you got whatever they felt like giving you.
I think it was called crispers? Good soup.
frog_brawler@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 269d
ragas@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 270d
The 90ies called. They want their trend back.
PiousAgnostic@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 270d
What in the 90s had this trend?
ragas@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 270d
Card games, sweets, literal plastik trash toys.
jerkface@lemmy.ca · -4 pts · 271d
eating the flesh of a vulnerable individual who suffered atrocity passes the bar, but not knowing if you're going to get a bun or a wrap is fucked up.
Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 270d
Oh no, animals eat other animals.
Damn you just discovered nature.
jerkface@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 269d
Do you want me to refute that or do you already know why that was a stupid thing to say and you're just acting in bad faith to manage thoughts and feelings that you are not willing to process at this time?
Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 269d
Aww, someone learned therapy speak and thinks they are smart.
jerkface@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 264d
Ah. So you know you're stupid, and you like it that way. Carry on.
massive_bereavement@fedia.io · 1 pts · 271d
🤘