Burger King introduced their new Halloween Whopper today. It’s
a regular Whopper with A-1 Sauce instead of ketchup on a bun as black as midnight. Seriously.
In the spirit of the season I got mine by the light of the
biggest, brightest full moon I’ve seen in a while. Then, also in the spirit of
the season, I had a terrible accident while trying to cut the thing in half.
After I bandaged up my fake injury I gave the
Halloween Whopper a try. How was it? Well, basically it’s a Whopper and I like Whoppers.
I like them a little better when they have ketchup, to be honest, but the A-1
was O-K. I mean, I’d have preferred the original ketchup or maybe some BBQ sauce
but it was totally fine and when I hit a strong mayo/pickle bite
I honestly didn’t even notice the difference.
But what about the black bun? I wondered if it would be
pumpernickel or something else weird. Sadly, no. It tasted like a regular
sesame seed bun. Then I looked into it. BK isn’t saying how the buns get their
jet-black color but it turns out that they tried black buns in Japan last year
and they weren’t so cagey about how those things were colored: Squid ink. The
buns were tinted black with squid ink. Now that’s scary.
The Halloween Whopper is available through… you know.
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