DISTURBING FACTS ABOUT BURGER KING

Who out there doesn't like Burger King? If you don't, hey! You're not alone. This restaurant (at least the one near our house) is a total mess! My dad was going to call the corporate offices to complain. I'm really not sure if he did yet. But if you dislike Burger King, keep it that away. Nothing to be shameful of. Here are some highlights: 

1. In 2015, Mcdonald's was going to make a Mcwhopper with Burger King. Never happened.

2. Burger Kings in New Mexico have terrible and dangerous onion rings. In other words, one customer complained about receiving terrible onion rings in a New Mexico location. We get that BK's are all over (even in London) and they all serve different foods, but this was a big deal; the way it was handled actually just made things worse. According to CBS News, this ended with the manager taking him down with a taser and switchblade!! :(

3. For a while, they advertised sandwiches circumferring to men, which wasn't a good system. At this time, this campaign was very anti-feminist, which wasn't okay. While BK never went that far, they did get close. According to theclever.com, they had certain sandwiches that were aimed at males, with the issue being how unhealthy they actually were. 

4. Some customers found some medication in their food. In 2010, two customers each found a mysterious blue pill in their meals after going to BK. One was a 21-year old woman who called the cops after spitting out the painkiller. Another was a 58-year old man who discovered this blue pill in a fish sandwich. 

5. One cop claimed an employee put dirt in his burger. Yes, this isn't the only thing being put into BK meals. At one point, a cop in Florida thought there was dirt in a burger he received there. But as it turns out, it was actually seasoning. 

6. Sometimes consumers get food with spit on it. Yes, there are some really bad reviews about BK. According to one that was posted on TripAdvisor, someone received some undesired bodily fluids in their food. 

7. BK offers a vegan sandwich, but only because of a legal issue they were involved in. A man has issued a lawsuit against BK because he felt the company was misleading consumers by cooking the Impossible Whopper on the same grill where they grill meat, therefore contaminating them with meat. 

8. BK never made its nutritional facts public until the 1980s. It's evident enough that BK's food is unhealthy, but before 1985 the people didn't know what they were eating when they went there. That is because the nutritional information about their food was not actually available to the public before then, according to en.wikipedia.org.

9. Burger King basically copies Mcdonald's. The Big King is supposed to be the ripoff version of the world-famous Big Mac. I'd say more, but I assume you've had enough from that one.

10. They got in trouble over the way they advertised their crispy chicken wraps. This is because, in April 2012, they made a commercial with singer/songwriter Mary J. Blige, which had gotten some controversy. 

11. They allegedly sold moldy burgers to kids. Yes, I'm not bluffing. They actually did that. In New Zealand, Burger King once served a couple of children something really disgusting and contagious. Their mom claimed after going to the drive-thru, they actually had gotten food that had mold on it. This is serious since mold can be harmful to all souls. 

12. It's possible that some of the customers actually consumed horse meat without even knowing it. Sure, BK had been involved in some typical scandals over the years, but the biggest ones had something to do with their meat. This story relates to the 2013 scandal of European locations serving consumers horsemeat. However, the AP made some DNA tests and finally concluded that Burger King found no traces of horsemeat. 

Yeah, these are true..

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