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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?
AKA a way to get rid of whatever's been sitting there the longest?
Bad for people with food allergies...
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?
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.
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.
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.
Bad for people who don't want to become obese and die too.
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.
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.
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.
Discount + avoid wasting food on local restaurants != megacorp charging full price for garbage food
Spoiler: you're getting whatever they made earlier but didn't sell.
Lababu popularized blind boxes? How old are you? Cause that shits been around for decades longer then lababu had existed.
What the fuck is a lababu
It’s like a troll doll, but in 2025.
Yeah, baseball cards are a thing. My Dad had them as a kid in the 40s and 50s and they were not new then.
Heh, how else would they sell you their leftovers?
Sure. Let's just make everything a lootbox.
Fucks sake, another Toyota Camry?! I was hoping for a LandCruiser!
“Will the defendant please rise and open the pack… damn death penalty. Rough luck buddy”
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.
Mythic rare burger?
Yea I got the [input burger name]. Which one did you got ? Do you want to trade Burgers?
[Legendary] {set 1 of 6} (CURSED) - Crack of The Heavens Grand Burger
Bro that's such bullshit, it would have been epic if it wasn't cursed.
opens mystery box
literal shit
"This is poop from a butt."
That's a good way to get rid of shit nobody wants, terrible for people with allergies, and 100% not invented by Labubu.
Have it whose way?
Have it in a way
Oh hey! Everything old is new again: https://wordhistories.net/2017/01/02/pig-in-poke/
I'll take "swindle" for a thousand.
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 :)
fuck this noise
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.
I can't remember BK doing anything too crazy over here. Currently, the special thing is just a garlic sauce/topping, it appears.
Can't wait for gas stations to give you mystery gas station drugs.
That would help sooo much with my indecisiveness. But I also hate Burger King.
Capitalism is tapped out. Grasping for straws.
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.