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?

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[–] 59 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Leftovers Burger doesn't have the same ring.

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  • [–] -3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 33 points 11 months ago

    AKA a way to get rid of whatever's been sitting there the longest?

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  • [–] 20 points 11 months ago

    Spoiler: you're getting whatever they made earlier but didn't sell.

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  • [–] 17 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Lababu popularized blind boxes? How old are you? Cause that shits been around for decades longer then lababu had existed.

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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Sure. Let's just make everything a lootbox.

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  • [–] 29 points 11 months ago (11 children)

    Bad for people with food allergies...

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  • [–] 21 points 11 months ago

    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?

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    Bad for people who don't want to become obese and die too.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    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.

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    I think the lack of veggies is worse than the excess of meat. This way it just sits in your colon causing cancer.

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 14 points 11 months ago

    Heh, how else would they sell you their leftovers?

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago

    opens mystery box

    literal shit

    "This is poop from a butt."

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  • [–] 23 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    Oh hey! Everything old is new again: https://wordhistories.net/2017/01/02/pig-in-poke/

    I'll take "swindle" for a thousand.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    Can't wait for gas stations to give you mystery gas station drugs.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    fuck this noise

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    That would help sooo much with my indecisiveness. But I also hate Burger King.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    Capitalism is tapped out. Grasping for straws.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)

    The 90ies called. They want their trend back.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Oh no, animals eat other animals.

    Damn you just discovered nature.

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