Burger King

Bogusky's Diet-tribe Connundrum

In what may be the ad-world's most counter-intuitive (or sadistically genius) move, CP+B magnate Alex Bogusky launched his new book, The 9-inch Diet, this week. He even got a write up in the Post. Snazzy! The book focuses...

Angry Whopper Bites Back.

Fast on the heels of its unscrupulous Whopper Virgin campaign (and the melodramatic responses it inspired), Crispin Porter + Bogusky introduce us to Burger King's Angry Whopper. Infused with jalapenos and onions grown by...

Colombia-Burger King expands.

COLOMBIA. Burger king. There are 20 new Burger King fast food outlets planned,that began opening in Bogota on 13 November 2008. The new restaurants are franchise to Mexican operators, Alsea SAB, who have plans to open a total...

United States-Burger King sell Spam.

UNITED STATES. HAWAI. FIVE MILLION TINS OF SPAM. In the second World War Spam was to the American GI’s, what corned beef was to the British Tommy’s, it was there you were hungry you eat it. However after the war corned beef or...

Burger King UK cancels lease with Arazim

Arazim had previously estimated revenue from the lease at ₤2.3 million a year beginning in 2010. Burger King UK's franchisee has cancelled an memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Arazim Investment Ltd. (TASE: AZRM ) to rent...

The Whopper Virgins Got Their Aid ... But Who Will Serve the Perrier Virgins?

A Humanitarian Lion supporter produced a video riffing off Burger King's Whopper Virgins campaign, where documentarians engage Third World inhabitants in hamburger taste tests -- and incidentally pop their hamburger-free cherries.

The Army Wants You. . . To Play Free Games

The New York Times has an interesting article that went up on Sunday about the Army invading your mall. Now before you run to your Space Invaders turrets to fight off the impending horde, they come in peace (and bearing free...

Economy Makes Healthy Eating Difficult

Expert Gives Wallet-Friendly Advice UPDATED: 3:26 pm EST January 2, 2009 MADISON, Wis. -- The struggling economy affects people's waistlines, according to a nonprofit cancer prevention organization. The Cancer Project worries...

Eating crow at a dinner for Wall Street

Please, please take your seats. At the dais, there's the new top deal-making troika — if only government officials could get league table credit — Henry Paulson Jr., the Treasury secretary; Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal...

Forbidden nonfruit

My parents arrived in Berkeley in 1969, just as city cops were storming People's Park. Phenidone and potassium bromide were somehow acceptable foodstuffs, my parents reasoned, but brown soda, processed cheese and red dye No. 2,...