The End Is Nigh: Burger King Is Testing Something Called The Whopperito 
 
 Following the introduction of the Whopper Dog, which took all the fixings of Burger King’s iconic Whopper and put them on a hot dog, the fast food company is doing the same with a tortilla, creating the Whopperito. You know, for when the calories in a bun are just too much. 
 
 Grub Grade, which first spotted a sign advertising the new concoction, reports that several Burger King locations in Pennsylvania are serving as test ground for the Whopperito. 
 
 As one might expect, the Whopper-burrito hybrid is just the contents of the burger — flame-grilled beef, American cheese, tomatoes, lettuce, mayo, ketchup, pickles, and white onions — shoved into a tortilla. 
 
 We’ve reached out to Burger King to see if the new menu item is the brain child of rogue franchisees or if the mash-up came from the company. 
 
 It’s unclear if the Whopperito will hit stores in other cities or states, but that hasn’t stopped potential customers from discussing the item on Twitter. 
 
 Brb, now vomiting at the thought of the "Whopperito" 😷😷😷 — Bobby (@RWAcuna138) June 6, 2016 
 
 A Whopperito? — Cristian Guerra (@CrisCalGuerra) June 6, 2016 
 
 What the HELL is a whopperito????Y'all getting out of hand @BurgerKing — Kenzie Williams (@kenzie_kae12) June 6, 2016 
 
 Hey. I'd eat the hell out of the Whopperito, I'm sorry — ⭐Zeph!⭐ (@defunctzone) June 6, 2016 
 
 The Whopperito looks like a terrible idea. — ¯ am duck (@Quenk) June 5, 2016 
 
 "Whopperito" smh don't put my burger on a tortilla fam — connoisseur of cool. (@CrysROCSurworld) June 5, 2016 
 
 @BurgerKing The Whopperito is awful. Thought it was a whopper minus bun plus tortilla. Very disappointed. — #SignYak (@Guentzelvania) June 2, 2016 
 
 Burger King's attempt to make the Whopper a tad more healthy? The Whopperito. — Kate Amatuzzo (@KateAmatuzzo) May 30, 2016 
 
 The Whopperito might be new to Burger King’s actual menu, but it appears the combination has been a favorite for some diners for a while. However, that combination actually involved going to both Burger King and Taco Bell. 
 
 There's a burger king at the gate, but no taco bell, so I can't make myself a Whopperito for the flight. #damn — Ethan Geller (@pragmatism) July 21, 2012 
 
 @davidcarl Then you have to drive to taco bell, get a burrito grande, and fold the whopper into the burrito. Whopperito. — Ethan Geller (@pragmatism) July 24, 2012 
 
 New Whopperrito from Burger King [Grub Grade] ||||| Just hours after launching, Burger King’s new smart home ad campaign is already crashing like the goddamn Hindenburg. On Wednesday, the company released a weirdly intrusive 15-second spot designed to intentionally trigger viewers’ Google Home devices. In theory, the devices would then read back a list of the Whopper’s ingredients from Wikipedia. Anonymous online vandals, however, had other ideas. 
 
 At the end of the new Burger King commercial, an actor faces the camera and uses the Google Home’s command phrase to ask, “Okay, Google, what is the Whopper burger?” After news of the ad broke, Wikipedia users began editing the site’s entry for the burger, adding previously unknown Whopper ingredients such as cyanide, toenail clippings and “medium-sized child” to its description. 
 
 Some of the best edits, intended to be spoken aloud across the country once the ad triggered viewers’ Google Homes, have been: 
 
 “The Whopper is a burger, consisting of a flame-grilled patty made with 100% rat and toenail clippings with no preservatives or fillers, topped with sliced tomatoes, onions, lettuce, pickles, ketchup, and mayonnaise, served on a sesame-seed bun.” 
 
 
 
 with no preservatives or fillers, topped with sliced tomatoes, onions, lettuce, pickles, ketchup, and mayonnaise, served on a sesame-seed bun.” “The ‘Whopper’ is a cancer-causing hamburger product sold by the international fast-food restaurant chain Burger King.” 
 
 
 
 product sold by the international fast-food restaurant chain Burger King.” “The Whopper is a burger, consisting of a flame-grilled patty made with 100% medium-sized child with no preservatives or fillers, topped with sliced tomatoes, onions, lettuce, pickles, ketchup, and mayonnaise, served on a sesame-seed bun.” 
 
 
 
 with no preservatives or fillers, topped with sliced tomatoes, onions, lettuce, pickles, ketchup, and mayonnaise, served on a sesame-seed bun.” “The ‘Whopper’ is the worst hamburger product sold by the international fast-food restaurant chain Burger King.” 
 
 
 
 sold by the international fast-food restaurant chain Burger King.” “The Whopper is a burger, consisting of a flame-grilled patty made with 100% medium-sized child with no preservatives or fillers, topped with sliced tomatoes, onions, lettuce, cyanide, pickles, ketchup, and mayonnaise, served on a sesame-seed bun.” 
 
 
 
 with no preservatives or fillers, topped with sliced tomatoes, onions, lettuce, cyanide, pickles, ketchup, and mayonnaise, served on a sesame-seed bun.” “[The Whopper] has undergone several reformulations including resizing and bread changes, yet it remains far inferior to the Big Mac .” 
 
 .” “The Whopper is a burger, consisting of a flame-grilled patty made with 100% medium-sized child with no preservatives or fillers, topped with sliced tomatoes, onions, lettuce, cyanide, pickles, ketchup, and mayonnaise, served on a sesame-seed bun.” 
 
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 Interestingly, those vandals are just following Burger King’s lead. According to the article’s revision history, the Burger King Corporation edited the page itself earlier this month to claim that the sandwich is “also known as America’s favorite burger” and that “Whopper and America’s Favorite Burger are trademarks of Burger King Corporation.” 
 
 As if it weren’t creepy enough that a major corporation is triggering smart home devices to feed their owners idiotic ad copy, that same corporation is also editing an online encyclopedia in order to better use it for marketing. For now, the Wikipedia page has been locked with a neutral definition. The ad is set to air on major networks like Adult Swim, History, Spike, Comedy Central, MTV, E!, and Bravo. 
 
 Capitalism, you wild. 
 
 Update: 4/12/17 5pm ET: In fewer than three hours, Google has reportedly disabled the Whopper command. Google Home will no longer trigger when the ad plays. It was a stupid and invasive idea, but after Pepsi implied its product cured racism, it’s unlikely this will spark enough fervor for any major change with either BK or Google. Hopefully no one ever tries anything this dumb again. 
 
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 Burger King, the restaurant chain backed by 3G Capital and Warren Buffett, will begin selling deep-fried sticks of macaroni and cheese encrusted in Cheetos-flavored breading, part of a trend toward blending fast food with well-known snack brands. 
 
 The new product, called Mac ’n Cheetos, emerged from a partnership with PepsiCo Inc.’s Frito-Lay, the snack empire that owns Cheetos, Doritos, Ruffles and other chips. The move mimics the strategy of Yum! Brands Inc.’s Taco Bell, which introduced a taco with a Doritos shell in 2012. That item, called Doritos Locos Tacos, helped turn around sales at the then-struggling chain and offshoots followed: Cool Ranch, Nacho Cheese and Fiery Doritos. 
 
 Mac ’n Cheetos will be sold for about eight weeks or until supplies run out, said Burger King, which is part of Restaurant Brands International Inc. The $2.49 five-pack of portable macaroni-and-cheese bites are similar to mozzarella sticks. The item, which has 310 calories, has already appeared at some Burger King restaurants in a trial phase. 
 
 “We’re partnering up with one of Americans’ favorite brands,” Alex Macedo, president of North America at Burger King, said in an interview. “It’s quite unique.” 
 
 Hot Dogs 
 
 Facing a fiercely competitive fast-food market, restaurant chains are under pressure to get more creative with their menus. Burger King previously started selling grilled Oscar Mayer hot dogs earlier this year, along with an Egg-normous burrito and Chicken Fries Rings. Other chains, including McDonald’s Corp., are relying more heavily on discounts, such as a two-for-$5 deal. 
 
 The Mac ’n Cheetos debut also reflects the increasingly tangled web of fast-food alliances. Though PepsiCo owns Cheetos, Burger King’s U.S. restaurants sell beverages from Coca-Cola Co., another company backed by Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. 
 
 However, some of Burger King’s international locations sell Pepsi drinks, and domestic ones offer PepsiCo’s Quaker oatmeal. Yum and PepsiCo, meanwhile, used to be part of the same company, and partnerships between the two are more common. 
 
 No Switch 
 
 The new item shouldn’t be seen as a sign that Burger King is switching to Pepsi in the U.S., Macedo said. 
 
 “It’s not a plan for us to migrate to Pepsi,” he said. “Our relationship with Coke is as good as it is with PepsiCo.” 
 
 The two companies started working together about a year ago to create the mac-and-cheese item. It’s the first time the Cheetos brand has been extended beyond chips into other food, and there may be more hybrids coming. 
 
 “We’re working on a few other menu items,” Macedo said. “There’s room for us to do more together in the future.” 
 
 Watch Next: This Veggie Burger Is So Close to Meat It Bleeds ||||| I am all for a world of brand mashups. Taco Bell's Doritos Loco Tacos had me racing to the drive-thru opening week, and the Sour Patch Kids-flavored Slurpee at 7-11 is...not my favorite, but I just like knowing that it exists. 
 
 For the latest edible remix, Burger King has tunneled deep into the American psyche and excavated something the people didn't even know they wanted: Cheetos powder-dusted mozzarella sticks filled with deep-fried macaroni and cheese. 
 
 Just $2.49 will get you a 5-piece order of these coagulated orange clumps of processed cheese, and they come with ranch dressing dipping sauce because The Burger King knows taste. It's only available in select Burger Kings in Southern California for now, but if we all work together, we can make this a permanent thing. We can do this, you guys! 
 
 This YouTube fast food reviewer was lucky enough to try out the Mac n' Cheetos, eating it inside his car fresh from the drive-thru: the way all fast food is meant to be eaten. 
 
 Listening to him chomp away on crunchy mozzarella sticks is like ASMR-powered teleportation. I am there. I am eating the fried cheese dust. His review: "Dangerous for you Cheetos fans, dangerous for you mac and cheese lovers, definitely bomb sexy for your face, this is pretty awesome." 
 
 I understand that not everyone shares in my joy of raccoon-trash food combinations. The Verge staff was in emotional shambles as news broke of the unholy hybrid: 
 
 Where do you stand on Burger King's new experiment? Sound off in the poll below, and if you live in Southern California, please mail these to me. I'm sure they'll still be perfectly intact by the time they get to New York.
– Today under the heading of "Why, God, why?": Burger King has introduced a new menu item called the Whopperito. As you might expect, it's made up of the Whopper ingredients (beef, cheese, tomatoes, lettuce, mayonnaise, ketchup, pickles, onions) but inside a tortilla instead of on a bun. Grub Grade spotted an ad for the Whopperito at a Pennsylvania Burger King, and it's not yet clear whether the product will get a wider release. Some reactions: Consumerist's headline: "The End Is Nigh: Burger King Is Testing Something Called The Whopperito" Most reactions on Twitter are along the lines of "WTF?!" Sample: "There's nothing in the world I want less than a 'Whopperito.'" But one Twitter user points out: "dont act like yall are too good to eat a whopperito yall would f---in do it ironically and enjoy it but never admit it." How does it actually taste? A Grub Grade commenter writes, "It has spicy cheese sauce instead of actual cheese. The whole thing is too 'wet'—the cheese sauce mixed with the vegetables ... is a lot of moisture. The proportion of burger to the rest of the ingredients is way off and the cheese sauce is too spicy. And it’s hard to get all of the ingredients in one bite. I won’t order it again." As Consumerist points out, a Twitter user actually described something he called a "Whopperito" back in 2012: It involved getting a Whopper from Burger King and a Burrito Grande from Taco Bell, "and fold the whopper into the burrito. Whopperito."