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It used to be that you had to drive to a fast food restaurant, park your car, and walk all the way inside to order. Then came the advent of the drive-thru, and it became all the more easy to say, yes, in fact, I would like fries with that. And now, finally, the last barrier between you and a giant, gooey manufactured meal has been removed: Burger King will now deliver right to your door. More »
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Hipster rockabilly girls? Check. Getting tattooed in a fast food restaurant? Check. Fire breathing? Check. Guy djing with hamburgers instead of records while ballerinas dance around fireballs? Yep. More »
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Burger King has a new strategy that involves attracting moms by jumping on the marginally healthy bandwagon — and that means dumping the "King" character. Ads for the limited edition California Whopper (made with guacamole, Swiss cheese, and bacon) will launch this weekend and feature only shots of fresh ingredients being prepared. More »
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A side-by-side comparison of fast food as it's pictured in advertising versus the food you actually purchase is even more of a fail than you'd think. More »
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America is no longer home of the world's biggest burger. An Australian restaurant is waiting for confirmation that its 198-pound burger, which required four people to flip the meat, beat the previous record of 185 pounds set in Michigan. [Sun] More »
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Burger King UK's campaign promoting its new breakfast involves watching a bikini-clad girl singing via "the world's first guilt free showercam." You know, as opposed to surreptitious ones you kinda feel bad about. "Viral videos": Same shit, new platform? More »
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This weekend, Fox NFL Sunday showed the animated skit at left, in which Dallas Cowboys players cruelly mock Jessica Simpson's weight. It was produced by Fox but "presented by Burger King," which should really be avoiding fat jokes altogether. [AdAge] More »
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Today, GMA reported on the trend of overtly sexual ad campaigns in the fast food industry. Chains like Burger King and Hardees — the latter creatively promotes its Biscuit Holes — responded to inquiries, saying basically, sex sells. More »
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Oh brother. "It'll blow your mind away," reads this new and annoying ad (via Singapore) from Burger King, which illustrates rather explicitly the link between food and sex, but in the most disturbing way. More »
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Burger King's new ad campaign for their SpongeBob kid's meals are facing harsh criticism from the CCFC for their sexualization of the cartoon figure. Click through for the seriously insane video. More »
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Burger King's bizarre “Whopper Sacrifice” campaign — which offered a free burger if you unfriended ten Facebook friends — has started a debate about the etiquette of giving people the online axe. More »
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Like Britney before them, Burger King execs are moving into the fragrance market with their new, seductive eau de burger, Flame. Sadly, the scent is only available in New York. [AdAge] More »
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Can we please just take a moment to call shenanigans on these "Whopper Virgins" commercials that Burger King insists on playing every 5 minutes? The premise itself is ridiculous: Burger King travels to remote areas of the world, basically "rounds up" people who have never eaten Whoppers before, and then films them as they taste a Whopper for the first time. "The Whopper is America's favorite," a voiceover claims, "but what will these people choose?" Perhaps the most offensive part of the ads is, as Marilyn Borchardt of Food First points out, the fact that "the ad's not even acknowledging that there's even hunger in any of these places." Brian Morrissey of AdFreak.com calls the ads "embarrassing and emblematic of how ignorant Americans still seem to the rest of the world." What do you think of the "Whopper Virgins?" Offensive? Hilarious? Or just plain stupid? For those of you who haven't seen the ad yet, a clip is after the jump. More »
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Burger Kings in London are selling a $200 hamburger. "Premium, prohibitively priced, Japanese-style Wagyu, flame-grilled, garnished with Italian truffles, Spanish cured ham, aged balsamic vinegar, Champagne onions and popped onto a saffron- and truffle-dusted bun." Proceeds go to charity, but some are up in arms. "To come out with this kind of hugely expensive and over-the-top burger and to have 80 million people going to bed hungry every night is just to shoot yourself in the foot," an anti-hunger activist said. Why does its being a burger make this more offensive to people? After all, folks spend far more than this on fancy dinners - and not for charity, either. However, if we're shelling out that kind of cash, it's not to chow down in the neon confines of a Burger King. [CBS] More »
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• Nicole Richie and Joel Madden did not get married this weekend, despite reports by Star magazine that they were having a $2 million wedding. But! Joel did post fake wedding pictures on his band's blog with a message that read: "I've been getting calls and texts from my family all week asking me why they weren't invited to my wedding. I guess the only answer I could give them was that I didn't know we were having one." In the pix, he and Nicole are gorillas. [E!]
• Amy Winehouse agreed to sing at the party of a Russian billionaire, but when she showed up in Moscow, she was "in no condition" to appear on stage. Organizers spent two hours trying to pull her together, and a source says "she put on a terrific show." [Rush & Molloy]
• You may have heard that Scarlett Johansson and Barack Obama have an e-mail relationship: But did you know that Scarlett's brother Hunter works for the senator? [Page Six]
• M.I.A., whom this paper calls a "lady rapper," is engaged! Check out her bling. [Rush & Molloy]
• Tim Russert's heart was enlarged. [People]

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]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5016708&view=rss&microfeed=true Sick of celebs — of the non Money Honey neo-P. Keaton variety — yet? Good, cause it's time for finance roundup, that thing we're doing so we don't lose all our neurons to the silicon-silicone vortex. (Get that? Please?) Basically the big news today is that the Fed Chief, who is no longer Alan Greenspan so we really don't trust him, has called a recession "unlikely" despite all the bad news for the housing market, meaning you may actually be able to afford those babydoll dresses and lumberjack flannels along with your rent this time around. But probably not. Because economic health is for rich people. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=247841&view=rss&microfeed=true "Ma'am, we're not going to go down there and enforce your Western Bacon Cheesburger." More »
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