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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      2 months ago

      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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      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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      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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        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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        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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      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.

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    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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      Discount + avoid wasting food on local restaurants != megacorp charging full price for garbage food

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

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    Heh, how else would they sell you their leftovers?

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      Fucks sake, another Toyota Camry?! I was hoping for a LandCruiser!

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    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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    That’s a good way to get rid of shit nobody wants, terrible for people with allergies, and 100% not invented by Labubu.

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      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 :)