# Black and pink bun KFC burgers **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 25, 2016, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-and-pink-bun-kfc-burgers/753065 "2016-04-25T06:03:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JohnClay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c37758/32.png) [@JohnClay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnClay)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-and-pink-bun-kfc-burgers/753065/1 "2016-04-25T06:03:25Z")
At the moment at Australia’s KFCs there is a burger with a black bun… > **[Takeaway Truth + Taste Test: KFC Zinger Black Burger](https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2016/03/takeaway-truth-taste-test-kfc-zinger-black-burger/)** > > Takeaway Truth is an occasional Lifehacker feature where we compare marketing images against what you actually get served. Today: the... I haven’t had one yet but it would be confusing to try like I’d imagine clear cola would be like. Also in the past in China they also had ones with pink buns: > **[KFC rolling out pink and black chicken sandwiches in China](https://abc7ny.com/kfc-pink-and-black-chicken-sandwiches-new/924082/)** > > KFC is rolling out two new menu items in its Chinese franchises with the hope they'll help save sagging sales - chicken sandwiches with black and pink buns. Edit: It seems like there was a black Burger King burger in Japan way back in 2014… with black cheese too > **[Burger King black burger in Japan: What the Kuro Burger tastes like](https://www.smh.com.au/traveller/inspiration/burger-king-black-burger-in-japan-what-the-kuro-burger-tastes-like-20140922-10k9dp.html)** > > You've heard about the new Burger King 'black burger', but here's what it tastes like. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-and-pink-bun-kfc-burgers/753065/2 "2016-04-25T09:11:16Z")
No dietary objections? ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-and-pink-bun-kfc-burgers/753065/3 "2016-04-25T09:18:37Z")
I don’t know about your black buns, but ours [turns your poop green](http://www.buzzfeed.com/rachelzarrell/black-bun-comes-out-green). Don’t want you to be surprised by that. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-and-pink-bun-kfc-burgers/753065/4 "2016-04-25T10:01:58Z")
KFC in Thailand has had those a couple of times now, with their Cajun Zinger IIRC. They seem to pop up mostly around Halloween. ---
**Author:** ![JohnClay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c37758/32.png) [@JohnClay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnClay)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-and-pink-bun-kfc-burgers/753065/5 "2016-04-25T10:06:29Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > No dietary objections? Yeah the reason I haven’t had one yet is because it has my entire day’s ketogenic diet carb amount (40g) in one burger… maybe my wife will buy one and she’ll give me a bite. ---
**Author:** ![JohnClay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c37758/32.png) [@JohnClay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnClay)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-and-pink-bun-kfc-burgers/753065/6 "2016-04-25T10:08:38Z")
> [@scabpicker](#): > > I don’t know about your black buns, but ours [turns your poop green](http://www.buzzfeed.com/rachelzarrell/black-bun-comes-out-green). Don’t want you to be surprised by that. Cool! It even had a photo… BTW Whoppers are perhaps my favourite food. Also I had a friend who ate some toothpaste and apparently his poop turned white. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-and-pink-bun-kfc-burgers/753065/7 "2016-04-25T11:17:19Z")
Waitaminute. KFC serves fried chicken, right? So these are chicken sandwhiches, I assume. I’m not comfortable calling a chicken sammich a “burger”. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-and-pink-bun-kfc-burgers/753065/8 "2016-04-25T15:23:38Z")
Burger King had something like this in the US, last Halloween. They do indeed look wrong, though I’ve never tried one. Clear cola, on the other hand, is great, and I wish they’d bring back Crystal Pepsi. ---
**Author:** ![JohnClay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c37758/32.png) [@JohnClay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnClay)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-and-pink-bun-kfc-burgers/753065/9 "2016-04-25T18:15:31Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Waitaminute. > > KFC serves fried chicken, right? So these are chicken sandwhiches, I assume. I’m not comfortable calling a chicken sammich a “burger”. > **[Zinger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinger)** > > Zinger may refer to: Wikipedia says Zingers are burgers. The black bun is from a Zinger. In Australia burgers are called burgers even if they serve fried chicken. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-and-pink-bun-kfc-burgers/753065/10 "2016-04-25T20:01:38Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Clear cola, on the other hand, is great, and I wish they’d bring back Crystal Pepsi. Pervert. Cola should be brown. I have no good reason why. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-and-pink-bun-kfc-burgers/753065/11 "2016-04-25T21:19:20Z")
> [@JohnClay](#): > > [Zinger - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinger) > Wikipedia says Zingers are burgers. The black bun is from a Zinger. In Australia burgers are called burgers even if they serve fried chicken. Wiki says a lot of things. Googling KFC zinger shows they’re clearly not burgers but chicken sandwiches. To be a burger it would have to be made with a ground chicken patty, and even then it wouldn’t be a burger, it would be a “chicken burger” with use of the qualifier “chicken” being mandatory. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-and-pink-bun-kfc-burgers/753065/12 "2016-04-25T22:53:52Z")
> [@JohnClay](#): > > It seems like there was a black Burger King burger in Japan way back in 2014… with black cheese too > [http://www.traveller.com.au/burger-king-black-burger-in-japan-what-the-kuro-burger-tastes-like-10k9dp](http://www.traveller.com.au/burger-king-black-burger-in-japan-what-the-kuro-burger-tastes-like-10k9dp) I was in Japan around Hallowe’en 2014 and both Burger King and McDonalds had competing black hamburgers: > **[This Is McDonald's Japan's Take on the Black Burger](https://kotaku.com/this-is-mcdonalds-japans-take-on-the-black-burger-1639439091)** > > As > Kotaku first reported earlier this month, Burger King rolled out a black cheeseburger in Japan. Now, McDonald's Japan has a black burger of its own. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-and-pink-bun-kfc-burgers/753065/13 "2016-04-26T05:24:10Z")
> [@scabpicker](#): > > I don’t know about your black buns, but ours [turns your poop green](http://www.buzzfeed.com/rachelzarrell/black-bun-comes-out-green). Don’t want you to be surprised by that. So do black jelly beans if you eat enough of them. Ask me how I know this. ---
**Author:** ![stui\_magpie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stui_magpie/32/11010_2.png) [@stui\_magpie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stui_magpie)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-and-pink-bun-kfc-burgers/753065/14 "2016-04-26T06:30:41Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Wiki says a lot of things. Googling KFC zinger shows they’re clearly not burgers but chicken sandwiches. > > To be a burger it would have to be made with a ground chicken patty, and even then it wouldn’t be a burger, it would be a “chicken burger” with use of the qualifier “chicken” being mandatory. I guess we have our own versions and labels down here. eg, a sandwich is stuff between 2 pieces of sliced bread. If it’s in a bread roll or a bun, it’s not a sandwich. Any takeaway place that can cook a chicken schnitzel will have a Chicken Schnitzel Burger, which is just replacing the burger patty with a schnitzel. It would only be a sandwich if between the 2 pieces of sliced bread. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-and-pink-bun-kfc-burgers/753065/15 "2016-04-26T06:31:07Z")
> [@scabpicker](#): > > I don’t know about your black buns, but ours [turns your poop green](http://www.buzzfeed.com/rachelzarrell/black-bun-comes-out-green). Don’t want you to be surprised by that. Eating too many cashews will turn your poop orange, apparently. ---
**Author:** ![Lobot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-and-pink-bun-kfc-burgers/753065/16 "2016-04-26T07:50:42Z")
> [@stui\_magpie](#): > > I guess we have our own versions and labels down here. > > eg, a sandwich is stuff between 2 pieces of sliced bread. If it’s in a bread roll or a bun, it’s not a sandwich. > > Any takeaway place that can cook a chicken schnitzel will have a Chicken Schnitzel Burger, which is just replacing the burger patty with a schnitzel. It would only be a sandwich if between the 2 pieces of sliced bread. Yeah, we’ve had this conversation before. Calling anything using a bun a “sandwich” sounds very weird to these Aussie ears. A Zinger is a burger. ---
**Author:** ![JohnClay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c37758/32.png) [@JohnClay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnClay)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-and-pink-bun-kfc-burgers/753065/17 "2016-04-26T08:14:20Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Wiki says a lot of things. Googling KFC zinger shows they’re clearly not burgers but chicken sandwiches. > > To be a burger it would have to be made with a ground chicken patty, and even then it wouldn’t be a burger, it would be a “chicken burger” with use of the qualifier “chicken” being mandatory. [http://kfc.com.au/media/875961/kfc\_nutritional\_information\_asatjanuary\_2016\_240316.pdf](http://kfc.com.au/media/875961/kfc_nutritional_information_asatjanuary_2016_240316.pdf) The Australian KFC site has a category called “burgers” (not “chicken burgers”) and the “Zinger Burger” is listed there. Also they call their french fries “chips” (though McDonald’s and Hungry Jack’s [Burger King] call them “fries”). ---
**Author:** ![JohnClay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c37758/32.png) [@JohnClay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnClay)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-and-pink-bun-kfc-burgers/753065/18 "2016-04-26T08:20:14Z")
> [@stui\_magpie](#): > > …eg, a sandwich is stuff between 2 pieces of sliced bread. If it’s in a bread roll or a bun, it’s not a sandwich… Subway have “sandwiches” and they call it “bread” while burgers have “buns”. [https://www.subway.com.au/menu/breads](https://www.subway.com.au/menu/breads) ---
**Author:** ![stui\_magpie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stui_magpie/32/11010_2.png) [@stui\_magpie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stui_magpie)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-and-pink-bun-kfc-burgers/753065/19 "2016-04-26T11:34:57Z")
Subway is a US firm and they can call their tucker whatever they want, it’s not a sandwich. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-and-pink-bun-kfc-burgers/753065/20 "2016-04-26T11:41:57Z")
It’s not just Subway calling it a sandwich. Those are what are popularly known as [submarine sandwiches](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_sandwich). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-and-pink-bun-kfc-burgers/753065.md?page=2)