# I pit Burger King **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 13, 2020, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-burger-king/851680 "2020-04-13T06:59:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2020, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-burger-king/851680/41 "2020-04-13T21:24:06Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > They had Froot Loops-enhanced shakes once. > > That’s my BK pit. > > I tried one. > > That’s my ME pit. Froot loops and enhanced in the same sentence. Heh ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2020, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-burger-king/851680/42 "2020-04-13T23:00:45Z")
Yes, I’m quite the Renaissance man, ain’t I? ---
**Author:** ![sishoch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3e96dc/32.png) [@sishoch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sishoch)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2020, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-burger-king/851680/43 "2020-04-13T23:05:47Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Seems to me you’re pitting the wrong entity. You should be going after your local franchise owner rather than corporate. > [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > According to [wiki:](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Canadian_and_American_economies#cite_note-KPMG_2018-7) > > Anyoos, I’d lke to pit the OP for not only quite deleteriously saying catsup instead of ketchup, but also for taking fast food home so that the fries get cold. Don’t care for fries either. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2020, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-burger-king/851680/44 "2020-04-14T09:21:02Z")
I love Burger King as much as I hate McDonalds. Not only do I love a Whopper Jr., I have refused to go into MdD’s because of their pretentious ‘touch screen’ and the hired help schlepping your food to your table. Trying to make themselves into something ‘modern’, I guess, when Ronald the grotesque red-vinyl-hair freak is still what I think going there…not that I have to worry about actually walking inside, maybe for years. ---
**Author:** ![Garak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d78d45/32.png) [@Garak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garak)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2020, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-burger-king/851680/45 "2020-04-14T18:01:56Z")
touch screen ordering is great because you don’t have to talk to a human being ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2020, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-burger-king/851680/46 "2020-04-14T18:30:10Z")
> [@Garak](#): > > touch screen ordering is great because you don’t have to talk to a human being Instead I get the pleasure of touching a filthy screen with god knows what all over it. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2020, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-burger-king/851680/47 "2020-04-14T19:23:07Z")
> [@Garak](#): > > touch screen ordering is great because you don’t have to talk to a human being I like it too, because I can wipe my snotty fingers off on the screen. - not actually true. For me. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2020, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-burger-king/851680/48 "2020-04-14T19:35:59Z")
When were whoppers 99 cents? When I go, I always use a coupon. Whoppers are BOGO, which makes them about ~$2 each. ---
**Author:** ![sishoch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3e96dc/32.png) [@sishoch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sishoch)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2020, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-burger-king/851680/49 "2020-04-14T20:43:27Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > When were whoppers 99 cents? > > When I go, I always use a coupon. Whoppers are BOGO, which makes them about ~$2 each. ~1995 ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2020, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-burger-king/851680/50 "2020-04-14T21:58:10Z")
> [@sishoch](#): > > ~1995 I remember 95 or 96 being a young college student, Whoppers were 99 cents, you could buy Arby’s roast beef sandwiches cheap (I think 5 for $4) and Taco Bell was selling crunchy tacos for something crazy like 40 cents each. I was in literal poverty and was living off stuff like that. Those were all promotional prices too, they were unusually cheap even back then. Once the promotions ended the prices went up a lot. (Not as much as now but you have to contend with 25 years of inflation.) ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2020, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-burger-king/851680/51 "2020-04-14T23:05:58Z")
> [@sishoch](#): > > ~1995 Ah ok. I don’t recall burger king prices since my home town didn’t have a burger king until the aughts. But I do remember McDaonalds and Hardees has some awesome hamburger and cheeseburger deals in the 90s. I think Hardees had 3 hamburgers for $1 and McDonalds sometimes had hamburgers for $0.29, cheeseburgers for $0.39 when they had promotions. A giant bag full of McDonalds hamburgers and cheeseburgers for $6. ---
**Author:** ![Balthisar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/balthisar/32/2825_2.png) [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2020, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-burger-king/851680/52 "2020-04-15T01:30:25Z")
What really sucks is that you were probably charged 50¢ or so for that cheese. The default is no cheese; cheese is extra. This might contribute to why you were misunderstood. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-burger-king/851680.md?page=2)