Just How Hungry Are You? Burger King Lets You Trade Friends for Whoppers!

by Bruce Watson, Posted Jan 8th 2009 @ 5:30PM

Just how much are your friends worth to you? Are they worth a million dollars? How about a thousand?

How about a hamburger?

The new Whopper Sacrifice application, available on Facebook, lets users exchange their friends for Whopper hamburgers. Basically, users cull through their lists of friends, picking out names that they don't recognize, people they are no longer in contact with, or relationships that have soured. They can then "excommunicate" their friends. For every ten friends that they banish, they get a coupon for a free Whopper.

The friends, on the other hand, get a notification stating that the user cares more about a Whopper than he or she cares about them. Unlike many Facebook applications, the burgers are real; moreover, unlike standard friendship dissolutions on the site, these are very open, very obvious, and sort of harsh.

This is probably the meanest thing that I've heard of in a long time, and it strikes me as completely morally repulsive. On the other hand, I've managed to pick up a lot of Facebook "friends" that I really don't recognize, and the siren song of the Burger King down the street is hard to ignore...

Filed Under: Business, Food Oddities, Ingredients
Tags: america, beef, Burger King, BurgerKing, comfort food, Facebook, oddities, whopper sacrifice, WhopperSacrifice

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1-08-2009 @7:15PM Alex said... It's "morally repulsive" to remove people you are no longer friends with from your face book account? Silly me, I reserve that term for things like genocide and child abuse. Somehow I don't see how trading a face book link for a coupon fits into that category. In fact, I think the campaign is brilliant and hilarious.
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1-08-2009 @7:21PM Chris Carter said... Burgers do have a call all their own but how about the chance to buy some gourmet or diet foods ... and
the pots to cook them in. Such miracles are to be found at http://sites.google.com/site/urbanbling
You can also find clothing and computers on the site for reasonable prices. Don't let the economy stop you from enjoying life shop at the mall that gives free prescription discount cards to all visitors.

Back to the prospect of trading strangers masquerading as friends, it sounds like a good deal to me. Where can I get rid of these that are in 'real' life ... not on a social network that are not 'real friends'?
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1-09-2009 @12:17AM Monika said... I think it's bloody brilliant.:)
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1-09-2009 @9:13AM Mary said... Yeah, it's a great idea. In addition to removing the "who is the person anyway"s, my friends would see it for what it is, free food! Like as not, they'd turn around and do it to me and I'd say, "Hey, there's one right down the street. You comin' over this weekend?"
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