The Impossible Whopper — a meatless burger that tastes like meat — was actually impossible to find at a Burger King in Brooklyn.
For the last few weeks, the Burger King at 736 Broadway in Williamsburg advertised the popular vegan option on its menu, even though the burger
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“I was incredulous,” a 35-year-old Williamsburg resident told Eater last week, after eating what he thought was the Impossible Whopper.
“It’s maybe 20-percent poisoning. This is a city where there are a lot of reasons why people don’t eat [meat], from religion to health to ethics.”
He said he found out that the Impossible Whopper was a fake after he went into the restaurant at a later date, and was told by staff that they never sold it.
The restaurant has now stopped listing the vegan burger on its Seamless and Grubhub pages. A spokesman for Burger King blamed the issue on “a technology error” from a franchisee.
