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Any lucid American knows the place to get a Whopper is Burger King.
But as of Tuesday morning, the fast food chain is back to gleefully trolling McDonald’s with a new Whopper Detour campaign that sends customers to its arch-rival’s locations to collect a steep discount on BK’s own iconic burgers.
From Dec. 4 to 12, the Burger King smartphone app will let anyone within 600 feet of one of 14,000 McDonald’s restaurants around the country order a Whopper for a single cent (as opposed to the $4 to $5 it might run at full price, depending on location), so long as they’re willing to trek to the nearest participating Burger King afterwards to pick up the actual sandwich.
A new video promotes the stunt, created by new agency partner FCB New York, with footage of customers baffling the drive-through clerks at McDonald’s, rolling up like boneheads and insistently ordering Whoppers.
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