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Burger King food truck makes it to Miami

While shopping in South Miami, we saw a curious sight...the Burger King food truck parked right in the middle of Shops at Sunset Place. The truck was there as part of a nationwide tour to sample the king's new line of smoothies, frappes, and chicken strips in an effort to mimic McDonald's remain relevant.

We tried the tropical mango smoothie that was offered and found it surprisingly fruity, with a fragrant mango flavor and yogurt tartness. According to Burger King's website, the smoothies are made with real fruit, low fat yogurt, and made fresh to order in each BK kitchen. A medium serving contains 330 calories, 3 grams protein, 78 grams carbohydrates, 63 grams sugar, and 1 gram fat, which actually isn't too bad.

If you want to try one of the smoothies or a frappe, the BK food truck will be rolling over to Marlins Park for a little pre-game sampling. Here's the schedule:
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Miami-based Burger King Corporation has announced that its eggs and pork products will be cage-free by 2017.

The company is catching onto a national trend. Wendy's and McDonald's are making similar plans. Hormel and Smithfield Farms plan to end the use of cages in the same time period as BK. Already nine percent of the Miami company's eggs and 20 percent of its pork products are produced by animals that can roam.
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When can a good thing be too much? Apparently when you supersize your Whopper with extra bacon -- 1,050 strips of bacon!

Rocketnews 24's YouTube channel shows a man in Japan taking advantage of a Burger King promotion that offered 15 strips of bacon on a Whopper for about $1.25. This guy chose to order 1,050 -- about an extra $87.50 for the bacon (not including the base Whopper price).

Does our intrepid eater finish the entire sandwich, which is about a foot tall? Watch the video.
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Did the King have to get a CDL license?

In an attempt to claw its way back into the number two spot for U.S. fast-food sales, Miami-based Burger King is trying a hell of a lot of stale innovative campaigns.

For instance, a new campaign has stellar celebs Jay Leno, David Beckham, Salma Hayek, and the overused Sofia Vergara in ads that tout the "exciting things" happening at Burger King -- such as copying number one McDonald's frappés, smoothies, and chicken strips (though we're grudgingly handing BK points for firing the creepy King and adding a salad with apples and dried cranberries).

Now, in an effort to be hip, Burger King has jumped on the food truck bandwagon, introducing a fleet of 30 BK-branded trucks to 40 U.S. cities -- and Miami is among the lucky ones!
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Artery-clogging bliss, hell yeah.

You got to hand it to Miami-based Burger King, The executives have some weird ideas broiling in their brains, Take the Burger King Bacon Sundae, which is being tested in select restaurants in Nashville.

The new dessert item is a cup of soft-serve vanilla ice cream drizzled in hot fudge sauce and topped with chunks of (cooked) bacon, Best is the single strip of bacon sticking out like an erection on the Statue of Liberty, Cost: $2.49. America, fuck yeah!
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Burger King has been slipping in the fast-food race. But today the firm debuts a new ad campaign and menu it hopes will speed up business. It adds ten new items that are supposedly healthful -- the biggest expansion of BK's menu since 1954 -- and showcases a series of star-studded ads including one that features Mary J. Blige.

The video is kinda scary (view it below). Great voice, but describing a chicken wrap. Or was that rap? (Also coming: smoothies.)

Look at those funky suburban people dance! And the way she describes the mayonnaise? You know the board of directors must've sat down, tried BK's mayonnaise, and decided to stick with the old stuff. We'll see whether the new health-conscious fare allows Burger King to overtake Wendy's, which went healthy a long time ago.

By the way, the chain is also revamping many of its 7,200 restaurants. We'll be listening for the muzak.
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​Like a scene straight out of Point Break, a man wearing a Barack Obama mask and red gloves held up the Burger King restaurant at 9031 Old Dixie Highway in West Palm Beach, according to Palm Beach Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Teri Barbera.

A black male, who had a woman accomplice also wearing a mask, walked into the Burger King at 6:45 a.m., held the cashier at gunpoint, and demanded money before leaving the restaurant with approximately $400 in cash. Fortunately, no one had a key to the safe, said one Burger King employee who did not want to be identified.
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​OK urban warriors, Burger King wants to celebrate St. Patrick's Day with you. How? By again giving away more of their thicker-cut french fries, but this time with a side of green ketchup.

Don't ponder over how awesome green ketchup makes you feel on the inside. On St. Patrick's Day weekend, the urban forager briefly transforms into a midget Irishman sporting a red beard and a green top hat, and like any good Leprechaun worth his cabbage, he absolutely must have that pot of gold.
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​​Next time you hit up a Palm Beach Burger King, keep your eye out for Michael Lohan, Lindsay Lohan's 51-year-old troubled father, who recently applied for a job there.More >>

​Gear up urban warriors, the next freebie challenge is on with free orders of onion rings from Miami-based Burger King this weekend, February 4 and 5.

Unlike BK's recent French fry giveaway, the best part of this new promotion--other than the free grub--is that it lasts the entire weekend, so theoretically you can survive on nothing but free Burger King onion rings for two whole days (who says you can't?).
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