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McDonald's 'Make Burger History' Site Hijacked With Offensive Burger Ideas (stuff.co.nz)

Posted by BeauHD on from the unintended-consequences dept.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Stuff.co.nz: McDonald's New Zealand has been left with egg on its face after a raft of bad-taste burger suggestions customers forced it to quickly take down its new design-your-own-burger website. The company launched its "Make Burger History" site this week, as part of a new promotion where customers can "build your own unique burger" and get free fries and a medium soft drink. "Just come in to a participating 'Create Your Taste' McDonald's and order your Creation at the self ordering kiosk," McDonald's promised. But its failure to consider what pranksters might dream up online has left the company red-faced, with the website overrun by racist, homophobic and otherwise offensive suggestions. The page now redirects to the McDonald's homepage. The burger concepts ranged from the mild, such as "Bag of Lettuce" (literally just a pile of lettuce leaves) and "The Carbonator" (seven burger buns, no filling), to X-rated, including "Girth" (a stack of seven undressed burger patties) and "Ron's Creamy Surprise" (a pile of mayonnaise, best left unexplained). But many went totally tasteless, creating burgers with names like "Mosque at Ground-Zero," "Rektal Prolapse" and "Toddler Body Bag," some of which ended up on the website's front page before it was shut down entirely overnight.

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  1. Damn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sometimes I miss out on all of the fun.

  2. Aaaand the channers got another one by Shadow+of+Eternity · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How many times is this going to happen before corporations realise if you give people the chance to publish the names of something they'll come up with shit like "Hitler did nothing wrong" and "Fapple".

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    A bullet may have your name on it but splash damage is addressed "To whom it may concern."
    1. Re:Aaaand the channers got another one by Tablizer · · Score: 5, Funny

      In the spirit of Boaty McBoatface, why not "Ronald McDonald"? ...... oh, wait

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      Table-ized A.I.
    2. Re:Aaaand the channers got another one by byornski · · Score: 3, Funny

      Because it's not about the UK where people wear top hats, monocles and would look down on that sort of witlessness. .

    3. Re:Aaaand the channers got another one by fustakrakich · · Score: 3, Funny

      Can you get a "Fapple" without the mayonnaise? Or is that just not possible?

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      “He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
  3. Paradox by Bovius · · Score: 3, Funny

    I revile hatred and bigotry. Yet I love the internet.

    How can these both be true? Oh internet, you are a sweet sweet mystery.

    1. Re:Paradox by dbIII · · Score: 3, Insightful

      That's reason not bigotry. Bigotry is hating a little girl wearing a head scarf in your street because some guy on the other side of the world is hacking heads off for what he claims are religious reasons, but are really not.
      Remember Manson and Jim Jones both tried to put the blame on Jesus.

    2. Re:Paradox by michelcolman · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Until school girls from a muslim background start to be pressured into wearing them because otherwise they are "whores" and are attacked both verbally and physically by their fellow pupils. It's one of the main reasons headscarfs are forbidden in many Belgian schools. It was becoming a de facto obligation for many of the girls in areas with lots of muslims.

      That is the danger of head scarfs. I know there are some misguided women who wear it as a personal choice because they are so proud to believe in their particular version of the Imaginary Superbeing, feeling the need to show everybody how much better they are because of that, and are somehow oblivious to how it is used to oppress women in many parts of the world. But for many it's not a choice at all, and that's what's wrong with it.

    3. Re:Paradox by drinkypoo · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I know there are some misguided women who wear it as a personal choice because they are so proud to believe in their particular version of the Imaginary Superbeing, feeling the need to show everybody how much better they are because of that, and are somehow oblivious to how it is used to oppress women in many parts of the world. But for many it's not a choice at all, and that's what's wrong with it.

      Is it really a choice when if you don't wear the right clothes your brother may strangle you and brag about it?

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      "You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
    4. Re:Paradox by michelcolman · · Score: 4, Interesting

      "But for many it's not a choice at all, and that's what's wrong with it."

      *citation of your novel definition of "choice" required

      Women being beaten or stoned for not wearing the correct clothes?

      Or, in my own country (Belgium), being called whores and sexually assaulted?

      It's not a choice if your family or friends make you under the threat of violence.

  4. In Kiwi speak... by pinzvidz · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...I would've just created a "Fullet'o'Fush" and "Chups".

  5. Re:AI takin our jerbs! Or at least Tay. by vux984 · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's almost like they hired Tay to do their PR.

    Tay was too busy submitting new burger ideas.

  6. Re:How would anyone be able to tell? by iggymanz · · Score: 4, Informative

    You could do the same thing with your own homemade burger and homemade bun IF you used sufficient salt in the burger and bun (which McD's has plenty) and then put into dry storage

    Woman in Arizona did the same thing.

    The disgust is your imagination. Salted things in barrels were standard on ships taking long journeys before refrigeration.

  7. Re:How would anyone be able to tell? by iggymanz · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, "excessive" salt doesn't bother most people, that's a fallacy, no correlation between high blood pressure and sodium in diet for normal people.

  8. Tasteless by GrahamJ · · Score: 3, Funny

    On the plus side, none of these were more tasteless than the burgers themselves.

  9. Re:How would anyone be able to tell? by dbIII · · Score: 3, Informative

    To be accurate, there definitely was a correlation observed but it's now suspected it was false positives due to the people eating a lot of salt probably also eating a lot of fat.

  10. Archive of screenshots by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Examples: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/mcdonald-s-create-your-taste/photos

  11. Re:Anyone got a list? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    ID: 92264 - name of burger: CHEEKY NAN DOS - By Edwardmilliband J
    ID: 92269 - name of burger: THE COSBY SPECIAL - By John L
    ID: 92277 - name of burger: DINO COLORING BOOK - By Tim L
    ID: 92279 - name of burger: DONT RETURN DEVOLUTION - By Pop K
    ID: 92280 - name of burger: THE CLINTON SPECIAL - By Bill C
    ID: 92285 - name of burger: FROG FRACTIONS TWO - By Evil L
    ID: 92286 - name of burger: SHREKS SWAMP - By Shrek S
    ID: 92289 - name of burger: TRIPLE MAYO SALAD - By Shane M
    ID: 92294 - name of burger: THE RUNS - By Donnie T
    ID: 92308 - name of burger: DAS DRITTE REICH - By Joseph G
    ID: 92309 - name of burger: CHRIS CHAN SPECIAL - By Chris C
    ID: 92313 - name of burger: REAL BURGER HOURS - By Shlomo S
    ID: 92316 - name of burger: BEHUHUHU THE RUB HVE - By Ambien I
    ID: 92318 - name of burger: GROIDSLAYVEN - By Analus E
    ID: 92322 - name of burger: SHILLARY PRISON BURGER - By Neogafshit N
    ID: 92332 - name of burger: EVILORE RPED A GIRL - By Its T
    ID: 92345 - name of burger: ITS NOT MAYO - By Ronald M
    ID: 92352 - name of burger: MELANIA WHOPER - By Michelle O
    ID: 92355 - name of burger: THE CARBONATOR - By Alex W
    ID: 92359 - name of burger: ZE HARAM - By Adolfus H
    ID: 92365 - name of burger: THIRTY DOLLAR ITALIAN - By Evil L
    ID: 92370 - name of burger: SYRIAN SUPRISE - By Op A
    ID: 92379 - name of burger: JUST BRIEZY - By Alsoneogaf I
    ID: 92387 - name of burger: A SU MADRE - By Eder B
    ID: 92389 - name of burger: HAWAIIAN CREAM - By Brent C
    ID: 92390 - name of burger: VOAT NEOFAC SUB - By Angluserrare S
    ID: 92391 - name of burger: MR MIMEWICH - By Jin X
    ID: 92392 - name of burger: BIG AZZ SANDWICH - By Jerry S
    ID: 92395 - name of burger: THE BISH BAN BURGER - By Xbannedgafferfubishes N
    ID: 92396 - name of burger: ANITA SARKEESIAN - By Gamergate G
    ID: 92398 - name of burger: THE BLOODY BATCAVE - By Dasd D
    ID: 92400 - name of burger: REAPER - By Arrus D
    ID: 92403 - name of burger: THE SLAV BRO - By Polishplumb R
    ID: 92408 - name of burger: MY WAIFU - By Hug H
    ID: 92414 - name of burger: MAKSTRUGGLE - By Jamaal B
    ID: 92416 - name of burger: STRUGGLE MEAL - By Amapizza I
    ID: 92422 - name of burger: BLAME SPACE IS TRASH - By Time D
    ID: 92424 - name of burger: WHITELIVESMATTER - By Xvfgs D
    ID: 92426 - name of burger: THE WELSH MOUTHFULL - By Mark P
    ID: 92443 - name of burger: EVOLUTIONION - By Shane M
    ID: 92444 - name of burger: DOUBLE EATSALOT - By Daniel M
    ID: 92453 - name of burger: NOT TONIGHT - By Charles E
    ID: 92456 - name of burger: FRANKFURTER - By Andy T
    ID: 92459 - name of burger: YOLOCAUST DENIAL - By Fourchanpol S
    ID: 92461 - name of burger: HITLA DID NOTHIN RONG - By Robby D
    ID: 92462 - name of burger: MOANA - By Jacqueline M
    ID: 92466 - name of burger: WEAD FILE - By Weed F
    ID: 92468 - name of burger: THE MUSLIM DRIVER - By Allahu A
    ID: 92477 - name of burger: THE TRAYVON MARTIN - By Bradley K
    ID: 92478 - name of burger: LIKE FAHTHER LIKE SON - By Azure D
    ID: 92481 - name of burger: CERVICAL PROLAPSE - By Fran K
    ID: 92487 - name of burger: ISLAM - By Igor A
    ID: 92491 - name of burger: MAKMESS WITH EGG - By Will S
    ID: 92494 - name of burger: MOHAMMEDTROUMP CHOCKER - By Mohammed T
    ID: 92495 - name of burger: ISLAM SPECIAL - By Asdfgsdg S
    ID: 92507 - name of burger: THE KITCHEN SINK - By John S
    ID: 92511 - name of burger: THE KEITH MEAD - By Keith M
    ID: 92531 - name of burger: WEW LAD - By Fil D
    ID: 92532 - name of burger: LETTUCE SURPRISE - By Bradley K
    ID: 92536 - name of burger: BIG BOY JR - By Ronald M
    ID: 92538 - name of burger: THE SHAUN KING BURGER - By Bld M
    ID: 92542 - name of burger: THE LONDONISTAN - By Muslimmayor S
    ID: 92543 - name of burger: NAINE ELEVEN BEST DAY - By Adolf K
    ID: 92545 - name of burger: BESADA SNACK - By Donaldj T
    ID: 92547 - name of burger: MY BREAKFAST - By Struggle M
    ID: 92552 - name of burger: DINDU NUFFIN - By Bradley K
    ID: 92553 - name of burger: VEGAN POETRY - By V M
    ID: 92561 - name of bur

  12. Re:How would anyone be able to tell? by David_Hart · · Score: 4, Informative

    How would anyone be able to tell? What can be more disgusting than a McDonalds hamburger and fries that looks the same after 6 years?

    A regular hamburger made from fresh ingredients from the store will exhibit the same behaviour. The key is that the beef is thin, well cooked (i.e. sterile), and that it rapidly loses moisture. So this is natural.

    http://www.snopes.com/six-year...

  13. Re:How would anyone be able to tell? by MrKaos · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hell, one time I got an ass chewing from my doctor for not having *enough* salt in my blood.

    That's quite an...unusual...way of testing for salt in the diet.

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    My ism, it's full of beliefs.