{"id":15765,"date":"2024-04-19T12:38:43","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T10:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/?p=15765"},"modified":"2024-06-20T13:42:29","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T11:42:29","slug":"burger-king-discovers-a-whopper-6500-light-years-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/burger-king-discovers-a-whopper-6500-light-years-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Claim your Free Whopper: Burger King\u00ae discovers a Whopper 6500 light years away."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Burger King\u00ae is taking its marketing to astronomical heights with its latest Astro Whopper campaign.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/specials\/\">special<\/a> campaign draws inspiration from a flaming hot sun-like star called Gomez&#8217;s Hamburger, located 6,500 lightyears away in outer space.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Discovered by astronomer Arturo Gomez in 1985, IRAS 18059-3211, also known as Gomez&#8217;s Hamburger, is a sun-like star resembling a hamburger. The &#8220;burger&#8221; appears as a disk of dust seen edge-on, obscuring the star, and resulting in a dark band, while the &#8220;buns&#8221; are created by light reflecting off dust.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Most importantly, with a surface temperature of 10,000 degrees Celsius, you&#8217;d think it was almost flame-grilled. So, now Burger King is seizing the opportunity to claim the most incredible thing in the universe. The brand is challenging all burger fans to find Gomez&#8217;s Hamburger in the sky, claim it, and get a free Whopper on Earth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>To participate in the activation<\/strong>, burger fans use a specially built sky scanner to locate Gomez&#8217;s Hamburger in the sky. Upon pointing their cameras towards the celestial hamburger&#8217;s location, participants will unlock a free Whopper\u00ae, turning the entire sky into a trial campaign.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0RqAFungmmY?si=A8NYNCOhDJiC39Ki\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ezelna Jones, Marketing Executive at Burger King\u00ae, said, &#8220;We&#8217;re thrilled to bring a cosmic twist to our classic Whopper\u00ae. The discovery of Gomez&#8217;s Hamburger presents an opportunity to merge astronomy with the love of burgers in a fun and engaging way. The Astro Whopper campaign invites our customers to gaze at the stars with a delicious reward in hand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To kick off the campaign, Burger King\u00ae launched a mini-documentary featuring the galaxy&#8217;s discoverer himself, Arturo G\u00f3mez, who, after almost 40 years, revealed the answer to one of the universe&#8217;s biggest mysteries: what kind of burger is the Gomez&#8217;s Hamburger?<\/p>\n<p>Burger King&#8217;s Astro Whopper campaign is set to take the fast-food world by storm, delivering an out-of-this-world experience to burger lovers everywhere.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/0RqAFungmmY\"><strong>You can watch the documentary here!<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-114028\" src=\"http:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/BK-LOOKUP-AstroWhopper-SoMe-Promo-1333x1333-OneSmallBite.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1333\" height=\"1333\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burger King\u00ae is taking its marketing to astronomical heights with its latest Astro Whopper campaign. The special campaign draws inspiration from a flaming hot sun-like star called Gomez&#8217;s Hamburger, located 6,500 lightyears away in outer space. Discovered by astronomer Arturo Gomez in 1985, IRAS 18059-3211, also known as Gomez&#8217;s Hamburger, is a sun-like star resembling&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[160,43,39,44,45,42,40,41],"class_list":["post-15765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-specials","category-news","tag-burger-specials-johannesburg","tag-friday","tag-monday","tag-saturday","tag-sunday","tag-thursday","tag-tuesday","tag-wednesday"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15765"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16247,"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15765\/revisions\/16247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}