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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday April 15 2017, @09:42PM   Printer-friendly
from the little-white-lies dept.

When fast food company Burger King attempted to trigger Google Assistant/Google Home by including "OK, Google" in an advertisement, Google moved to block its software from responding. But The Inquirer reports that rogue editors on Wikipedia played a prank on the advertiser:

[...] Burger King forgot that Google draws that kind of information from Wikipedia. And anyone can edit Wikipedia.

Soon, Wikipedia and therefore Google was telling all and sundry that the Whopper was made with "cyanide" "toenail clippings" and "rat meat". It also said that it is "the worst hamburger product" [...]

However, according to The Verge, the restauranteur appears to have inserted its desired text into Wikipedia prior to the broadcast:

For almost a decade, Wikipedia's page for the Whopper began with more or less the same sentence: "The Whopper sandwich is the signature hamburger product sold by the international fast-food restaurant chain Burger King and its Australian franchise Hungry Jack's."

[...]

But last week, that first line — the only line that Google Home reads — was changed to: "The Whopper is a burger, consisting of a flame-grilled patty made with 100 percent beef with no preservatives or fillers, topped with sliced tomatoes, onions, lettuce, pickles, ketchup, and mayonnaise, served on a sesame-seed bun." That certainly sounds like ad copy.


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  • (Score: 2) by KiloByte on Sunday April 16 2017, @12:00PM (1 child)

    by KiloByte (375) on Sunday April 16 2017, @12:00PM (#494782)

    The worst is McDonalds, hands-down. Burger King ain't bad

    Uhm, no. My anecdata: 3 out of 3 visits in Burger King ended in a nasty diarrhoea (twice in Warsaw, once in Charlottesville). I've been to McDonalds 20+ times with nary a problem.

    Obviously, 20 McDonalds visits in 39 years is a lot less extensive test than for those who eat there twice a day. But then, if you go there only once in a while, it can be quite tasty.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 16 2017, @09:57PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 16 2017, @09:57PM (#494969)

    Maybe because McDonalds heavily cooks their meat-- as required by the FDA because their meat is below food grade and LITERALLY contains crap. So to allow this new low grade meat, the FDA says cook out the bacteria in the crap so nobody gets sick. Eating shit has a know new meaning and if cooked well enough you can actually eat shit.

    I do not know of burger king's meat quality. I only know that White Castle uses grade A meat because they have actually stated the grade of the meat and not been sued for lying. The others do not say. 100% beef can probably include shit from the same beef cow.