I love it. Updating will now. Because if I've been known for anything in my life, it's that I demand food at inconvenient times. posted by gjc at 6:47 PM on January 29 [7 favorites]
I can respect this. When my maternal grandfather died we took the procession out of its way down a crappy unpaved road so Pop could get one last look at his garage workshop.
I came for the Burger King jokes, but I stayed for the touching reminisces. posted by box at 7:25 PM on January 29
I once got busy in a Burger King bathroom.
I worked there for 2 years when I was a kid as well. Hated the bathroom duty; was King of the Salad Bar though. posted by dobbs at 7:26 PM on January 29 [1 favorite]
Touching, but there's a certain ick factor in putting a burger in the coffin.
Not quite sure why I feel that way, but whateves. posted by BlueHorse at 7:38 PM on January 29 [3 favorites]
When my father-in-law died, the funeral procession did a final lap of town, visiting all of his favourite spots, including a new supermarket that he liked quite a bit. posted by KokuRyu at 7:39 PM on January 29 [1 favorite]
Remember Waldo Faldo best friend to Eddie Winslow, on Family Matters. Waldo has a sister named Quesadilla because she was born in a Taco Bell. I just thought I'd share that bit of television trivia here. Dream big people. posted by Fizz at 8:08 PM on January 29 [3 favorites]
Touching, but there's a certain ick factor in putting a burger in the coffin.
Burger King has to be the most uniformly filthy restaurant chain in the US. Good thing their food is a uniformly soggy mess, too, so that I never find myself experiencing the filth.
They should've filled up all the slots at a Sonic instead. posted by item at 10:04 PM on January 29 [2 favorites]
I'm imagining this sung in a minor key, Jonathan Coulton-style:
Hold the pickles
Hold the lettuce
Special orders don't upset us
All we ask is that you let us serve it your way! posted by mosk at 11:09 PM on January 29 [1 favorite]
If you replace "Burger King" with "Taco Bell", everybody thinks the exact same thing and morosely shakes their head sympathetically. posted by Pope Guilty at 12:26 AM on January 30 [2 favorites]
I don't eat at either of those places anymore. I make such good burgers at home that others are not worth bothering about.
Mr. Roquette is a HUGE fan of my burgers, we also sometimes take the manager a burger, because has it rough managing this place... posted by Katjusa Roquette at 12:51 AM on January 30 [1 favorite]
Guerrilla marketing. posted by hoodrich at 2:06 AM on January 30
Touching, but there's a certain ick factor in putting a burger in the coffin.
Not quite sure why I feel that way, but whateves.
Ewww I felt the same way. I can visualize the way the embalmed body would stay together pretty well but the burger would fester and corrupt into a slimy puddle of garbage. No flies, no worms, no beetles would be able to reach the burger's remains in order to clean it up and restore it to the earth from whence it came. Come to think of it that is the same way I feel about buried bodies-- just doomed to lie amoulderin' in the grave.
The part about his joking 15 minutes before he died that he wanted a burger got to me. My grandmother, who, bless her heart, was in complete denial that my grandfather was dying in a VA hospital, as in, hours away, didn't want him to have chewing tobacco because it was bad for him. posted by randomkeystrike at 5:48 AM on January 30
there's a certain ick factor in putting a burger in the coffin
You... you do understand that coffins have dead bodies in them, right? A burger and a corpse are essentially the same thing. Meat. posted by windykites at 6:28 AM on January 30 [1 favorite]
I'm imagining this sung in a minor key, Jonathan Coulton-style:
Hold the pickles
Hold the lettuce
Special orders don't upset us
All we ask is that you let us serve it your way!
Touching, but there's a certain ick factor in putting a burger in the coffin.
There is a lot about death and funerals that doesn't make any sense at all. Nightmarish, really. posted by KokuRyu at 8:49 AM on January 30
there's a certain ick factor in putting a burger in the coffin
I'd say that the ick factor of putting a coffin in a burger would be even greater. posted by item at 9:29 AM on January 30
For what it's worth: in the video at the end of the article, it looks like they put the bag with the burger in it on top of the coffin along with the flowers, and not in the coffin itself. posted by colfax at 9:31 AM on January 30
Windykites: I can certainly understand that burgers and bodies are just meat and will decompose. It's the idea of that bun, with all the preservatives, outlasting the corpse!
The horror.
...but the burger would fester and corrupt into a slimy puddle of garbage.
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posted by ColdChef at 6:44 PM on January 29 [4 favorites]