The Impossible Whopper — a meatless burger that tastes like meat — was actually impossible to find at a Burger King in Brooklyn.
For the last few weeks, the Burger King at 736 Broadway in Williamsburg advertised the popular vegan option on its menu, even though the burger is only available in select cities.
“I was incredulous,” a 35-year-old Williamsburg resident told Eater last week, after eating what he thought was the Impossible Whopper.
“It’s maybe 20-percent poisoning. This is a city where there are a lot of reasons why people don’t eat [meat], from religion to health to ethics.”
He said he found out that the Impossible Whopper was a fake after he went into the restaurant at a later date, and was told by staff that they never sold it.
The restaurant has now stopped listing the vegan burger on its Seamless and Grubhub pages. A spokesman for Burger King, which is owned by Restaurant Brands International QSR, +2.07% , blamed the issue on “a technology error” from a franchisee.
This report originally appeared on NYPost.com.
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