Texas Double Whopper
The Double Whopper after a trip south. Two flame-grilled patties with bacon, cheese, jalapeños and crispy onions give it heat, smoke and crunch all at once. It is louder and messier than anything else in the Whopper family and, for people who like a bit of fire, easily the most fun.
The story
Burger King introduced the Texas Double Whopper in 2006, taking the Double Whopper in a Tex-Mex direction with jalapeños, bacon and cheese. It is best remembered for its launch advertising: in May 2006 the chain ran “Manthem”, a parody of Helen Reddy’s “I Am Woman” in which a man walks out of a fancy restaurant singing that he wants a Texas Double Whopper instead of “chick food”. The ad was criticised as sexist and became one of the most talked-about pieces of Burger King’s provocative advertising of that period. The burger itself outlived the campaign and later featured on the menu of the chain’s Whopper Bar restaurants.
What’s inside
Make it at home
There is no copycat of the Texas Double Whopper yet. Until there is, these recipes on the site come closest to it, judged by what goes into the bun.
- Shares beef, jalapeños, cheese and a double stack
Big Beef Blopper - Shares beef, bacon, cheese and a double stack
Peter’s Triple Bacon Burger - Shares beef, bacon, crispy onions and cheese
Viral Bacon Spiral Burger - Shares beef, bacon, crispy onions and cheese
Fat Mimolette Bacon & Fried Onion Burger
Similar burgers at other chains
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El Diablo - MOOYAH Burgers, Fries & Shakes · beef, bacon, jalapeños and crispy onions
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About Burger King
Burger King started in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1953 as Insta-Burger King, named after a broiler oven that did not really work. Two franchisees in Miami, James McLamore and David Edgerton, fixed the problem with a flame broiler, took over the company, and gave Burger King the one thing that still separates it from McDonald’s: burgers cooked over a flame instead of on a flat griddle.
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