Whopper Jr.
The Whopper shrunk to a snack. A smaller flame-grilled patty with the same lettuce, tomato, pickles, onion, ketchup and mayo, and in some ways the best-balanced burger on the menu: the toppings and beef are closer to equal. Two of these make a better meal than one Double Whopper for people who like variety.
The story
It exists because of a delivery that never arrived. In 1963, Luis Arena opened the first Burger King outside the mainland United States, in Puerto Rico, and the moulds for the Whopper bun did not turn up with everything else. He built the burger on the smaller buns he had, sold it anyway, and the accident went onto the menu as the Whopper Jr. Sixty years later it is still the cheapest way to get the flame-grilled patty and the full salad build.
What’s inside
Make it at home
There is no copycat of the Whopper Jr. yet. Until there is, these recipes on the site come closest to it, judged by what goes into the bun.
- Shares beef
McDonald's Quarter Pounder with Cheese Deluxe (Copycat) - Shares beef
Whopper (Copycat) - Shares beef
McDonald's McFeast (Copycat) - Shares beef
McDLT
Similar burgers at other chains
Built around the same things as the Whopper Jr..- Wendy's · beef
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SignatureJumbo Jack - Halo Burger · beef
SignatureQP Burger - Checkers & Rally's · beef
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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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