Left-handed Burger
Burger King announced a new
dish on April 1st 1998.
‘We have a great new item for our menu,’ an
advertisement in USA Today claimed. ‘The
Left-handed Whopper has been specially designed for the
32 million left-handed Americans.'
The new product included
the same ingredients as the original Whopper - with one
important change. ‘We have rotated the burger 180
degrees,’ the company announced. ‘Now our
left-handed customers can enjoy the Whopper in even
greater comfort.’
Right-handed
Burger?
Until this time left-handed people had not noticed
problems eating hamburgers. But that day thousands of
customers had gone into restaurants to request the new
sandwich. And "many others” asked for their own
'right handed' burgers.