Although fast food burger chains such as Burger King are best known for their burgers, fries, and even chicken, that hasn't stopped major chains from experimenting with slightly odd menu items. In the past, Burger King has offered various burgers with colorful buns, a ham-and-cheese sandwich that was a knock-off of one of Arby's classic offerings, and even a rack of barbecue ribs. While some items, such as chicken fries, are so out-of-this-world that they have become mainstays, more often these creative concoctions leave as quickly as they arrive.
One of the that we probably won't ever see again is the Whopperito. This brief regional offering took everything that fans loved about the chain's classic Whopper and threw it into a tortilla. Surprisingly, this small change made a big difference, and fans did not react well to a tortilla full of beef crumbles, nacho queso cheese, tomatoes, lettuce, mayo, ketchup, pickles, and onions.
The Whopperito was introduced in August 2016 as a limited-time item and was first available in Hermitage, Pennsylvania; Warren, Ohio, and a few BK locations in Texas before making its nationwide debut. Whopperito was a limited-time offering that no one asked for This Tex Mex-burger mashup was not originally intended for a nationwide rollout, but coast-to-coast for a limited time. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it was not the big hit that Burger King may have hoped for, considering that it tasted nothing like a burrito and was arguably less enjoyable than a re.