when tomatoes get more vacation days than Americans
Noooo, no climate catastrophe here nope not even a bit. Just a vegetable vacation mhmm.
so they lowered the prices of everything that no longer has tomatoes, right?
Haha, you’re cute
Well… If they remove it is to stay on the same price and avoid an increase or reduce the amount of increase. It cannot get cheaper…
They needed to increase it and this was to avoid it or to avoid a bigger increase.
To be cheaper that would require that the prices of the raw materials stayed the same which isn’t the case or I guess but I doubt it’s the case that they increased the prices of their products aka burgers but they saw the low sells and removed the tomato and reduced prices to increase sells.
They can reduce margins but that has nothing to do with the tomato removal and if needed they probably did reduce them up to certain point.
This is Burger King… This is not a bare necessity, they know of it gets expensive people simply won’t go. This is not like increasing the price of the raw food or monopoly product…were there is no alternative
Tomatoes and other crops got decimated by monsoon right?
Why not say it as it is? Why the need for such PR bullshit?
because a lot of adults in the modern world need everything spoonfed to them like children
Pretty sure all of India knows why. Tomatoes have been fucked for a while now over there. Does everyone need to have a constant reminder than things suck? Like who cares if they’re having fun with it. Do you want an exact “we will not offer tomatoes until the price drops from 7¢ to 3¢ a tomato or lower.”? Like, lol. Plus saying Vacation means they’re coming back eventually also, so it’s not even bad messaging.
Okay but am I the only one disturbed that somehow tomatoes are too expensive but pizza…which is made with tomato sauce…is getting cheaper? Unless…what is dominos making their sauce out of?
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No, it’s a vegetable smoothie, get it right.
It’s not
TIL they have Burger Kings in India. I’m guessing for the non-Hindu population? Genuinely surprised.
Nope, its for everybody. McDonalds too. You can get a Maharaja Mac for one notable example. Localized menus exist for all the big chains that expand out.
To piggy-back on what others have said, the big franchises absolutely do regionalize their menus. A BK/McDonalds/KFC here in Romania always has a strong garlic sauce as an option, because that’s a normal part of our cuisine. You won’t find that in the UK, for example.
Sometimes the differences are small, sometimes they’re large. All depends on how different the local cuisine is from US cuisine.
Even in the US: You can get green chilies in New Mexico. I do not like McDonalds burgers, but the green chili cheese burger was better than anticipated.
https://www.allrecipes.com/gallery/regional-mcdonalds-items/
Not only. Remember this?
Oh god, unfortunately I do :))
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I think they just don’t have beef and more vegetarian options. They’d be pretty stupid to open a restaurant in India and exclude nearly 80% of the population.
“Even tomatoes need a vacation … we are unable to add tomatoes to our food,” read notices pasted at two Burger King India outlets.
So you’re telling me even Schrödinger’s fruit/vegetable gets more vacation time than me?
I swear, it seems like getting a decent tomato is impossible nowadays. They’re all refridgerated and horrible, completely bland.
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grow your own
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Mini-/Cherry tomatoes are pretty easy to grow in pots and don’t take much space. They can also be quite delicious. I started growing them a few years ago and haven’t stopped.
Yeah, honestly cherry tomatoes are the only ones that I find have any kind of discernable flavor nowadays.
Tomato went on vacation, never came back
