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The Unfortunate Naming of Burger King's Newest Japanese Hamburger

By Dr. Evelyn Thorne | January 01, 0001

Each year, Halloween becomes a bigger and bigger event in Japan. And more and more companies try to figure out how to make a quick buck off of it. Burger King Japan seems to be the latest, with its new burger. It’s dubbed the “BK Pumpkin”, and it features a dual-slit bun that is supposed to resemble a pumpkin. According to Excite, it’s also stuffed with slices of kabocha, which is the traditional, green Japanese squash. For ¥100, you can add five times the number of kabocha slices for a grand total of ten. Burger King is officially calling this burger “Bomb Pumpkin” (“Bakudan Pumpkin” or 爆弾パンプキン), and is running a special campaign u31.com เข้าสู่ระบบ until November 11. “Bomb” (bakudan) is sometimes used in Japanese fast food for items that are packed with stuff. Kabocha is a traditional fall and winter u31 ทางเข้า dish in Japan. Even though the burger will be available until December, by using “pumpkin”, Burger King is most likely evoking Halloween, trying to ski in the event’s wake. By calling the larger version the “Bomb u31.com เข้าสู่ระบบ Pumpkin”, however, Burger King Japan is inadvertently evoking World War II.cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"e3616d04-4972-4839-a63a-c6975e2e9731","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.kotaku.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"5953695","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"kotaku-east","SECTION":"","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"kotaku-east","TAGS":"","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); Google searching “bomb pumpkin” (爆弾パンプキン) in Japanese pulls up countless images of pumpkin bombs, which were conventional aerial bombs developed by the Manhattan Project and dropped on Japan. They were sometimes painted pumpkin orange and resembled the Fat Man that dropped on Nagasaki. The Japanese wiki page for pumpkin bomb even sits atop the Burger King pumpkin burger stories. Times change, and most Japanese probably won’t make the connection. Still, this is probably not u31 ทางเข้า u31 เข้าสู่ระบบ the imagery Burger King wanted to evoke, and it’s somewhat vexing that, you know, nobody seems to have bothered to check Google. BK「爆弾パンプキン」バーガー、プラス100円でカボチャ10枚重ねに [Excite] Kotaku East is your u31 เข้าสู่ระบบ slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am.

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