{"id":183,"date":"2009-01-20T13:15:45","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T20:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/?p=183"},"modified":"2009-01-22T00:33:48","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T07:33:48","slug":"new-meat-for-a-new-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/new-meat-for-a-new-age\/","title":{"rendered":"New Meat For A New Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hate that King with the big head.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-187\" title=\"burger-king\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/burger-king-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"burger-king\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/burger-king-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/burger-king.jpg 321w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>\n<p>He&#8217;s the scariest and most unappetizing mascot I&#8217;ve ever seen for a product, especially one that made my eyes spin when I first chomped down on a Whopper in 1967 and my life as a junk food junkie evolved to a higher plane than my permanently sugar infused cells could have ever imagined. &nbsp;But every time since his\/its birth that I&#8217;ve seen that massive plastic headed thing appear in a Burger King commercial I&#8217;ve vowed to never again let my choppers sink into the flame broiled meat festival I so love. &nbsp;But now the King has taken meat to a new high and I just may have to bow and become a loyal subject once again.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-189\" title=\"burgerking1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/burgerking1.jpg\" alt=\"burgerking1\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" \/>\n<p>At 4 bucks a pop all the men you love can now smell like a sizzling burger. Behold the scent of seduction with FLAME body spray for men by BK. No lie! &nbsp;I just ordered a case as this precious commodity of American ingenuity surely deserves an entire shelf in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/soulpatch\/index.html\">my beloved Soul Kitsch collection<\/a>. &nbsp;Though I&#8217;m sure I will part with a few bottles so the epidermis of those males I cherish most makes the air around us all even more fragrant.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t seen any photos that show the BK logo proudly gracing the newest item on the menu, but I certainly hope it&#8217;s pressed into the metal as proudly as a pickle chip sits atop its&nbsp;progenitor&nbsp;Whopper meat heap. Just as the American people have elected their first African American president, one who seems so wise, beneficent and level headed, I can only believe it&#8217;s the same strong faith, chutzpah and ingenuity in its inventors that led to a product so distinctly American as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firemeetsdesire.com\/\">FLAME<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-199\" title=\"burgerking-flame\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/burgerking-flame.jpg\" alt=\"burgerking-flame\" width=\"161\" height=\"300\" \/>\n<p>All hail The King!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate that King with the big head.&nbsp; He&#8217;s the scariest and most unappetizing mascot I&#8217;ve ever seen for a product, especially one that made my eyes spin when I first chomped down on a Whopper in 1967 and my life as a junk food junkie evolved to a higher plane than my permanently sugar &hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/new-meat-for-a-new-age\/\">read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,55,87,81,37],"tags":[61,83,85,3232],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-consumer-alert","category-kitsch","category-products","category-self-expression","tag-allee-willis","tag-burger-king","tag-cologne","tag-kitsch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}