Burger King St. Patrick's Day Celebration To Entail Free Fries, Green Ketchup

Apparently, St. Patrick's Day is now about more than drunken parades and green sweaters. It's also an occasion for free food. Burger King is offering free value-sized french fries and green ketchup on March 17 and 18.

"Free fries for St. Patrick’s Day weekend is the Burger King way of sharing the luck of the Irish with all of our guests,” Alex Macedo, senior vice president of Burger King's North America marketing, said in a press release.

Green ketchup might seem like a fun condiment on St. Patrick's Day but it had little success when it was sold in supermarkets about a decade ago. Once the initial novelty wore off, people stuck to the color they knew and loved: red. But if you can get past the unusual color, the fries (new recipe!) could definitely be worth sampling. When HuffPost Food reviewed them in December, we found them to offer a "lovely potato taste." Well, except for the person that thought they were "meh."

Comments

[Freestuffbag]

03:47 PM on 06/02/2012

MMMM, green sauce, sounds good, as for a night of Halloween.

[genny084]

04:52 PM on 03/16/2012

Does anyone know HOW Heinz makes the ketchup green?

[Dee Seahawk]

10:06 AM on 03/17/2012

It's their regular ketchup with yellow #5 and blue #1 added. They used to carry it in stores a few years ago.

[NewMama1026]

07:31 AM on 03/16/2012

Disgusting :-/

[Nostalgic0112]

05:00 AM on 03/16/2012

I work at BK, and the employees were told that we were not legally allowed to call it "ketchup", but rather "St. Paddy sauce". Didn't investigate the reason why, just found it humorous.

[Bob Kulong]

11:59 PM on 03/15/2012

Burger King used to have good fries a while ago, comparable to McDonalds, not any more. McDonalds has good fries, but not much else. Though the McFlurry and the Angus Mushroom Swiss are good in a disgusting sort of way. Kick ass fries though. Best of all the major fast food joints in my opinion, hands down.

[Dubagee]

11:18 PM on 03/15/2012

Yes, this is EXACTLY what we need... Free Obesity.

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[Dee Seahawk]

09:56 AM on 03/17/2012

Take it easy, Dubagee. One serving of french fries is not going to make anyone obese.

[Pixilox]

05:39 PM on 03/15/2012

Forget the fries, who has free shots of Irish Whiskey? That I'd be all over :).

[mjr91]

02:16 PM on 03/15/2012

There will be teens and college students mapping routes to every BK in their area in order to get as many free fries as possible for the next two days.

[wildwildwest]

03:15 PM on 03/14/2012

Seems to me it would take a lot of green food coloring/dye to make red ketchup green. Am I missing something? Or is there a green principal ingredient?

[gomudhens]

03:29 PM on 03/16/2012

Nope, you're right - had that green ketchup back a while ago when it first came out and you wouldn't believe how it stains a napkin.

[Edwin Keever Jr]

06:05 PM on 03/13/2012

I have a bottle of green ketchup in my fridge so what's the big deal? I have a lot of green things in my fridge!

[krktoday]

02:14 PM on 03/16/2012

you comment was one of the funniest ones I have read in a long time