--- title: Burger King Merges Whopper and Burrito to Make Whopperito description: Burger King has unveiled the unholy offspring of a cheeseburger and a burrito, aptly named the Whopperrito, on offer in a Pennsylvania town. canonical: https://time.com/4358274/burger-king-whopperrito-whopper-burrito/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-06T15:38:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:32:59.932Z og:title: Burger King Just Merged a Whopper and a Burrito to Make a Whopperrito og:description: Burger King has unveiled the unholy offspring of a cheeseburger and a burrito, aptly named the Whopperrito, on offer in a Pennsylvania town. og:url: https://time.com/4358274/burger-king-whopperrito-whopper-burrito/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc2d4cbc2e4a9df21/698896920a4a2272659c9f56/whopperrito-burger-king.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: Rahm Emanuel Announces Police Accountability Task Force As CPD Chief Is Fired og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Burger King Just Merged a Whopper and a Burrito to Make a Whopperrito twitter:description: Burger King has unveiled the unholy offspring of a cheeseburger and a burrito, aptly named the Whopperrito, on offer in a Pennsylvania town. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc2d4cbc2e4a9df21/698896920a4a2272659c9f56/whopperrito-burger-king.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Burger King Just Merged a Whopper and a Burrito to Make a Whopperrito > Sponsored content. 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A diner orders food from a Burger King restaurant on the city's Southwest side on Chicago, Dec. 1, 2015. Scott Olson—Getty Images by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jun 6, 2016 3:38 PM UTC Burger King may be about to make every college kid’s dream come true. The fast food chain has unveiled the unholy offspring of a cheeseburger and a burrito, aptly named the Whopperrito, reports [GrubGrade](http://www.grubgrade.com/food-news/new-whopperrito-from-burger-king). The mash-up menu item apparently takes all the toppings from a Whopper—cheese, meat, lettuce, tomato, onion, and [pickle](http://time.com/4238762/burger-king-whopper-80-pickles/)—and wraps them in a tortilla. Sadly, Burger King seems to have missed the opportunity to take a page from the [California burrito cookbook](http://firstwefeast.com/eat/2015/05/the-french-fry-filled-california-burrito-deserves-your-respect) by adding some fries into the mix. (Seriously, they’re sitting right there.) If this news had broken closer to April 1, we might have wondered if it were a prank, but [Burger King](http://time.com/4050395/burger-king-black-burger-bun-whopper-halloween/) has been [toying with their Whoppers](http://time.com/4274866/burger-king-angriest-whopper-red-buns/) lately (including adding a [Whopper dog](http://fortune.com/2016/05/09/burger-king-whopper-dog/)), and it looks like the Whopperrito could soon be a delicious reality. The drunken dream food is currently being tested at Burger King locations in Hermitage, Pa., but it’s unclear if the chain will roll out the Whopperrito to menus nationwide. If not, a road trip is evidently in order. \[H/T [Thrillist](https://www.thrillist.com/news/nation/the-whopperrito-is-burger-kings-new-whopper-burrito-hybrid)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4358274/burger-king-whopperrito-whopper-burrito/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4358274/burger-king-whopperrito-whopper-burrito/"},"headline":"Burger King Just Merged a Whopper and a Burrito to Make a Whopperrito","datePublished":"2016-06-06T15:38:46.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:32:59.932Z","description":"If it's real, it's fabulous","url":"https://time.com/4358274/burger-king-whopperrito-whopper-burrito/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Burger King","food and drink"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc2d4cbc2e4a9df21/698896920a4a2272659c9f56/whopperrito-burger-king.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc2d4cbc2e4a9df21/698896920a4a2272659c9f56/whopperrito-burger-king.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Rahm Emanuel Announces Police Accountability Task Force As CPD Chief Is Fired","caption":"A diner orders food from a Burger King restaurant on the city's Southwest side on Chicago, Dec. 1, 2015.","creditText":"Scott Olson—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4358274/burger-king-whopperrito-whopper-burrito/","name":"Burger King Just Merged a Whopper and a Burrito to Make a Whopperrito"}}]}] ```