By Gina Salamone
New York Daily News
Burger King has partnered with Netflix to offer a limited-time sandwich inspired by the streaming service’s hit sci-fi show “Stranger Things” — but it’s literally just a Whopper served upside down.
Fans of “Stranger Things,” which drops its third season July 4, know that the Upside Down is a dangerous alternate dimension.
While the Upside Down Whopper is just a standard Whopper flipped over, it’ll be presented in “exclusive packaging” — a.k.a. a black cardboard box stamped with the name of the burger in the “Stranger Things” font.
The Upside Down Whopper will be available starting Friday, while supplies last, at select U.S. restaurants when ordering it as part of a meal.
The limited-edition packaging will only be available at 11 restaurants nationwide (none in the Pacific Northwest). At those sites, fans also will be able to get limited edition T-shirts, crowns, ketchup packets and pins inspired by the horror series.
Besides the Burger King at 327 W. 42nd St. near Times Square in Manhattan, other outposts of the fast food chain serving up the specialty sandwich include one location each in Coral Springs, Florida; Katy, Texas; Boston; Newnan, Georgia; Philadelphia; Plano, Texas; Chicago; San Francisco; Los Angeles; and Baltimore.
The show, which debuted in 2016, centers on a group of suburban middle-school friends and their psychokinetic pal Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) as they battle supernatural and human villains.