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With sharp cheese ‘teeth’, gherkin ‘tongues’ and stuffed olive ‘eyeballs’, these spooky monster burgers are perfect for rustling up for a kids’ Halloween party. They’re quick and easy and sure to spook! See method



  • Makes 4
  • 12 mins to prepare and 13 mins to cook

  • 495 calories / serving







Ingredients

  • 4 beef burgers (from a frozen 8-pack)




  • 4 slices 30% reduced-fat Cheddar




  • 4 seeded burger buns, halved




  • 2 tbsp lighter mayonnaise




  • 4 romaine lettuce leaves, halved




  • 4 sliced gherkins (or 1 large gherkin, sliced lengthways into 4)




  • 2 tbsp ketchup




  • 8 olives stuffed with pimientos


If you don’t have any Cheddar, try using another hard cheese

Each serving contains

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  • Energy



    2080kj

    495kcal


    25%



  • Fat



    21g


    30%



  • Saturates



    9g


    47%



  • Sugars



    7g


    7%



  • Salt



    2.3g


    39%

of the reference intake


Carbohydrate 49. 1g
Protein 26.4g
Fibre 3.9g






Method

  1. Preheat the grill and cook the burgers to pack instructions. Meanwhile, cut 1 side of each Cheddar slice in a zigzag pattern using the tip of a knife, so you end up with 4 sets of ‘teeth’. Grill the burger buns, cut-side up, for 1 min until golden.

  2. For each burger, spread the mayonnaise on both halves of the bun. On the bottom half, place a piece of lettuce, then the burger patty. Lay a gherkin slice over the top of the patty so it hangs over the edge to resemble a ‘tongue’. Add a jagged slice of cheese, then carefully squeeze some ketchup over the top of the teeth. Position the top half of the bun at a slight angle so you can see the mouth inside.

  3. Skewer the olives on 8 cocktail sticks and push 2 through the top bun to make the eyes. Remove the cocktail sticks before eating.

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Note: You will need 8 cocktails sticks for this recipe.

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Halloween Monster Burgers Recipe – Happy Foods Tube

These monster burgers are fun Halloween appetizers perfect for your Halloween party. They are easy to make and full of flavor. Includes process shots and useful tips!

If you are looking for new Halloween food ideas, these monster burgers are it. They would definitely make a great addition to your party menu.

And, if you want more Halloween recipes, you can find some ideas at the bottom of this post.

Beef patties

For these monster burgers, I made homemade beef patties, but you can use any store-bought ones you like. They can be made of chicken, pork or beef or a combination of these. You can grill them, bake them in the oven or cook on a skillet!

My burger recipe is simple. I use ground beef which I mix with salt, pepper, thyme, egg and a little amount of breadcrumbs.

It’s important to mix the meat mixture well to achieve an even distribution of the seasoning. For that reason, I like to use gloves or a fork to do it.

You will get 4 patties out of this recipe, so if you want to make a few, you will need to double/triple the recipe.

Assembling Halloween monster burgers

First, prepare everything – make the mayo sauce, wash and pat dry lettuce (if not ready-washed), cook the patties, … Then, just put everything together.

Please have a look at the step by step process photos if not sure.

Tips for making burger monsters for Halloween

  • Vegetarians can use veggie burger patties instead of meat.
  • You can go wild and use other ingredients to make the eyes. They don’t have to be on toothpicks. You can place them on top of each burger (sliced cherry tomatoes, green or black olives, baby cucumbers, etc…).
  • Use any sliced cheese you have on hand/you like.
  • I love making a quick mayonnaise sauce by combining it with ketchup. You can also add crushed garlic or hot sauce for an extra kick!
  • Baby romaine lettuce can be substituted with any other green leaf lettuce you like.
  • Burger buns can be also toasted or grilled!

Halloween party food ideas

Easy Halloween Snacks – easy peasy appetizers ready in minutes. You will need a small pumpkin cookie cutter though to make them.

Spooky Halloween Desserts – a fun and easy way to make some simple Halloween desserts.

Eyeball Deviled Eggs – with a help of red food coloring and candy eyes you can create great Halloween appetizers.

Hot Dog Mummies – easy and tasty spooky appetizer perfect for your party!

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These monster burgers are fun Halloween appetizers perfect for your Halloween party. They are easy to make and full of flavor. Includes process shots and useful tips!

Prep Time10 mins

Cook Time8 mins

Total Time18 mins

Servings: 4 large burgers

Calories: 581

Author: Julia

For homemade burger patties: see note 1
  • 1 pound ground beef (450 grams)
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ⅛ teaspoon black pepper
  • 2 teaspoons dried thyme
  • 1 large egg
  • 2 tablespoons breadcrumbs
For frying:
  • 4 tablespoons cooking oil
For mayo sauce:
  • 4 tablespoons mayonnaise
  • 4 teaspoons ketchup
For burger monsters:
  • 4 hamburger buns , see note 2
  • baby romaine lettuce (2 leaves per bun)
  • 4 slices of cheese , see note 3
  • 4 tablespoons ketchup (or to liking)
  • dill pickles , sliced lengthways (4 slices)
  • 8 large green olives (without stones)

  • Making burger patties: In a mixing bowl, combine ground beef, salt, pepper, thyme, egg and breadcrumbs. Using your hands or fork, mix thoroughly. You want to distribute the seasoning as evenly as possible.

  • Divide into 4 equally-looking pieces. Roll them into balls and place onto a tray lined with baking parchment. Press down until you get large and thin patties. Press each in the middle to make a slight dent.

  • Heat oil in a large skillet, place patties in and cook to your preferred doneness, about 3-4 minutes per side (see note 4). You can also grill them or oven-bake.

  • Mayo sauce: In a small bowl, mix together mayo and ketchup.

  • Assembling monster burgers: Take a bun base, spread with about a tablespoons of mayo sauce, lettuce, cooked burger.

  • Top with a slice of dill pickle and a slice of cheese that you have cut some triangles out so it looks like teeth. Spread about a tablespoon of ketchup over (to resemble “blood”) and cover with bun.

  • Stick 2 large green olives onto 2 toothpicks and stick these into the bun.

  • Enjoy!

  1. Each patty weighs ¼ pound. You can use store-bought burger patties instead of making them yourself if you prefer.
  2. I use large buns with sesame seeds. You can use buns of any size, with or without sesame seeds. Feel free to toast or grill them, if you like!
  3. Any sliced cheese will work (gouda, mozzarella, cheddar).
  4. The internal temperature should reach 160 Fahrenheit (71 Celsius). Cook for longer if needed!
  5. This recipe can be easily doubled/tripled,…
  6. Make sure to remove the toothpicks especially when serving these to kids!
  7. More tips and Halloween appetizer recipes are in the post above this recipe card.

Course: Appetizer, Lunch

Cuisine: American

Keyword: Halloween food ideas, Halloween monster burgers, Halloween recipes

Nutrition Facts

Halloween Monster Burgers

Amount per Serving

Calories

581

% Daily Value*

Saturated Fat

 

Cholesterol

 

Sodium

 

1234

mg

Potassium

 

Carbohydrates

 

Fiber

 

Sugar

 

Protein

 

Vitamin A

 

2436

IU

Vitamin C

 

Calcium

 

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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Monster Burgers are Deliciously Scary!

By Sara McCleary Updated – This post may contain affiliate links

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Monster Burgers will definitely lift your Halloween Burgers game. Juicy ground beef patties, bacon, cheese, onion, pickles, and my spooky special sauce. Your tastebuds will jump for joy.

Big and little goblins alike will love this tasty Halloween food idea. You can even have all the ingredients out, cheese teeth, ready made eyes, and tongues. Then your hungry hoard can make and decorate their own. Halloween burger party anyone?

Not only are these Monster Burgers cute and fun, they are also a really tasty cheese and bacon burger. As far as Halloween burgers go, these guys have to be at the top of your list.

If you do end up making them, then please share your results with me on Instagram (tag #bellyrumbles & @bellyrumbles). I do love seeing readers’ creations.

Sara xxx

Ingredients

burger

  1. Beef Mince/Ground Beef: Use lean grass fed beef.
  2. Brioche Buns: Brioche buns are a sweeter, more buttery bun. If you can’t find brioche buns use your favourite hamburger buns.
  3. Spooky Special Sauce: Recipe in the recipe card below. If you don’t want to make sauce you can use your favourites, barbecue, ketchup/tomato, hot sauce or mayonnaise.
  4. Bacon: I use maple glazed bacon rashers (bought from the supermarket), but feel free to use your favourite bacon.
  5. Red Onion: Also known as Spanish onion. Thin slices of raw onion are used for this recipe. If you would prefer cooked onion, then pop them in your pan after cooking the bacon for a quick sizzle.
  6. Pickle Slices: They can also be referred as pickle sandwich stackers. If you can’t find them cut a large pickle into slices lengthways, or use long slices of roma/egg tomato.
  7. Olive oil: For cooking the beef patties. If you don’t have olive oil, use your preferred oil.
  8. Salt: To season the beef patties, it is the only seasoning I use. It can be omitted if preferred, but it does act as a flavour enhancer.
  9. Cheddar Cheese Slices: You can use any kind of cheese that is floppy and bends. Otherwise your monsters’ teeth will stick out straight ahead and not flop down to look like teeth.

How to Make Monster Eyeballs

monster eye ingredients + ears/wingsassembled eyes on toothpickseasy monster eyes

Easy Monster Eyes
Simply place a green olive that has been stuffed with pimento on a toothpick. This creates a very easy eye.

Green Monster Eyes
Cut a black olive down its length on one side only.
Place a small green cocktail onion inside the split black olive.

Push cocktail onion filled olive onto a toothpick. Repeat the process for the second eye.

Red Monster Eyes
Cut red cherry tomato down its length on one side only.
Scoop out pulp and seeds.
Cut black olive in half (one half per eye), and place inside the split cherry tomato, with the olive hole facing out.

Push olive filled cherry tomato onto a toothpick. Fill the olive hole with a small squirt of mayonnaise. Repeat the process for the second eye.

Orange Monster Eyes
Cut orange/yellow cherry tomato down its length on one side only.
Scoop out pulp and seeds.
Cut green olive stuffed with pimento in half.
Use the green olive half that has the pimento protruding from where the olive has been stuffed, it looks like an eyeball (discard other half of olive – or eat it).

Place inside the split cherry tomato with the pupil facing out. Push olive filled tomato onto a toothpick. Repeat the process for the

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Black Monster Eyes
Cut a black olive down its length on one side only.
Cut green olive stuffed with pimento in half.
Use the green olive half that has the pimento protruding from where the olive has been stuffed, it looks like an eyeball (discard other half of olive – or eat it).

Place inside the split black olive with the pupil facing out.Push filled olive onto a toothpick. Repeat the process for the second eye.

How to Make Monster Teeth

Place cheese slices on a cutting board. Cut desired teeth shapes from the slices. You can also make cheese tongues, as seen on our green eyed monster above.

Recipe Walk Through

  1. Place beef mince in a bowl and season with salt.  Using your hands work the seasoning through the mince.  Shape mince into 4 beef patties.
  2. Place aside while you make monster eyes, teeth, and spooky special sauce.
  3. Heat a large nonstick pan on the stove over medium heat.
  4. Place bacon rashers in a pan and cook to your liking. Remove from pan, place on a plate, and cover with foil until needed.
  5. Add olive oil to the pan and add beef patties to cook until they have formed a nice caramelised crust on one side.  Then flip the patties and continue cooking until cooked to desired doneness (medium/well done).
  6. Remove beef patties from heat and cover with foil while toasting the brioche buns (if toasting).
  7. Split brioche buns in half. Toast cut sides under a grill for a few minutes until just toasted. If you prefer your monster burger buns not toasted skip this step.

Burger Assembly

  1. Spread bun base with spooky special sauce.
  2. Place bacon on top of special sauce.
  3. On top of the bacon add a slice of red (Spanish) onion.
  4. Place the beef patty on top of the onion.
  5. Add a pickle slice.
  6. Carefully arrange monster teeth on top of the pickle slice.
  7. Add a little more spooky sauce on top of the cheese if desired.
  8. Place the brioche bun top on top of the burger.
  9. Then decorate the monster burgers with eyes, ears, or wings.

Monster Burgers

Recipe Author: Sara McCleary

Monster Burgers will definitely lift your Halloween Burgers game. Juicy ground beef patties, bacon, cheese, onion, pickles, and my spooky special sauce. Your tastebuds will jump for joy.

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Prep Time 20 mins

Cook Time 10 mins

Total Time 30 mins

Course Lunch or Snack, Main Course

Cuisine American, Halloween

Servings 4

Calories 878 kcal

  • chopping board + sharp knife

  • large nonstick fry pan

  • ▢ 500 grams beef mince (ground beef)
  • ▢ 1 teaspoon salt
  • ▢ 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • ▢ 4 rashers maple glazed bacon | or bacon of your choice
  • ▢ 4 slices red onion | Spanish onion
  • ▢ 4 pickle slices
  • ▢ 4 slices cheddar cheese
  • ▢ 4 brioche buns | or hamburger buns of your choice
Spooky Special Sauce
  • ▢ 125 mls (½ cup) mayonnaise | whole egg or Japanese
  • ▢ 1 teaspoon dijon mustard
  • ▢ 1 tablespoon tomato ketchup
Green Monster Eyes / per monster
  • ▢ 2 black olives
  • ▢ 2 green cocktail onions
  • ▢ 2 toothpicks
Red Monster Eyes – per monster
  • ▢ 2 red cherry tomatoes
  • ▢ 1 black olive
  • ▢ mayonnaise
  • ▢ 2 toothpicks
Orange Monster Eyes – per monster
  • ▢ 2 orange cherry tomatoes | or yellow
  • ▢ 2 green olive with pimento
  • ▢ 2 toothpicks
Black Monster Eyes – per monster
  • ▢ 2 black olives
  • ▢ 2 green olives with pimento
  • ▢ 2 toothpicks
Ears or Wings – per monster
  • ▢ 2 blue/purple corn chips

  • Place beef mince in a bowl and season with salt.   Using your hands work the seasoning through the mince.  Shape mince into 4 beef patties.

    Place aside while you make monster eyes, teeth, and spooky special sauce. The instructions are below.

  • Heat large non stick pan on stove over medium heat.

  • Place bacon rashers in pan and cook to your liking. Remove from pan, place on a plate, and cover with foil until needed.

  • Add olive oil to the pan and add beef patties to cook until they have formed a nice caramelised crust on one side.  Then flip the patties and continue cooking until cooked to desired doneness (medium/well done).

    Remove beef patties from heat and cover with foil while toasting the brioche buns (if toasting).

  • Split brioche buns in half. Toast cut sides under a grill for a few minutes until just toasted. If you prefer your hamburger buns no toasted skip this step.

Assemble Monster Burgers

  • Spread bun base with spooky special sauce.

  • Place bacon on top of special sauce.

  • On top of the bacon add a slice of red (Spanish) onion.

  • Place the beef patty on top of onion.

  • Add a pickle slice.

  • Carefully arrange monster teeth on top of the pickle slice.

  • Add a little more spooky sauce on top of cheese if desired.

  • Place the brioche bun top on top of the burger.

  • Then decorate with monster eyes, ears or wings

Monster Eyes

  • Green Monster Eyes: Cut a black olive down its length on one side only. Place a small green cocktail onion inside the split black olive.

    Push cocktail onion filled olive onto a toothpick. Repeat the process for the second eye.

  • Red Monster Eyes: Cut red cherry tomato down its length on one side only. Scoop out pulp and seeds. Cut black olive in half (one half per eye), and place inside the split cherry tomato, with the olive hole facing out.

    Push olive filled cherry tomato onto a toothpick. Fill the olive hole with a small squirt of mayonnaise. Repeat the process for the second eye.

  • Orange Monster Eyes: Cut orange/yellow cherry tomato down its length on one side only. Scoop out pulp and seeds. Cut green olive stuffed with pimento in half. Use the green olive half that has the pimento protruding from where the olive has been stuffed, it looks like an eyeball (discard other half of olive – or eat it). Place inside the split cherry tomato with the pupil facing out.

    Push olive filled tomato onto a toothpick. Repeat the process for the second eye.

  • Black Monster Eyes: Cut a black olive down its length on one side only. Cut green olive stuffed with pimento in half. Use the green olive half that has the pimento protruding from where the olive has been stuffed, it looks like an eyeball (discard other half of olive – or eat it). Place inside the split black olive with the pupil facing out.

    Push filled olive onto a toothpick. Repeat the process for the second eye.

Cheese Teeth

  • Place cheese slices on a cutting board. Cut desired teeth shapes from the slices and place aside until needed.

Spooky Special Sauce

Calories: 878kcalCarbohydrates: 44gProtein: 36gFat: 62gSaturated Fat: 26gCholesterol: 256mgSodium: 1647mgPotassium: 396mgFiber: 1gSugar: 3gVitamin A: 944IUVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 199mgIron: 3mg

Keyword halloween cheese burgers, how to make scary hamburgers, novelty burgers

Did You Make This Recipe?I do a happy dance when people share how they went. Tag me on Instagram or Twitter @bellyrumbles & #bellyrumbles

More Halloween Recipes

Do check out all our Halloween Recipes, or one of my favourites below. After a Halloween cookbook? You will find what you are looking for in this complete Halloween Cookbook Collection.

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11 Totally Spooky Halloween Food Ideas To Try – Hand Luggage Only

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We’ve all been there, whether it’s for the kids, for uni friends or for a haunted-house party – finding the right Halloween food ideas and dishes can be scary! 👻

Halloween is one of my favourite times of the year. Yaya, me and our friends always make a big deal of it. Usually, the day consists of a copious amount of fake blood, lots of makeup and a spooky party spirit.

Before we hit London town, we always get together to throw a Halloween party, which usually involves lots of Bloody Marys and other Halloween food ideas to gorge on.

Now, for me, Halloween is all about the dressing up, so I insist that anything we make for the party is quick, easy and, of course, a little spooky. More than anything, I have no problems in taking a few shortcuts in preparation, especially if you want to focus on your outfits.

Take a look at some of the best Halloween food ideas I’ve made for our house party. 🎃

1.) Cannibal cookies

Now, I’m a total cheat with these Halloween food ideas and I usually end up buying my cookies already baked. That being said, if you want to bake them from scratch, that’s amazing.

Once your cookies are sourced, grab two and fill in-between with clotted/thick cream, drizzle with lashings of raspberry or strawberry sauce (the blood) and pop two berries on the top for eyes.

Simple, blood-thirsty, cannibal cookies.

 

2.) Goulish bananas

Possibly one of the easiest spooky treats and Halloween food ideas to make. Chop up a big bunch of bananas (the firmer the better) and pop them upright to stand proud.

Once ready, dot a few little eyes (and a mouth, if you like) with a little tube of chocolate icing.

Honestly, they’re one of the simplest Halloween food ideas and recipes to make. Easy peasy ghostly squeezy! 👻

3.) Cheesy Witches Brooms

Another easy treat to make. Grab yourself some sliced Edam cheese from the Cheese Monger or Supermarket (depending how fancy you want to be) and slice each piece three-quarters of the way up. Make around 5-6 cuts depending on the size of the slice and roll into a pipe shape and squeeze the top to hold the shape.

Once completed, grab a thin breadstick and carefully pierce the top of the bristles. This makes one of the best (and totally spell-binging) Halloween food ideas to gorge on. Hey presto, you’ve made some Witches brooms that are much cooler than a cheese and pineapple stick.

They’re spell-tacualr! 🤣

4.) Petrified Pizza

Another one of the quick Halloween food ideas is a petrified pizza.

Grab yourself some freshly prepared pizza’s to stick in the oven (whatever flavour takes your fancy). Once home, Grab a few balls of mozzarella and shape into some ghost-like silhouettes. Now, if you’re anything like me, it’ll take a little practice (especially after a few glasses of wine – lots of my first tires looked more like blobs than ghosts).

Anyway, once shaped correctly, pop in the oven and cook for between 12-18 minutes. It’s one of the easiest Halloween food ideas to conjure up if you’re on a tight schedule.

Oh, and don’t forget to add a few black olives (and some chopped up olives) to make some creepy-crawly spiders. For extra spice and bloody looking pizza, add a few drops of Tabasco sauce too.

5.) Monster Burgers

First off, buy some good quality burgers (beef, turkey, vegetarian – whatever floats your boat) and grab a few crusty burger rolls, olives, cheese slices gherkins (pickles, if you’re across the pond) and lashings of ketchup. All these together make for one of my favourite Halloween food ideas this year! 

Cook the burgers, as usual, just make sure to cut the rolls on one side and slip the burger in. Add a few scary cheesy teeth and a long slice of gherkin for its tongue.

To finish off, prod two cocktail sticks in the top of the roll and add the olives (for eyes). This is all complimented with a messy serving of ketchup (for the blood). 👹

6.) Scary Sushi

First off, grab yourself some white rice, wasabi, fresh salmon (or smoked) and a few pieces of seaweed paper.

After sourcing your ingredients, boil some rice and keep it quite sticky to form some balls. After cooling, wrap with some salmon (or smoked salmon if you prefer) and cut the seaweed paper to make cuts, gashes and eyes. The scariest sushi you’ll find and one to impress the guests!

If you want to add some oozing sores, add a little wasabi coming out of the drawn gashes you make. Extra spicy and a one of the scarier Halloween food ideas to try.

7.) Angry Apples

If you’re looking to hand out some healthier trick or treat goodies, make yourself some of these angry apples that are ready within minutes.

Cut your apples into quarters, leaving the skin on and cut a smaller groove into the middle of each quarter (as per the picture). Once crafted, add a slither of peanut butter inside the groove and add a slice of strawberry for a bloody tongue.

To finish, add some icing eyes that can be stuck to your apples with a little dollop of peanut butter. All finished off with sunflower seeds for the teeth.

This is one of the pretty healthy Halloween food ideas to share with kids.

8.) Mummified Sausage Rolls

Possibly one of my favourites to make, these will take a little more preparation.

Either make a pastry from scratch or buy some rolls of puff pastry in the frozen section of a supermarket. Once ready, cut the puff pastry roll into thin lines and wrap untidily around a sausage or sausage meat.

Pop the sausage rolls into the oven (until golden brown) and finish off with some Edam cheese and pepper seeds for eyes. Alternatively, use a little icing to create the eyes, they just don’t taste that great with a savoury dish.

Complete the dish with dollops of bloody ketchup for one of the cutest Halloween food ideas.

9.) Gravestone Brownies

Another easy cheat of a pudding to make, grab yourself some brownies (pre-made) or if you prefer, from scratch. Make sure each slice is cut into a rectangle shape that can be used as a bottom of a gravestone. After placing the desired amount onto a tray,

To create the headstone, you’ll either need to bake a few sugar biscuits from scratch or try and source some pre-made in the shape you need (which is much harder). You don’t need to just make sugar biscuits and you can also use wafer (which can be cut into the shape you want). Stick the biscuits or wafer into the top edge of the brownie to make a grave,

Finish off with some RIP letters painted with icing sugar on the gravestone and sprinkle some dried and grated citrus fruit for grass onto.

If you’re feeling extra creative, you can make a small cat or pumpkin out of icing to place next to the grave. All this makes for one of the best Halloween food ideas for any budding gravedigger! 🤣

10.) Spider Muffins

Another easy treat that can literally take seconds! Grab yourself some fresh muffins from your bakery of choice and head straight to your local sweet shop to pick up some liquorice laces.

Once home, stick the laces into the muffin to make the spider’s legs. For eyes, either use Nerds in the US or Millions in the UK. If you can’t get either, use a berry or coloured icing ball. This will then transform these into one of the creepiest Halloween food ideas to try.

11.) Virgin Bloody Mary

With not a drop of alcohol in sight (unless you want), you can produce a Virgin Bloody Mary. A tomato-based cocktail that includes lashings of Worcester Sauce, Tabasco and a few pinches of salt and pepper.

Finish with a fresh slice of lemon and Vodka if you want to make an adults version.  Serve with a big stick of celery. Now, it might not look like one of the scariest Halloween food ideas but it’s totally yummy!

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The Treat That Turned Into an Accidental Trick – Now I Know

October is a very spooky month. Well, not really — it’s just a regular month and, really, is not any more spooky than March or August. But October ends with Halloween, so it is as good of a time as any for us to find ways to make things a little scarier than they would otherwise be. Usually, that comes in the form of decorations — we carve pumpkins, wear costumes, and maybe even adorn our houses with fake cobwebs or things that resemble what ghosts would look like if ghosts were real. It’s all in good fun.

But what happens when fake, good-natured scariness celebrations turn into real scares? That’s bad. Just as Burger King.

That, pictured above is Burger King’s signature hamburger, the Whopper. It’s a four-ounce (precooked weight) beef burger adorned with mayo, tomatoes, pickles, onions, and ketchup, with cheese as a common additional ingredient, all positioned on a sesame seed bun. It’s not healthy for you, obviously, especially if you ignore the nutritional information. It’s just a regular fast-food burger with an iconic name. Nothing about it is particularly scary.

But the Halloween season requires everything to become a little more spooky, right? So in October 2015, Burger King decided it was time to frighten up the Whooper. The result looked like this.

That was the Halloween Whopper. It is also a four-ounce (precooked weight) beef burger adorned with mayo, tomatoes, pickles, onions, and ketchup, with cheese as a common additional ingredient, all positioned on a sesame seed bun. But — get this! — they died the bun black. Scary, right?

Okay, it’s not that scary. It’s just another fun and fright-free way to celebrate the Halloween season. No one who would have eaten a regular Whopper is going to say “nah, this new Halloween Whopper scares me too much. ”  Or, at least, it didn’t on the way in. But what about on the way out? That proved different. As CBC News reported, ” special treat comes with a surprising trick — ghoulishly green poop.” 

Shortly after eating these scary sliders, dozens of people went on Twitter to share their gastrointestinal adventures. Some were not all that positive about the experience; for example, one guy attested that “yesterday I had the Halloween Whopper… Today my poop is green,” and then noted that “yesterday was the last time I’ll have the Halloween Whopper.” Others were excited about the adventure; one person triumphantly stated “I ate a Halloween whopper just to see if my poop turned green and it DID.” Some described their poops; for example, there’s one guy who said his “stool was as green as the Irish countryside after a quenching rain.” Some even shared pictures of their doodies: the next link is going to be one that will show you what was in some random person’s toilet, so please take caution before clicking, okay? Great: here’s the link to someone’s green number two. And while many saw Burger King’s Halloween Whopper as a marketing stunt gone awry, at least one person saw it as a great idea, just poorly timed; he asked “[do] you think Burger King will bring back the #greenpoop for St. Patrick’s Day?”

They probably could have safely. CBS News spoke with Dr. Ian Lustbader, a professor of medicine and a gastroenterologist at New York University, and the best guess is that Burger King just used a lot of food dye. Per that CBS News report, “food coloring is not always completely absorbed by the intestines during digestion, and the dye that isn’t absorbed can seep into food material that’s sitting in the gut, turning it different colors. USA Today echoed that same sentiment, noting that “other dyes, like those in cake frosting, can deliver the same outcome. If you eat mass quantities of bright foods (beets, tomatoes or leafy greens) you might also notice a greater spectrum in your rectal rainbow.” Eat a lot of it — either too often or all at once — and sure, bad things can happen. But you’d have to eat a lot of Halloween Whoppers for the dye to do you in (and the saturated fat and calories would probably get you first).

But odd-colored stool can be a sign of something very serious, so as marketing stunts go, this wasn’t a great one. (Turning your customers’ toilet-going moments into a brief panic at best and a trip to the doctor at worst isn’t a great idea.) That Halloween Whopper didn’t make a return trip to Burger King’s menu in October — or March — of 2016.



 
Bonus fact: If you’re eating sushi in the United States, chances are you are eating food dye when you eat wasabi. Actually, no, you’re not eating wasabi at all. Wasabi is a type of plant that requires very specific growing conditions and, therefore, is not cultivated at scale. So unless you’re in Japan, whatever you’re eating isn’t actually wasabi. As the Washington Post explains, “what sushi restaurants actually serve alongside spicy tuna rolls is a horseradish-based concoction that is injected with green food coloring, infused with various types of mustard, and, often even, a bunch of other chemicals. ”

From the Archives: A Sinister Hamburger: A much better marketing stunt from the brains at Burger King. 

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    Haunted Hamburger is a dog-friendly eatery in Jerome, AZ, where Fido can join you at an outdoor table on the patio. Order burgers, chicken sandwiches, fish n chips, steaks, and quesadillas, then wash it down with a refreshing margarita, specialty cocktail, or ice cold beer.

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    Haunted Hamburger has received a rating of 4.7 out of 5 bones by 16 canine critics on BringFido and 4.5 out of 5 by 1,868 guests on TripAdvisor.

    • Ali

      Apr. 13, 2022

      Great place!

      Service was very good, food was great, drinks were awesome, great view out on the patio with the dog. works definitely go again!

    • Michelle

      Apr. 3, 2022

      Treated our pups great!

      They brought our pups ice water & made sure to put in an order of a chicken breast without seasoning for our sweet pups. Their food was good, especially the Haunted Burger. The Hauntarita was good but the Bloody was loaded but small & not spicy at all, good thing my husband married a bartender so I spiced it up nice for him. All the servers stopped by to give belly scratches, we felt welcomed with the dogs.

    • Brian

      Jun. 16, 2021

      Awesome visit with Mali

      awesome lunch and very dog friendly. ordered a plain burger for Mali and she loved it.

      shout out to Chaselynn for the awesome job

    • Donald

      Jun. 3, 2021

      Wonderful Place

      We had 5 adults, 1 infant, and 4 Golden Retrievers. No problem. Ate on their covered deck with great view and good food.

    • Gigi

      Nov. 18, 2020

      We All Three Loved It

      They were very crowded for a Wednesday afternoon, so I knew the food would be good. They said a 20-30 wait, but they texted me that our table was ready in about 10 minutes. and it was worth the wait

    • Cj

      Aug. 20, 2020

      Caffrey Approved!

      The patio is dog friendly, and Caffrey had her fresh water before her humans did. They grilled a chicken breast just for her, which disappeared in short order. On the human food side, the burgers were excellent – and HUGE! (Caffrey may have helped out with some of the burgers too!) The Moscow Mules were excellent 😊 And the view from the patio is outstanding!

    • Kimberly

      Mar. 1, 2020

      Amazing!

      We visited on a weekend in February and the whole town was packed! Prepare for that!! The restaurant was super busy, but they texted when a dog friendly table was ready. The food the delicious a land everyone was so nice to our dogs. We had three big dogs with us, which can be a nightmare in a crowded restaurant, so I was a little worried. But the staff was so nice and the dogs had plenty of room. They brought water for the dogs right away, and then brought a 2nd bowl so everyone could drink at the same time and they brought refills whenever the water ran low (even though I had a bottle of water for them).
      This place is worth the wait. I was very impressed with both the service and the food.

    • Stephanie

      Aug. 3, 2019

      Good Food but…

      Contrary to a few of the reviews on here I did not have a great experience. As we walked up to the building we saw a sign saying if you have a dog enter through the deck entrance over a stairwell. So we took the stairs that led down then up to the deck. We sat at a table after a few waitresses saw us but didn’t say anything. We were then approached by the manager (I believe) saying we didn’t check in and there was a wait and we shouldn’t have sat down. I then told him about he sign we saw and he declared there wasn’t a sign. I pointed to the sign I had seen and said I may have read it wrong and that I was sorry. He then stated that it’s not what That sign says. I apologized again and he gave us our menus (even though there was supposed to be a wait). The food was good but the service wasn’t great in the one that I sat a waitress snapped at a child for standing in the way and another waitress forget what a table ordered twice. Maybe it was a blue moon?

    • Steve

      Apr. 4, 2019

      Excellent joint

      Great food. Decent prices. Sometimes a long wait. Pet friendly in nice patio area with views. Try the chocolate cake. It’s beyond awesome. Some cool lore to the place, too.

    • Marcus

      Mar. 16, 2019

      Extremely Dog Friendly

      Great location, food was delicious, and the servers costumers were all so sweet to my doggos! They treated my dogs with some bacon too, can tell everyone are dog lovers here!

    • Brian

      Nov. 2, 2018

      Great Food And Dog Friendly

      Stopped for lunch with our pup at the Haunted Hamburger and had a great time. Nice patio that welcomes pets and great food. The Haunted Bloody Marys were excellent too.

    • Delmar and Chappy

      More than a year ago

      Good food and location

      Nice covered patio, good food selection. They brought some water out for us. We had to wait over an hour for a table for a late lunch.

    • Ellie Smith

      More than a year ago

      No ghosts. whew.

      My humans loved their hamburgers and beer. But I got the better food when one of the staff gave me some duck jerky. Oh sweet mystery of life. At last I’ve found you.

    • Stephanie

      More than a year ago

      Good food, great view!

      Took our dog and 2 growing sons. We were so full on delicious milk shakes, onion rings and huge burgers! Our dog was welcomed and we would definitely return.

    • Poncey

      More than a year ago

      Nice Staff, View, Food

      We felt very accommodated on the patio where dogs are permitted. Great weeknight specials. Allow time to find parking and be prepared to walk steep hills.

    • Robin

      More than a year ago

      awesome food!

      What a great find! Great outdoor seating and great service! All of our food was super delicious! Great place to eat with your furry friends! Would definitely go back!

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    Burger King

    To celebrate Halloween, Burger King will be giving away free food with one terrible condition – you need to order it during the witching hour.

    Every day before October 31st at 3am for an hour, a new free meal will appear in the Burger King app. Fast food lovers just had to download the app and wait for the offer. To promote this promotion, the brand has created a video showing exactly what time of the night spirits, ghosts and many obscure supernatural phenomena are most likely to appear. But if Burger King lovers dare to wake up at the scariest time of the day – 3:00 am on the scariest week of the year – they might encounter something truly paranormal: free burgers on the brand’s app.

    Reebok

    Reebok filmed a video in support of the brand’s new positioning. The new short film expands on the concept of “radical calm” and swipes through the Radicalm special women’s collection.

    Young R&B star Joyce Rice and singer, model and actress Candice Craig starred in this video. The new film continues to support Reebok’s campaign to rethink its concept. In this video, the brand speaks to its audience through the singers, asking them the question: “Do these shoes look good on my feet” and ending with questions like “Where do my feet end and the earth begins?”

    Puma

    Puma continues its partnership with Ukrainian artists and, after a project with Ivan Dorn, released an advertisement for the new Suede Mayu sneakers featuring Alina Pash, which was shot by Kyiv-based director Artem Shapirenko. The video contains an excerpt from Alina’s new song, included in her new mini-album. And in the video series, the singer demonstrates that in new sneakers you can go for a walk, run, play sports, ride a bike, because their convenience and aesthetics will fit perfectly into everyday life.

    Google

    Google makes fun of LG and Samsung smartphones in its new video and lists 113 reasons to upgrade to its mid-range Pixel 5a smartphones. The video offers several good reasons to buy a phone – a call screen anti-spam feature, excellent integration with Google services, high-quality photos and a fancy lens. The video also shows that the devices can be used as a meat board when baking a pie. The video also subtly pokes fun at rivals LG and Samsung. It’s “the best phone to switch to if your old phone maker stops making phones” (LG stopped making phones in January) and Google is “known for making internet services” not for making washing machines .

    Gap

    Gap unveiled its holiday marketing campaign for love and kindness, based on the retail brand’s “Modern American Optimism” philosophy introduced in September 2020. In the one-minute clip, American singer Katy Perry lives through the morning in a classic Gap hoodie while filming the music video for her cover of The Beatles’ 1967 song “All You Need Is Love.”

    As part of the campaign, Gap will donate $1 per Spotify stream of a new Perry cover up to $100,000 to Baby2Baby, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping underprivileged children.

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    Terribly harmful and extremely tasty: 7 recipes for Kaliningraders who are not ready to say goodbye to McDonald’s

    Terribly harmful and extremely tasty: 7 recipes for Kaliningraders who are not ready to say goodbye to McDonald’s

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    We continue to share recipes for every day dishes.

    While the giants of the world’s fast food are leaving the country, Kaliningraders are crowding at the doors of the still-open McDonald’s. But you can cook not very healthy, but such delicious food at home – we found seven ideas.

    1. Home Big Mac, instructions from the YouTube channel “Recipes for lazy people”

    What do you need?

    1. two burger buns,
    2. two beef cutlets,
    3. 3 pickled cucumbers,
    4. slice of cheddar cheese,
    5. red onion quarter,
    6. small iceberg lettuce,
    7. 3 tablespoons of mayonnaise,
    8. each tablespoon of sweet mustard and canned pickle,
    9. a pinch of dried garlic,
    10. half teaspoon paprika,
    11. ½ teaspoon apple cider vinegar (apple or lemon juice can be substituted)
    12. salt to taste.

    How do we cook?

    Finely chop a third of the head of iceberg lettuce, chop the onion into small cubes, cut the cucumber into rings. For the sauce in a bowl, mix mayonnaise, sweet mustard, garlic, paprika. Sprinkle with wine vinegar and brine, rub two pickled cucumbers. Mix everything thoroughly.

    Cut the buns into three parts, fry each of them in a frying pan for 30 seconds – readiness is determined by golden color. Cutlets keep on high heat for 2-3 minutes on each side, salt and pepper to taste.

    Assemble the Big Mac: place the sauce, onion and lettuce alternately on the bottom and middle parts of the bun. We place cheese on the bottom layer, cucumber rings on the middle one. We complete the “pyramids” with fried cutlets, after which we combine everything into a single burger.

    2. Chicken nuggets, instructions from the YouTube channel “Kitchen Recipes”

    What do you need?

    1. 500 grams of chicken fillet,
    2. 3 tablespoons lemon juice,
    3. 4 garlic cloves,
    4. chicken egg,
    5. half cup breadcrumbs,
    6. 4 tablespoons vegetable oil,
    7. salt, ground black pepper to taste.

    How do we cook?

    Cut the chicken fillet into several small pieces, sprinkle them with salt and pepper, add chopped garlic. Mix everything thoroughly. In a separate bowl, beat the egg with a little water – about 3-4 tablespoons.

    Pour the breadcrumbs onto a flat plate – pour the chicken into them after dipping them in the egg mixture. Pour vegetable oil into a frying pan, heat it up. Fry the nuggets on both sides until golden brown. When done, place on a paper towel to drain excess oil.

    3. Shrimp roll, recipe from the YouTube channel “Wife cooks”

    How do we cook?

    1. 6-8 large prawns without heads,
    2. 100 grams iceberg lettuce,
    3. quarter large onion,
    4. chicken egg,
    5. 80 grams of wheat flour and breadcrumbs,
    6. package of thin lavash,
    7. pinch of salt,
    8. frying oil,
    9. 4 tbsp garlic butter sauce,
    10. tablespoon of lemon juice,
    11. each teaspoon of soy sauce and sesame oil.

    How do we cook?

    Mix all ingredients for the sauce in a bowl. We beat the egg into a cup, salt and stir. Lettuce leaves cut into thin strips, onion – thin half rings.

    Defrost and clean shrimp in advance. When ready, roll them in succession in flour, egg and breadcrumbs. Fry over low heat until golden brown on each side.

    Lubricate the middle of the lavash with the prepared sauce, put lettuce leaves, onions and ready-made shrimps on top. Additionally, grease with a small amount of sauce, wrap in a roll. We cut off the excess.

    4. Fillet-o-fish, recipe from the YouTube channel “Homemade”

    What do you need?

    1. 200 grams of cod,
    2. each tablespoon of wheat flour and breadcrumbs,
    3. chicken egg,
    4. pickled cucumber,
    5. slice of cheddar cheese,
    6. two burger buns,
    7. half teaspoon dried onion,
    8. 50 ml vegetable oil,
    9. tablespoon of mayonnaise,
    10. teaspoon of sour cream,
    11. 1/4 teaspoon dill,
    12. salt to taste.

    How do we cook?

    Defrost cod. Mix mayonnaise, sour cream, onion and dill. Cut the cucumber into small cubes, add to the sauce, mix everything thoroughly. Pour the oil into a frying pan, roll the cod fillet alternately in flour, egg and breadcrumbs.

    Throw the fish into a heated frying pan, hold for 3-4 minutes on each side over medium heat. When ready, transfer to a paper towel. We cut the roll in half, cover the bottom layer with melted cheese and cod. Generously grease the fish with sauce and cover with the second part of the burger.

    5. Pita grik, recipe from the YouTube channel “Eat at Home”

    What do you need?

    1. one chicken fillet (can also use turkey),
    2. 150 milliliters of kefir,
    3. three sprigs of mint and fresh cilantro,
    4. 3 cucumbers,
    5. 6 garlic cloves,
    6. 4 tablespoons of olive oil,
    7. salt, pepper to taste,
    8. two bell peppers,
    9. three pits,
    10. half a lemon.

    How do we cook?

    Pass two cucumbers through a grater, chop garlic, mint, cilantro. We combine everything with kefir, two tablespoons of olive oil and lemon juice. Salt, pepper to taste, mix again. Cut the last cucumber into slices, bell pepper into rings.

    Chicken fillet cut into strips, salt and pepper. Add three chopped garlic cloves, drizzle with two tablespoons of olive oil and fry on both sides in a grill pan. After that, lightly brown the pita on it.

    Open the warmed pita, put vegetables and chicken inside, pour sauce on top. Decorate with herbs before serving.

    6. Apple pies, recipe from Family Kitchen YouTube channel

    What do you need?

    1. 80 ml water,
    2. 150 grams butter,
    3. 300 grams of wheat flour,
    4. chicken egg,
    5. half a teaspoon each of salt and cinnamon,
    6. 57 grams of sugar,
    7. half a tablespoon of vinegar 6%,
    8. 3 apples,
    9. half lemon,
    10. teaspoon starch.

    How do we cook?

    To make puff pastry, add salt, a teaspoon of sugar and vinegar to a bowl of water. Stir, break the egg and beat it with a fork until smooth. Rub the chilled butter into the bowl with flour. To prevent it from melting, quickly knead.

    Combine the prepared mixture with butter and flour. Knead by hand for about two minutes. Wrap the dough in cling film and put it in the refrigerator to cool down. For the filling, peel the apples from the peel and seeds, cut into small pieces and transfer to a ladle. So that the fruit does not darken, pour lemon juice. Stir, add sugar and mix again.

    1. Boil the apples on the stove for a few minutes until the sugar dissolves and the apples become soft. Keep on fire for another five minutes. Add water to the starch and mix so that there are no lumps.

    2. Pour the fruit over the mixture and keep on the stove for another minute, season with cinnamon, leave to cool. Cut the dough into pieces and roll into a thin layer. We form rectangles: put the filling on one of the sides, level it with a spoon. After we cover with the second part of the dough, pinch the edges with a fork. We send blanks to the freezer.

    3. Pour a lot of vegetable oil into a frying pan with high edges, put on fire. Readiness is determined by a piece of dough – it should float and begin to fry. Gently lower the pies and fry on both sides until golden brown, then transfer to a paper towel.

    7. McFlury, instructions from the Bon Appetit YouTube channel

    What do you need?

    1. 450 grams of ice cream,
    2. 150 ml milk,
    3. 150 ml cream 33% fat,
    4. half vanilla bean,
    5. chocolate/vanilla topping, caramel sauce, roasted nuts, chocolate balls, dragee to taste.

    How do we cook?

    Cut the vanilla pod lengthwise, scrape out the seeds from the inside – they will need to be mixed in a saucepan with milk and cream. We send the saucepan to the fire, bring to a boil and immediately remove.

    We filter everything through a sieve. We shift the ice cream into a bowl, add six tablespoons of the milk-cream mixture to it, beat with a submersible blender. Using a pastry bag, we shift the ice cream into glasses, send it briefly to the freezer.

    Decorate mcfluries with sweets before serving. We try different combinations: chocolate topping with chopped nuts, caramel sauce with dragees, strawberry topping with chocolate balls.

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