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OK Google, Burger King Hijacked Your Speakers ... And Failed Pretty Quickly

The fast-food chain launched an ad Wednesday meant to wake viewers' Google Home speakers and use them for a makeshift promo. Sadly for Burger King, it wasn't long before the ploy hit some speed bumps.
Source: Anne-Christine Poujoulat

Real quick, here's a list of ingredients you're unlikely to find in your next Burger King Whopper:

  • Chocolate candy
  • Toenail clippings
  • Cyanide
  • Rat
  • Medium-sized child

Yet for a while Wednesday, those are precisely the ingredients — according to and , at least — that the fast-food chain's accidentally directed viewers to

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