French fast-food chain offers 'Star Wars' burgers

Quick

The black bun gets its hue from vegetable-based food coloring.

French fans of "Star Wars" will soon be able to show their preference for either the noble Jedi or Darth Vader's dark side simply by ordering a burger.

Quick, a European fast-food chain that's similar to McDonald's, is rolling out a promotion from Jan. 31-March 5, tying in to the Feb. 8 release of "Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace" in 3-D.

First, diners can choose between a Darth Maul-supported Dark Burger (made hot with a pepper-sprinkled bun, pepper sauce and pepper cheese) and a Yoda-supported Jedi Burger (topped with Mozzarella cheese and spicy mustard).

But the real blockbuster comes only from March 2-5, when Quick diners can order the "Dark Vador" (their spelling) burger, which features a bun dyed as black as Vader's heart (the chain says it uses a "vegetable coloring agent" to get the black bun). Quick is calling this the "first black coloured burger ever created." Red pepper slices and cheese top the burger patty.

Quick

That's Mozzarella cheese on the Jedi burger. Looks like marshmallows to us.

The chain will also offer fried cheese snacks shaped like stars and a special ice-cream treat, as well as Amidala and Anakin toys.

It's not the first time Quick has served up creative burgers. In 2011, the chain offered a burger called "Le Double Mix," which featured a split bun and used different sauces on the burger's two halves.

Sadly for American "Star Wars" fans, none of the chain's 495 restaurants are on our side of the pond. These are not the burgers we're looking for.

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    Reply#1 - Tue Jan 10, 2012 5:20 PM EST

    java the bun...

      #1.1 - Tue Jan 10, 2012 8:52 PM EST
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      "These are not the burgers we're looking for." - Well played Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, well played.

      • 3 votes
      Reply#2 - Tue Jan 10, 2012 5:28 PM EST

      It's Vader, with an "E", not Vador.

      • 1 vote
      Reply#3 - Tue Jan 10, 2012 5:50 PM EST

      He said "their spelling".

      • 4 votes
      #3.1 - Tue Jan 10, 2012 6:03 PM EST

      In the french literature and in the french translations of the Star Wars movies, it has always been «Dark Vador» instead of Darth Vader. This kind of name-changing can go both way because in the new Tintin movie the 2 inept twin detectives are named «Thomson and Thompson» instead of the original «Dupont et Dupond».

      • 2 votes
      #3.2 - Tue Jan 10, 2012 6:45 PM EST

      Vador vs Vader ---- Do they call french fries french fro's?

        #3.3 - Tue Jan 10, 2012 8:22 PM EST
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        Taste? There is no taste. Only eat.

        • 1 vote
        Reply#4 - Tue Jan 10, 2012 6:03 PM EST

        I prefer Le Maison du Whopper, anyway.

          Reply#5 - Tue Jan 10, 2012 6:04 PM EST

          May the Fries be with you.

          • 3 votes
          Reply#6 - Tue Jan 10, 2012 6:13 PM EST

          Their foie gras burger last year was pretty awesome too! No joke.

          • 1 vote
          Reply#7 - Tue Jan 10, 2012 6:43 PM EST

          Oh, the plagiarism! The "Dark Vador" burger is DEFINITELY not the first black-bun'ed burger ever created. I make them almost every time I attempt to toast mine!

          • 2 votes
          Reply#8 - Tue Jan 10, 2012 6:47 PM EST

          @UdunnoBro

          In France, Darth Vader is know as Dark Vador

          • 1 vote
          Reply#9 - Tue Jan 10, 2012 6:50 PM EST

          I heard these are killer....ha ha ha ha ha

            Reply#10 - Tue Jan 10, 2012 7:54 PM EST

            Where's the Beef?

            What's French for Beef? ---- "Boeuf"? Silly French

              Reply#11 - Tue Jan 10, 2012 8:20 PM EST

              I'll take one of each!

                Reply#12 - Tue Jan 10, 2012 8:57 PM EST

                Obi-Wan has died, ad Obi-Bun has taken over. Does R2D2 have an oven setting?

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