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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.
    by Colin Dwyer Apr 13, 2017 2 minutes
    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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