Twitter users called on people across the Middle East to boycott Burger King after it released an advert making light of the Suez Canal crisis. Ryan Carter / The National
Twitter users called on people across the Middle East to boycott Burger King after it released an advert making light of the Suez Canal crisis. Ryan Carter / The National

Food

#BoycottBurgerKing: Fast food chain upsets Egyptians by making light of Suez Canal crisis

The restaurant seized on the opportunity to use the saga as the basis of an ad for the Double Whopper

Katy Gillett
Katy Gillett

April 01, 2021

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