RobBright 35 Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 Seems to be getting better and better every year! Link to post Share on other sites
foreversnow 5 Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 This one had Mr Snowhunter going off trying to work out how they had got approval etc. He was quite hot under the collar. http://today.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=1034669 Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 Burger King is called Hungry Jack's? Is that a joke? Link to post Share on other sites
JA2340 16 Posted April 2, 2010 Share Posted April 2, 2010 They's different here! No joke! Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted April 2, 2010 Share Posted April 2, 2010 Hungry Jack's IS Burger King......is it not? I was told that the reason its called Hungry Jack's was that some guy registered "Burger King" in Australia as a trademark before the Real Burger King had 1st come to Oz. When they did appear he tried to get them to pay a lot of money to use the name, to which they said no thanks and used Hungry Jack's. The burgers are the same, Whopper is a BK trademark Link to post Share on other sites
JA2340 16 Posted April 13, 2010 Share Posted April 13, 2010 Sorry, been off-line for a while. The wikipedia article clarifies - Quote: When Burger King moved to expand its operations into Australia, it found that its business name was already trademarked by a takeaway food shop in Adelaide. As a result, Burger King provided the Australian franchisee, Jack Cowin, with a list of possible alternative names derived from pre-existing trademarks already registered by Burger King and its then corporate parent Pillsbury that could be used to name the Australian restaurants. Cowin selected the "Hungry Jack" brand name, one of Pillsbury's US pancake mixture products, and slightly changed the name to a possessive form by adding an apostrophe 's' forming the new name Hungry Jack's. The first Australian franchise of Burger King Corporation was established in Innaloo, Perth on 18 April 1971, under the auspices of Cowin's new company Hungry Jack's Pty, Limited. Link to post Share on other sites
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