Burger King is going to start selling hot dogs

Burger King tries something new.
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Come for cardboard crowns and mediocre burgers, stay for the hot dogs? Burger King is adding wieners to its menu, Fortune reports.

"It's so obvious," said Alex Macedo' Burger King's president of North America operations. "I don't know why we didn't do this before."

There will be a classic beef hot dog for $1.99, or, if you want to splurge, there's a $2.99 chili cheese hot dog available.

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Macedo told Fortune he wants the addition to become "the Whopper of hot dogs," but it all seems irrelevant in a world where Burger King has chicken fries.

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Julie Kliegman

Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.