Cronut Burger Backlash: bad reviews, trademark issues and gastrointestinal upset at the CNE

Cronut Burger Backlash: bad reviews, trademark issues and gastrointestinal upset at the CNE

Cronut Burger Poll: would you eat it?
(Images: Epic Burgers and Waffles (left); Gizelle Lau (right))

Glamour shots of the cronut-encased cheeseburger by Toronto’s Epic Burgers and Le Dolci Bakery sent the blogosphere into a tizzy earlier in the month. Now it looks like the honeymoon’s over. The sugar-dusted fat-bomb has recently sparked negative reviews, rumblings of potential trademark issues and, according to some reports, a bout of food poisoning that sent five people to the hospital. Given the backlash, we want to know: what do you think of the Cronut Burger now?

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