Burger King Stranger Things menu: the Upside Down Whopper and every collaboration with the show
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For the last season, Burger King France did what the United States did not get: a real menu, with a black-bun burger, a Vecna sauce and an Eleven ice cream, launched the day volume 1 dropped. Here is what it contained, and all the show's collaborations since 2019.
The essentials
- Burger King France: the Upside Down Menu and the Hellfire Club Menu, from November 26, 2025
- The burger: Upside Down Burger: beef, bacon, maple sauce, black bun
- The dessert: Eleven Fusion, ice cream with waffle pieces
- Before: the American 2019 Upside Down Whopper, New Coke, Scoops Ahoy
Contents
The 2025 French menu
On November 26, 2025, the day the first volume of the last season dropped, Burger King France launched two limited-edition menus. The Upside Down Menu: a beef burger with bacon and maple sauce, served in a black bun, with a Vecna sauce, presented as “a spicy sauce from the Upside Down.” The Hellfire Club Menu: a chicken burger topped with maple sauce, with a Surfer Boy Pizza sauce with smoked pineapple, a nod to Argyle's pizza shop.
For dessert, the Eleven Fusion, an ice cream with speculoos cookies and waffle pieces, of course. And five collector cups: Hawkins Heroes, Hellfire Forever, Upside Down, Vecna, and WSQK, the name of the season 5 radio.
The Scoops Ahoy accessories, for the ice-cream shop.
In the shopMen's Corroded Coffin Upside Down Tour T-shirt39,90 €See the product
The secret menu, upside down
The operation had a game: a “hidden” menu you unlocked by turning your phone upside down, on the chain's app and site, a few days before the launch. The campaign was noticed as far as the United States, where the press wrote that American fans were “green with envy”: they had only had, in 2019, a Whopper served upside down.
| Element | Detail |
|---|---|
| Launch | November 26, 2025, with Volume 1 |
| Upside Down Burger | Beef, bacon, maple sauce, black bun, Vecna sauce |
| Hellfire Club Burger | Chicken, maple sauce, smoked-pineapple Surfer Boy Pizza sauce |
| Eleven Fusion | Ice cream, speculoos, waffle pieces |
| Cups | Hawkins Heroes, Hellfire Forever, Upside Down, Vecna, WSQK |
| Runtime | Limited edition, for the length of the season |
Before: the 2019 Upside Down Whopper
The first collaboration with the chain goes back to the summer of 2019 and Season 3: in the United States, in about ten cities, an “Upside Down Whopper,” an ordinary Whopper served upside down in a box in the show's colors. A gag more than a menu, never arrived in France. Six years later, France got the real menu, and Americans the flipped box.
The “KFC” searches come from the same family: rumors of menus at other chains, with no nationwide operation in France.
The other collaborations
| Brand | Product | The link with the show |
|---|---|---|
| Coca-Cola | New Coke, reissued in 2019 | The 1985 soda Lucas drinks in Season 3 |
| Baskin-Robbins | A real Scoops Ahoy ice-cream parlor, in Burbank, 2019 | Steve and Robin's ice-cream shop at Starcourt |
| Eggo | Collector-box waffles | Eleven's favorite dish since 1983 |
| Nike | A sneaker collection, 2019 | The high-school and town colors |
| Lego | The Byers house upside down | Joyce's wall of lights |
| H&M, Levi's | 80s clothes | The logo, Starcourt, the group's outfits |
New Coke, the most successfulIn 1985, Coca-Cola had changed its recipe and caused such a backlash that it went back to the old one in three months. Season 3 has the party drink that “New Coke”, and the brand reissued it in a limited edition, with ads in the style of 1985.
What to keep
Two Burger King menus in France for the last season, a burger with a black bun and a Vecna sauce, from November 26, 2025. Before that, an American gag in 2019, and a series of collaborations of which the finest remains the resurrected New Coke. What the show sold was not burgers: it was the 80s.
The Steve figure, in a sailor uniform.
In the shopLego Steve Harrington Scoops Ahoy mini figure14,90 €See the product
Why an upside-down menu, and why in 2025
The French menu arrived on November 26, 2025, the day the first volume of the last season came out, and that calendar is what explains it. After three and a half years of waiting, Season 5 was the TV event of the year, and fast-food chains, which live on limited-time operations, wanted their name attached to it. The black bread, the maple sauce, and the ice cream with waffle pieces cite the world without reproducing it: the Upside Down, Hawkins, Eleven's Eggos.
The 2019 precedent, in the United States, had shown that the formula worked: a Whopper served upside down, in a flipped wrapper, sold in about ten cities during Season 3. The 2025 French version was designed broader, with two menus, a dessert, and collector cups, to cover the five weeks between the first volume and the finale.
The other brands that played with Hawkins
| Brand | Year | What she did |
|---|---|---|
| Eggo waffles | Since 2017 | Eleven's waffle, picked up by the brand even in the 2017 Super Bowl ad |
| Coca-Cola | 2019 | The return of New Coke, the failed 1985 drink, in a limited edition for Season 3 |
| Baskin-Robbins | 2019 | A real pop-up Scoops Ahoy in California, with flavors named after the show |
| Burger King | 2019 and 2025 | The Upside Down Whopper in the United States, then the French menus of the last season |
| Lego, Funko, Hasbro | Since 2019 | The Byers house in brick, the figures, the Dungeons & Dragons box |
All these operations have one thing in common: they play on 80s objects that the show brought back into fashion, rather than on the actors. That is also the shop's rule: the universe, not the faces.
What is left of it, and how to collect it
Limited-time menus disappear with their season, and the 2025 French menu was no exception. What remains are the objects: the collector cups, the wrappers, the restaurant posters, which circulate among fans at prices sometimes surprising for cardboard. The 2019 New Coke, sold in period cans, became the most sought-after object of all those collaborations.
For anyone who wants to extend the experience at home, a themed night with homemade waffles, a black-bun burger and a cherry slushie for Alexei remains the surest way to eat like in Hawkins, without depending on a one-month campaign.
The Hellfire Club T-shirt, for the menu.
In the shopScoops Ahoy Steve and Robin vest29,90 €See the product
TakeawayTwo Burger King menus in France from November 26, 2025. Upside Down Burger on a black bun, Vecna sauce, Eleven Fusion ice cream. Five collector cups, including WSQK. In 2019, Americans only got an upside-down Whopper.
Frequently asked questions
Does the Stranger Things Burger King menu exist in France?
Yes: the Upside Down Menu and the Hellfire Club Menu, launched in France on November 26, 2025 for the last season, in a limited edition.
What does the Upside Down Burger contain?
A beef burger with bacon and maple sauce, in a black bun, with a spicy Vecna sauce.
Was there a KFC Stranger Things menu?
Not in France. The name circulates in rumors of menus tied to the show, with no national campaign.
What was the 2019 Upside Down Whopper?
A Whopper served upside down, in the United States, in about ten cities, for season 3. Never arrived in France.
Why did the menu come out on November 26, 2025?
Because it is the day the first volume of the last season came out: the menu covered the five weeks through the December 31 finale.
Which brand brought back an 80s drink for the show?
Coca-Cola, in 2019, with the limited-edition return of New Coke, the failed 1985 drink that season 3 puts on screen.