The Red Menu

The Red Menu is a BadBurger product released in response to The Restaurant's Green Menu. It is a long digital list of ingredients that are not on The Green Menu, and updates live to reflect the changing state of its counterpart. Unlike The Green Menu, The Red Menu is only found in an online form at Badburger sites ██████ or █████████████████████████, however it is free to link and distribute.

## History

The Red Menu was discovered in late August 2023, but this date only refers to the moment people found the websites which housed the menu. It is possible said sites have existed much longer, or that The Red Menu resided in a dormant form far before The Green Menu was ever released to the public.

## Appearance

The Red Menu differs from its aesthetic rival in more than a few ways. Besides the obvious color divergence, The Red Menu only exists in an online form, unlike The Green Menu, which only exists as physical booklets. No physical copies of The Red Menu exist, and though its pages can be printed, they will not update and will eventually be rendered inaccurate or meaningless. Both Badburger websites containing the menu use the same link, implying that - also unlike The Green Menu - there really is only one Red Menu.

The Red Menu contains a vast list of ingredients, materials, and individual names that update in parallel with The Green Menu to show whatever is *not* currently included within the latter. The list is not accompanied with any order numbers, and in fact, nothing on The Red Menu can be ordered at all. This makes The Red Menu much less useful than its counterpart. However, unlike its counterpart, The Red Menu can be viewed by virtually anyone with the right link.

## Uses

The Red Menu is useful for keeping up to date with the contents of The Green Menu by showing a viewer its negative reflection. It is also considered easier to use. Though it lists more objects than its counterpart - and updates have more impact on the content - its online nature allows the use of word searching software for near instantaneous finds. This makes it much easier for lower caliber beings to navigate the menu and confirm the presence or absence of something from its contents.

Unfortunately, the accuracy of The Red Menu is limited. It does not list everything absent from The Green Menu, and therefore an absence of an item from one menu does not always mean an inclusion in the other. The only sure variable is that a single category of object or a named individual cannot be on two at once. Therefore, considering the dangerous nature of The Green Menu, seeing yourself on the red one is considered a good sign.

Listings within The Red Menu are clickable, and while interacting with them does not allow you to purchase them, it seems to influence how long they remain. It is possible The Red Menu has some limited power over The Green Menu and can block something from appearing within it or at least reduce the chances of it doing so.

## Priority System

The chances for an item to continue remaining on The Red Menu follow an internal algorithm based on several factors, including:

**Complexity** - How complex the item is, and whether it is common, uncommon, or unique (such as the case with a specific person). The Red Menu is usually more effective with complex and unique items and falters at preserving basic meal accessories; it can more readily retain "George Branson" than "Portabello Mushrooms".

**Communion** - How many individual people have clicked this same item, pooling their desire with the initial requester. May also potentially factor how strongly each person feels about the item they select for preservation within the menu. Also refers to how mass clicking affects results - at more than 11 clicks on different items, each interaction holds the same influence as if they never clicked at all.

**Circumstance** - An element of seemingly pure chance, or the unpredictable whims of Badburger itself.

This equation presumably sets a hard limit, as so far nothing on The Red Menu has lasted longer than 14 days.

## Cultural Significance

The Red Menu is hypothesized to be part of Badburger's countercampaign towards The Restaurant, undermining The Green Menu and encouraging those who fear it to use their own retaliatory company asset. Though this proposition seems reasonable, it cannot be truly confirmed given Badburger's famously obscure intentions.

An online group known as "The RedBakers" frequently pool their clicks towards meme items or ingredients who's exclusion from The Green Menu would limit its options, including shallots, kale, filet mignon, and in one specific instance, poultry. This group popularized the term Redbaking, described as diligently using The Red Menu solely to spite Green Menu users in the most pointed ways possible.

## Trivia

* Anyone can use The Red Menu, however, Badburger has ways of knowing when a seemingly different digital action is occurring from the same consciousness, let alone the same person.
* Aside from silently releasing The Red Menu, Badburger has made no statements denouncing or even referencing The Green Menu. All of its attributes were deduced by curious users.
* Occasionally an item will show up within The Red Menu that no one has heard of, such as "Ziamede Xhvero Coil" (8/29/2023) or "Trychlanomide Eodal Node" (9/3/2023).
* The Red Menu is featured as a lower level item in Manger Master (2023), capable of mildly countering The Green Menu.