Red Robin Tries to Reel in Fasting Lenters with New Crab Cake Burger

It’s that time of year when McDonald’s brings out its Filet-o-Fish sandwich and fish taco sales go through the roof at taco shops, as observers of Lent try to eat as much seafood as humanly possible.

With Ash Wednesday approaching and Lent starting, Red Robin’s trying to get in on this seafood action with its new Wild Pacific Crab Cake Burger.

Red Robin’s making sure there’s no confusion who it’s trying to attract with this new menu item as they even wrote this cheesy invitation asking Pope Francis to try their new crabby patty.

If he accepts, they will give out free Crab Cake Burgers every Friday until April 2, which is the Friday before Easter, aka Good Friday.

Red Robin is asking folks to tweet at Pope Francis, who has a pretty strong Twitter presence with nine official accounts, in nine different languages and over 18 million total followers, so he can get to the nearest Red Robin and eat this Spongebob-inspired burger.

While they’re at it, they could tweet Steven Spielberg and see if they can get a dinner with the original Jaws robot. Maybe they should get people to tweet Katy Perry so Left Shark can try the burger. Since they’re aiming high, tweet Kim Jong-un and get him in a room with Katy Perry for a crab cake peace offering. Everyone knows Kim loves Katy Perry.

Make it happen, Red Robin. Make a crab cake superstar dinner and stream it live on Twitter. Then give us all free burgers.