With the rising popularity of fast-casual restaurant fare and a renewed interest in home-cooked meals, traditional fast food chains are working feverishly to draw hungry consumers in with fresh ideas. As a result, a number of industry giants are even going beyond the bun — branching out to include some unusual ingredients and presentation methods.

What’s next, right?

Enter the Whopperito — Burger King’s latest, one-off addition to the fast food canon of choices that could be coming to a drive-thru menu near you.

A mash-up of the company’s trademark Whopper sandwich and a burrito, the Whopperito is currently being test-marketed in select Pennsylvania locations.

Burger King officials said the testing will last a couple more weeks, but would share no further information about whether the mashed-up hamburger-burrito will become a permanent menu item.

The sandwich is a tortilla wrap filled with taco meat, queso — a spicy cheese sauce, and all the traditional ingredients of the Whopper: lettuce, pickle, onion and tomato.

Fourth grader Gene Metro, who has tried the Whopperito, gave the latest Burger King creation and all of its component rave reviews, describing it as simply “amazing.”

“All the queso sauce, it adds a bunch of flavor to it,” Metro said. “The meaty parts are really hot and spicy but then the tomatoes really cool it down.”

 “So it’s the perfect temperature,” Metro continued. “And not too spicy.”

The Whopperito joins an assortment of other Whopper variations the chain has added to its menu options in recent years. In 2015, Burger King debuted the A.1. Halloween Whopper, which featured a flavored black bun to enclose the sandwich’s otherwise classic ingredients. Spawning a slight social media frenzy, the Halloween Whopper was joined by the Angriest Whopper sandwich, which proved to be a spicier, slightly tweaked take on the Angry Whopper that featured a bright red bun.

The brand also recently extended its options to include flame-broiled hot dogs, becoming the largest restaurant chain to do so in the country.

If the Whopperito does become a permanent menu item sold nationwide, it could easily join the ranks of other memorable and matchless fast food offerings of years past like McDonald’s McPizza and KFC’s Double Down sandwich that were created in hopes of boosting sales while simultaneously intriguing and deterring many fast food consumers.

Regardless of its fate, the Whopperito has already gained a fan in, quite possibly, its youngest taste tester.

 “I can use one word to describe this,” Metro said, “and it is: amazing.”

The Sharon, Pennsylvania Herald contributed details to this story.