{"id":1021,"date":"2015-07-15T11:22:27","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T18:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=1021"},"modified":"2015-07-15T11:22:27","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T18:22:27","slug":"28-failed-fast-food-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=1021","title":{"rendered":"28 Failed Fast Food Items"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0 I kept scrolling down on these expecting to find one that I would have actually eaten, but no such luck. \u00a0 Some just made me throw up in my mouth a little less than others. \u00a0 \u00a0Guess that’s why they failed.<\/p>\n

Not every item on a fast-food menu can be a hit. \u00a0We’ve highlighted items from top fast-food chains like McDonald’s, Taco Bell, and Burger King that just didn’t resonate with customers. \u00a0\u00a0From unappetizing to flavorless, here are some of the biggest fails.<\/em><\/p>\n

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McDonald’s Mighty Wings<\/h3>\n
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William Wei \/ Business Insider<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The McDonald’s chicken wings were\u00a0too spicy, too expensive, and too unappetizing<\/a> for the average customer. Before taking mighty wings off the market in November 2013, McDonald’s put the remaining product on sale for\u00a060 cents each instead of $1.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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McDonald’s McHot Dog<\/em><\/h3>\n
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listoftheday.blogspot.com<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Customers weren’t particularly thrilled by this new menu offering, and the item was later pulled.<\/em><\/p>\n

Since the disappearance of the McHotdog from the McDonald’s menu, the hot dog has\u00a0reappeared in Japan as a breakfast item.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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McDonald’s Pizza & McPizza<\/em><\/h3>\n
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McDonald’s offered pizza in the late 1980s<\/a>\u00a0and in the early 1990s<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

This made-to-order pizza didn’t go over too well with customers, who weren’t fond of the long wait times and who preferred to purchase their pizzas somewhere else.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Burger King’s Enormous Omelette Sandwich<\/em><\/h3>\n
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Burger King<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The huge sandwich <\/a>was way too big for customers, who apparently didn’t want oversize omelettes \u2014 and a surplus of cholesterol \u2014 first thing in the morning.
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McDonald’s McSpaghetti<\/em><\/h3>\n
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blogington.com<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

McDonald’s continued its streak of introducing foods other than burgers onto its menu in the late 1970s with McSpaghetti<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

McDonald’s customers were not intrigued, but some international McDonald’s restaurants still sell this item.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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McDonald’s Hula Burger<\/em><\/h3>\n
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The Hula burger<\/a> was McDonald’s failed option for Catholics who couldn’t eat meat on Fridays during Lent. The sandwich\u00a0combined pineapple and melted cheese.\u00a0If people weren’t going to eat meat, it was clear that they would rather have a filet-o-fish than a pineapple-and-cheese sandwich.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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McDonald’s McLean Deluxe<\/em><\/h3>\n
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Screengrab from elithecat on YouTube<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

McDonald’s attempted to appeal to dieters in 1991 with the McLean Deluxe<\/a>, a burger that was marketed as 91% fat-free. To make up for the absence of fat, the burger was infused with water and carrageen<\/a> (seaweed extract).<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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McDonald’s McDLT<\/em><\/h3>\n
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theworldsbestever.com<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The McDLT wasn’t anything special \u2014 it was simply a burger with lettuce and tomato.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

McDonald’s tried to entice customers with styrofoam packaging that separated the lettuce and tomato from the burger for maximum freshness. It didn’t work, particularly because environmental advocates\u00a0attacked the packaging.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Friendly’s Grilled Cheese Burger Melt<\/em><\/h3>\n
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fritish\/Flickr<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

This calorie bomb featured a burger inside of two grilled cheese sandwiches, for a whopping 1,160 calories.<\/a>\u00a0Consumers found this enormous sandwich-burger combo unappetizing.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Burger King’s Burger Shots<\/em><\/h3>\n
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Wikimedia Commons<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Burger King tried to compete with White Castle sliders on numerous occasions. The burger chain offered burger bundles<\/a>\u00a0in the late 1980s, burger buddies<\/a>\u00a0shortly after, and burger shots in the late 2000s.\u00a0Changing the name didn’t help; Burger King’s customers did not seem to want to purchase these tiny sliders.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Taco Bell’s Bell Beefer<\/em><\/h3>\n
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Facebook<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Even though Taco Bell’s slogan is “think outside the bun,” the taco chain made a taco burger, bun and all. Customers were not intrigued by the ground-beef taco burger, deciding to stick to tacos at Taco Bell and burgers at other establishments. However, some customers miss the retired item; a small but loyal Facebook group, “Taco Bell Please Bring Back The Bell Beefer,”<\/a>\u00a0begs the taco chain to revive the product.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Taco Bell’s Seafood Salad<\/em><\/h3>\n
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Youtube.com\/MrClassicAds1980s<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The name alone might make your stomach turn. In the 1980s, Taco Bell attempted to diversify its menu with this item,<\/a> but the chain was forced to pull it after numerous\u00a0reported incidents of food poisoning.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Burger King’s Satisfries<\/em><\/h3>\n
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William Wei \/ Business Insider<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Burger King attempted to lighten up its fries with this low-calorie alternative, but customers seemed to prefer the real thing. The burger empire\u00a0dropped them from its menu in 2014.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Dairy Queen’s Breeze<\/em><\/h3>\n
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Dairy Queen<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Dairy Queen’s Breeze was offered from 1990 to 2000, and it was marketed as a healthier option to the chain’s iconic Blizzard milkshake<\/a>. The Breeze used frozen yogurt instead of ice cream as an ingredient, but Dairy Queen’s customers weren’t interested. In fact,\u00a0so few people purchased the product<\/a>\u00a0that the frozen yogurt would often spoil before it was used.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Wendy’s Breakfast<\/em><\/h3>\n
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Wendy’s<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Wendy’s has tried to sell breakfast items multiple times, but it has yet to prove to be a success.<\/a>\u00a0For now, it has pulled breakfast items off the menu again.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Wendy’s Frescata<\/em><\/h3>\n
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CNBC screen grab<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Wendy’s made another attempt to go healthy with these Subway-esque sandwiches<\/a>. This option was not appealing to customers, and the item was later pulled.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Burger King’s Shake-Em-Up Fries<\/em><\/h3>\n
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Facebook<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

These cheesy fries asked customers to do a little work: shake up fries in a bag<\/a> with powdered cheese. In theory, it sounds as if it could work, but this product didn’t stay on the market very long.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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McDonald’s Afrika<\/em><\/h3>\n
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McDonald’s<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The McAfrika \u2014 a pita with beef, cheese, lettuce, and tomato \u2014 was an enormous PR disaster.<\/a> The sandwich was released in Norway during a famine in southern Africa. Unsurprisingly, McDonald’s pulled the sandwich.<\/em><\/p>\n

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McDonald’s McLobster<\/em><\/h3>\n
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Yunyi Tang on Twitter<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In summer 2013<\/a>, Canadian McDonald’s chains released the limited-edition\u00a0McLobster<\/a>, which promised “100% fresh Atlantic lobster,” for a curiously low price below $7. Unsurprisingly, stomachs were turned and reactions were strong.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Wendy’s Superbar<\/em><\/h3>\n
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YouTube\/ClassicTVToday<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Wendy’s attempt at a salad bar offered an all-you-can-eat buffet<\/a> addition with hot food to the chain restaurant, but it was unsuccessful.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Arch Deluxe<\/em><\/h3>\n
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droppin.com<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

McDonald’s tried to appeal to gourmand grownups with this quarter-pound burger. The “secret sauce” on the burger didn’t help; after a huge marketing campaign, it wound up being one of the most expensive failures<\/a>\u00a0in McDonald’s history.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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McDonald’s Salad Shakers<\/em><\/h3>\n
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YouTube\/CommercialsONMI<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

This healthy option didn’t last too long, even if some people were fans of the shakable salads. But that was the problem \u2014 not enough people wanted to purchase it. Proof: a Facebook page called “Bring Back The McDonald’s Salad Shakers”<\/a> exists, but has less than 500 members.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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McDonald’s Onion Nuggets<\/em><\/h3>\n
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McDonald’s<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In the 1970s, McDonald’s introduced this fried snack<\/a> that replaced chicken with chopped onions. It didn’t last very long.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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McDonald’s Chicken Fajitas & Breakfast Burritos<\/em><\/h3>\n
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YouTube<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

McDonald’s attempted to do Mexican food<\/a> in the early 1990s with chicken fajitas and breakfast burritos. Much like its other attempts at new cuisines, it did not go over particularly well. The item was discontinued.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Jack-In-The-Box’s Frings<\/em><\/h3>\n
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Yelp<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

This combo of onion rings and fries <\/a>was introduced to customers in the 1970s and discontinued shortly after. Customers wanted either onion rings or fries, not both at the same time.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Sonic’s Pickle-O’s<\/em><\/h3>\n
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Flickr\/stuart_spivack<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Sonic attempted to bring back\u00a0this fried pickle snack from the 1960s <\/a>in 2003, but customers were not enthused.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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McDonald’s Big ‘N’ Tasty<\/em><\/h3>\n
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McDonald’s<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The burger chain added this addition to the menu in an attempt to compete with Burger King’s staple, the Whopper. The sandwich couldn’t prove to be popular with customers over time, and it was pulled from the menu in 2010.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Pizza Hut’s Priazzo<\/em><\/h3>\n
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Pizza Hut<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

This mega-pizza with two layers of crust, ample cheese, and a ton of meat, was intended to imitate Chicago deep-dish pizza. Customers didn’t appreciate how long it took to prepare the pizza<\/a>, and given the enormous advertising campaign leading up to its release, the Priazzo was a failure.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0 I kept scrolling down on these expecting to find one that I would have actually eaten, but no such luck. \u00a0 Some just made me throw up in my mouth a little less than others. \u00a0 \u00a0Guess that’s why they failed. Not every item on a fast-food menu can be a hit. \u00a0We’ve highlighted Read More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retail-humor"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1021"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1062,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions\/1062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}