Fun fact: Look at the ingredients list for the original Szechuan sauce from 1998 and the re-release that cost someone their life. They're not even the same sauce. People were scalping, attacking, and even going as far as to stab one another...and it wasn't even the same sauce!
*Remembers the people getting into fights over Popeye's chicken sandwiches* ...not surprising. People are friggin idiots when it comes to consumer products.
Just wanted to add the KFC is the mad lad of fast food. When people in America voiced their concerns with how unhealthy fast food really was, restaurants took action by introducing healthier menu items or removing terrible options, like McDonald's removing the super size option. KFC was like "here's some fried chicken sandwiched between two glazed donuts. Screw you."
I feel like other being fried the Double Chicken is healthier than a sandwich with buns. I could see myself slamming one of these after a good workout. Or anyone cutting carbs, wanting protien...
@@claytonalexander9105 Good luck cutting carbs by eating what is essentially four pieces of bread on one sandwich. The stuff on the outside of breaded fried chicken... is... bread. You don't just throw pieces of chicken in a fryer and end up with what they use as the "bun" on the fried Double Down.
@@MegaZeta Im not sure how you figured dredging a chicken breast in less than a couple grams of Flour is equal to a single piece of bread in carbs, let alone 4 pieces of bread but you might want to rethink this...
plus like, he was literally the owner so wouldn't he be able to choose how he makes his hotdog recipe?? so there literally is a way for him to know what's inside lmao
@@zacharyriley4561 Companies do this all the time. Step 1: Put out new, quality product. Get people hooked and happy and telling their friends. Step 2: Gradually reduce the quality of the ingredients. Let the hype carry your increasingly inferior product through its mid-life period. Step 3: If the public ever catches on and gets sick of the now-dumpy product, repeat from step 1. Should be freaking illegal; instead, it's the done thing because... line must go up, rich fucks must have mo' money.
The most surprising fact about the KFC double-down that came out when it was available was that compared to other fast food it actually wasn't that high in fat or calories.
Yeah, because (1) all the comparable items were ALSO a grotesque amount of fat and calories, and (2) the Double Down was ~95% of that combined with enough sodium that it probably qualified as a murder weapon if given to those at risk of a heart attack.
Bet that was delicious. However short-lived that it was,KFC had it really been selling those out...and.... had a hard time keeping up with supply and demand.....and..... eventually couldn't keep up. To be discontinued..... Bummer. What once started out as a prank. KFC hadn't expected them - or for IT - to be more than they could....uhhh....eat? Sell much more than they could supply their customers for us to enjoy with? I don't know..
As an employee (shift manager) at McDonald's at the time of the Szechuan sauce ordeal, it was pretty much a shit show frankly. I worked in a lower traffic store and we got hounded by callers looking for the stuff pretty frequently. Very strange time to be employed at McD's at the time lol
Used to work as a cashier and we got flooded with customers last year when we had those pokemon cards for happy meal toys. We had people asking for an extra one and eventually we were told we had to stop allowing people to do that
@@kitsdollies2466 sorry you were fired but damn must've felt good to be on the outside laughing at the fiasco after. I feel bad for the shit fast food workers have to deal with. I work retail which is shit enough but I refuse to work.food in grocery or fast food because of the assholes customers can be and how food is so much more subjective to set assholes off
@@Kakmanmartinez666 I worked though that one it was a nightmare so many happy meals they raised the prices for happy meals for the toys run through and had to limit just the toy to five
As a food junkie, most if not all of the items on this list have me insatiably hungry. Keep it up, Strider. Feed the food junkies and they will feed you in return.
I actually liked the Salad Shakers- it made it easy to distribute dressing easily across the entire salad. Nowadays if I get a salad and it comes in a container that seals, I'll still shake it.
Totally. Me too. And isn’t that almost the exact thing the Kardashians made famous decades later. And the double chicken patty sandwich with no bun?? Isn’t that Keto Item nowadays?
From what I heard, the mclobster was quickly cancelled because they did it as an all-you-can-eat item... And a lot of people made use of that. But, big shock, the lobster was so expensive they quickly had to deal with shortages, threatening to become a really big problem in mcdonalds success as a business. So yeah, stupid idea with expected results
@@totallytidmouth yeah, but usually it's some Popular Name slapped on one of their regular menu items with a few things added in. yeah i miss when they actually tried something different.
Taco Bell still kinda does that. I should know, I used to have to make their innovations lol. I liked eating them, I didn't really like making them though. Of course they're mostly just limited time but it's still an innovation.
The McDonald’s salad shakers actually is a good idea. And it’s unfortunate that they stopped it. It seems like a lot of fast food places are removing any slightly healthy items
I’m pretty sure the exact opposite has happened over the last decade or so. Sure, they canceled the salad shaker but also eventually added like 5 or 6 full-on salad meals. I’m pretty sure the majority of fast-food restaurants have added a number of “healthy” menu items. The rise of fast-casual restaurants, like Chipotle or Panera, was heavily influenced by a societal shift towards healthier eating. Even KFC, who hilariously introduced a sandwich that substituted bread for donuts, added grilled chicken to their menu.
In 1996 McDonald's introduced a short-lived burger called the Arch Deluxe, which was marketed as a burger for adults. It had a special white sauce on it. I remember having one-- I was no older than 12 at the time-- and I thought it was pretty good. I wish I could have an Arch Deluxe again, I still remember that burger 25 years later and kind of miss it still.
The salad shaker was a wonderful easy salad and a wonderful container that you could keep in a cup holder. You referred twice to regular dipping sauce, I've never heard of regular dipping sauce all the dipping sauces I've ever seen at McDonald's has some flavor name attached to it.
There's Ketchup, Mustard, Mayo, Tartar, Big Mac, Tangy BBQ, Spicy Buffalo, Creamy Ranch, Honey Mustard, Honey, Sweet 'N Sour, and a handful of seasonal or special burger sauces. There is no 'regular mcnugget dipping sauce'. He also made it sound like Happy Meals aren't, you know, still a thing.
@@TheAtemAndrew If I had to guess, "regular dipping sauce" is probably the BBQ sauce? The szechaun sauce has a similar dark brown color and shine to the BBQ. Also it's sometimes the default. When I was a kid who ordered chicken nuggets and didn't specify what sauce I wanted, I usually got barbeque.
I remembered the Szechuan Sauce chaos at McDonald's. There was a huge line of people mostly made up of college students who were ranting and getting angry with each other. It was my first day at my first job working at McDonalds. I actually thought hey had like 50 sauces and was hoping for management to reserve some for us workers, but unfortunately that wasn't the case.
yep. even as a current mcdonald’s worker, i’m not entirely sure what happened, but for an afternoon, we received a case of 50~ packets of szechuan. wasn’t advertised, but it sold out in a few hours anyway. luckily, we managed to avoid any major scuffles, just a lot of rude comments once word spread.
They brought it back temporarily as an app-only item. It wasn’t even good. It was almost exactly the same as the sweet and sour sauce, with a bit of teriyaki taste mixed in. As some have pointed out as well, it wasn’t even the original recipe they used for the rerelease either.
The salad shaker was a brilliant innovation. It distributed the dressing better than any other method ever tried. Innovation is always under attack from jealous small-minded people who will never create anything in their lives. They can only tear down the creativity of others.
The salad shaker was my favorite thing from McDonald’s I was devastated when they discontinued it. I liked being able to shake up the salad because it distributed the dressing perfectly. Good times lol
He’s wrong about this one lol. I was in high school and super into diet and fitness when this existed. My parents liked to eat fast food and I actually really liked this salad shaker as a way to just get something less horrible from McD. Sure it was a little weird but it tasted just like a yummy salad.
KFC picked that up and ran it for a few years until they suddenly discontinued it along with the krushers and so on. They even put cabbage and corn in it, loved it with the popcorn chicken add-on. Had no idea it was a mcdonalds thing until recently.
Your middle school years seem kinda sad cuz this dude sucks. This whole video is just a rehash of material that other channels have already done better and with less mistakes.
"Fast food is popular because it's convenient, it's cheap, and it tastes good. But the real cost of eating fast food never appears on the menu" - Ronald McDonald
honestly I could see why they think the mc salad shaker was a good idea. it's an easy way to get the dressing evently coated over everything instead of haphazardly driziled on your top layer and top layer only. it also makes it look like you have way more salad.
The McSalad may have been ugly but I actually really liked it. By shaking the salad, it perfectly distributed the dressing on each bite of the salad. Even when they took them away I made my own in mason jars 😊
I've watched a bunch of TH-cam videos of McDonald's in other countries and people shake their salads in whatever container they come in. I don't know if the dressing is as evenly distributed that way, but you definitely don't need a cup or jar to shake your salad. It does make eating on the go much easier though so I like your idea.
@@myopiniondoesntmatterh9073 For some reason, it's just not the same as shaking a cup. I don't know why, but shaking that cup/jar was much more "natural".
Yea the salad was cool . I liked that it wasnt a weird shaped bowl. Carrying food for 4 people home in weird shaped containers is a bother, but these could go in the soda bags.
yeah it wasnt a failure, it was pretty good on every front. it just wasnt successful enough to become a permanent item which rarely happens with special items
I worked at McDonald's while in highschool from 99-03. Every employee, including myself, loved the salad shaker! It was great to have a tasty and healthier option for our free meal during breaks! When you work 5 days a week, eating normal menu items everyday is not good for you at all. The shakers changed that.
Uh... those arent good for you either. I worked at McDonalds in 1999-2000 and remember these very well. Not that there were any good choices there, but you're only fooling yourself if you think that is healthy. A bigmac is 690 calories and one of these is like 500... at best.
@@gregpeloquin6345 low calorie doesn’t equal healthy. If u had to eat there every day a salad with high calorie dressing would feel much better to your body in general than a big greasy cheesy bready burger.
Mini McPizzas are a secret menu item in some places, since all the stuff except the sauce is readily available. It depends on if someone there knows how to make it. About 15 years ago when I worked there my manager showed me how to make them. The crust is just the biscuit dough, shredded cheese is on hand, and so is steak, chicken, ham, and bacon. The sauce is the tricky part, I recommend BBQ sauce and a bit of ketchup. You bake it in the toaster ovens for a few minutes.
There's actually a chain called Pepper Lunch that offers something like the McSalad Shakers, that they called their shake salad. I got it alongside one of my usual meals from them (their main entrees are DIY Japanese teppan cuisine) and it was a neat novelty!
I worked at McDonald’s when they were selling the Szechuan sauce and I remember this ONTOP of coworkers stealing BOXES full. They were literally carrying out giant boxes of the sauce, stealing it, to try to sell it. I remember shaking my head A LOT about this WHOLE situation. AND as a Disney fan, I also remember saying a lot, “ITS FROM MULAN!” Lmao
I worked at McDonalds when the McRib had cycled back into the menu for a short while, and I hated having to make it when it was ordered. It was an overly messy ordeal with the barbeque sauce and the smell just made me nauseous 🤢
That's interesting because you're not the first person to mention the smell was awful 😮I wonder if the smell was part of what made McRib not bring it back? 🤔
@@phantomstrider It's like walking into a freshly fully bleached room, except with barbecue sauce. You stick it into the microwave with a lid on. When it's done, you take it out, stir it, and stick it back in. Then it will promptly cleanse your sins through your nostrils. It's weird because we have to temp it too as well as the actual mcribs. I mean it's not that it's a really bad smell, it's just that it's really really strong.
The McLobster was originally called the Lobster Roll. I loved the triple decker pizza, the stuffed crust pizza, i remember the Mc Salad Shaker because it was a snack salad offered along side their fullsized McSalads.
I remember those salad shakers. You put your salad dressing on top, put the lid on to shake it, and the theory was the dressing would coat your salad evenly. In reality, the top few dressing-soaked leaves adhered themselves to the lid and the rest of the salad was left dry. After you made that mistake with the first one, you just added it bit by bit as you ate your way down. It was a salad made inconvenient.
Filipino here Filipino-style spaghetti is starkly different from traditional Italian as you said in your video. The spaghetti that I grew up with is the sweeter, meatier version which is similar to McSpaghetti or the Jollibee spaghetti (the Philippines fast food chain) I also tried the BK cheesy tots; I wasn’t impressed
I am going to the Philippines soon to marry my fiance. I met her here in America when she was on vacation visiting her sister 4 years ago. I wanted to go before now but I had to fight a legal battle with the state of California over a gun charge I am not even a residentof that state. I was looking at 10 years in prison even though I had my concealed carry license. I also took my gun completely apart and placed the separate components in different areas. I beat the case bc of that fact. Anyway then covid hit and that delyed me until now. She is the sweetest woman ever but I just hope the food is better than it looks lol. I think if its not that good we will have a pig roast every day lol.
Man, I miss the salad in a cup. The thing you're missing was it was something you could eat with your hands, no lap required like with a traditional salad. That alone was invaluable. Plus, they tasted pretty good.
I can give you the lowdown on the McSalad Shakers: They were designed for you to shake before eating; so you can distribute the salad dressing as you're shaking. Before the McSalad Shakers, the salad came in a plastic container. Most people (including me) squeezed the salad dessing on the salad, close the lid and shake the salad to coat the salad with dressing. PS: I drove my sister crazy every time I shook my salad!!
I remember when McDonald's had been selling them for some customers to "eat healthy to follow the McDonald's diet" . As if it would sell a lot of them for many McDonald's customers to eat healthy. At any fast-food place. Compared to what's exactly IN them.....of what McDonald's do always serve. I should know. I USED to ❤ McDonald's. Especially their 🍟. You just can't beat their wonderful potatoes. I've eaten many fast food fries from Five Guys, Wendy's, Whataburger,and Dairy Queen. Only Whataburger can rival them. All others cannot even compete with them. And as far as KFC is concerned, it's the skin that gives it flavor. Original or crispy. Those were the days. Unfortunately it had backfired, because of all the plastic it McDonald's were also producing......and throwing them away in the trash. Instant of recycling them. It has been costing McDonald's money. So they discontinued it.
We still had the McLobster in Atlantic Canada for YEARS! I worked there in 2003 and older people always ordered it. It looked disgusting but was very popular. I don't know if they still sell it during the summer or not.
Just commented on the McLobster as it could be considered a regional item such as the McSpaghetti and McRib, except the region is New England (USA) and possibly eastern Canada. Last I saw the McLobster on the menu was in Summer 2019.
I'm not the healthiest eater by any means, but I gotta say, most of these items grossed me out, seeing them here. The T-rex burger made my chest hurt, just looking at it. Glad I got to try some "Szechuan sauce", though. It wasn't bad stuff. I even kept a couple unopened packets from the post-controversy resurgence as a memento.
I knew I'd groan as Strider talks about that abomination of a burger. I'm not the healthiest eater, either, but I know that the items were both disgusting and out of place.
I know how you feel about that Trex burger. Made me gag just looking at it. It's no wonder Wendy's stepped in and said stop it once word got out about it.
My favorite burger is a single patty bacon cheeseburger. That alone makes me feel like a pig. Trying to eat a double patty burger is worse. The fact we still sell a three-patty burger doesn't bode well for our bloated obese nation. But 9? That's a crime against humanity. There are people starving all over the world, hell in THIS country, and people are shoveling enough food down to feed 9 people in one sitting? Excuse me while I jump off a building.
@@Craxin01 We can do like what Sam Kenison had once said,"MOVE SOMEWHERE WHERE THE FOOD IS, YOU LIVE IN THE DESERT, MOVE TO WHERE THE FOOD IS, AAAAH AAAAAH!!!!"
I don't even know how you're supposed to EAT that monstrosity they called the T Rex Burger, to be honest. I recently got a burger with 3 patties on it and was having a hard time even taking a bite of it; and I also remember when Burger King introduced their "stacker" burgers for the first time and being shocked and a little turned off by their quadruple patty version of that thing. And yet somehow, the T Rex Burger puts even THAT to shame!
@@phantomstrider I really enjoyed your videos and your like the love child of Fred Rogers and Steve Irwin. Some of these items sound really good to me but the thing I am most pissed off about was Wendy's getting rid of that T-Rex Burger cause I love meat and seeing that reminds me of Scooby-Doo when they would eat giant sandwiches and it always made me hungry, that and Garfield of course. Granted, I wouldn't eat it everyday unlike my mom aka The Fat Lesbian, but maybe on a Friday night. Also, have you heard of What-A-Burger? It's a fast food burger place all over the south like Texas, which is sadly not where I live and I live in The Bible Belt of The Midwest in the state of Indiana. If you thought that burger was huge, What-A-Burger had burgers bigger then your hands and they were so good that I couldn't have finished them in 1 sitting. Other fast food places should get the hint and make food bigger so you would be full instead of tiny. Also fun fact, did you know that Red Robin's is owned by the same company behind What-A-Burger? So is the case that Olive Garden and Red Lobster is shared by the same company. Also speaking of Texas, have you ever heard of Buccees? It's a gas station in Texas and it ain't no Thorntons or 7/11, it's fucking huge like the size of a neighborhood Walmart or a Costco and Meijer. I picked up some BBQ sauce, a glow in the dark Halloween shirt and a Buccees stuffed animal and he's so cute. Anyway, I went on for a little bit but if you ever want hear more cool stuff to talk about, let me know and I would love to be a guest on your channel.
The salad shakers were awesome! You could eat your salad on the go. I was never a fan of the dressings, and it was easy to add a little lemon, salt and pepper, and just shake. I was really bummed when they discontinued them.
I wish I could've tried one. It makes really no sense why they wouldn't bring it back in the USA or just any other place that doesn't have it. I'd love one without some dressing
As a McDonald's worker myself, it's really cool to look back at some weird fast food history. I love me some fast food, but some of these are definitely overkill. I already don't eat hot dogs nearly as much as I used to because of how bad they are for you. Just give me some nuggets with ranch and I'll be a happy camper. Hey, another thing, I can confirm that pizza being too long to make is a valid reason for being discontinued. We take our times kinda seriously. We often dislike people who take forever to order food because it jacks up our times. Alright y'all I want the mcrib to die already. It's actually kind of a pain to make, because of the sauce that can cleanse sinuses that gets absolutely everywhere. It doesn't even taste that good unless it's absolutely smothered in the sauce. Why do people like this thing?
I worked at McDonalds when the McRib cycled back onto the menu for a short while and I fucking HATED making it. The messiness of the sauce was the biggest issue for me and my old coworkers and for some reason the smell of it just made me gag
The sauce is the reason, along with the pickles and onions on the bun. I'd say that nothing on the McDonald's menu is meant to be eaten alone, but when combined with other ingredients they're great.
@@the13throse I get that, I have also never been tempted to try it myself. Also, can I just say that it's honestly kind of hilarious that approximately half the items that made this top 10 list were McDonald's?
I actually loved the McSalad Shakers. I remember getting one pretty much every time I went to McDonald’s around 2000. I do agree the look of it was messy but I did like that the cup allowed you to distribute the dressing across the whole thing without having to worry about accidentally tossing some of the lettuce out. Though ya had to be careful not to put too much pressure on the cup when ya shook it or else off comes the lid and out goes your salad and dressing all over yourself and your car.
You keep mentioning the "regular" dipping sauce for the McNuggets, but there has ALWAYS been more than one sauce--Honey, Sweet and Sour, Hot Mustard and Barbecue. Other Barbecue flavors have been added over the years as have Ranch and Honey Mustard.
I think one of the biggest issues with the "salad shaker" is that it didn't come off as anything super special. I remember kids getting the salad bar in school ... the greens came in clamshells, and kids would pile the toppings on it, clip it closed, and shake it while waiting in line. It just wasn't a big novelty. Besides, almost nobody I knew went there and bought salad!
I'm gonna say, the Double Down was pretty damn good and made a decent somewhat keto-friendly thing to eat. If they'd have made it grilled chicken it would probably have been fine.
fast food/unhealthy foods are unfortunately cheaper than healthier options. the way they murder creatures for the products are unethical/ heinous. they’ve also been selling human meat within many places without general public knowledge because the farms* where the meat is processed comes from various parts of the world and isn’t accessible to everyone. they use harmful chemicals to preserve the meat / make it edible. i wonder when creatures such as ourselves will understand and possibly stop these dangerous practices to continue.
@@guppy719 Really? Where I live we never got it, damn. I would have loved to have the absolute ridiculous decadence of chicken as the bun but with low carbs. It would have been a godsend when I was doing Keto!
This is the first video i ever watched of PhantomStrider and I never regret it. Seeing someone as Cheerful and kind as him always makes me smile and happy even if I had a bad day. Thank you so much for all you do. :)
I worked at a Burger King where we tried to do an “upscale menu change”. It was only for about 1 week and the menu featured deep fried shrimp, baked potato, side salad, and a small steak, baked potato, side salad in addition to the regular menu. We had servers that took the orders out to the tables, and the whole idea was stupid. It never took off, but I remember how much training they made us go through to turn BK into a sit down restaurant yet still keep the drive thru open. 🤦♀️ I think we even added steamed fish fillets. It was like LJS and BK joined up for a week.😉
Yep I remember that time, I think it was more like a month. I remember how weird it was to sit at the table and wait for service. I remember I ordered the shrimp basket. It was a pathetic excuse for a shrimp dinner. I know we didn't go back until they were done with that mess.
If I recall, they served popcorn while you waited for your food. I'll give props to BK for trying something new. Not all of your ideas are going to be good ones. And then for quickly dropping it when they realized it was a bad idea.
"The McDonald's salad shakers made it to the USA and Thailand". correction: they also made it to Israel. I remember, I was there, and I LOVED those salads! I was a kid at the time and whenever my parents took me to McDonald's I always asked to get the salad shaker in addition to my meal. I was so disheartened when they discontinued.
One of my first jobs was a McDonald's that sold salad shakers. We had a generous owner operator and it was put on the list of things you could get for a free meal. They had the perfect distribution of ingredients.
im so glad other people loved these as kids! I always say it was a couple years too early, before the apples in kids meals and healthy kick. You had kids eating salads! i think it would do great today!
I am aware that the KFC Double Down is quite unhealthy and odd, but that was one of my favourite limited edition fast food items. It's fine in moderation I guess.
What I don't get is what makes the double down worse than say a triple whopper? What I'm saying is why is THIS particular item STILL to this day the prime example of pure American fast food gluttony when it CAN'T be worse than some of the crap still on menus lol
@@chiarosuburekeni9325 True - the Whooper actually has a few more calories and less protein than a Double Down. I think people see the the fried chicken with bacon and knee jerk while thinking the burger has to be better when it really isn't. They're both rather terrible options. Burgers tend to be deceptive - the buns are often at least 200 calories, then all the sauces on them adds at least a hundred if not way more. The meat has saturated fat and the vegetables are typically non-existent or empty. I mean, it kills me that Wendy's threw a fit over the T-Rex but still sells a triple patty bacon cheese burger or people whined about the Double Down when KFC is all about fried chicken in general... I only ever had the Double Down once. It was good just a massively unhealthy thing to eat like a lot of fast food.
3:40 to be fair, you don't usually get a salad to eat while driving down the road but the McSalad Shaker actually offered that options. Had the salads been more heathful, this would've been brilliant. I still copy this idea myself when making a salad for lunch at work.
I think the most hilarious fast food fail was A&W’s Third Pounder. It was made in an attempt to one-up the McDonald’s Quarter Pounder, but failed because the average fast food customer doesn’t understand fractions and thought a third is smaller than a quarter despite the opposite is true.
I was watching a documentary and some older gentleman was complaining about fast food companies selling quarter-pound hamburgers. He was going on about how it was just too much, that back in his day they had these nice 4 oz patties and that was enough... My dude, that is a quarter-pounder.
I actually really liked the Double Down from KFC. Just... in saying that, I knew how bad it was. At the same time, with the low carb craze currently going on, I'm sure something like that could make a comeback.
Thing is, the McDonald brothers started out with a HOT DOG STAND before doing a burger joint, so them selling a hot dog makes sense but alas Kroc's approach was different from the founders. Also, the world's largest McDonald's you showed isn't in Los Angeles, it's in Orlando, FL. They also serve chicken alfredo at that same location...there to satisfy Florida Man's taste buds
@@RemLasher77 No he died in 1984. Kroc may have been an Ass, but he knew how to how to effectively run a restaurant. One of his biggest things is that he wanted to keep the menu simple, that why he fell in love with McDonald's was the simplicity. To be fair, he hated any new item ever introduced.
yeah we in Orlando have the biggest Checkers and McDonald's and I believe we have the world's biggest white castle now lol if it wasn't so hot we would have the biggest people too
@@kcisthe1st We also have the world's largest Planet Hollywood. Though I don't know how much weight that carries anymore since most of those restaurants closed.
I feel so bad for any families who kids really wanted McDonald’s and ended up having to see some of the insanity the first (or well I guess like 2nd?) sezwain sauce drop was.
Quick correction, Phantom. The “World’s Largest McDonalds” location that you pictured and that DubZero went to is located off of International Drive here in sunny Orlando, Florida. The pizza is cooked in brick ovens, and there are topping options, so it doesn’t necessarily have to be the toppings he showed. They also have pasta.
Kfc had a wrap that eventually got discontinued. It would either be chicken strips, shrimp, and something else I can't recall. The McDonald's McSalad Shaker was pretty ingenious imo. No mess, simple shake and eat, not slurp down lol.
I used to work at a Burger King. And I remember making the cheese tots. It's one of the most unpopular items at Burger King. It takes a total of 3 minutes to cook one bag of them. And even tastes worst when they're old. So, the item only lasts for a total of 3 months. ( and according to me they are disgusting)
Another big issue for the mcpizza was that it was horribly cost inefficient, requiring new drive through windows to be made that could actually fit the box through. Also needing a new oven to be installed. That and imagine the drive through wait times if you were in front of three or so cars wanting a pizza.
When the Double Down first came to the UK, I tried it out of curiosity and it ended up making me sick, so safe to say I haven't tried it since and its only been sold a few limited times.
I remember everyone hating on the Double Down as if it was somehow more unhealthy than a hamburger already is with how processed those buns are. And don't get me wrong, I love a good hamburger. But some people were straight up in denial. "Ewww, it has fried chicken instead of buns, that's so much worse than the bleached, enriched flour a burger normally has!"
I can name three people who would love to have the Wendy's T - Rex as a permanent menu item and be able to eat it more than once: Jughead Jones, Shaggy Roger, and Scooby - Doo.
Back when Mulan was released I was living in Winnipeg, it was basically used as a food testing site before they released they're approoved fixed products unto the world, they used to call the sauce Plum sauce, not szechuan. Also when they were testing the McPizzas, they did so as individual or personal pizzas and only offered 4 flavours (pepperoni, cheese, deluxe, and pineapple) but the reason they gavce for not going that route was they were disapointed with how the pizza sales made their burger sales plummit.
The McDonalds pizza was awesome. I wish they still had it here, and I'd pay the premium to get it. Fun fact about it....the stores had "queueing ovens" brought in to make these. I had a friend that worked at one while we were in high school, and he found something amazing. You could "super-heat" burgers in the ovens for short bursts of time, and not burn them. I used to always order two cheeseburgers and ask to "queue them as code 302" which was the time it would take to do two Big Macs in the oven, instead of the smaller burgers. Completely changes the taste.
I loved the McDonald’s Pizza too. I remember it tasting almost identical to a Pizza Hutt pan pizza, but half the price and to be able to get McDonald’s fries at the same place… win win
I was visiting New York in October 2017, and when I ordered a mcnugget happy meal- the staff gave me this thousand yard stare when they told me they were completely out of any kind of sauce. Turned out it was the night of Szechuan Sauce Day. I felt so bad after I saw the news the next day of what happened
I actually used to love the salad shaker's! I used to eat them for lunch everyday when I was working. Surprisingly the lettuce and all the veggies were always fresh & crisp. The shaker cup insured that every ingredient in the salad was thoroughly coated with dressing. I liked them so much that I bought a reusable salad shaker cup, which I used for a long time.
I'm starting to wonder if the Krusty Krab Pizza and Krusty Dogs from Spongebob were references to the McPizza and McHotdog. Also, "Deep Fried Hedonism" is one of the best phrases I've ever heard
First I was like: „What? The McRib is just sometimes on the menu?” But then you, thankfully, said that it's permanent here in Germany. If you wouldn't have said that I would've needed to actively look it up and I'm way too lazy for that.
I once ordered two "quad stackers" from wendy's. It was basically a 4-patty baconator that was a limited time item. I put them together and ate it. Was full for the REST OF THE DAY; and probably counted as two days of meals by calorie count alone............Worth it.
Those were around when I was in college; occasionally I'd get a double stack but yeah I had a very large buddy who would get TWO quad stackers. I wasn't surprised when he started having heart issues when he was 23.
11:30 I'm laughing because Happy Meals have not changed a bit in the US other than the commercials show the healthiest options - always the tiny, super small fry and apples. But last Friday I left during my lunch hour to get a 6 piece nugget, with double fries as my side (which comes as a normal small) and a soda for my drink. Also got Knuckles from Sonic 2. And shakers were loved because of the fact it took the whole 200+ package of dressing for it to coat evenly. I dip my salad into my dressing though so I'd use the lid as a dressing bowl, and by the end I'd have over 2/3 my dressing left versus everyone else. It definitely wasn't healthy.
I've got a confession: I live in Nova Scotia, Canada, and I have never acquired a taste for lobster or shellfish in general. When I was younger I would try it hoping I'd learn to like it, but I never really did. I actually once even tried the McLobster, which wasn't too bad since the lobster is in small pieces and covered in sauce, but I really don't care for lobster. I don't like the taste, the smell, or the fact it's like eating a giant insect. People keep saying that soon we'll all need to start eating bugs to keep from starving, how can I do that when I don't even like eating lobsters or crabs?
Also McDonald's is about american food. Hotdogs are logical because they're american, and of course, them starting of AS a hotdog stand. (DO correct me if I'm wrong, I'm European.)
The McSpaghetti in the Philippines is actually a competeor to a Filipino fast food chain called Jolibees. They serve Filipino dishes such as Burgersteak and Palabok, but they also sell fried chicken, burgers, and of course, spaghetti.
I will have you know I dropped like 50 pounds as a teenager thanks to the McSalad Ceasar cups! I would walk to the McDonalds by my parents and order one and go halfsies on the dressing. Also at the time once I started driving i would eat those since all the local kids would meet up at the mcdonalds parking lot and it was a hell of a lot better for you than a burger. Like everyone said it was convenient and in a world of bad options it was nice having a choice for once espcially in a cup where you could eat it on the go.
Good on you for getting to a healthier BMI on them 🙂 The ceasar cups might've helped but that also must've taken alot of personal effort and self-discipline on your behalf.
Does anyone remember when Burger King had "Halloween themed" burgers with buns dyed black?? I'm not sure if those were considered a failure but I haven't seen them in a long time.
Ahhh those... I remember those were discontinued in certain places because there were numerous reports of people’s stool being green after eating the Halloween burgers. Social media spread it like wildfire, some people worried about what ELSE could happen if they ate it, and so a lot of places stopped selling them.
@@butterflylatte3079 I heard similar reports about Taco Bells Black Jack tacos, which I actually did eat, though speaking from personal experience my shit never turned green.
If there’s one discontinued fast food item that I want to have back, it’s McDonalds Cinnamon Melts. They were hot, sticky, sweet, gooey, messy and totally unhealthy and I loved them.
10:15 Oh my goodness! I heard about Schezaun Sauce incident. Where Rick & Morty fans never stopped demanding over a sauce at McDonald’s around 2017. It was the craziest thing I ever heard in fast food history! O_o
They were acting like idiots over sauce which to me is just pathetic behavior. And also, I hate that show because I find the characters loathsome and promoting irresponsible behavior.
@@josephrowe849 I know right! That’s the reasons why I found Rick and Morty to be overrated! It’s because how the show got way too pretentious that their viewers act gullible. I used to watch this show once when I was at High School. Because first I like the idea about two characters traveling through different dimensions. Nowadays, after I discovered this Schezaun sauce incident. It made me not want to watch this show again!
Nowadays, I’m glad I watched Gumball instead. Because The Amazing World of Gumball was surprisingly mature and sophisticated compare to Rick and Morty.
The Double Down usually turns up once a year in the UK as a limited time item, so someone must be buying it! Hotdog stuffed pizzas are still a thing over here and are definitely a once in a while treat. The McRib is also still a limited time item in the UK, but it's never really appealed to me.
Actually all of the McDonald's items discontinued elsewhere are still available at the one in my palace, and they're all a hit with its only customer. Just wish mine was as big as the largest one in Orlando but at least I have a PlayPlace and go down the slide with my bro Dennis
Yes. More food stuff, general topics like the old "most dangerous kids toys" type videos. More of whatever you want to do, I hope you have a great week
The "cheesearito" is a standard menu item.....and has been for a long time. It's called a Quesarito, because it's a quesadilla turned used as the tortilla for a burrito. I can order one right this second. 2am on Easter morning. It's $4.19, and 640 calories. Beef, cheese, nacho cheese, sour cream, rice, chipotle sauce, and 2 tortillas.
Yup! Still delicious. It's a "secret" item though. They list it on their website, and have a button for it on the register, and yet they don't put it on their menu directly, really odd.
"Welcome to Mcdonalds! May I take your order?" "Yeah, I'll just have a medium shake." "Ok, great, what shake flavor would you like? Choclate, vanilla, or salad?" "Salad?" "Salad it is, then." "Wait what!? No--" But the person at the front desk was already pouring the customer a fresh cup of salad.
Subscribed after the first second due to your choice of music and the adorable little Boo intro. I can already tell this is gonna be a channel worth keeping up with
11:04 Actually happy meals are still popular in many countries, even the latest Sonic film had a collaboration with mcdonald's and did some themed toys
YES!! YOU GOT THE TRIPLEDECKERONI ON HERE!! I worked as a delivery driver for Pizza Hut a little bit ago and I swear, at least once a day, I'd have customers asking when we'd bring the TripleDeckeroni back. 🤣 Good on you, Phantom!
I'll be honest with you here, Strider. As an American, I can most certainly confirm that we have more than a bit of a problem with fast foods that could potentially cause health problems. Examples of this are the Meat Mountain from Arby's, the Triple Down from KFC, and the entire menu of a restaurant that is literally called Heart Attack Grill. I'm not joking about that last one, unfortunately.
You say that as if people are regularly eating meat mountains or at the heart attack grill. It's a novelty. Heart attack grill knows they're unhealthy and they make it known to the customer, it's the whole theme of the restaurant
@@slimer2135 you do have a fair point. However, my point of bringing these up wasn't to make it seem like it's a regular occurrence that people would be eating stuff like the meat mountain or the Bypass Burgers from Heart Attack Grill. I was simply using those as examples to make my point that there is an issue.
I think it's the barbecue sauce. Try it! See what you think! Although, I think the tricky part is getting to taste LIKE McDonald's, bc if you have never tasted it, you don't know what your shooting for. Just make it until you like how it tastes. :)
Fun fact: Look at the ingredients list for the original Szechuan sauce from 1998 and the re-release that cost someone their life. They're not even the same sauce. People were scalping, attacking, and even going as far as to stab one another...and it wasn't even the same sauce!
That's even more sad.
People are willing to kill each other for sauce ?!?!
What's in it ?
Crack ?
@@errorbirdesther perhaps
*Remembers the people getting into fights over Popeye's chicken sandwiches*
...not surprising. People are friggin idiots when it comes to consumer products.
@@CryoJnik I remember someone calling the Popeyes chicken sandwich the crack sandwich
Just wanted to add the KFC is the mad lad of fast food. When people in America voiced their concerns with how unhealthy fast food really was, restaurants took action by introducing healthier menu items or removing terrible options, like McDonald's removing the super size option. KFC was like "here's some fried chicken sandwiched between two glazed donuts. Screw you."
Check out Patton Oswalt talking about kfc. Absolutely hilarious how they doubled down on everything we’re not supposed to eat (:
I feel like other being fried the Double Chicken is healthier than a sandwich with buns. I could see myself slamming one of these after a good workout. Or anyone cutting carbs, wanting protien...
@@claytonalexander9105 Good luck cutting carbs by eating what is essentially four pieces of bread on one sandwich. The stuff on the outside of breaded fried chicken... is... bread. You don't just throw pieces of chicken in a fryer and end up with what they use as the "bun" on the fried Double Down.
@@MegaZeta Im not sure how you figured dredging a chicken breast in less than a couple grams of Flour is equal to a single piece of bread in carbs, let alone 4 pieces of bread but you might want to rethink this...
Those events are separated by like a decade...
"There's no telling what's inside a hot dog skin!"
And there is for all their other products?
plus like, he was literally the owner so wouldn't he be able to choose how he makes his hotdog recipe?? so there literally is a way for him to know what's inside lmao
@@tidepodpadthai2633 I mean, a guy could just.... change the recipe under his nose.
@@zacharyriley4561 i mean they put hot dogs on the menu once he died anyway so it's kind of a moot point
@@tidepodpadthai2633 Fair.
@@zacharyriley4561 Companies do this all the time. Step 1: Put out new, quality product. Get people hooked and happy and telling their friends. Step 2: Gradually reduce the quality of the ingredients. Let the hype carry your increasingly inferior product through its mid-life period. Step 3: If the public ever catches on and gets sick of the now-dumpy product, repeat from step 1.
Should be freaking illegal; instead, it's the done thing because... line must go up, rich fucks must have mo' money.
The most surprising fact about the KFC double-down that came out when it was available was that compared to other fast food it actually wasn't that high in fat or calories.
Yeah, because
(1) all the comparable items were ALSO a grotesque amount of fat and calories, and (2) the Double Down was ~95% of that combined with enough sodium that it probably qualified as a murder weapon if given to those at risk of a heart attack.
@@MegaZeta 540 calories for the original and 460 for the grilled option. Right on par with a Big Mac.
Bet that was delicious. However short-lived that it was,KFC had it really been selling those out...and.... had a hard time keeping up with supply and demand.....and..... eventually couldn't keep up.
To be discontinued.....
Bummer.
What once started out as a prank. KFC hadn't expected them - or for IT - to be more than they could....uhhh....eat?
Sell much more than they could supply their customers for us to enjoy with?
I don't know..
But Low on repsect for animals 😂
I Love my meat but this was too much.
I didn't know that
As an employee (shift manager) at McDonald's at the time of the Szechuan sauce ordeal, it was pretty much a shit show frankly. I worked in a lower traffic store and we got hounded by callers looking for the stuff pretty frequently. Very strange time to be employed at McD's at the time lol
they brought it back again recently so im sure its as bad now
Used to work as a cashier and we got flooded with customers last year when we had those pokemon cards for happy meal toys. We had people asking for an extra one and eventually we were told we had to stop allowing people to do that
yeaah I was fired a week before this fiasco. dodged a bullet there.
@@kitsdollies2466 sorry you were fired but damn must've felt good to be on the outside laughing at the fiasco after. I feel bad for the shit fast food workers have to deal with.
I work retail which is shit enough but I refuse to work.food in grocery or fast food because of the assholes customers can be and how food is so much more subjective to set assholes off
@@Kakmanmartinez666 I worked though that one it was a nightmare so many happy meals they raised the prices for happy meals for the toys run through and had to limit just the toy to five
As a food junkie, most if not all of the items on this list have me insatiably hungry.
Keep it up, Strider. Feed the food junkies and they will feed you in return.
Most of the food on the list bring joy, and diabetes
"Food junkie"? Isn't that called a "foodie"?
@@parker-boy98 😐
Same
@@parker-boy98 i think foodies likes real food, not these craps.
The MChotdog is the equivalent of Krusty Dogs from SpongeBob.
That could be what inspired that episode.
That was a funny episode
"12 Inches of deliciousness"
@@cjnewman7550 I watched that exact episode with my dad once and we both died laughing at that line.
@@BridgetGX same, laughed my heart out at that
I actually liked the Salad Shakers- it made it easy to distribute dressing easily across the entire salad. Nowadays if I get a salad and it comes in a container that seals, I'll still shake it.
Same, honestly I use the same technique for salads at home.
Me too !! 😮
Totally. Me too. And isn’t that almost the exact thing the Kardashians made famous decades later. And the double chicken patty sandwich with no bun?? Isn’t that Keto Item nowadays?
From what I heard, the mclobster was quickly cancelled because they did it as an all-you-can-eat item... And a lot of people made use of that. But, big shock, the lobster was so expensive they quickly had to deal with shortages, threatening to become a really big problem in mcdonalds success as a business. So yeah, stupid idea with expected results
From what I heard it was disgustingly salty and got discontinued here in Maine due to that and the lack of sales
i know it had been brought back a few times. failed here in maine because it was too salty and expensive
Something about McDonald's selling something that is usually a delicacy is a turnoff.
they discontinued cinnabites, idk how many people remember those but they were so damn good
Where did you hear this? I can't find anything about McDonald's ever doing all you can eat.
I actually miss the period when fast food companies tried to be innovative, by creating completely new dishes.
And every time they do now, it's limited time with some exceptions like the doritos locos tacos
@@totallytidmouth yeah, but usually it's some Popular Name slapped on one of their regular menu items with a few things added in. yeah i miss when they actually tried something different.
Taco Bell still kinda does that. I should know, I used to have to make their innovations lol. I liked eating them, I didn't really like making them though. Of course they're mostly just limited time but it's still an innovation.
Now every fast food place is trying to recreate the same chicken sandwich :/
Capitalism thrive on routine and repetition.
The McDonald’s salad shakers actually is a good idea. And it’s unfortunate that they stopped it. It seems like a lot of fast food places are removing any slightly healthy items
I’m pretty sure the exact opposite has happened over the last decade or so. Sure, they canceled the salad shaker but also eventually added like 5 or 6 full-on salad meals. I’m pretty sure the majority of fast-food restaurants have added a number of “healthy” menu items. The rise of fast-casual restaurants, like Chipotle or Panera, was heavily influenced by a societal shift towards healthier eating. Even KFC, who hilariously introduced a sandwich that substituted bread for donuts, added grilled chicken to their menu.
Fast food is not really healthy for anyone. From Ms. Harper Stacey.
The salads there have pretty much the same calorie count and nearly the fat count of their burgers. Mc Donald's just isn't healthy
I always like them.
MOST Americans, HELL starts with FAST FOOD... DIEING WITH THOSE CHEMICALS PLAGUEING THE SOLE, A SKIN... IS HELL AFTER DEATH.
In 1996 McDonald's introduced a short-lived burger called the Arch Deluxe, which was marketed as a burger for adults. It had a special white sauce on it. I remember having one-- I was no older than 12 at the time-- and I thought it was pretty good. I wish I could have an Arch Deluxe again, I still remember that burger 25 years later and kind of miss it still.
I remember that burger. Remember the Mc DLT? With the hot patty on one side and the cold toppings on the other?
The Arch Deluxe was a tasty burger indeed. So were their more recent Angus gourmet burgers. 🙁
Is there anything phantom can't do, he's juggles, jogs, is an excellent writer and has unique and hilarious videos with so much variety
I hear he also joggles, wherein he juggles while jogging.
I heard he also has the almighty banana from the DKC (no seriously you can find him in the Irish Cartoons video)
Everything he upload is great! And that's a fact!
Aw 😄 Thanks Knossu. I try. I'm very lucky to have an audience like yourself that finds my vids interesting.
The first video I watched was 10 darkest Thomas the tank engine episodes. Brilliant my dude
The salad shaker was a wonderful easy salad and a wonderful container that you could keep in a cup holder. You referred twice to regular dipping sauce, I've never heard of regular dipping sauce all the dipping sauces I've ever seen at McDonald's has some flavor name attached to it.
That bugged me too
I will not eat salad shakes because sloppy employees exist and i might accidentally eat a rotten pieces of salad
There's Ketchup, Mustard, Mayo, Tartar, Big Mac, Tangy BBQ, Spicy Buffalo, Creamy Ranch, Honey Mustard, Honey, Sweet 'N Sour, and a handful of seasonal or special burger sauces. There is no 'regular mcnugget dipping sauce'. He also made it sound like Happy Meals aren't, you know, still a thing.
@@TheAtemAndrew If I had to guess, "regular dipping sauce" is probably the BBQ sauce? The szechaun sauce has a similar dark brown color and shine to the BBQ. Also it's sometimes the default. When I was a kid who ordered chicken nuggets and didn't specify what sauce I wanted, I usually got barbeque.
@@SheilaDeBonis Where're you from? Here in germany the default is sweet-n-sour
I remembered the Szechuan Sauce chaos at McDonald's. There was a huge line of people mostly made up of college students who were ranting and getting angry with each other. It was my first day at my first job working at McDonalds. I actually thought hey had like 50 sauces and was hoping for management to reserve some for us workers, but unfortunately that wasn't the case.
You made a typo and got a heart... I feel you.
yep. even as a current mcdonald’s worker, i’m not entirely sure what happened, but for an afternoon, we received a case of 50~ packets of szechuan. wasn’t advertised, but it sold out in a few hours anyway. luckily, we managed to avoid any major scuffles, just a lot of rude comments once word spread.
Next time if they decide to add the Szechuan sauce with cyanide pills. To the Rick and Morty fans.
They brought it back temporarily as an app-only item. It wasn’t even good. It was almost exactly the same as the sweet and sour sauce, with a bit of teriyaki taste mixed in. As some have pointed out as well, it wasn’t even the original recipe they used for the rerelease either.
Reserve it yourself
The salad shaker was a brilliant innovation. It distributed the dressing better than any other method ever tried. Innovation is always under attack from jealous small-minded people who will never create anything in their lives. They can only tear down the creativity of others.
The salad shaker was my favorite thing from McDonald’s I was devastated when they discontinued it. I liked being able to shake up the salad because it distributed the dressing perfectly. Good times lol
He’s wrong about this one lol. I was in high school and super into diet and fitness when this existed. My parents liked to eat fast food and I actually really liked this salad shaker as a way to just get something less horrible from McD. Sure it was a little weird but it tasted just like a yummy salad.
@@sonialinsey8083 It was so good! At that time that would be the only thing I ordered too.
@@eruantian8648 They should have been brought it back!!! Lol
KFC picked that up and ran it for a few years until they suddenly discontinued it along with the krushers and so on. They even put cabbage and corn in it, loved it with the popcorn chicken add-on. Had no idea it was a mcdonalds thing until recently.
@@netanyamusic Oh wow
This man got me through middle school a couple years back, glad to see he’s still doing great as ever.
Your middle school years seem kinda sad cuz this dude sucks. This whole video is just a rehash of material that other channels have already done better and with less mistakes.
Got you through middle school?
Whoa
"Fast food is popular because it's convenient, it's cheap, and it tastes good. But the real cost of eating fast food never appears on the menu" - Ronald McDonald
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@@GoofyAhh-sn8llNow he has two comments.
It's not convenient or cheap anymore
Nor even particularly fast.
@@MrSlendyMannnNow it has 3
honestly I could see why they think the mc salad shaker was a good idea. it's an easy way to get the dressing evently coated over everything instead of haphazardly driziled on your top layer and top layer only. it also makes it look like you have way more salad.
The McSalad may have been ugly but I actually really liked it. By shaking the salad, it perfectly distributed the dressing on each bite of the salad. Even when they took them away I made my own in mason jars 😊
I've watched a bunch of TH-cam videos of McDonald's in other countries and people shake their salads in whatever container they come in. I don't know if the dressing is as evenly distributed that way, but you definitely don't need a cup or jar to shake your salad. It does make eating on the go much easier though so I like your idea.
@@myopiniondoesntmatterh9073 For some reason, it's just not the same as shaking a cup. I don't know why, but shaking that cup/jar was much more "natural".
I loved them as well, I was about 10 and the act of shaking it was fun and the dressing was actually really tasty as well. Probably not healthy lmao
Yea the salad was cool . I liked that it wasnt a weird shaped bowl. Carrying food for 4 people home in weird shaped containers is a bother, but these could go in the soda bags.
yeah it wasnt a failure, it was pretty good on every front. it just wasnt successful enough to become a permanent item which rarely happens with special items
I worked at McDonald's while in highschool from 99-03. Every employee, including myself, loved the salad shaker! It was great to have a tasty and healthier option for our free meal during breaks! When you work 5 days a week, eating normal menu items everyday is not good for you at all. The shakers changed that.
I worked at McDonald’s as a teen too in 2014 and I loved their salads for the same reason! And the southwest salad was soo good.
Ya I loved the Mcsalad shaker..
I worked during the same time. Like the shakers also. Remember the breakfast bagels? Those things were so good.
Uh... those arent good for you either.
I worked at McDonalds in 1999-2000 and remember these very well.
Not that there were any good choices there, but you're only fooling yourself if you think that is healthy.
A bigmac is 690 calories and one of these is like 500... at best.
@@gregpeloquin6345 low calorie doesn’t equal healthy. If u had to eat there every day a salad with high calorie dressing would feel much better to your body in general than a big greasy cheesy bready burger.
The fact that I'll never know what McPizza tasted like keeps me up at night.
Sad Hours.
Probably something between a frozen pizza and lunchables
Same
What ever happened to pizza at McDonald's?
You’re not missing anything. I had it multiple times as a kid.
Mini McPizzas are a secret menu item in some places, since all the stuff except the sauce is readily available. It depends on if someone there knows how to make it.
About 15 years ago when I worked there my manager showed me how to make them.
The crust is just the biscuit dough, shredded cheese is on hand, and so is steak, chicken, ham, and bacon.
The sauce is the tricky part, I recommend BBQ sauce and a bit of ketchup.
You bake it in the toaster ovens for a few minutes.
There's actually a chain called Pepper Lunch that offers something like the McSalad Shakers, that they called their shake salad. I got it alongside one of my usual meals from them (their main entrees are DIY Japanese teppan cuisine) and it was a neat novelty!
I seen that and they look good
This feels like a grubhub commercial with the McSalad Shakers.
I worked at McDonald’s when they were selling the Szechuan sauce and I remember this ONTOP of coworkers stealing BOXES full. They were literally carrying out giant boxes of the sauce, stealing it, to try to sell it. I remember shaking my head A LOT about this WHOLE situation. AND as a Disney fan, I also remember saying a lot, “ITS FROM MULAN!” Lmao
I worked at McDonalds when the McRib had cycled back into the menu for a short while, and I hated having to make it when it was ordered. It was an overly messy ordeal with the barbeque sauce and the smell just made me nauseous 🤢
That's interesting because you're not the first person to mention the smell was awful 😮I wonder if the smell was part of what made McRib not bring it back? 🤔
@@phantomstrider I wouldn't be surprised if it was the smell that kept it from sticking around for too long
Yeah, the McRib isn't even real rib meat. Just pork shaped into a slab of ribs.
@@phantomstrider It's like walking into a freshly fully bleached room, except with barbecue sauce. You stick it into the microwave with a lid on. When it's done, you take it out, stir it, and stick it back in. Then it will promptly cleanse your sins through your nostrils. It's weird because we have to temp it too as well as the actual mcribs. I mean it's not that it's a really bad smell, it's just that it's really really strong.
Idk, I think it smells pretty good, but that’s just me
The McLobster was originally called the Lobster Roll.
I loved the triple decker pizza, the stuffed crust pizza, i remember the Mc Salad Shaker because it was a snack salad offered along side their fullsized McSalads.
I remember those salad shakers. You put your salad dressing on top, put the lid on to shake it, and the theory was the dressing would coat your salad evenly. In reality, the top few dressing-soaked leaves adhered themselves to the lid and the rest of the salad was left dry. After you made that mistake with the first one, you just added it bit by bit as you ate your way down. It was a salad made inconvenient.
Filipino here
Filipino-style spaghetti is starkly different from traditional Italian as you said in your video. The spaghetti that I grew up with is the sweeter, meatier version which is similar to McSpaghetti or the Jollibee spaghetti (the Philippines fast food chain)
I also tried the BK cheesy tots; I wasn’t impressed
I will never understand the combination of meat and sweetness :D but i didnt grew up with it ^^.
dont they use a banana rather than tomato based sauce too?
I am going to the Philippines soon to marry my fiance. I met her here in America when she was on vacation visiting her sister 4 years ago. I wanted to go before now but I had to fight a legal battle with the state of California over a gun charge I am not even a residentof that state. I was looking at 10 years in prison even though I had my concealed carry license. I also took my gun completely apart and placed the separate components in different areas. I beat the case bc of that fact. Anyway then covid hit and that delyed me until now. She is the sweetest woman ever but I just hope the food is better than it looks lol. I think if its not that good we will have a pig roast every day lol.
ayyy a fellow Filipino that enjoys Jollibee
@@benedwards4466 how'd the wedding go?
Man, I miss the salad in a cup. The thing you're missing was it was something you could eat with your hands, no lap required like with a traditional salad. That alone was invaluable. Plus, they tasted pretty good.
What is “lap?”
I can give you the lowdown on the McSalad Shakers: They were designed for you to shake before eating; so you can distribute the salad dressing as you're shaking. Before the McSalad Shakers, the salad came in a plastic container. Most people (including me) squeezed the salad dessing on the salad, close the lid and shake the salad to coat the salad with dressing.
PS: I drove my sister crazy every time I shook my salad!!
Something tells me your sister was happy you weren't tossing HER salad.
I hate salad regardless fight me tomatoes lettuce and if u put it on there onions are disgusting
I remember when McDonald's had been selling them for some customers to "eat healthy to follow the McDonald's diet" . As if it would sell a lot of them for many McDonald's customers to eat healthy.
At any fast-food place.
Compared to what's exactly IN them.....of what McDonald's do always serve.
I should know. I USED to ❤ McDonald's. Especially their 🍟. You just can't beat their wonderful potatoes.
I've eaten many fast food fries from Five Guys, Wendy's, Whataburger,and Dairy Queen.
Only Whataburger can rival them.
All others cannot even compete with them.
And as far as KFC is concerned, it's the skin that gives it flavor.
Original or crispy.
Those were the days.
Unfortunately it had backfired, because of all the plastic it McDonald's were also producing......and throwing them away in the trash.
Instant of recycling them.
It has been costing McDonald's money.
So they discontinued it.
@@rareblues78daddy😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂.
@@rareblues78daddythis got me geeked 💀💀💀
We still had the McLobster in Atlantic Canada for YEARS! I worked there in 2003 and older people always ordered it. It looked disgusting but was very popular. I don't know if they still sell it during the summer or not.
Just commented on the McLobster as it could be considered a regional item such as the McSpaghetti and McRib, except the region is New England (USA) and possibly eastern Canada. Last I saw the McLobster on the menu was in Summer 2019.
I'm not the healthiest eater by any means, but I gotta say, most of these items grossed me out, seeing them here. The T-rex burger made my chest hurt, just looking at it.
Glad I got to try some "Szechuan sauce", though. It wasn't bad stuff. I even kept a couple unopened packets from the post-controversy resurgence as a memento.
I knew I'd groan as Strider talks about that abomination of a burger. I'm not the healthiest eater, either, but I know that the items were both disgusting and out of place.
I know how you feel about that Trex burger. Made me gag just looking at it. It's no wonder Wendy's stepped in and said stop it once word got out about it.
My favorite burger is a single patty bacon cheeseburger. That alone makes me feel like a pig. Trying to eat a double patty burger is worse. The fact we still sell a three-patty burger doesn't bode well for our bloated obese nation. But 9? That's a crime against humanity. There are people starving all over the world, hell in THIS country, and people are shoveling enough food down to feed 9 people in one sitting? Excuse me while I jump off a building.
@@Craxin01 We can do like what Sam Kenison had once said,"MOVE SOMEWHERE WHERE THE FOOD IS, YOU LIVE IN THE DESERT, MOVE TO WHERE THE FOOD IS, AAAAH AAAAAH!!!!"
I don't even know how you're supposed to EAT that monstrosity they called the T Rex Burger, to be honest. I recently got a burger with 3 patties on it and was having a hard time even taking a bite of it; and I also remember when Burger King introduced their "stacker" burgers for the first time and being shocked and a little turned off by their quadruple patty version of that thing. And yet somehow, the T Rex Burger puts even THAT to shame!
This confirms it! I could listen to him talking about literally anything and still be interested in the information.
Thank you! 😀 I really enjoyed covering a different topic and am looking forward to covering different stuff in the future!
@@phantomstrider I really enjoyed your videos and your like the love child of Fred Rogers and Steve Irwin. Some of these items sound really good to me but the thing I am most pissed off about was Wendy's getting rid of that T-Rex Burger cause I love meat and seeing that reminds me of Scooby-Doo when they would eat giant sandwiches and it always made me hungry, that and Garfield of course. Granted, I wouldn't eat it everyday unlike my mom aka The Fat Lesbian, but maybe on a Friday night. Also, have you heard of What-A-Burger? It's a fast food burger place all over the south like Texas, which is sadly not where I live and I live in The Bible Belt of The Midwest in the state of Indiana. If you thought that burger was huge, What-A-Burger had burgers bigger then your hands and they were so good that I couldn't have finished them in 1 sitting. Other fast food places should get the hint and make food bigger so you would be full instead of tiny. Also fun fact, did you know that Red Robin's is owned by the same company behind What-A-Burger? So is the case that Olive Garden and Red Lobster is shared by the same company. Also speaking of Texas, have you ever heard of Buccees? It's a gas station in Texas and it ain't no Thorntons or 7/11, it's fucking huge like the size of a neighborhood Walmart or a Costco and Meijer. I picked up some BBQ sauce, a glow in the dark Halloween shirt and a Buccees stuffed animal and he's so cute. Anyway, I went on for a little bit but if you ever want hear more cool stuff to talk about, let me know and I would love to be a guest on your channel.
The salad shakers were awesome! You could eat your salad on the go. I was never a fan of the dressings, and it was easy to add a little lemon, salt and pepper, and just shake. I was really bummed when they discontinued them.
Same! Loved those!
I wish I could've tried one. It makes really no sense why they wouldn't bring it back in the USA or just any other place that doesn't have it. I'd love one without some dressing
As a McDonald's worker myself, it's really cool to look back at some weird fast food history. I love me some fast food, but some of these are definitely overkill. I already don't eat hot dogs nearly as much as I used to because of how bad they are for you. Just give me some nuggets with ranch and I'll be a happy camper.
Hey, another thing, I can confirm that pizza being too long to make is a valid reason for being discontinued. We take our times kinda seriously. We often dislike people who take forever to order food because it jacks up our times.
Alright y'all I want the mcrib to die already. It's actually kind of a pain to make, because of the sauce that can cleanse sinuses that gets absolutely everywhere. It doesn't even taste that good unless it's absolutely smothered in the sauce. Why do people like this thing?
I worked at McDonalds when the McRib cycled back onto the menu for a short while and I fucking HATED making it. The messiness of the sauce was the biggest issue for me and my old coworkers and for some reason the smell of it just made me gag
The sauce is the reason, along with the pickles and onions on the bun. I'd say that nothing on the McDonald's menu is meant to be eaten alone, but when combined with other ingredients they're great.
The McRib always looked like something they'd serve at my high school's cafeteria, so it never looked very appetizing to me
@@the13throse I get that, I have also never been tempted to try it myself. Also, can I just say that it's honestly kind of hilarious that approximately half the items that made this top 10 list were McDonald's?
So do you guys really urinate on the pickles, or is it just spit?
I actually loved the McSalad Shakers. I remember getting one pretty much every time I went to McDonald’s around 2000. I do agree the look of it was messy but I did like that the cup allowed you to distribute the dressing across the whole thing without having to worry about accidentally tossing some of the lettuce out. Though ya had to be careful not to put too much pressure on the cup when ya shook it or else off comes the lid and out goes your salad and dressing all over yourself and your car.
I feel like that happened to you
Me too!!
2 hands like a bartender shaking a cocktail.
I also remember they somehow managed to get like 18 grams of sugar into their salad
@@thomasjefferson1883 The sauce, it's always the sauce!
The most offending to me was the McSalad Shaker, if they had the option with olive oil or lemon juice I would've instantly picked that one.
Honestly, the Insider Pizza is the best. I love pepperoni pizza
Edit: I think the Cini Minnis are the best now, but they both might be great
this idea was salvaged by a hayashi rice chain store from Japan and they're still selling it as a side item now
@@puzzlefischer1205 Thats nice to hear, thank you for the info Lio Fotia from the hit movie Promare
We had the Mcsallad shakers in sweden and the caesar sallad was pretty good
Because oil is healthy as long as it's from an olive!
(granted, it is _healthier,_ but remember it's still oil)
You keep mentioning the "regular" dipping sauce for the McNuggets, but there has ALWAYS been more than one sauce--Honey, Sweet and Sour, Hot Mustard and Barbecue. Other Barbecue flavors have been added over the years as have Ranch and Honey Mustard.
Ranch is a classic standard for nuggets and tenders. Pretty sure it was there from the start.
I think one of the biggest issues with the "salad shaker" is that it didn't come off as anything super special. I remember kids getting the salad bar in school ... the greens came in clamshells, and kids would pile the toppings on it, clip it closed, and shake it while waiting in line. It just wasn't a big novelty. Besides, almost nobody I knew went there and bought salad!
I'm gonna say, the Double Down was pretty damn good and made a decent somewhat keto-friendly thing to eat. If they'd have made it grilled chicken it would probably have been fine.
A grilled version actually existed for a while.
Thats what i was thinking
I enjoyed the DD my self and was sad to see it go.
fast food/unhealthy foods are unfortunately cheaper than healthier options.
the way they murder creatures for the products are unethical/ heinous.
they’ve also been selling human meat within many places without general public knowledge because the farms* where the meat is processed comes from various parts of the world and isn’t accessible to everyone.
they use harmful chemicals to preserve the meat / make it edible.
i wonder when creatures such as ourselves will understand and possibly stop these dangerous practices to continue.
@@guppy719 Really? Where I live we never got it, damn. I would have loved to have the absolute ridiculous decadence of chicken as the bun but with low carbs. It would have been a godsend when I was doing Keto!
One man's "worst failure" is another's gourmet treat, apparently.
This is the first video i ever watched of PhantomStrider and I never regret it. Seeing someone as Cheerful and kind as him always makes me smile and happy even if I had a bad day. Thank you so much for all you do. :)
I worked at a Burger King where we tried to do an “upscale menu change”. It was only for about 1 week and the menu featured deep fried shrimp, baked potato, side salad, and a small steak, baked potato, side salad in addition to the regular menu. We had servers that took the orders out to the tables, and the whole idea was stupid. It never took off, but I remember how much training they made us go through to turn BK into a sit down restaurant yet still keep the drive thru open. 🤦♀️ I think we even added steamed fish fillets. It was like LJS and BK joined up for a week.😉
@@lifequest7453 I remember Ponderosa, it was called a steakhouse during my time, it was very good!
Yep I remember that time, I think it was more like a month. I remember how weird it was to sit at the table and wait for service. I remember I ordered the shrimp basket. It was a pathetic excuse for a shrimp dinner. I know we didn't go back until they were done with that mess.
If I recall, they served popcorn while you waited for your food. I'll give props to BK for trying something new. Not all of your ideas are going to be good ones. And then for quickly dropping it when they realized it was a bad idea.
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! I bet it was a nightmare. Especially for BK Corporation. A PR disaster.
"The McDonald's salad shakers made it to the USA and Thailand". correction: they also made it to Israel. I remember, I was there, and I LOVED those salads! I was a kid at the time and whenever my parents took me to McDonald's I always asked to get the salad shaker in addition to my meal. I was so disheartened when they discontinued.
You could also get them in Scandinavia :)
One of my first jobs was a McDonald's that sold salad shakers.
We had a generous owner operator and it was put on the list of things you could get for a free meal.
They had the perfect distribution of ingredients.
im so glad other people loved these as kids! I always say it was a couple years too early, before the apples in kids meals and healthy kick. You had kids eating salads! i think it would do great today!
Did it come with foreskins in the Israeli version?
I am aware that the KFC Double Down is quite unhealthy and odd, but that was one of my favourite limited edition fast food items. It's fine in moderation I guess.
I enjoyed the double down TBH
I preferd it that way
What I don't get is what makes the double down worse than say a triple whopper? What I'm saying is why is THIS particular item STILL to this day the prime example of pure American fast food gluttony when it CAN'T be worse than some of the crap still on menus lol
@@chiarosuburekeni9325 True - the Whooper actually has a few more calories and less protein than a Double Down. I think people see the the fried chicken with bacon and knee jerk while thinking the burger has to be better when it really isn't. They're both rather terrible options. Burgers tend to be deceptive - the buns are often at least 200 calories, then all the sauces on them adds at least a hundred if not way more. The meat has saturated fat and the vegetables are typically non-existent or empty. I mean, it kills me that Wendy's threw a fit over the T-Rex but still sells a triple patty bacon cheese burger or people whined about the Double Down when KFC is all about fried chicken in general...
I only ever had the Double Down once. It was good just a massively unhealthy thing to eat like a lot of fast food.
I loved the double down, too. And, yes, would only eat it now and again. Wish they still made it, though
3:40 to be fair, you don't usually get a salad to eat while driving down the road but the McSalad Shaker actually offered that options. Had the salads been more heathful, this would've been brilliant. I still copy this idea myself when making a salad for lunch at work.
Still dumb to shake it
I think the most hilarious fast food fail was A&W’s Third Pounder. It was made in an attempt to one-up the McDonald’s Quarter Pounder, but failed because the average fast food customer doesn’t understand fractions and thought a third is smaller than a quarter despite the opposite is true.
That’s actually funny as hell 😆 I have a triple digit IQ and I eat a fuck ton of fast food so it’s unironically hilarious 😂
I believe it...I can't tell how many times a day I explain basic math to people.
@@littlesongbird1 My mom told me about it.
I was watching a documentary and some older gentleman was complaining about fast food companies selling quarter-pound hamburgers. He was going on about how it was just too much, that back in his day they had these nice 4 oz patties and that was enough...
My dude, that is a quarter-pounder.
I actually really liked the Double Down from KFC. Just... in saying that, I knew how bad it was. At the same time, with the low carb craze currently going on, I'm sure something like that could make a comeback.
The low carb craze predated the double down by a decade or more. Perhaps you haven't heard of the Atkins diet
It's not exactly low carb when you consider the breading on the chicken.
Thing is, the McDonald brothers started out with a HOT DOG STAND before doing a burger joint, so them selling a hot dog makes sense but alas Kroc's approach was different from the founders. Also, the world's largest McDonald's you showed isn't in Los Angeles, it's in Orlando, FL. They also serve chicken alfredo at that same location...there to satisfy Florida Man's taste buds
Is Kroc still alive? If not re-release the McHotdog as a massive up your’s to that stick in the mud.
Ah Florida man wished heart attack? Good.
@@RemLasher77 No he died in 1984. Kroc may have been an Ass, but he knew how to how to effectively run a restaurant. One of his biggest things is that he wanted to keep the menu simple, that why he fell in love with McDonald's was the simplicity. To be fair, he hated any new item ever introduced.
yeah we in Orlando have the biggest Checkers and McDonald's and I believe we have the world's biggest white castle now lol if it wasn't so hot we would have the biggest people too
@@kcisthe1st We also have the world's largest Planet Hollywood. Though I don't know how much weight that carries anymore since most of those restaurants closed.
I feel so bad for any families who kids really wanted McDonald’s and ended up having to see some of the insanity the first (or well I guess like 2nd?) sezwain sauce drop was.
It was like a bunch of crackheads trying to get the last coke left on Earth. Absolute madness. Can't even imagine how bad it would be now.
@@feraltaco4783 agreed
Quick correction, Phantom. The “World’s Largest McDonalds” location that you pictured and that DubZero went to is located off of International Drive here in sunny Orlando, Florida. The pizza is cooked in brick ovens, and there are topping options, so it doesn’t necessarily have to be the toppings he showed. They also have pasta.
And pastries. I go there almost every time I visit Orlando. (I live 40 minutes away from there.)
I COULD HAVE A MCPIZZA HERE?!
Thanks for the directions. Will be helpful if I actually get to go to Florida this year
I noticed that mistake too.
That's the one that's got all the wild stuff on the menu like a Philly Cheesesteak, right?
A mc hotdog? Good lord that sounds repulsive 🥶
The cini mins didn’t look that bad. They remind me the smaller version of the cinnamon buns from IKEA which I love their cinnamon buns
my mom was devastated when this got discontinued...
@@ashitomarisu well the cinnamon buns from IKEA and Cinnabon are still there. If your mom craves those you can pass by these places.
I tried it. I don’t remember how it tasted but I probably didn’t like it
In my opinion, the cini minis are probably the best one on the list.
I didn't know there was another brand of Cini Minis. Here in Europe Cinnamon Toast Crunch is known as Cini Minis
Kfc had a wrap that eventually got discontinued. It would either be chicken strips, shrimp, and something else I can't recall. The McDonald's McSalad Shaker was pretty ingenious imo. No mess, simple shake and eat, not slurp down lol.
The Twister! I used to love those when I was little
I'm pretty sure they actually still do twisters in the UK and they are surprisingly tasty
@@dylanstephens524 they actually have the twister wrap by me again. No shrimp haha. Ut spicy and regular chicken.
@@MiBrCo4177 pretty sure it's the same for me but I'm not complaining
Have you tried stirring something solid in a large verticle container???
The Double Down is actually still available as a standard item in Puerto Rico. The few times that I go to KFC I order it and I love it.
I had one here in Spain maybe last year. I'm pretty sure they're on the menu a few times a year as a special.
My country (at Malaysia) also sell two type of Double Down.
1. KFC Double Down (Original)
2. KFC Double Down (Chezilla)
@@mazinquartz9781 oh really?!? Whats the difference?
@@justaguy1253 well the difference is they adding some cheese patty (maybe) into Double Down.
I used to work at a Burger King. And I remember making the cheese tots. It's one of the most unpopular items at Burger King. It takes a total of 3 minutes to cook one bag of them. And even tastes worst when they're old. So, the item only lasts for a total of 3 months. ( and according to me they are disgusting)
No way lmao everyone loves those from what I’ve seen maybe nkt to make I’ve never worked fast food lol but to eat hell ye
Former Pizza Hut employee here: have to confirm, we did in fact try to stuff the crust with the kitchen sink at one point.
Another big issue for the mcpizza was that it was horribly cost inefficient, requiring new drive through windows to be made that could actually fit the box through. Also needing a new oven to be installed.
That and imagine the drive through wait times if you were in front of three or so cars wanting a pizza.
When the Double Down first came to the UK, I tried it out of curiosity and it ended up making me sick, so safe to say I haven't tried it since and its only been sold a few limited times.
I think the only food that made me sick would probably be the pulled pork sandwich from Costco. Man, that thing was greasy.
I remember everyone hating on the Double Down as if it was somehow more unhealthy than a hamburger already is with how processed those buns are. And don't get me wrong, I love a good hamburger. But some people were straight up in denial. "Ewww, it has fried chicken instead of buns, that's so much worse than the bleached, enriched flour a burger normally has!"
I can name three people who would love to have the Wendy's T - Rex as a permanent menu item and be able to eat it more than once: Jughead Jones, Shaggy Roger, and Scooby - Doo.
Forsythe Jones if you are a nerd and also completely correct.
Back when Mulan was released I was living in Winnipeg, it was basically used as a food testing site before they released they're approoved fixed products unto the world, they used to call the sauce Plum sauce, not szechuan. Also when they were testing the McPizzas, they did so as individual or personal pizzas and only offered 4 flavours (pepperoni, cheese, deluxe, and pineapple) but the reason they gavce for not going that route was they were disapointed with how the pizza sales made their burger sales plummit.
I only know it from Rick and Morty
Putting a salad in a cup w/ dressing and shaking it is genius to me.
The McDonalds pizza was awesome. I wish they still had it here, and I'd pay the premium to get it. Fun fact about it....the stores had "queueing ovens" brought in to make these. I had a friend that worked at one while we were in high school, and he found something amazing. You could "super-heat" burgers in the ovens for short bursts of time, and not burn them. I used to always order two cheeseburgers and ask to "queue them as code 302" which was the time it would take to do two Big Macs in the oven, instead of the smaller burgers. Completely changes the taste.
I loved the McDonald’s Pizza too. I remember it tasting almost identical to a Pizza Hutt pan pizza, but half the price and to be able to get McDonald’s fries at the same place… win win
I wonder, Is that where SpongeBob got the Idea for Krusty Krab pizza from?
I was visiting New York in October 2017, and when I ordered a mcnugget happy meal- the staff gave me this thousand yard stare when they told me they were completely out of any kind of sauce.
Turned out it was the night of Szechuan Sauce Day. I felt so bad after I saw the news the next day of what happened
24:32
"Can I have some burgers?"
"Only a Bunful."
I actually used to love the salad shaker's! I used to eat them for lunch everyday when I was working. Surprisingly the lettuce and all the veggies were always fresh & crisp. The shaker cup insured that every ingredient in the salad was thoroughly coated with dressing. I liked them so much that I bought a reusable salad shaker cup, which I used for a long time.
I'm starting to wonder if the Krusty Krab Pizza and Krusty Dogs from Spongebob were references to the McPizza and McHotdog. Also, "Deep Fried Hedonism" is one of the best phrases I've ever heard
I think you might be right about that
First I was like: „What? The McRib is just sometimes on the menu?” But then you, thankfully, said that it's permanent here in Germany. If you wouldn't have said that I would've needed to actively look it up and I'm way too lazy for that.
so you just ordered one on uber eats instead then?
I once ordered two "quad stackers" from wendy's. It was basically a 4-patty baconator that was a limited time item. I put them together and ate it. Was full for the REST OF THE DAY; and probably counted as two days of meals by calorie count alone............Worth it.
holy shit, this man must be the size of a castle to eat that in one sitting.
Those were around when I was in college; occasionally I'd get a double stack but yeah I had a very large buddy who would get TWO quad stackers. I wasn't surprised when he started having heart issues when he was 23.
I ate a triple baconator once and it didn't stay down long enough for me to digest it.
I was so confused when I first found out that the McRib isn’t on every country’s menu. growing up in Germany, I just knew it my entire life
11:30 I'm laughing because Happy Meals have not changed a bit in the US other than the commercials show the healthiest options - always the tiny, super small fry and apples. But last Friday I left during my lunch hour to get a 6 piece nugget, with double fries as my side (which comes as a normal small) and a soda for my drink. Also got Knuckles from Sonic 2.
And shakers were loved because of the fact it took the whole 200+ package of dressing for it to coat evenly. I dip my salad into my dressing though so I'd use the lid as a dressing bowl, and by the end I'd have over 2/3 my dressing left versus everyone else. It definitely wasn't healthy.
I've got a confession: I live in Nova Scotia, Canada, and I have never acquired a taste for lobster or shellfish in general. When I was younger I would try it hoping I'd learn to like it, but I never really did. I actually once even tried the McLobster, which wasn't too bad since the lobster is in small pieces and covered in sauce, but I really don't care for lobster. I don't like the taste, the smell, or the fact it's like eating a giant insect. People keep saying that soon we'll all need to start eating bugs to keep from starving, how can I do that when I don't even like eating lobsters or crabs?
To be fair, the people saying you'll need to start eating bugs soon are all various sorts of insane
L + get better taste buds + you're missing out
@@MegaZeta you haven't been paying attention there will be food shortages thx to the globalist wef
everyone has their own tastes. I enjoy lobster but, know plenty of people that don't it's fine. probably easier on your wallet as well.
@@MegaZeta i mean it is much more sustainable
The "mchotdog" actually makes a lot of sense considering McDonald's started as a hot dog stand to begin with.
Also McDonald's is about american food. Hotdogs are logical because they're american, and of course, them starting of AS a hotdog stand. (DO correct me if I'm wrong, I'm European.)
@@Beautiful_Twisted_Fantasy Hot Dogs are about as American as you can get
@@Orkunkadunk Okay
The McDonald’s on St Pete Beach still sells hot dogs. The only one in the world.
The McSpaghetti in the Philippines is actually a competeor to a Filipino fast food chain called Jolibees. They serve Filipino dishes such as Burgersteak and Palabok, but they also sell fried chicken, burgers, and of course, spaghetti.
I will have you know I dropped like 50 pounds as a teenager thanks to the McSalad Ceasar cups! I would walk to the McDonalds by my parents and order one and go halfsies on the dressing. Also at the time once I started driving i would eat those since all the local kids would meet up at the mcdonalds parking lot and it was a hell of a lot better for you than a burger.
Like everyone said it was convenient and in a world of bad options it was nice having a choice for once espcially in a cup where you could eat it on the go.
Honestly though how was the quality I mean was the salad good and fresh like Chick-fil-A
@@kj55 i was 16 at the time and yeah I thought they were fine. It was like a pre-packaged Caesar salad you'd get at Publix.
That’s awesome, dude! I love weight loss stories like that!
Good on you for getting to a healthier BMI on them 🙂 The ceasar cups might've helped but that also must've taken alot of personal effort and self-discipline on your behalf.
if i dropped 50 pounds as a teenager i might have been pretty surely dead ^^.
Does anyone remember when Burger King had "Halloween themed" burgers with buns dyed black?? I'm not sure if those were considered a failure but I haven't seen them in a long time.
Ahhh those... I remember those were discontinued in certain places because there were numerous reports of people’s stool being green after eating the Halloween burgers. Social media spread it like wildfire, some people worried about what ELSE could happen if they ate it, and so a lot of places stopped selling them.
They where discontinued because the food die made people's poop bright green
@@butterflylatte3079 I heard similar reports about Taco Bells Black Jack tacos, which I actually did eat, though speaking from personal experience my shit never turned green.
@@jesusramirezromo2037 so THAT'S where that Google search came from lol
@@PikachuFan-yw6vp It didn't actually give diarrhea, pepole just panicked from the color
Food.. But it’s fast…
And these fast foods.. didn’t ketchup to the rest!
Clever
If there’s one discontinued fast food item that I want to have back, it’s McDonalds Cinnamon Melts. They were hot, sticky, sweet, gooey, messy and totally unhealthy and I loved them.
10:15 Oh my goodness! I heard about Schezaun Sauce incident. Where Rick & Morty fans never stopped demanding over a sauce at McDonald’s around 2017. It was the craziest thing I ever heard in fast food history! O_o
They were acting like idiots over sauce which to me is just pathetic behavior. And also, I hate that show because I find the characters loathsome and promoting irresponsible behavior.
@@josephrowe849 the incident made me glad I never got to watch the show
@@josephrowe849 I know right! That’s the reasons why I found Rick and Morty to be overrated! It’s because how the show got way too pretentious that their viewers act gullible. I used to watch this show once when I was at High School. Because first I like the idea about two characters traveling through different dimensions. Nowadays, after I discovered this Schezaun sauce incident. It made me not want to watch this show again!
Nowadays, I’m glad I watched Gumball instead. Because The Amazing World of Gumball was surprisingly mature and sophisticated compare to Rick and Morty.
@@Retrodove101
McD DOES hold some responsibility for the incident. Only 17 packets released? That's ASKING for trouble!
🤦♀
The Double Down usually turns up once a year in the UK as a limited time item, so someone must be buying it!
Hotdog stuffed pizzas are still a thing over here and are definitely a once in a while treat.
The McRib is also still a limited time item in the UK, but it's never really appealed to me.
double down shows up in canada once in a while too!
Honestly though it's not as bad as it seems - it's just a double chicken burger, without the buns.
Wait where in the U.K.? I admit I’d love to try it only once if possible
@@gracekim25 Just keep an eye out, it's well advertised when it's available.
Actually all of the McDonald's items discontinued elsewhere are still available at the one in my palace, and they're all a hit with its only customer. Just wish mine was as big as the largest one in Orlando but at least I have a PlayPlace and go down the slide with my bro Dennis
lol
Shuddap fatty
I don't believe you've ever had a Salad Shaker.
Should have written this in Korean, that would have been next level.
Dude McDonalds still sells Happy Meals
Yes. More food stuff, general topics like the old "most dangerous kids toys" type videos. More of whatever you want to do, I hope you have a great week
Love your work, strider. Keep making people happy
I've always loved fast food history! Shout out from a passionate South Aussie fan, love your content.
Same
I actually liked the salad shakers. Just wish the cup was a little bigger so it shook better.
Same! 👍👍👍
The "cheesearito" is a standard menu item.....and has been for a long time.
It's called a Quesarito, because it's a quesadilla turned used as the tortilla for a burrito.
I can order one right this second. 2am on Easter morning.
It's $4.19, and 640 calories.
Beef, cheese, nacho cheese, sour cream, rice, chipotle sauce, and 2 tortillas.
Yup! Still delicious. It's a "secret" item though. They list it on their website, and have a button for it on the register, and yet they don't put it on their menu directly, really odd.
@@Tekshipie No. It's just a regular menu item on the menu and in the system.
And it's SLAMMIN'
Clicked on this the millisecond it was uploaded. Always a good day when Strider uploads.
Preach brother preach
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Same man! I love how Strider's branching out to food lists now!! Good on him! (:
What do you mean happy mills are still a thing you geezer. dot worried I dot men harm.
"Welcome to Mcdonalds! May I take your order?"
"Yeah, I'll just have a medium shake."
"Ok, great, what shake flavor would you like? Choclate, vanilla, or salad?"
"Salad?"
"Salad it is, then."
"Wait what!? No--"
But the person at the front desk was already pouring the customer a fresh cup of salad.
Subscribed after the first second due to your choice of music and the adorable little Boo intro. I can already tell this is gonna be a channel worth keeping up with
11:04 Actually happy meals are still popular in many countries, even the latest Sonic film had a collaboration with mcdonald's and did some themed toys
Not gonna lie, I wanna try the KFC Double Down 😳
It’s the peak of Capitalism!
it was good, I'm hoping it returns again,
It was actually really good. Not much from KFC can make me say that.
YES!! YOU GOT THE TRIPLEDECKERONI ON HERE!! I worked as a delivery driver for Pizza Hut a little bit ago and I swear, at least once a day, I'd have customers asking when we'd bring the TripleDeckeroni back. 🤣 Good on you, Phantom!
I absolutely loved the double down. Id get a cup of gravy on the side for dipping.
I'll be honest with you here, Strider. As an American, I can most certainly confirm that we have more than a bit of a problem with fast foods that could potentially cause health problems. Examples of this are the Meat Mountain from Arby's, the Triple Down from KFC, and the entire menu of a restaurant that is literally called Heart Attack Grill. I'm not joking about that last one, unfortunately.
You say that as if people are regularly eating meat mountains or at the heart attack grill. It's a novelty. Heart attack grill knows they're unhealthy and they make it known to the customer, it's the whole theme of the restaurant
@@slimer2135 you do have a fair point. However, my point of bringing these up wasn't to make it seem like it's a regular occurrence that people would be eating stuff like the meat mountain or the Bypass Burgers from Heart Attack Grill. I was simply using those as examples to make my point that there is an issue.
Seems like we Americans always, bite off more than we can chew!
@@parker-boy98 you aren't wrong about that, if I'm being honest
I'm sorry what? Heart Attack Grill!? *Is death guaranteed though?*
I'm sorry but what is "regular mcnugget sauce".
There's like 6 standard sauces.
It's probably the BBQ that is the 'Standard'
I think it's the barbecue sauce. Try it! See what you think! Although, I think the tricky part is getting to taste LIKE McDonald's, bc if you have never tasted it, you don't know what your shooting for. Just make it until you like how it tastes. :)
Bloody hell the "regular" where I am is sweet and sour
Yeah I just made the same comment before I saw this. I agree what does he mean ?
I’m so glad striders starting to branch out. These differently topic-ed videos are really fun.
Same
The way you said epitome killed me