A Question To The Readers
NOTE: This is in light of my previous post. Obviously.
What is the strangest/most unusual food item you, personally, have ever seen on a fast food restaurant's menu? Or, baring that, what is the weirdest/most unusual business practice that you've seen at a fast food restaurant.
Examples:
Weird Food - The BLT Burritos (which were nasty) at Taco Bell
Weird Practice - A while back, Wendy's did this thing where they actually had table service, like waiters and waitresses, at their restaurants after 6pm. Or something like that.
C'mon, ZFS!-keteers. Whatta ya got???
What is the strangest/most unusual food item you, personally, have ever seen on a fast food restaurant's menu? Or, baring that, what is the weirdest/most unusual business practice that you've seen at a fast food restaurant.
Examples:
Weird Food - The BLT Burritos (which were nasty) at Taco Bell
Weird Practice - A while back, Wendy's did this thing where they actually had table service, like waiters and waitresses, at their restaurants after 6pm. Or something like that.
C'mon, ZFS!-keteers. Whatta ya got???
posted by Clinton at 2:09 PM
26 Comments:
Burger King also did the table service thing...this was back in the 90s, and while you sat and waited they would bring you fresh baked cookies....before your meal.
In New England, McDonald's serve the "McLobster Roll"...and its actually not that bad.
I'm not sure if this is weird but I love all of the off-menu items at In-N-Out. I'm a sucker for their grilled cheese sandwich.
When I worked at Starbucks, I was astounded by how many customers in my area were on the Atkins diet, and therefor required their drinks to be made with Manufacturer's Cream. (Referred to as "Man Cream," in Starbucks and I'm not kidding. We had some very angry female customers when we told them that they wanted their drinks made with "Man Cream," since it had no carbs. They seriously thought that we were going to have our male employees jack off into their drinks.)
That's the stuff we use to make whipped cream! But it has no carbs and is all fat, so the Atkins people love it. Even though they are essentially drinking an entire can of whipped cream in one sitting.
I love Sonic (don't know if they exist anywhere but CA, though). They operate like an old-time drive-up fast food restaurant. You park next to a big menu, hit a call button when you are ready to order, and then a cute girl on roller-skates brings you your food and the bill. The only reason I ever go there is because I want my food brought to my car by a girl on roller-skates.
That's all I can think of.
Kitty... Ew. Seafood from a fast food restaurant just sounds like a way bad idea.
Katie... Heh. "Man Cream." Also, Sonics are everywhere; I grew not two miles from one in Texas. And they are wonderful, particular in the tater tots department.
Recently while visiting frineds in PA, I had lunch at a restaurant that served Cheese Steak Egg Rolls.
I taught English in China a couple years ago and would always go to McDonald's when I got tired of eating noodles. I never noticed any weird menu items though. What was weird, was that you weren't supposed to throw your own trash away. If you tried, one of the "waiters" would intercept you on the way to the trash can and basically grab your tray away from you. I guess they really wanted to throw hamburger wrappers away.
Jeff... Those sound delicious. Like, I'd probably mug someone for those if it came down to it.
Irene... Well, they had a job to do and, damnit, they weren't going to let someone anyone stand in their way.
Clinton, I didn't eat them but they looked awesome!
Irene, maybe they reuse those wrappers in China?
well, the single worst fast food thing I ever had the misfortune to put in my mouth really has to be the McRib. You're young, you're high, you feel immortal, you think, laughing, "how bad could it be?" Then you taste one and suddenly you're not high anymore. And you realize you will soon die. That's the only way I can describe the taste.
The strangest culinary innovation I've experienced lately is beer salt in Texas. I love it in theory. Oh! And Frito pie at bars in Texas, which is a bag of Fritos ripped open and a big sluf of chili plopped on the splayed bag. God, I love Texas.
Weird practice? California fast food-slash-pot-dealing places.
Weirdest, but pretty tasty, the soft shell crab burrito at Zengo:
crab/won bok slaw / thai chili / lemon sake aioli / soft tortillas
Oh and the concept of deep fried Twinkies.
Or this from Taco Town
Here in New Zealand, McDonald's serves what they call a Kiwiburger, which is basically a Big Mac with the addition of beetroot slices and a piece of hard-boiled egg.
Shudder.
Pigeon... Um, I loved the McRib. *shame* However, I will fully admit that it's nasty. As for the Frito Pie thing... dude... you're talking to a born and bread Texan here; I so know what you're talking about it is so awesome.
Big Daddy... That burrito sounds pretty damn good. Combine it with the Twinkies and it's even better.
Ruth... Blech. I don't even know what beetroot is, but that sounds foul.
sonic is also in the south and in parts of the southwest and in utah...i love that they put the servers on roller skates. cool beans.
in the old days, young padawans, when taco bell only had around six items, they had the pronunciation of the item beneath the word...taco (TAH-co) burrito (bur-RE-to). it was swell to go in blitzed..not that i ever was...and say them in the syllable way. "yes, i'll have two TAH-cos.". and fall over laughing.
great fun. sadly, the counter people didn't find it as amusing as the group of loaded people saying TAH-co over and over did.
my favourite thing remains that mcdonalds has on it's drive up menu "we have braille and picture menus"
heh.
The McDonalds I went to in London had Indian food on the menu.
And I LOVE the McRib.
A local Mexican restaurant here serves the "Free Willy". It's a whole fried catfish. And I mean WHOLE. Nastiest thing I've ever seen, and I saw my ex naked, which is a pretty good comparison actually.
Weirdest practice was charging per piece of uneaten sushi at a sushi buffet. It's a frigging BUFFET.
Clinton,
The White Castles in the Cincinnati area offer candle-lit, tuxedo-wearing table service every Valentine's. My very unamused-looking wife and I did that one a couple of years ago. Mmm-mmmm, candy hearts, sliders, and champagne!
In China, I ate something I'm pretty sure was dog. i tell the story as if it I'm certain it was dog, but I'm mostly just pretty sure. It tasted like dog...at least, the way I imagine dog would taste. I dunno....but I know this: it sure wasn't pork, fish, beef, or chicken...which, to my western mouth, means it was dog.
Peace,
Justin
Quin... Sonic's got way too much crap on their menu now. They should go back to the simple stuff. Or just sell tater tots; I'd be okay with that too.
Monkeypants... McCurry? Ew. Also, glad to have a comrade in the McRib-love department. The person that I know who worked at McDonalds (and wishes to remain nameless) says that the McRibs were all made of vegtable matter and soy. No meat. Just sayin'.
HolyGirl... The whole concept of a sushi buffet just sounds to me like a mass case of food poisoning waiting to happen.
Justin... I spent some time in Russia during my youth and I'm fairly certin, on a couple of ocassions, that I ate horse meat. Not happy about that fact, but it's a fact nonetheless.
OMG, Justin!!!
I heard about that White Castle®™©™ promotion as well.
I have lunch at this NYC chain Burritoville usually at least once a week. They have free chips & salsa & lots of vegetarian options. Imagine my surprise when they started offering a veggie Philly cheese steak, and alongside the fake meat & the cheese, I found a very Tater-Tot-like substance inside. They call it a hash brown, and don't offer any explaination as to why it's in there. It's fine with me, just...weird.
This post made me even hungrier than I already was for lunch.
Actually I had something like a chicken tikka masala sandwich and it was pretty tasty.
If the McRib is vegetarian I'd laugh my ass off. And I'd feel better about enjoying something that's been shaped on purpose to look like BONES.
Colleen... That sounds pretty good. Yeah, they've got some weird crap on their menu. I remember one time a few years a go they some sort of pumpkin burrito, which just sounds repugnant.
Monkeypants... It is, or so I'm told anyway. Still not sold on the McIndian food. Indian food in general is a pretty hard sell for me anyway, so I don't think I'd dig on the Golden Arches variety.
Ooh C-Dog, you know Sonic has cheesy tater tots now - I haven't had them, but I hear they're cheese-filled tots. Mmmm.
So you're just going to throw out there that you spent time in Russia in your youth, and not go into further detail? Or are you not at liberty to talk about it, for national security reasons? ;)
Ha! Oh yeah, I guess I should probably elaborate on that. Tell you what, I'll write a post about that in this upcoming week. Keep in mind though: My reason for being in Russia isn't as exciting as you think it is. But I'll try to make it interesting.
At least as interesting as cheesy-tots. Although that may be setting the bar dangerously high.
I had a kangaroo burger at a fast food joint in Australia. It was delicious. But a little weird to order.
I'd eat kangaroo, if only because I've heard that kangaroos are actually assholes who get away with a lot of property damage because they look cute. Seriously.
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