- Mm mm, sure do love me some fast food.
The thing is, not all of it is good, or good for you,
and these fast food companies know that,
so in order to get you to continue buying from them,
they're constantly trying to come up with
new foods for you to try.
Yeah, but as I'm about to show you,
even some of the biggest fast food chains
have failed miserably when it comes to some
of their food inventions.
(relaxed music)
- [Customer] Ew, gross.
- Here are the 10 biggest fast food failures ever.
Number 10 are mighty wings.
When people go to McDonald's, they're looking
for burgers and fries, not pizza and wings,
but believe it or not, the fast food giant has
on at least two different occasions offered both of them,
with the latter being the biggest flop of the two.
Introduced in 2013, McDonald's take on the chicken wing,
which they dubbed Mighty Wings,
were a huge failure for the company for a number of reasons.
First and foremost was the price.
At a dollar per wing, these wings were far too expensive,
especially for a bone-in piece of chicken
that closely resembled a McNugget with less meat.
Oh Mom, these look tasty. (chokes)
There's a bone.
They were also way too spicy for many customers to enjoy,
which turned even more potential earnings away.
I do remember these, but honestly I never tried them
because mostly I only eat McDonald's
when it's really late at night after a night out,
and you know, no one wants to choke
on a chicken bone after the club.
Number nine is seafood salad.
For a long time, Taco Bell has asked its customers
to think outside the bun in an attempt to draw customers
from McDonald's and similar fast food companies.
Now although they've had their own grotesque
Bell Beefer burger in the past,
nothing quite tops their attempt at competing
with Mickey D's Filet-O-Fish.
In 1986, the chain launched commercials promoting
their own seafood salad, mocking fish sandwiches as gross
simply because they look too much like burgers.
They Taco Bell, you dissin' my boy the Filet-O-Fish?
That ish is delicious.
But of course, Taco Bell's new salad
turned out to be more than just disgusting.
Served with snow crab, shrimp,
and white fish in a taco bowl.
Even the few people with a strong enough stomach
to order such a thing from a taco place
unfortunately was very disappointed with the seafood salad
which was quickly discontinued.
Personally, I'm really glad this didn't catch on
because the lyrics
♪ what you order, fish filet ♪
Does not have the same ring as
♪ What you order, disgusting fish salad from Taco Bell ♪
Number eight are Frescata sandwiches.
In the early 2000s, Wendy's was facing some serious
competition the Subway and their healthier sandwiches,
but at least they made the right choice with their mascot,
'cause Wendy turned out to be a lot better than Jared.
So in April of 2006, Wendy's introduced some new
menu options, the Frescata sandwiches.
These deli-style sandwiches offered meats
like ham and turkey instead of the usual beef and chicken.
They were also served cold without any heated ingredients,
which the company initially thought
would reduce preparation time.
However, it wasn't long before they realized
that not only were the sandwiches not selling
anywhere near their projections, but they took a lot
longer to assemble than they anticipated.
This slowed down service for all foods
that were being ordered since there were only
one to two prep stations per restaurant.
These dumb sandwiches were discontinued in 2007.
Stick to your odd square beef patties, Wendy's,
that's what you're good at.
Number seven are BK dinner baskets.
When you think of fast food, you likely think of
heat lamps and counters where you can buy your meal
and carry it to a table yourself,
but in 1993, Burger King attempted to change
that entire process by introducing the BK dinner baskets.
I'm not making this up, at five PM,
their serving staff would change into fancier uniforms
and deliver food directly to customers at their tables.
Hey, welcome to Burger King, who ordered the grease deluxe?
The company's goal with this was to offer
a larger variety of foods such as steaks,
baked potatoes, meatloaf, and even shrimp
in a classier atmosphere.
But shockingly, few customers seemed to take
a suddenly more upscale Burger King seriously
and promotion was quickly ended.
I wonder what kind of toy comes with
a shrimp and baked potato kid's meal.
Number six is the McDLT.
Sorry McDonald's, you've had more than one failure.
What better way is there for a restaurant
to save money than by letting the customers
make their own food?
Nothing could go wrong with that.
Well, at least this was some of the logic
that McDonald's executives apparently cited
when they developed the McDLT,
a sandwich which required the person who wished
to consume it to literally assemble it themselves.
Hey, welcome to McDonald's, McDLT?
Yeah, ingredients are over there.
Okay, well it wasn't quite served like that,
but instead it was actually served in a double
styrofoam package, one side holding the warm parts of it
like the bun and the beef patty, while the other
held the crown and mostly vegetable toppings.
Of course, since the restaurant used heat lamps
to keep their food warm, more often than not
people simply got an all warm burger
that they still had to put together.
Mommy, a pickle, (chomps) ah, it's so hot.
As you might have guessed, McDonald's discontinued
the McDLT, claiming that the packaging
was too harmful to landfills.
Yeah, well anyone who ever ate one of these
knows that it was a little more than that.
Number five is the Moolatte.
(moos) I'm hyped up.
Giving your product the right name is insanely important,
especially if you're looking to sell a lot of it.
So, to succeed, maybe avoid calling your new item
something offensive or inappropriate.
Seriously, this is golden advice,
and something that Dairy Queen definitely
should have kept in mind.
In 2004, the ice cream giant set its sights on Starbucks,
and introduced their own form of ice cream
and coffee to the world.
Yeah, unfortunately, you decided to call
this masterpiece a Moolatte.
The problem that many had with this name
was the fact that it was dangerously close to mulatto,
a slang label for someone with biracial parents.
If you're wondering why that association was made,
that's because of the fact that the Moolatte
is a mix of black concentrated coffee
and white vanilla soft serve ice cream.
And that was back in 2004, before the explosion
and takeover of SWJs, people would have rioted today.
Number four is the Noid.
Before I poop on the concept of the Noid,
you should know that the Noid video game
was one of my favorite childhood events.
However, the whole thing didn't exactly turn out well,
because in 1986, the marketing team behind Domino's Pizza
introduced to the world the Noid,
a crazed bucktooth humanoid in a red bunny costume
whose only goal in life was to delay pizzas
from arriving at people's houses on time.
Like I said, the video game
was a lot more fun than it sounds.
Domino's claimed that they were the only company
that was Noid-proof, and encouraged hungry people
to avoid the Noid and order from them,
and like I said, the Noid became incredibly popular
with a video game and everything.
That is, until January 30th, 1989,
when a 22-year-old guy named Kenneth Lamar Noid,
a schizophrenic who thought he was the basis for the mascot
walked into a Domino's in Atlanta, Georgia
with a gun and took two workers hostage.
Luckily, the hostages escaped and after five hours
of standoff, Ken was arrested, but the way that the world
looked at the Noid was forever changed.
It's a terrible shame, because now what am I gonna do
with my giant red bunny suit?
Oh, moving on.
Number three is free iced coffee.
In honor of the company's 60th anniversary, Dunkin Donuts
really wanted the give back to their customers.
Well, some of them anyway.
On May 11th, 2010, the company franchise
held free iced coffee day.
A huge number of people across the United States
got excited for a free beverage.
Sounds great, except the only issue was that
of the hundreds of Dunkin Donuts locations,
only 14 were participating in the promotion.
Thousands of customers showed up at their local
coffee shops only to be turned away
or forced to pay for the drink
because they didn't read the fine print in an advertisement.
A spokesperson for Dunkin Donuts said that
multiple events like that one would be held year round,
but the giveaway understandably left many people unhappy.
That's when they turned to Twitter and Facebook
to let the company know that they, oh, they messed up.
Personally, I would not have wanted to be one of
the workers having thousands of people come in
half asleep like ready for my morning coffee. (groans)
number two is the McAfrika.
Yeah, it just keeps getting worse for McDonald's.
Talk about bad naming and bad timing,
released in 2002 in most McDonald's locations
in the country of Norway, the McAfrika was a promotional
sandwich made of beef, cheese, lettuce, and tomato
wrapped in a pita bread instead of traditional bun.
The fast food company claimed it was based on
an authentic African recipe, which didn't help them at all
when the announcement of the new sandwich
was met with public outcry world-wide.
While people in Norway, a rich country,
were spending money on a food named after them,
more than 12 million people were facing a famine
and starving in south Africa.
McDonald's was quickly accused of extreme insensitivity,
but incredibly, though the entire ordeal was a PR nightmare,
the company tried to relaunch the sandwich again in 2008,
only to be met with similar hostility.
Hey everybody, the McAfrika, no, okay, well.
Okay, and everybody, the McAfrika.
And number one is the A1 Halloween Whopper.
In October of 2015, Burger King unleashed
the A1 Halloween Whopper on the United States.
Served on a black bun, the otherwise typical
BK sandwich had plenty of promotions to push it,
all of which claimed that the reason for the bread's color
was A1 sauce being baked into it.
However, while the burger went down black,
it came out very very green.
#GreenPoop began trending, and experts started
asking how A1 sauce on its own could possibly
cause such a change to occur.
By the way, if you've made it this far
through the video, make sure you tweet me #GreenPoop.
Burger King eventually announced that they were using
an amount of coloring that was common in the food industry,
and within the FDA's approved limits for daily intake,
but unbelievably, many decided to actually go buy
the A1 Halloween Whopper after learning
of the effects of all the after fun.
But obviously, it was discontinued and never brought back.
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