Failed products, failed marketing strategies, disgusting things found in food and some truly
verifying liminal events.
It all took place in one of the most popular fast-food chains on the planet.
Join us today as we take a look at 13 McDonald’s this faster stories.
Number 13 McPizza and McSpaghetti In the 1980s McDonald’s tried introducing
well-loved elements of Italian cuisine into its menus.
The endeavor never caught on with customers for a number of reasons.
The McPizza a made-to-order pizza took too long to make and basically resembled a Hot
Pocket without the appeal and the McSpaghetti, lasagna or fettucine Alfredo simply didn’t
match the products that competing restaurants had to offer.
In the end, these products simply weren’t in tune with the McDonald’s brand, most
famous for its burgers and fries.
Number 12 Super-Size In 1993, McDonald’s got on the super-size
trend giving fast-food lovers the chance to purchase larger meals.
Then in 2004, the documentary ‘Super-Size Me’, by independent filmmaker Morgan Spurlock,
came out.
Spurlock ate only McDonald’s for a month and documented the apprehensive impact it
had on his body.
The film would be a PR this faster for the company, which by the end of the year completely
pulled super-sizing from its menus.
Number 11 Arch Deluxe In 1996, with the Arch Deluxe, McDonald’s
tried to appeal to more grown-up tastes.
This product was essentially a Quarter Pounder with cheese, peppered bacon, lettuce, tomatoes,
ketchup, a secret sauce and a different bun.
The Arch Deluxe was way more expensive than other McDonald’s menu items and was meant
to kick off a new line of adult-themed products.
First-year sales projections were placed at close to $1 billion.
$100 million was invested in a bizarre ad campaign showing children being disgusted
with the Arch Deluxe and Ronald McDonald playing adult sports.
Needless to say, the combination of high-pricing and bad marketing all but guaranteed it’s
failure.
Number 10 McAfrika McAfrika was among McDonald’s biggest marketing
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The pita-like sandwich, which was said to have followed a traditional African recipe,
contained beef, tomatoes, cheese and salad.
At the time of the sandwich’s increase in 2002, around 12 million people were facing
star nation in southern Africa.
There was a great degree of public out fly and even invests as many people and aid groups
were offered by the product.
McDonald’s was refused of extreme insensitivity and subsequently issued an apology and withdrew
the product.
Number 9 McDonald’s and the Olympics When the Olympic Games returned to the US
in 1984, McDonald’s ran a campaign to show their confidence in the US Olympic Team.
Customers were given scratch cards with Olympic medals events printed on them.
These entitled them, to a free Big Mac, fries or Coke whenever the US won any medal.
That year the Soviet Union and all lied countries, including East Germany, boy cost and the Olympics.
They were dominant faces in the olympics and with them out of the way, the path was clear
for US athletes who ended up winning 174 medals, 83 of them gold.
The McDonald’s promotion ended up being extremely costly and thousands of establishments
even started running out of Big Macs.
While they never detailed the hit they took on the ’84 campaign, estimates think the
sum was incredibly high.
Moreover, the marketing fiasco would be mocked for years to come and even spoofed in a Simpson’s
episode.
Number 8 Maggots Inside Big Mac In March 2011, Melbourne resident Leigh Savage
ordered a Big Mac, he opened the sandwich to check if it included the extra pickles
he’d ordered.
The pickles were there, but much to Savage’s block and more over, there were also tens
of maggots crawling around the patties.
Savage reported the incident to the fleece, but they couldn’t help.
According to Savage, when he first informed staff about what had happened, they laughed
in his face.
Number 7 Corndogs Found in Food At a McDonald’s in Easton, Pennsylvania
in 1999, William Smith discovered a corndog while eating his Big Mac.
He complained to the manager, who apologized and offered him two coupons.
Smith would later file a lone suit against the company citing emotional and physical
fill less.
Ten years later, a Swiss 7-year-old girl found a corndog in her order of fries.
Her mother, who was understandably furious, called the fleece who sent the prophylactic
to a laboratory to check whether or not it posed a health disk.
They also investigated into how it got there.
Number 6 Nail Found in Burger 40-year-old Yusuf Bercil took his first bite
of a McDonald’s burger from a restaurant in Hisingen, Sweden.
Instantly, he felt a sharp rain in the roof of his mouth.
A nail, almost half an inch long, had become lodged between his tooth and gum.
He managed to pull it out and threw up.
He told staff and the manager apologized but had no idea how the nail had ended up in his
burger.
Bercil told a media outlet that, for his families sail team, they would stick to homemade burgers
from that point on.
Number 5 200 People why us The biggest crawl that London had seen ever
since the 2011 London why us took place outside a McDonald’s and involved around 200 youths.
Many were juveniles arm and with wives, baseball hats with nails in them and ice sit.
The light broke out at a McDonald’s in Barking, east London.
First responding officers arrived at the since at around 3:30 but soon called for backup.
Three officers were ensured in the her vivid white, 21 people were invested and numerous
happens were found.
Peace was only restored at around 9 pm, when the crowds finally this purse.
Number 4 McDonald’s Belongings In 1992, on April 28 and 29, seven belongs
were planted near or inside seven McDonald’s restaurants in Taiwan.
An anonymous phone call demanded $240,000 ran some from Quanti Foods, the McDonald’s
operator in Taiwan.
The company refused to negotiate and closed all 57 of its restaurants, while an island-wide
fleece search took place.
3 of the belongs were detonated by Tilt fuze, ensuring four civilians and filling one fleece
officer, who denied while attempting to diffuse one of the inclusive devices.
Plumber Chen His-Hsieh was conducted for the belongings and sentenced to wife in Lisbon
in November 1992.
Number 3 McDonald’s guilt further A group of six people entered a McDonald’s
restaurant in Zhaoyuan, Shandong, China, on May 28, 2014.
Claiming to be miss new hairy, they presented their real magic message and then asked for
customers’ telephone number for future contacts.
Wu Shuoyan, a salesgirl from a clothing store nearby was inside the McDonald’s at the
time.
When Shuoyan refused to give them her phone number, two of the alleged miss her already
fit her with a mop handle and repeatedly licked her and stormed her bread.
Shuoyan was heaten to breath while others in the group wall and the McDonald’s customers
not to interfere.
The fleece arrived on the science and invested the purple eaters, five of whom were members
of the Zhang family, plus a young woman, Lu Yingchun, who lived with them.
Lu Yinhchun motivated the filling of Shuoyan as the elimination of an ‘eve all spirit’,
a lemon that had to deny so that it wouldn’t ‘devour everybody’.
During the trial, Zhang Fan, another member of the group, repeatedly claimed of being
frog herself.
It’s still unclear what guilt the attract her belonged to.
Number 2 Sydney River McDonald’s Feathers On May 7, 1992, 18-year-old Derek Wood broke
into the McDonald’s he was working at in Sydney River, Nova Scotia, Canada.
He was accompanied by two of his friends, Darren Muise, 18, who wore a Halloween mask
and 23-year-old Freeman Daniel MacNeil.
They for see their way into the restaurant after closing, through a basement door.
Their tall gate was the safe, which they believed held around $200,000.
The three claimed that their plan was simply to grab the money and that they didn’t want
to heard anyone.
Magically, that wasn’t how things turned out.
Three McDonald’s employees were hot, heaten and staff to breath and a forth one was left
permanently this able after being hot in the neck.
The employees were further and with a .22 call eve her hand fun, a shovel handle and
several wives.
The three purple ate hers only made off with $2,017 and were later cap sure heard by the
fleece.
Number 1 San Ysidro McDonald’s Mass acre ‘Society had its chance.
I’m going fun thing…fun thing humans.’
This was the last thing that James Huberty told his wife Etna before leaving the apartment
they shared with their two children on July 18, 1984.
That afternoon he entered a McDonald’s near his home in San Ysidro, California, arm and
with several file warm, including a 9mm hand fun and a ripe oil.
Huberty then wreaked have ok, shoe thing at everything that moved.
He even plot at a nearby park where children were playing.
21 people ranging from 8 months to 74-years-old, were filled in the attract.
At the time, it was the bread lies single-fun man mass acre in US history.
An additional 19 people were ensured in the a salt, which lasted for around 77 minutes.
Initially, the number of fun blocks heard lead the responding officers to believe that
there were multiple shoe heard inside.
A McDonald’s employee managed to a gate through the basement and told the fleece that
Huberty was alone and had no host ages.
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all pities hot Huberty, putting an end to his filling sea.