We have looked at some odd sounding menu items from our favorite fast food chains - some
that fall into the delicious category and others that definitely do not. After that
first video, you guys let us know some other items that were odd enough to make the list.
So we listened and are counting down the 10 times fast food went too far part 2.
Red Robin Ramen burger
The chefs down at Red Robin came to work one day with this brilliant idea: why don’t
we make hamburgers with Ramen noodles for buns? Though this idea may seem very weird
to most, the burger actually reviewed quite well. It might not have been the most necessary
thing to have ever been made by a fast food chain, but at least this over-the-top item
tasted good. The Red Robin Ramen burger is exactly what you might think, a hamburger
that is between two buns made of Ramen noodles. The noodles were cooked and then mixed with
a bit of egg to hold it together, it then gets compressed into a sort of bun shape,
and grilled on both sides to give it a bit of a crunch. The bun isn’t the only thing
that made this hamburger special though, if it was, it would actually be pretty boring.
Red Robin included some special flavorings too, which made it stand out more and according
to a lot of reviews, was the reason that this hamburger was actually good. This limited
time menu item included a Teriyaki and Chiu Chow aioli, fried Jalapenos, and some chili-infused
shredded cabbage, carrot and onion on top. Though this menu item was not exactly something
people had been begging for, and the buns lost integrity quickly and became a mess of
noodles, it actually went over pretty well with a lot of customers, thanks to the flavors of
everything else on the hamburger.
Pizza Hut hot dog bites
Pizza is a very popular food item, and over the years, it has grown and evolved and become
something completely different than it was in the beginning. Some of these evolutions
have been fantastic, but some of them have just been downright weird. Pizza Hut is one
of the leading makers of fast food pizza, and apparently a few people who work in their
test kitchens have some strange ideas of what pizza crust should be like. Pizza Hut introduced
the Hot Dog Bites pizza crust back in June of 2015, and media picked up on this idea
quickly, leaving a trail of mixed reviews in its wake. Needless to say, there wasn’t
a huge demand for hot dogs in the crust of pizza before Pizza Hut came up with this gimmick.
A lot of the bad reviews of this Pizza Hut menu item talked about the grease content,
which everyone expects when they order a pizza from the fast food chain anyways, but according
to multiple reviews, the hot dog bites crust only added to that gross feeling you get when
you know you made a mistake eating that greasy piece of pizza. Whether or not you liked the
fact that you could eat pizza and hot dogs at the same time, this menu item isn’t something
that ever needed to see the light of day.
Papa Johns Frito chili cheese pizza
Papa John’s isn’t the first pizza place to come out with strange pizza toppings, and
they most certainly won’t be the last. Many fast food places are testing the boundaries
when it comes to what people will eat on their food, and sometimes the strangest items are
the ones that actually go over well with customers. The Frito chili cheese pizza from Papa John’s
is one of those ones that fell sort of in the middle with reviewers and customers, with
people saying that it was pretty good for the first few bites, and then it was just
kind of boring after that, there was nothing particularly exciting to make you want to
eat this pizza over and over again. This isn’t one of the craziest pizza toppings to ever
exist, it’s basically like an already existing dish called a Frito Pie, but it definitely
wasn’t really something that needed to be made. The Papa John’s Frito chili cheese
pizza was nothing super special, and the sales numbers show that, it was just sort of a basic
pizza flavor profile. This isn’t the most over the top menu item on our list by any
means, and it didn’t take things too far in the usual sense, but it wasn’t something
that there was much of a market for, as the pizza restaurant learned with the mediocre
reviews.
Carl’s Jr double loaded omelet biscuit
This wasn’t exactly a fully brand-new menu item for Carl’s Jr when it was released,
it was a previously existing menu item that the restaurant then decided to double up on,
as if it wasn’t enough to have just one option for the same sandwich on the menu.
It was a mess of a menu item, and that is meant literally; the large amounts of cheese
contained in this breakfast sandwich oozes out the sides and gets everywhere while you
try to eat it. There’s no real reason that Carl’s Jr needed to add this item to the
menu, if people really wanted to double up on their loaded omelet biscuits, they could
have just ordered two of them on their own. This stack of eggs, cheese, breakfast sausage,
ham and bacon, is probably not the best idea for breakfast. Though the idea of fresh made
biscuits sounds nice, the three different meats and three different cheeses piled on
this sandwich are excessive and unbalanced. This item reviewed as average, with most complaints
being how messy it is, and the fact that even though there are three different types of
meat involved, they are mostly concentrated around the edge of the sandwich, leaving the
middle of it sort of plain. All in all, though this menu item wasn’t something new for
Carl’s Jr, it wasn’t something that needed to be added on the menu as a separate item.
Sonic chocolate jalapeno shake
If you’ve ever had a craving for a milkshake, you probably weren’t sitting there thinking
about a milkshake that involved both chocolate and something spicy, let alone jalapeno peppers,
though someone over at Sonic apparently was. This menu item seems like something that you
would get if you let a small child mix you a drink out of whatever they could find in
the fridge. Initially promo images showed the milkshake containing small, chopped up
pieces of the pepper mixed in with the chocolate shake, but customers reported that the real
menu item was in fact just a chocolate shake with some rather large pieces of jalapeno
in it. As if the idea of the milkshake alone wasn’t enough to make you not want to try
it, just imagine trying to enjoy the milkshake and getting a large piece of jalapeno pepper
caught in your straw - that should be an image that would turn most people away from ordering
this specific menu item. Consumers reported that you didn’t really get the real flavor of
the milkshake until you mashed your straw around a bit to get the jalapeno pepper juices
to really mix with the chocolate. The combination of tastes did not go well, with most reviews
of the drink being negative. It seemed like the jalapeno and chocolate flavor combination
was not something that the average consumer enjoyed, you need a very unique sense of taste
to enjoy something like the Sonic chocolate jalapeno shake.
Burger King Mac N’ Cheetos
What’s better than good old-fashioned Mac N’ Cheese, most Mac N’ Cheese lovers would
say nothing. According to Burger King though, deep fried Mac N’ Cheese inspired Cheetos
bites are. Considered widely as one of the most popular comfort foods, Mac N’ Cheese
has been a household staple for a very long time, so when Burger King decided to add a
menu item to their lineup that included this quick and easy favorite, it was hard to imagine
that they could somehow ruin it. Against all odds, Burger King managed to wreck this noodle
and cheese filled dish by throwing it in the deep fryer and coating it in Cheetos flavoring.
Surprisingly, Burger King wasn’t the first or only restaurant to do something along these
lines. Despite the absolute trainwreck that Mac N’ Cheetos were, they actually sold
out fairly quickly, they were a popular item among their customers. Though they sold well,
the snack items weren’t pleasing to everyone. Reviews from media outlets as well as blind
taste tests conducted by several sources indicated that half the people who tried them disliked
the Mac N’ Cheese bites. Though this item had mixed reviews, enough people seemed to
like it that when they were first introduced by Burger King in 2016, every location that
offered them was sold out within the first few weeks of launch. If this unnecessary menu
item peaks your interest, you’re in luck. Burger King has brought this item back twice
since the initial launch, so they may just come around again.
Dunkin Donuts glazed donut breakfast sandwich
Breakfast sandwiches are a popular item, an easy way to eat breakfast on the go, it includes
all of the delicious items most people love about breakfast: eggs, bacon, and in this
case donuts. If you were to ask most nutrition experts, they would tell you all the things
you should have in the morning to equal a balanced breakfast, and they wouldn’t include
a glazed donut in their list, but Dunkin Donuts would have to disagree. The Dunkin Donuts
glazed breakfast sandwich adds the sugary fried dough to your morning. There’s no
surprise with this item, it’s exactly what it sounds like, a regular breakfast sandwich
with a glazed donut cut in half and used as the bread. This isn’t some revolutionary
item, it’s been done before, but never really on a larger scale at a well-known fast food
restaurant. It would be an easy enough dish to make at home if you really wanted to try
them, or if you really like to combine eggs and donuts. It wasn’t a very revolutionary
or gimmicky menu item for Dunkin Donuts to add. Though this sandwich probably tasted
alright, most doctors or generally health conscious people would never suggest that
you should have a donut or two for breakfast. The Dunkin Donuts glazed donut breakfast sandwich
wasn’t ever something that the public needed access to, and as it adds no real nutritional
value to your breakfast, I would suggest just skipping the glazed donut.
Domino’s specialty chicken
The name specialty chicken suggests that it would just be some new flavor of chicken
wings or a new take on chicken nuggets, but instead of keeping it simple like that, Dominos
decided to create a monstrosity that no one really asked for, though you have to give
them credit for coming up with a way to make a chicken based dish that is so simple, and
yet so off-putting. This menu item sounds like something they decided to add just because
they can add whatever they want to the menu, and for no other reason than that. Put simply,
the Dominos specialty chicken consists of some chicken tenders, cheese melted on top
of it, along with various ingredients and some sauce. The whole thing just looks like
a dish that was dropped on the floor and hastily scraped back onto the plate and served while
the waiter pretends like it wasn’t dropped and it’s supposed to look like that. It’s
a mess of a dish, but despite its looks, a lot of reviews said it tasted alright. Reviews
state that the sauces were pretty bland, and the cheese at the bottom of the box was burnt
to a crisp, but other than that the chicken itself was what you’d expect out of Dominos
chicken, and the toppings were the same ones found on the pizzas already. All in all, this
menu item seems like something that someone threw together hastily with the left overs
in their fridge, and then charged you too much for it.
Burger King Bacon Sundae
Burger King seems to enjoy taking things that have already been done by other restaurants
and rehashing them in their own locations. The Bacon Sundae is another thing that they
weren’t the first to offer, but they definitely should be the last. For most people, the idea
of vanilla ice cream and bacon mixed together doesn’t seem appealing. Not only did this
limited time menu item include bacon and vanilla soft serve ice cream, but it also came with
chocolate sauce and caramel sauce on it. Despite the fact that no one should have ever made,
or even thought of making, a sundae with this many flavors, lots of people actually enjoyed
this dessert. Some reviewers were disappointed with this sundae, not because of the odd combination
of ingredients involved, but because they thought that the ice cream was going to be
bacon flavored as well. Even without the bacon flavored ice cream, the strips of
bacon alone in this sundae were enough to push it over the line from delicious ice cream
treat to just completely over-the-top unnecessary.
Friendly's grilled cheese burger melt
Stuck deciding between grilled cheese and a hamburger? This menu item solves that problem,
combining both grilled cheese and a hamburger into one ridiculous sandwich that most people
never asked for. Friendly’s introduced this dish with absolutely no regard for the health
of anyone who eats it, packing a ridiculous number of calories and sodium, the grilled
cheese burger melt is something that absolutely no one needs to consume in their lifetime.
Though the combination of both grilled cheese and a hamburger sounds delicious, the reviews
on it were mixed. Setting aside the dangers to your health, some people found that this
hamburger wasn’t that exciting, simply just a hamburger with twice the bread and some
extra cheese, it wasn’t really something that all consumers were going to get a second
time. This item wasn’t really as popular as Friendly’s probably hoped it would be,
a lot of people were simply put off by the daunting amount of calories included in
this sandwich, and it made headlines for a lot of the wrong reasons, most media outlets
reporting only on how outrageously bad for you the Friendly’s grilled cheese burger
melt was, which was not great marketing for the grilled cheese burger melt.
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