- 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. And that's it, if you enjoyed this video and you'd like to see more
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