Times Fast Food Went Too Far

the fast food industry is unimaginably competitive in the hopes of outdoing their rivals restaurant chains release an endless stream of innovative creations just to get customers through their doors but while a lot of them are ridiculously good others turn out to just be ridiculous like this outrageously sized burger or these crazily colored concoctions and what they look like is just the tip of the iceberg from adding insane amounts of sugar to completely unnecessary ingredients keep watching to find out which companies have taken their fast food game way too far the hideous hula burger a lot of people argue that pineapple has absolutely no right to be on a pizza but what about putting it on a burger or as mcdonald's tried back in the 1960s replacing the burger entirely with a single ring of pineapple yup just grilled pineapple with cheese on a bun it was called the hula burger and while it sounded as bad as it looked it was cooked up for a pretty interesting reason back in the 1960s mcdonald's discovered that their sales were seriously tanking in areas with large catholic populations it turned out that these chast churchgoers often abstained from eating meat on fridays so mcdonald's came up with an ingenious solution meatless burgers the idea was great but the resulting hula burger not so much while the drive did give rise to the hula burger's more popular brother the filet of fish this peculiar pineapple sandwich is a fast food failure that's best left forgotten but the verdict is still out on whether pineapple belongs on pizza though what do you think for yes hit that like button and for no hit that subscribe button either way you can't lose unlike mcdonald's now let's get back to even more fast food abominations the africa burger a burger wrapped in pita bread may not sound all that controversial but when mcdonald's released the questionably named mcafrica back in 2002 their timing couldn't have been worse it was made to celebrate the 2002 winter olympics but that year a devastating famine struck six countries in southern africa and while 12 million africans starved mcdonald's was making bank on a food with their continent's name on it not only that but the limited edition burger wasn't even available in africa yikes despite the backlash from humanitarian agencies mcdonald's flat out refused to withdraw the burger they even went as far as to release a burger with the same name again in the lead-up to the 2008 olympics unsurprisingly it was met with a similarly negative outcry looks like all the money they made off the back of this burger wasn't enough to buy them any common sense double down damn just about everyone knows what the simplest components of a burger are it's a hamburger made out of meat on a bun with nothing add ketchup if you want i couldn't care less but in 2010 kfc threw that out the window when they introduced the double down burger the traditional bun was replaced by two pieces of fried chicken which sandwiched a center of bacon cheese and barbecue sauce it was a pretty polarizing product and it wasn't just the vegans that couldn't stomach it while the controversy of its bunless components made it popular it failed to sell well and wasn't initially a huge hit with fast foodies though that didn't stop kfc from expanding their double down range around the world over in south korea they took it one step further by adding in a hamburger patty to create the outrageous zinger double down king and in the philippines the devil down burger evolved into the double down dog a fried chicken breast patty wrapped around a hot dog but it was canada that truly won this fast food race by introducing the radical waffle double down yep that's two chicken fillets around a belgian waffle drizzled in a kind of maple syrup mayonnaise is there no end to this increasingly greasy double down dynasty the cheeky cheesa if you thought kfc went too far replacing the buns of its burgers with chicken then look away before i show you what they did to pizza called the cheeza kfc created an unholy love child of fried chicken and pizza by replacing the pizza dough with one huge fried chicken filet it was available only in select kfc outlets across asia and combine toppings of tomato sauce chicken ham pineapple chunks mozzarella and cheese sauce i mean it doesn't sound that bad but what was actually served to the customers really didn't meet marketing expectations and while replacing the base certainly solved the classic pizza problem of picky eaters leaving their crust reviewers noted that its oily greasy taste left a lot to be desired maybe a side order of self-loathing would have added to the flavor i'll wash down with a large cup of regret problematic pizza now kfc aren't the only fast food company to try their luck in the pizza arena in the 1980s mcdonald's saw that pizza hut was growing in the u.s by ten percent each year and decided it too wanted a slice of the pizza pie market so mcdonald's went to extreme lengths to bring their strange-sounding mcpizza to the hungry american masses family-sized pepperoni pizza it's a parent's dream come true they spent years developing special ovens that would cook an entire pizza in a matter of minutes although they ended up being so big that some franchises had to remodel their kitchens to fit the humongous pizza making machines in and like that wasn't expensive enough the machines themselves cost a phenomenal fifty thousand dollars a piece that's equivalent to about a hundred thousand dollars today but even though they could cook a pizza in just 10 minutes it was a lifetime in comparison to their already made burgers not only that but the price tag of these pizzas started at 5.99 that was a huge hike considering most of their hamburgers at the time were less than a dollar like this wasn't a bad enough start for the mc pizza mcdonald's main pizza competitor pizza hut suddenly sparked an all-out war in areas where mcpizza was being served pizza hut started offering buy one get one free deals and slap them down publicly by calling their pizzas mcfrozen sadly this was the final nail in the coffin for mcdonald's brash attempt at fast food domination and mcpizza was removed from menus across the states wow for all the time and money that went into them they sure were one expensive mixtape mad mixed spaghetti now mcdonald's disastrous attempt to dominate the italian fast food market didn't start and stop with pizza around the same time as the mc pizza was first introduced franchises across the u.s also added several pasta dishes to their menus along with fettuccine alfredo and lasagna a spaghetti and meatballs dish called mixed spaghetti hit the stage but despite the universal love of this simple italian dish mcdonald's simply couldn't convince customers to order a pasta dish at a burger joint after all anyone can make spaghetti at home but not everyone can make a big mac at mcdonald's fries in their kitchen so mcdonald's discontinued the line which was another huge hit to its plans of fast food supremacy but even though it failed to appeal to the american market when it was introduced to the philippines the dish suddenly thrived served with a crispy chicken leg this super sweet red sauce really hit the spot with its filipino consumer base well at least it found a home in asia because i don't think it would be welcome in italy that's for sure cheeto burrito big brand food mashups have given us some truly blessed items like jolly rancher cereal snickers coffee mate and fanta flavored snack packs but one crossover that took it way too far was the snack infused abomination born from the cheetos and taco bell mashup the cheeto burrito it was a fast food fusion of seasoned beef buttery rice cheese and sauce with the added on cornmeal crunch of the cheesy chip snack on paper the combination sounded like a marketing dream so it was tested out and sold for just one dollar in taco bell restaurants around cincinnati ohio back in 2016. but while fast foodies were expecting a super crunchy supremely cheesy wrap what they got was a mild disappointment wrapped in a tortilla adding the cheetos into a deluge of wet and saucy ingredients meant that for the most part they came out slightly soggy too and they didn't add half the cheesy flavor patrons expected fortunately this unhealthy union never made it onto the main taco bell menu and it looks like it wasn't easy being cheesy crazy captain crunch delights amazingly the cheeto burrito wasn't the first joint branded nightmare food that taco bell ever served up just one year before in 2015 the tex-mex chain buddied up with the makers of captain crunch cereal to produce cap'n crunch delights colorful donut holes sprinkled with mashed up cereal usually deep-fried donut holes are covered in a tasty array of sugar or sprinkles so replacing them with cereal was a bit of an odd move but that wasn't all the holes were also filled with a milk-flavored icing really giving customers a sense of what it would be like to eat a deep fried bowl of cereal and the absolute worst part of all this is that they were sold as a breakfast item considering a 12 pack of these contained over a thousand calories and a tooth rotting 42 grams of sugar i wouldn't say they constitute as a healthy or nutritious breakfast kit kat chocodona did you think that was the end of taco bell's crazy brand crossovers oh how wrong you are because in 2017 they added a new chocolate quesadilla to their american dessert menu called the kitkat chocodia it was a brand name take on their original chocodia with added kitkat wafer biscuits to give the sugary quesadilla a little added crunch it had been tested out in the uk a year before but even with their questionable culinary standards yes that is a pie sandwich it raised a few eyebrows although it's not hard to see why the sprinkle of wafer over the oozing chocolate sauce reminds me of leaving a kit kat out on a hot day and letting it melt inside the wrapper not many people are fans of such a gross change in texture but what about you would you slurp up all that liquid candy from the chocodia or throw the entire thing in the trash let me know down in the comments spoopy burger back in october 2015 burger king decided to go the extra mile to celebrate the spooky season by releasing the brilliantly black halloween whopper the dark color of the sandwich was achieved by baking a1 steak sauce into it along with a little food dye that made up less than one percent of the overall bun but this special edition burger ended up having a hilariously unforeseen side effect on its customers it turned their poop bright green across the country people took to twitter to report seeing colors akin to an irish countryside in their toilet bowls and hashtag green poop quickly began trending fortunately this trip to the emerald toilet city wasn't anything for customers to worry about because burger king had used an acceptable amount of food dye as dictated by the fda but in a concentrated blue form while your gut absorbs most food colorings any remnants left floating around in your system can mix with the yellowish green bile in your intestines turning colors like dark blue into goblin green even though burger king claimed the side effect was entirely unintentional i'd like to think that this whopper was the ultimate halloween trick or treat the anti-happy meal sometimes the marketing ploys with the best intentions really miss the mark like burger king's controversial range of real meals they were a spoof of mcdonald's infamous happy meal a well-loved value kids meal all in the name of 2019's mental health awareness week with the slogan no one is happy all the time they released a line of alternative emotion boxes effectively saying that it was okay to not be okay it was a pretty clever idea but the campaign was met with a litany of criticisms for a start it wasn't clear what actually came in each of these boxes were they different was it all whoppers or was it just a handful of prozac it took combing through the small print to learn that it was just a regular whopper combo meal but looking beyond the burgers the mental health messages appeared to be trivialized i mean how many lives do burger king really think yas claims every year it became clear that using mental health as a front to sell people burgers was a pretty outrageous idea and it wasn't repeated in 2020 but we shouldn't be too harsh on burger king for this mistake after all who really knows how much pain the king is hiding behind that mask mountain dew madness caffeine helps a lot of us wake up in the morning usually in the form of freshly made coffee but back in 2012 taco bell offered its customers a different start to the morning a sugary caffeine-fueled heart attack in a glass called mountain dew am the drink itself was a fairly simple and grim sounding combination of the carbonated caffeinated and super sugary mountain dew with orange juice while adding a little vodka would turn this into a semi-acceptable screwdriver or dew driver cocktail taco bell was serving the super strange concoction as a breakfast item and breaking it down a large 20 ounce cup of this morning madness would contain a phenomenal 46 grams of sugar that's the same as adding 11 sugar cubes to your morning cup of coffee although a cup of coffee would admittedly have almost twice the amount of caffeine but who needs caffeine to wake up when you could have all that sugar rushing through your veins pickle problems some people really really love pickles though even their biggest fans might think twice about trying them in a super sweet slushy form but back in 2018 us drive-in chain sonic announced that they were going to give it a try they released the bright green pickle juice slush as part of their summertime menu to the total confusion of the nation while some were brave enough to try it others tried their best to go back their disgust but in trying to get the u.s to fall in love with this pickle-flavored product many tasters noticed sonic had made the drink incredibly sweet it seemed this fast food company had tried to overcompensate for the pickle's natural acidity but this had real pickle fans complaining that the slush wasn't pickly enough looks like nailing this great green monster ended up being a step too far for sonic and in the wrong direction at that hala pay just no shake how spicy do you like your milkshakes it's an odd question that exists thanks to another of sonic's odd fast food concoctions the chocolate covered jalapeno milkshake released as part of their summer menu shakeup in april 2014 the startling flavor combination had customers thinking it was an april fool's prank but no these chocolatey shakes actually came with huge jalapeno pieces floating around in them and some were even garnished with the spicy green devils these weren't pedestrian pickled jalapenos either they were all fresh cut and sizzling with spice while some absolute masochists enjoyed the sweet burn that the jalapenos gave the chocolate shake many others were rightfully horrified and it looks like sonic got the message loud and clear because this joke of a milkshake hasn't made a return to their menu since crusty conundrum pizza hut are well known for stuffing their crust full of delicious delights to make the most out of every meal from gooey mozzarella to many hot dogs sharing a slice never looked so good that was until they went too far and introduced the cheeseburger stuff pizza crust back in 2012. known as the crown crust in the middle east the apocalyptic pie had even the most avid pizza lovers wondering if pizza hut had finally lost the plot then they discovered its nutritional information at 288 calories per slice the monster crust of the pizza meant the whole pie had close to a mammoth 3000 calories that's about a thousand calories more than the average human should be eating in an entire day not only that but when these pizza pies arrived customers couldn't help but notice that they looked vastly different to their pristine promo photos and not in a good way seems like pizza hud really failed to deliver on this calorific abomination eye-popping popeyes plenty of businesses these days offer special discounts and free treats to celebrate their achievements with the public but back in 2018 fried chicken chain popeyes had something a little more extravagant in mind to celebrate the opening of their 3000th restaurant the company introduced the luxurious looking 24 karat champagne wings to their menu for one day only at four select locations around the u.s patrons could indulge in wings that had been hand battered in champagne and then coated with edible 24 karat gold flakes while restaurants up and down the country were also hopping on the edible gold hype train they were selling gold grilled cheese sandwiches for a wallet busting 214 or 12 inch gold encrusted pizzas for a bank breaking two thousand dollars but popeye sold all this for an incredibly economical five dollars and as you can imagine they sold out almost instantly for that price i bet these overly opulent wings were impossible not to enjoy freaky pumpkin spice fries by just saying the words pumpkin spice i bet most of you automatically think of basic white girls in autumn drinking pumpkin spice lattes clad and ugg boots and instagramming everything but while putting pumpkin spice into just about everything started off as an american craze it's found a stranger foothold over in japan to celebrate halloween back in 2016 mcdonald's japan offered their signature french fries surprisingly smothered in chocolate and pumpkin spice sauces called the halloween choco potato the strange flavor combo was designed to complement the saltiness of the fries but they didn't stop there a little later that october they released another spooky flavored sauce simply called purple potato while some found both the dishes delicious others just couldn't get their head around the strange sweet and savory combinations despite the feedback i imagine all the basic beckys are already trying to book their plane tickets to japan now sickening bacon sundaes it's almost impossible to pinpoint where fast food companies started to fight over who could have the freakiest food creations some think it started with kfc's notorious double down saga although it likely goes back further than that well however it started in 2012 the rivalry pushed burger king to release the truly bizarre bacon sundae it was scoops of vanilla ice cream drizzled lavishly with fudge caramel and bacon crumbles all topped off with a piece of thick cut bacon while it seemed like a bright idea to burger king the world just wasn't ready for such a madly meaty treat something about the super sweet sauce combined with the supreme sodium hit of the bacon left people with a bad taste in their mouths and at a belly busting 510 calories per serving with a little something on their waistlines as well garish glitter pizza unicorns may be beautiful magical creatures but the glittery unicorn pizza from dagwood's pizzeria in santa monica just looks cursed officially called the magical af margarita pizza pie this new york style staple comes with the unconventional topping of edible glitter while it definitely makes those cheese bowls look a lot more interesting the sheer amount of shine just doesn't look right on the savory dish sure their clientele of color hungry kids seem to love it but would you say all that glitter on a 16 inch pizza is really worth a whopping 36 dollars in comparison to their regular margarita pizza that's an additional 17 all for a flavorless edible tinsel topping magical af more like expensive af donut care burger fried chicken is good donuts are good there are no arguments there but the marketing team at kfc clearly thought that adding these two good things together would mean a sweet and savory success and so in 2019 they released the truly insane looking kentucky fried chicken and donut sandwich for a tasty 749 the sandwich on its own consisted of two glazed donuts with a fried chicken center while vloggers and reviewers were quick to admit that the combination tasted pretty good their eyes bulged as much as their bellies when they saw what was in there a single sandwich contained almost the entire daily fat intake of an average adult at a staggering 65 grams along with 40 grams of sugar that's the same as 10 whole cubes of sugar whoa just hearing that is enough to give me a toothache maybe if the sandwich were split over one donut a bit more like a regular bun it wouldn't be such an assault on the mouth but then without that sugar overload where would the shock value of this sweet scandal be dessert deception at first glance this looks like any other mcdonald's hamburger dripping with barbecue sauce sandwiched in between two buns you can almost taste it but if you bit into this burger expecting meat you'd get one hell of a sweet surprise that brown baked center is actually a gooey layer of the world's premier hazelnut spread nutella only available in italian mcdonald's restaurants the adorably named sweetie con nutella is a combination of hazelnut spread and cocoa all encased in an oddly regular mcdonald's burger bun as grand as it sounds it's actually much smaller than it appears in the picture although it still finds the space to fit 256 calories inside while it's received high praise in the italian market i'm not entirely sure the rest of the world is really ready for a dessert burger what a lot of whopper when microsoft launched its windows 7 software back in 2009 they wanted it to be an event the whole world would remember they buddied up with companies internationally to promote the upcoming release one of which surprisingly was burger king while food and tech don't really have much in common that didn't stop burger king from going the extra mile and releasing the hilariously named windows 7 whopper across japan with a staggering seven separate beef patties weighing in at a gut-busting 2.2 pounds the burger looked more like a rendering issue than a viable meal but at a cleverly priced 777 yen which was roughly 8.50 at the time this weird and wonderful whopper became a sensation it sold over 10 000 units in its first week proving it was popular with dustbound coders although at that size i imagine it also gave japan one nation-sized case of lockjaw have you ever had the chance to try any of these freaky fast foods and have you seen any others that made your jaw hit the floor let me know in the comments below and thanks for watching you

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Length: 23min 30sec (1410 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 27 2021