36 of the Greasiest Bits of Trivia About Fast Food

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36 of the Greasiest Bits of Trivia About Fast Food

These facts are fresh out of the fryer, so you might want to give them a solid shake in the basket first. They’re greasy as all heck but hey, they’re hot and, well, we can’t really promise that they’re fresh, now can we? Yes, they were heated and served seconds ago, but where and when their ingredients were made is a mystery.

Anyway, we can worry about a fast-food fact’s freshness all day, but that won’t get them up inside our brains, now will it? So let’s just call this a fact cheat day and chow down, guilt-free!

The Ultimate Fast-Food Food Scientist

Every waist-expanding fast food item we love is thanks to a food scientist named Tom Ryan. Не invented Jif Peanut Butter, Pizza Hut's dou- ble-stuffed pizza, the Mc- Griddle, McDonald's fruit & yogurt parfait, Smashburg- er, the Meat-lovers Pizza and McDonald's entire Dol- lar Menu. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

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McDonald’s Big Mac Clothing Line

CRACKED.COM McDonald's launched a fashion line. In 2015, McDonald's launched a Big Mac clothing line in a fashion show in Sweden. The line included clothing, wallpapers, bed sheets, and even a dog coat.

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Wendy’s Chocolate Frosties

Wendy's chocolate Frosty is actually half chocolate and half vanilla. CRACKED.COM Owner Dave Thomas thought full chocolate would be too over- powering a flavor paired with their burger and fries meal.

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Burger King’s Chatbot

CRACKED BURGER KING'S CHATBOT. MAKE IL a mear? YES! Burger King bot BURGER 0 people like this KING NO Food/Beverages 12:16 PM Welcome to the BURGER KING® URGER ING restaurants! BURE KIN You selected Whopper Combo Meal select location Type a message... hello In an attempt to connect with young consumers, BK's Facebook Messenger Bot is an Al chatbot that consumers could order from. Taco Bell got in on it with a TacoBot that took orders via the Slack chat app.

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McDonald’s VR Headsets

CRACKED MCDONALD'S VR HEADSETS. Promoting it as a VR headset, McDonald's in Sweden had kids re-fold their Happy Meal box, put an iPhone inside of it, and view it with the kit's plastic lenses.

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McDonald’s Mashed Potato Beef Burger

Mashed Potato Beef Burger MCDONALD'S 100% Manly Man CRACKED.COM For a while, McDonald's China was on a big masculinity kick. Lots of their commercials highlighted the manliness of meat eaters - none moreso than this burger that dared to include a layer of potato salad.

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Burger King’s Shake ‘Em Up Fries

Shake 'em Up Fries were DIY cheese fries. CRACKED.COM Burger King gave customers the experience of being a real fry chef! Customers would dump a packet of flavoring into a bag of fries, and shake the whole thing up until every fry was sticky as hell.

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Pizza Hut’s Cheeseburger-Stuffed Crust

Cheeseburger- Stuffed Crust PIZZA HUT CRACKED.COM This was simply a pizza surrounded by sliders. It's the most American food innovation since American cheese, and yet it's only ever been available in the Middle East and the UK.

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Chick-fil-A’s Invite-Only VIP Access

CRACKED CHICK-FIL-A'S INVITE-ONLY VIP ACCESS. In this exclusive food loyalty program, top eaters were given VIP status and a black card, which gave them free meals, backstage tours to locations, and getaway trips.

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McDonald’s in Africa

McDonald's is only in four African countries ماكدونالدر McDonald's M بالدوبالت McDonald's If you find yourself in Africa craving a Big Mac, you'll have to go to Egypt, Morocco, South Africa, or Tunisia. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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Chick-fil-A’s Sunkist Lemons Order

Chick-fil-A buys more Sunkist lemons than anyone else They use over 250 million lemons per year. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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Burning Down Papa John’s

Domino's managers allegedly burned down a nearby Papa John's In 2011, two Domino's managers were arrested for arson after their competition burned down. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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Chick-fil-A’s Cookies and Cream Milkshake

Chick-fil-A CRACKED.COM Cookies and Cream Milkshake 630 calories = Probably no one is under the illusion that milkshakes are low in calories, but consider eating 3.5 of their IceDream cones for the same calories.

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Wendy’s Avocado Veggie Salad

Wendy's CRACKED.COM Avocado Veggie Salad 600 calories II Coca-Cola Although probably more nutritional, the vegetarian salad has about the same calories as the Wendy's 8-piece chicken combo meal.

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Pink Slime

PINK SLIME CRACKED COM In 2011, Jamie Oliver told us about fast food's leftover beef trimmings treated with ammonium hydroxide, or Pink Slime. The industry lost $400 million in sales, shut down 3 plants, and McDonald's, Taco Bell, and Burger King announced they no longer use pink slime, but the product has been making a comeback in recent years.

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The Noid

The Noid caused a hostage crisis PIZZA CRACKED.COM Domino's recently brought back The Noid, hoping we'd all forgotten that time in 1989 when a paranoid man, surnamed Noid, took two Domino's employees hostage because he thought the tagline avoid the Noid! was directed at him.

McDonald’s Gracoro Burger

Gracoro Burger MCDONALD'S CRACKED.cO McDonald's Japan once offered this deep-fried dollop of macaroni, shrimp, and white sauce.

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McDonald’s Pineapple Burger

The Gold 'n' Grill just slapped a pineapple slice on a burg. $1.10 CRACKED.COM McDonald's big idea in 1984 was to huck a slab of pineapple on top of a regular cheeseburger, presumably to tear this great nation apart at the seams Hawaiian pizza had exposed.

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Burger King’s Waiters

Dinner Baskets turned fast food workers into waiters. BURG KINC CRACKED COM In 1992, Burger King introduced an option to make their overworked staff deliver your meal right to your face and all but baby-bird it to ya.

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Pizza Hut’s Bigfoot Pizza

Bigfoot Pizza' was just o-big pizza. Its whole... thing was that it was too big: too big for minimum wage-earning delivery guys to comfortably hold it, and too big for your ravenous family to snarf it down in one sitting.

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Pizza Hut

Pizza Hut 1958 Brothers Frank and Dan Carney borrowed $600 from their mom to open a pizzeria. They came up with the name Pizza Hut because their sign only had room for 8 letters.

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Burger King’s Italian Chicken Sandwich

TELL US NOW. ITALIAN CHICKEN SANDWICH BURGER KING BK Chloesha F. misses the item that debuted in 1988, alongside a French and American Chicken Sandwic

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