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25 most utterly disgusting fast food menu items ever

By Kareem Gantt

NEW YORK, NY - FEBRUARY 09: An awning stands over a McDonald's entrance in lower Manhattan on February 9, 2015 in New York City. McDonald's Corporation has said sales in January fell a worse-than-expected 1.8%. While the fast-food restaurant chain said U.S. and Europe sales showed signs of improvement, Asia sales slowed. McDonald's is facing new completion from trendier and more health conscious fast food chains like Chipotle Mexican Grill and Shake Shack. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY - FEBRUARY 09: An awning stands over a McDonald's entrance in lower Manhattan on February 9, 2015 in New York City. McDonald's Corporation has said sales in January fell a worse-than-expected 1.8%. While the fast-food restaurant chain said U.S. and Europe sales showed signs of improvement, Asia sales slowed. McDonald's is facing new completion from trendier and more health conscious fast food chains like Chipotle Mexican Grill and Shake Shack. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) /
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NEW YORK, NY – FEBRUARY 09: A McDonald’s sign hangs in lower Manhattan on February 9, 2015 in New York City. McDonald’s Corporation has said sales in January fell a worse-than-expected 1.8%. While the fast-food restaurant chain said U.S. and Europe sales showed signs of improvement, Asia sales slowed. McDonald’s is facing new completion from trendier and more health conscious fast food chains like Chipotle Mexican Grill and Shake Shack. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) /

5. McDLT from McDonald’s

If you thought I was done with McDonald’s, well, buckle up, because they’re about to appear a few more times on this list.

As mentioned earlier (I think?), McDonald’s has done quite a lot of innovating over the years. Sometimes their creations have succeeded, other times it has not, and their screw-ups are profoundly legendary.

Take the McDLT for instance.

The McDLT was a glorious part of 80s food culture. It was your basic McDonald’s burger, with a beef patty, cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, and sauce. The difference here was that the McDLT didn’t come assembled. No, it was YOUR JOB to assemble the McDLT, and that wasn’t the only distinction with this burger.

Around the time the McDLT was released, higher-ups at McDonald’s were trying to figure out how to keep burgers warm on the car ride home. So, they came up with a special Styrofoam container that was able to keep the beef patty warm and the condiments cool.

It was a genius move, so they thought, to not only keep the burger at a temperature that would keep it edible but to also allow the customer to build their own, bland burger. Micky D’s fans would certainly flock to this new revolutionary product, right?

Yeah, they didn’t.

I guess people came up with the idea that when they visit McDonald’s, they expected the crew in the kitchen to create the burger, and fans just didn’t wrap their heads around a “build-your-own” burger from McDonald’s. Poor sales cause the chain to scrap the McDLT, but it came back, in a way, in the form of the Big N’ Tasty, which was essentially the McDLT already assembled.

Why couldn’t they have just done that the first time?

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