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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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OAK BROOK, IL – JUNE 8: An exterior of a new McDonald’s fast-food restaurant is seen June 8, 2005 in Oak Brook, Illinois. This newly constructed McDonald’s has several high-tech features inside such as a Blaze Net kiosk which permits customers to download and purchase music, buy cell phone ring tones, create music CD’s, confirm and pay for food orders, print photographs, log on to the Internet as well as provide wireless Internet capabilities. This is the first McDonald’s in the U.S. to have the high-tech features and is part of a sixty-to-ninety-day test. (Photo by Tim Boyle/Getty Images) /

4. McSalad Shakers from McDonald’s

Around the turn of the millennium, folks were beginning to pile on McDonald’s for their unhealthy foods that were making kids obese.

So, McDonald’s decided to try to answer the critics, and make healthy eating fun, by coming up with a new, fun product. Enter the McSalad Shakers, which were a fun take on the traditional salad that McDonald’s usually serves up.

The McSalad Shakers came in three styles, the Chef, the Grilled Chicken Caesar, and the Garden. Along with the core ingredients, the McSalad Shakers also has green salad mix (usually romaine), ham, turkey, cheddar AND jack cheese (because, you can never, ever get enough cheese), chopped eggs, and chopped tomato and green onions.

What made the McSalad Shaker unique is that, once you add your choice of salad dressing, you would “shake up” the cup that it came in, and mix the dressing and all of the other ingredients inside. There you go, you have a McSalad Shaker!

Sounds generic, right? Well, that’s because it was.

The only thing that separated the McSalad Shakers from their traditional salads was that you could shake up the former, which was more aimed at kids than adults. If that was the case, why didn’t McDonald’s just come up with junior salads just for the kiddos? Also, what amount of condiments you got in your McSalad Shaker really depended on the person making them. One time, I went to my local McDonald’s to try the Shaker, and, no lie, most of the cup was filled with romaine lettuce. Like, I could actually count the amount of ham and cheese that was in it.

All the McSalad Shakers were was a cup of salad. That’s it.

Fortunately, McDonald’s realized that they could just push their regular salads harder and make them better, without the shaking, so they discontinued it. Not long afterward, McDonald’s aimed to get kids to eat better by replacing the fries in Happy Meals with apple sticks.

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