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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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PARADISE, CA – NOVEMBER 21: A view of a Jack in the Box restaurant that was destroyed by the Camp Fire on November 21, 2018 in Paradise, California. Fueled by high winds and low humidity the Camp Fire ripped through the town of Paradise charring over 150,000 acres, killed at least 83 people and has destroyed over 18,000 homes and businesses. The fire is currently at 85 percent containment and hundreds of people still remain missing. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) /

22. Frings from Jack In The Box

You have to give Jack In The Box credit, it takes a lot of mojos to combine an onion ring and a french fry together to make one, tasty menu item.

Alas, as Jack In The Box knows all too well, some inventions sound better on paper than they do in real life. The short-lived Frings are yet more proof of this. Now, it’s not that the Frings idea was a bad one, I mean, somebody would have thought this up sooner or later.

The one thing I’m getting at with the Frings is that, one has to be intoxicated to think of something like this, which I’m pretty sure, was the case in the Jack In The Box meeting that birthed it. Jack In The Box has a long history of inventing new and exciting menu items, so the Frings weren’t out of their league.

But while most of their inventions turn out to hit, others can land on the ground in a dud, which is what happened to Frings.

In the late 70s, a member of the Jack In The Box team decided that, in order to please those customers who wanted both fries and onion rings, they would have a separate menu item that had both fries and onion rings packaged together.

Viola! Frings were born, and the problem was solved, right? Well, it wasn’t.

The Frings turned out not to be a hit, and by the early 80s, the Frings were off the chain’s menu boards. One could still make their own custom Frings today, as all you have to do is order both fries and onion rings, combine them, and BAM!, you have Frings.

Come to think of it, you could have done that in the 70s, which is why Frings never really took off.

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