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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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RICHMOND HEIGHTS, MO – APRIL 01: An exterior view of a Burger King restaurant on April 1, 2019 in Richmond Heights, Missouri. Burger King announced on Monday that it is testing out Impossible Whoppers, made with plant-based patties from Impossible Foods, in 59 locations in and around St. Louis area. (Photo by Michael Thomas/Getty Images) /

20. Satisfries from Burger King

I’ve had always had mixed feelings when it came to Burger King’s french fries.

When cooked hot and doused with the right amount of salt, their fries can compete with the best of them. When they’ve been sitting underneath the glow of the heat warmer, withering away the taste, Burger King’s fries can be some of the most repulsive food items ever to grace the Earth.

Some time ago, Burger King decided to try to rectify this and created a menu item that, sounded good on paper but failed miserably in real life.

Let me introduce you to the Satisfries.

Back in 2014, Burger King rolled out the Satisfries, which went away from their traditional, restaurant-style cut and adopted crinkle-cut fries. At the time, there was a lot of noise being made about the health of fast food, a debate that’s still playing out to this day. So, Burger King’s solution to healthier eating, while retaining its “iconic” taste, was to roll out the Satisfries, which had a less porous batter that drained out more of the oil within the fries.

Boy, did this fail, miserably.

For starters, no one who tried the Satisfries could taste the difference between these fries and their regular batch. And, as for that “healthier” bent, well, according to Motley Fool, the calories in the Satisfries were 270, 40 more calories than McDonald’s small order of fries.

So with fries that were no better than the regular ones, and, to add insult to injury, more expensive (they costs a whopping $1.89, compared to the $1.59 for their regular fries), customers began to give the Satisfries a nickname — The “Saddest Fries.”

By the end of the year, the Saddest Fries were no longer on their menu, and Burger King has yet to revive them.

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