SEA HORSES, MCSAILIN', DOLPHINS MCWAILIN': The Boston Globe slideshows ten odd fast food items, only two of which are the McLobster Roll and the notorious KFC Double Down.
added: Nate Silver (why not?) on the Double Down: "I've created an index based on the amount of fat, sodium and cholesterol that the Double Down and a variety of comparable sandwiches contain as a portion of the USDA daily allowance. (In the fat category, saturated fats are counted double and trans-fats are counted triple.) The index is scaled such that the Original Recipe version of the sandwich receives a score of 1.00, a measure of gluttony that will hereafter be known as The Double Down (DD)...."
I still say that the Double Down is the intellectual property of Tracy Jordan.
ReplyDeleteI can't see anything odd about some of these. Are they huge fat and calorie bombs? yes, but the target market for much fast food advertsing--young men--doesn't really care about that. Others are just regional favorites done fast food style.
ReplyDeleteIf you really want odd, look at fast food menus in Asia. Of course, most of those items are odd only to Westerners and are efforts to offer something from local cuisine.
As someone whose not even close to above eating this category of things (and I do so love fast food), I'm not sure how "odd" I find them. That bowl thing from KFC seems odder to me than anything on the list, for example. Doing away with the McDLT was odd. Now that I can say. I always thought it was because they lost the ability to use styrofoam which made the hot side hot cold side cold miracle possible. But Odd that they didn't have someone like Oppenheimer give them a new tech that would allow its (triumphant) return. Jennifer says that historians will mark the rise of the golden arches as an important turning point in history (she would argue for the worse).
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