Here, for a while at McDonald’s there was a 🍔 called “the 1955” and it was the best, big pieces of onion, an special sauce, buns and big piece of beef with bacon (for Europe standards anyways) it disappeared once and came back for an encore only to be removed again and never return.

  • Cryophilia@lemmy.world
    271·
    6 months ago

    Taco Bell Choco-Taco. Yeah, the reanimated corpse of it lives on in some gas station frozen sections, but it’s a shitty product. The original one sold at Taco Bell in the 90s was god tier.

  • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    191·
    6 months ago

    Taco Bell’s Volcano Taco. They brought it back for like a month and took it away again. Technically it’s still available in Kuwait but I can’t get anyone to mail me a bag of the sauce.

  • Trollivier@sh.itjust.works
    15·
    6 months ago

    I remember the time when Subway used to serve their sandwiches with the strip of bread on top. Those were the good old days.

    • Nojustice@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      Caramel apple empanadas were exactly what I was looking for in this comment section. Those were absolutely incredible.

    • Tyfud@lemmy.world
      1·
      6 months ago

      The double decker is still around, they call it something else, but you can still order it.

    • lesbian_seagull@lemm.ee
      1·
      6 months ago

      I don’t even like caramel but those empanadas were an absolute delight when I was broke and just entering my adulthood. I would literally look for change just to get one.

  • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    5 months ago

    Burger King chicken nuggets from the 90s, before the recipe changed to crap. If I had to pick a flavor that I associate with my childhood, this would be it.

    The Angus Mushroom & Swiss burger from McDonald’s. The Angus was the closest thing they ever had to a real burger, but they were too expensive for most people and were eventually discontinued. Fun fact: wages have stagnated yet their basic burgers now cost more than the Angus did.

    • lesbian_seagull@lemm.ee
      3·
      6 months ago

      Yes! Even Wendy’s nuggs suck now, and that’s a real shame. They were the closest thing to that peppery goodness I remember of childhood. Also, nice low key ‘fuck you’ to capitalism and corporate greed, I dig it.

      • ArxCyberwolf@lemmy.ca
        2·
        6 months ago

        Wendy’s ruined the bacon too. It’s the same garbage you’d get at Burger King, and it’s significantly smaller and tastes worse than the bacon they were using a year or so ago.

    • brognak@lemm.ee
      2·
      6 months ago

      Omg the McDonald’s Angus burgers were FIRE. I ate wayyyy too many of the Bacon and Cheese ones and occasionally the Mushroom. I even loved they got put in their boxes with the paper burger holders LIKE EVERY BURGER FUCKING SHOULD.

  • proudblond@lemmy.worldEnglish
    101·
    6 months ago

    The Double Decker taco came back for like a month last year and I went to Taco Bell probably eight times once I realized it because it’s my favorite and I’m super pissed that they won’t just make one for me even though they have all of the ingredients, FFS.

      • proudblond@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        I’ve tried. The thing that’s hard to replicate is the beans, actually. Though I’ve mostly used canned refried beans; I’ve been meaning to get a can of whole pintos and mash them myself, and see if that helps.

        • Alexstarfire@lemmy.world
          1·
          6 months ago

          You’ll probably want to start with dry beans. Canned ones are likely just going to be beans boiled in regular water. Meant to be an ingredient in something rather than the star. But if you make from scratch you can add in flavors: onion, garlic, etc.

          Plenty of recipes online.

          When making refried beans make sure to use pork fat of some kind. I use bacon fat.

  • pdavis@lemmy.world
    9·
    6 months ago

    Milk Shakes at just about any fast food restaurants. The machines always seem to be down! Pulled up to an Arby’s a few months back to order a Jamoca shake and they said their machine was down. I asked them if I had pulled into the McDonald’s drive through by mistake. We all had a big laugh… but that was months ago and they have now put a sticker on the menu that says their shakes are not currently available :(

    Went to a Baskin Robins to order a Chocolate Milk shake and they were out of Chocolate ice cream… on multiple occasions. At least they don’t have a machine to break down!

  • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
    8·
    6 months ago

    For a VERY brief time in 2010, Burger King sold bone-in short ribs.

    Guys, those were literally the best fucking short ribs I have had in my life. High end BBQ places couldn’t even come close. Every Burger King would sell out like instantly whenever they got a shipment in. And then after 2 months… Gone. Forever.

  • 4grams@awful.systemsEnglish
    8·
    6 months ago

    There was a short lived candybar called PB Max that I’ve been craving for like the last 20 years. It actually tasted like peanut butter which, despite my love for peanut butter cups, just completely outdid them for peanutty goodness.

  • Snapz@lemmy.world
    7·
    6 months ago

    It was actually the steak bagel breakfast sandwich at McDonalds… until that garbage institution actually brought it back defector! It trned out to be a weaker approximatation with different/less seasoning on meat and different sauce, but close enough for nostalgia

  • CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world
    81·
    6 months ago

    an 🍔

    Going crazy trying to think of what word you use for 🍔 that starts with a vowel.

    Oh, and also I used to always get the Santa Fe chicken Gordita at Taco Bell until it went away.