Favorite Fast Food Menu Items Discontinued

Re:Favorite Fast Food Menu Items Discontinued (ChrisOC)

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 22:44:24 GMT

Gino Giant
Hot Shoppe Mighty Mo

Re:Favorite Fast Food Menu Items Discontinued (cathyftr)

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 21:49:34 GMT

Back in the mid 90s I can remember our local ( Winchester, VA ) Taco Bell had BLT Soft Tacos. They were pretty good.

In 1998 visiting Cleveland to attend an Elvis Presley exhibit at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame I seem to remember at least one downtown Cleveland area McDonalds offering Blueberry Pie. They were pretty good too. Come to think of it I believe the McDonalds at Toronto's Eaton Centre had them as well about ten years ago when I was visiting that city..alas we went someplace else to eat.

My husband SWEARS he had a McPhilly Steak & Cheese at a Northeastern Pennsylvania ( Gibson ?? ) McDonalds. He liked it. This was in 2004. The next year at the very same McDonalds not only was the McPhilly Steak & Cheese missing from the menu but the staff didn't even remember it.

Re:Favorite Fast Food Menu Items Discontinued (Root-Beer Man)

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 11:01:00 GMT

Used to really love the Pizza Hut Thick and Chewy Supreme. That's one I wish they'd bring back. When I lived out in the Bay area and had access to Carl's Jr I really liked their fried zucchini. Man, that stuff was crack for me.

Re:Favorite Fast Food Menu Items Discontinued (Ketteract)

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 09:39:28 GMT

littleflower

HARDEES: Their Big Roast Beef Sandwiches, their old recipe for french fries (they were kinda soft in a good way, salty, and yummy!), Frozen Yogurt Chocolate/Vanilla twist cones (so great on a hot summer day and very low in fat - tasted really like ice cream not frozen yogurt), cinnamon sugar dusted fried apple pies shaped in a long rectangle and came in a fun little box, Big Chicken Sandwich that was fried and tasted way better back then.

PIZZA HUT: Really good tasting pan pizza (for some reason now the crust tastes not as good and doesn't have that slightly crisp texture at the bottom of the crust

RESTAURANTS IN DEPARTMENT STORES: Why did they get rid of these? I remember Montgomery Wards, K-Mart, Thalhimers, etc. had their own restaurants (more like cafeterias which served up burgers, fries, sandwiches, etc., but all made-to-order). I used to love going shopping with my mom as a kid and getting a french fry and a Mr. Pibb as a snack while out and about, and the fries back then regardless of where you went (fast food or department store) tasted better for one reason - Trans Fats. Now that everyone has gone to Trans-Fat free oils french fries just really aren't the same.

Hardee's Chicken Cordon Bleu and Frisco Burger were awesome. I last had them in 1999 or so.

Pizza Hut had a deep-dish "Priazzo" during the '80s that everyone has said was the best thing they ever offered. I never got the chance to try it myself. Apparently it ended up just being too expensive for them to produce on a massive scale? Damn shame if so.

I LOVED the little cafeteria in K-Mart. Pretty much the same level and style as, say, the Target cafeteria but with more options and (somewhat) better food. One of the tastiest burgers I ever had was in the late '80s from a K-Mart - greasiest thing I'd ever seen, just dripping with it. I guess K-Mart hasn't had cafeterias for quite some time though.

Re:Favorite Fast Food Menu Items Discontinued (lisachocoholic)

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 09:42:40 GMT

littleflower

MCDONALD's: Old french fries - they were soo good

Not so much the fries as the fat. McDonald's used to have an oil mixture that included lard. Now it's all vegetable oil. Lard makes everything taste better!

RE: Favorite Fast Food Menu Items Discontinued (lisachocoholic)

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 09:39:46 GMT

I miss the fries that Carl's Jr. used to sell.

They were made, I think, with potato flakes like Potato Buds. The exterior had a nice crunch. Then they switched over to "real" french fries.

RE: Favorite Fast Food Menu Items Discontinued (CajunKing)

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 23:31:21 GMT

The Buffalo Chicken Strips at LJS
ANY THING BURGER CHEF!!

RE: Favorite Fast Food Menu Items Discontinued (Adjudicator)

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 14:03:53 GMT

Rebooting 'da thread.

RE: Favorite Fast Food Menu Items Discontinued (gostillerz)

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 19:49:33 GMT

No more salad bar? That means no creamy Italian dressing, what the hell?? A guy I used to work with would buy a gallon of it from them and split it with me. The copycat recipe is terrible. I'm 84% sure I will die in a month or so.

RE: Favorite Fast Food Menu Items Discontinued (mjambro)

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 15:49:34 GMT

Hamburgers at Wendy's. Now that hamburgers are no longer on their menu, one must special order a premium priced cheeseburger and hope they leave the cheese off. Perhaps a minor problem for some, but it keeps me away.

Re:Favorite Fast Food Menu Items Discontinued (Singeli)

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 13:51:38 GMT

Anyone remember the pastrami and swiss cheese at Jack in the Box back in the 80's?
It was great and I was excited when they announced they were having pastrami /cheese again. BUT they tried to pass off a very skinny version where the dill pickle slice was thicker than the combined meat and cheese. I think they tried to fool us by adding that pickle. It didn't last long.

Re:Favorite Fast Food Menu Items Discontinued (Singeli)

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 13:42:30 GMT

I tried the Bacon Blue Burger. The bacon was almost rare and the blue cheese sauce had only breathed on the burger. Not a crumb af blue cheese in sight.
Anyone notice a pattern here? These places are raising prices but cutting back on quality.

RE: Favorite Fast Food Menu Items Discontinued (Singeli)

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 13:32:23 GMT

Re: Taco Bell.
How about the taco shells which used to taste homemade, not the mass produced, filled with preservatives variety now served?

RE: Favorite Fast Food Menu Items Discontinued (Singeli)

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 13:27:51 GMT

Speaking of salad bars, our Pizza Hut has discontinued theirs. Now there's just a bit of sad pre-packaged lettuce with only a couple of cherry tomatoes and a slice of purple onion. Nothing else. Small package of dressing.
Do any of them still have a salad bar?

RE: Favorite Fast Food Menu Items Discontinued (AndreaB)

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 13:25:47 GMT

I also miss the seafood salad from LJS and the fried oysters from both LJS and Captain D's. I also wish the "Pirate" theme from LJS would return, along with the decks and peg legs. It's like these places have abandoned what made them famous.

RE: Favorite Fast Food Menu Items Discontinued (Singeli)

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 13:18:55 GMT

AMEN! to missing the old Cokes.

RE: Favorite Fast Food Menu Items Discontinued (Singeli)

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 13:13:11 GMT

I miss the broccoli cheese bites that Long John Silver's used to have.

Re:Favorite Fast Food Menu Items Discontinued (Singeli)

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 13:08:43 GMT

I miss the lemon pie at Chick-fil-A.

Re:Favorite Fast Food Menu Items Discontinued (starfire62)

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 14:59:11 GMT

i used to like to go to mcdonalds and see the orange soda and i think it was root beer on display .i dont know what you call them.but use to swirl around and be able to see it .it was interesting.

Re:Favorite Fast Food Menu Items Discontinued (markt43701)

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 01:38:37 GMT

Burger Kings chicken strips used to have a slightly spicey flavoring to them before they changed to the current nuggets, those were pretty good.
Also while not technically discontinued, I wish McDonalds would put the mcrib on the menu and leave it, instead of this limited time crap every few years.

RE: Favorite Fast Food Menu Items Discontinued (Snowbird)

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:29:45 GMT

I loved the Yumbo and always ordered it when I was in the area. That was the 'only' thing I ever ordered. The melted cheddar cheese oozing over hot slices of ham ... it was to die for! And if I'm not mistaken, wasn't it served on an egg bun?

I was so dismayed ... no make that upset ... to learn they had taken the Yumbo off the menu. I haven't been to the Burger King in about 30 years (since they stopped serving the Yumbo). If they bring back the Yumbo I might consider coming back to Burger King.

RE: Favorite Fast Food Menu Items Discontinued (claracamille)

Sat, 27 Aug 2011 13:39:23 GMT

I grew up in the 1950's & 1960's near Charleston WV eating at the original Shoneys' restaurants.
I miss- Big Boy sandwiches, the best sauce. AT one time they made a large 1 bun, 1 pattie Big Boy-really good. Kingfish sandwich-the best fish sandwich ever. Onion rings- crispy,just a little grease, thick slices of onion-onion was cooked, but still a little crisp. Slim Jim sandwich. Fish dinner,same fish as on the Kingfish sandwich, very good. Hot Fudge Cake-I make it still. Strawberry pie- no goopy ,too sweet, too red glaze as you find now in strawberry pies

RE: Favorite Fast Food Menu Items Discontinued (mjambro)

Sat, 27 Aug 2011 10:59:16 GMT

Burger Chef's Big Shef. Never did understand McDonald's Big Mac kind-of-knock-off. After about a ten year hiatus, tried one a few months back. About gagged on the excessive salt & pickles.

RE: Favorite Fast Food Menu Items Discontinued (CajunKing)

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 19:09:16 GMT

NascarDad

saps

Fried cherry pies from McDonalds

The fried cherry pies were so good, and also the fried apple ones.

a gas station round here had deep fried apple pies, but they changed the recipe last year now and the crust is too sugary and not crisp or flaky enough so I stopped getting them. The caramel thingy from Taco Bell is a poor substitute as well.

I heard about a place in NYC that sells double fried cherry pies, but no way I will be in NYC anytime soon.

Rally's has the fried apple pies like McD's used to be. I just wish they had the cherry ones

Re:Favorite Fast Food Menu Items Discontinued (eruby)

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:52:14 GMT

Knoel998
.... Burger King: Ham and cheese with lett/tomato/mayo/american cheese slice on a long roll.

I remember the Yumbo ham and cheese sandwich, but it came on the same round roll as the Whaler fish sandwich.

RE: Favorite Fast Food Menu Items Discontinued (MiamiDon)

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:30:15 GMT

ces1948

Miami Don. As a fellow south floridian (you're about a hundred miles south of me) I'm surprised mango flavored anything would surprise you. I'm expecting mango and guava flavored potato chips any day now in the stores :)

I love mangos! I just had a mango shake at a little roadside stand in Pinecrest, FL the other day that was pretty good. I sampled a mango BBQ sauce the other day that was darn good. I'm glad they don't have mango pies at Mcdonalds - I wouldn't be able to stop buying them if they were any good.

Re:Favorite Fast Food Menu Items Discontinued (fishtaco)

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:24:42 GMT

Bell Beefer at Taco Smell. And the origianal Encharitos.

Re:Favorite Fast Food Menu Items Discontinued (harleytexas)

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 03:46:34 GMT

KFC - their Grecian bread

Re:Favorite Fast Food Menu Items Discontinued (Knoel998)

Sun, 14 Aug 2011 22:50:39 GMT

I grew up in South Florida....

Little Caesars: Hot ham and cheese sandwiches..the bread was made of pizza dough.

Taco Viva: what ever happened to them? They had a yummy burrito I would get with melted cheese over the top....had to eat with a knife and fork.

Burger King: Ham and cheese with lett/tomato/mayo/american cheese slice on a long roll.

Rax: The best milkshakes!

Popeye's Spicy Chicken Sandwich: It's different now. Used to be on a round bun with pickles, lettuce, mayo. Craved them during my pregnancy.

Pizza Hut: BBQ Beef pizza

Sambos: too un-PC for 2011....but I used to love grilled cheese and hot dogs from there as a child....now that I think about it, it wasn't fast food.

And here in Watertown, none of the McDonald's have strawberry sundaes!! They looked at me like I had 2 heads when I ordered one a few years ago. UGH

RE: Favorite Fast Food Menu Items Discontinued (Sundancer7)

Sun, 31 Jul 2011 10:16:18 GMT

I sorta like:
1: Captain D's fish, slaw and seasoned and coated fries
2: Popeye's Cajun chicken
3: Krystal Cheese
4: KFC extra crispy thighs fresh dropped
5: Not much else.

Paul E. Smith
Knoxville, TN