McDLT

Okay, the basic idea of the McDonalds McDLT isn't so bad - when you put lettuce and tomatoes and the like on a normal fast food cheeseburger and then wrap it up in a paper bundle, they get all mushed together and nasty. So in 1984, Mickey Ds brought out the McDLT, which put each half of the burger into its own styrofoam compartment. On the left, the hot burger and bottom bun. On the right, the cold tomato, lettuce and top bun. When you were ready to eat it, you'd join the twain and get - a gross mouthful of frosty vegetables and warm meat. Discontinued in 1990.

KFC Famous Mashed Potato Bowl

This is just about one of the saddest food products that's ever been peddled. KFC is always trying to figure out new ways to cram breaded chicken grease into your mouth, but this goulash of failure is one of the worst - take mashed potatoes, corn, gravy and cheese, squish them together in a plastic bowl, and serve to one lonely, 400-pound individual. There is literally no reason on Earth to consume this product.

Bread Bowl Pasta

Let's stay down in the bowl for this next entry, which is just absolutely ridiculous. Whenever pizza restaurants try to shake things up, they always end up serving pasta - it's sort of Italian and it costs nothing to prepare. But they always do it wrong, and none did it worse than Dominos' Bread Bowl Pasta. An Atkins Diet nightmare, these debuted with the slogan "So good, you'll eat the bowl." They weren't, but what they did provide was carbs stuffed inside carbs and topped with fat. Yum yum!

Big Mac Snack Wrap

So much fast-food innovation is just finding new ways to sell the same old garbage to easily-fooled consumers. This trend reached its apotheosis with the introduction of the Big Mac Snack Wrap, a "healthy" alternative that basically put 1/4 of a Big Mac (half a beef patty) into a flour tortilla with some lettuce and cheese and called it a day. Unsurprisingly, most McDonalds customers would rather have a Big Mac than the sad spectacle presented above.

Carls Jr. Footlong Cheeseburger

Hey, you know what? These puny human cheeseburgers can't compete with, say, a Subway sandwich in the important area of length. So let's enlengthen them to a full foot long so that the buyer doesn't feel like they have a small penis or something. This was the logic behind the introduction of the Carl's Jr. Footlong Cheeseburger, with three beef patties on a white hoagie roll. Because the fatter you get, the smaller your penis appears, and the more Footlong Cheeseburgers you need to eat to compensate.

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