BIGGEST FAST FOOD FLOPS OF 2022

Fast food chains have to keep coming up with ways to get you to come back in. So, every year, they come out with new menu items. Sometimes they work, often they don’t. According to The Takeout website, here are The 10 Biggest Fast Food Flops of 2022
1. Wendy’s Hot Honey Chicken Sandwich (and Biscuit). According to one review, it was just too salty. “No amount of honey would be enough to rein in the saltiness of this thing.”
2. Dairy Queen’s Stackburgers. The problem: “Pale beef with a strange, slightly springy texture. There’s no flavor to the meat itself; it contains hardly any of the savory qualities you’d normally find in a beef burger. Particularly heinous is the cheese on each burger, which turned into a sweaty, chewy slice of dairy.”
3. Panera’s Chicken Sandwiches. “The ingredients are a bunch of items that sound like they would pair well together—a chicken filet with a garlic aioli made out of white wine, garlic, “secret” spices, and extra virgin olive oil, topped with parmesan crisps and leafy greens—but actually don’t combine at all.”
4. Papa Johns’ Epic Pepperoni-Stuffed Crust Pizza. “When you get to that crust stuffed with cheese and meat, the whole thing ends up being extraordinarily heavy, so much so that working through a slice is kind of a chore.”
5. Burger King’s Cheesy Breakfast Melts. “They fail on execution—the bread needs to be toasted for it to succeed. But mostly these are just boring sandwiches with nothing special to offer.”
6. Boston Market’s Rotisserie Chicken Nuggets. “Literally just chunks of chicken breast cut up into uneven pieces, seasoned, and slapped onto a tray. They’re salty, dry, stringy, and bland.”
7. Hart House. An attempt at a restaurant with lab-grown meat. “Eating it was a bad time. Biting into Hart House nuggets evoked a wet sponge dropped into some loamy soil.”
8. Chipotle’s Garlic Guajillo Steak. “The chunks of meat each had a different texture. And there was little taste of the garlic or the guajillo—the flavor was beef, mostly plain.”
9. Jimmy John’s All-American Beef Crunch. “A roast beef sandwich with American cheese, thousand island dressing, pickles, lettuce, fresh onion, and crispy fried onion strings. These things work on a burger, but not a roast beef sandwich.”
10. Wendy’s Pretzel Bacon Pub Burger. “Most of the ingredients get lost in beer cheese, which is more thick and starchy than it is fatty and cheesy. It tastes mostly of thickening agents.”
* Mmm… it’s like eating a hardening artery.
* And who doesn’t go to a fast food restaurant to try new things?
* They forgot McDonald’s McLiver and Onions Loaded Bagel.
* The reviewer should be commended for actually saying something other than “it stinks.”
* Now I need a PB&J just to get these horrible descriptions out of my head.