In many ways, things aren’t all thatdifferent todaythan they were 20 years ago.
But many things have changed at fast-food restaurants and quite a few unusual and old-school menu items have disappeared.
It was still two years from even being founded.
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Now let’s look atten unusual things you could order at a fast-food restaurant two decades ago.
The results, however, were pretty gross.
And the sales spoke to that.
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As in a regular bone-in chicken wing.
Pizza Hut’s P’Zones
Thishybrid pizza-calzone creationwas born at The Hut in 2002.
It made a brief return to menus in 2019 but wasdropped again in 2021.
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Word is that theyjust didn’t sell very welldespite the hype surrounding them.
As in hotdog bits coated in a corn batter and then deep-fried to perfection.
They lasted a very short period of time and it was no surprise there, back then or now.
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So much so, in fact, that the chain brought them back for avery limited run in 2018.
Why the double discontinuation?
Because BK Cini Minis never managed to catch on broadly beyond that small but dedicated customer core.
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In 2022, as we know, there are no salads at all at McD’s anymore.
McDonald’s Chicken Selects
Chicken Selects were grown-up chicken nuggets.
They were unusual for the time because they were all-white meat chicken with the crunch of good chicken fingers.
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These beautiesdebuted in 2002 as a limited-time offeringand were a permanent menu item for over ten years.
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