You can have my onion adjacent rings and I’ll take your onion ring *rings. Deal?
I prefer *mine beer battered over crumb coated. Small details matter.
I miss the Toasted Cheddar Chalupa that Taco Bell briefly had last year. I ate the CRAP out of those.
Damn, I accidentally deleted my own post.
You are not alone in this world, amaguri. I also prefer the fake onion rings. I like onion rings but I don’t like it when the entire piece of onion slides out when you bite into it, burning your chin with hot grease.
I’ll even raise you one. I prefer the frozen fake shrimp poppers to frozen popcorn shrimp. (that didn’t scan right —I mean the shrimp they sell in the grocery freezer case, I heat them before I eat them.)
Seems to me that the Taco Bell menu size waxes and wanes over time. It was originally pretty small- tacos with and without cheese, tostadas, bean burritos and not much else- burrito supreme?
Then they added some items, and more or less kept adding until the mid 1990s, when they went to a “value menu” sort of concept where most stuff was (IIRC) in 3 tiers of prices- 59, 79 or 99 cents, with a few outliers like the Burrito Supreme that was more than that.
Over the intervening time, their menu has changed multiple times- the last contraction that I recall before the new one was when they ditched a big chunk of the menu in favor of their “Fresco” healthy-ish options. Since then, they’ve quietly ditched most of that, and basically added promotional items and never took them off the menu. They were due for a contraction if you ask me.
I sort of doubt they’ll replace the missing items with meat substitute ones; I predict they’ll just give a meat substitute option for everything with beef in it, like they do with steak or chicken already.
I miss the Little Bucket Parfaits at KFC. I loved the chocolate one, with graham cracker crust on the bottom and whipped cream on the top. I’m also bummed that they got rid of potato wedges. Their chicken isn’t as good (to me) as it used to be, so I basically have no reason to ever go back to KFC now.
Have them try Sonic if there is one near you. Best fast food onion rings in my opinion.
Oh, yeah.
2 days ago for lunch I went to the nearest Panera’s, to get my absolute fave, their Strawberry Poppyseed Salad [w/ chicken]. Also has blueberries and walnuts. I had had one 4 days earlier, note-but they said that time that they were out of the dressing, so gave me another…
Pulled up, and noticed to my alarm that it wasn’t on the board anymore. Asked for it, lady said it had been discontinued. I told her I wasn’t going to be ordering anything, and left.
Man, talk about shooting yourself in the foot. Idiots. I don’t plan to go back, either, except to complain to the manager perhaps.
@BippityBoppityBoo
Our local Cheddars has good food. Their problem is the service. We ordered the onion rings as an appetizer the last time we were there. They came just as we were finishing our entree. The time before that we ordered the cheese dip with tortilla chips. They brought out our entrees, which were cold, and I told them to just forget the appetizer, which they never brought.
I guarantee you the manager has absolutely no say over the menu.
Logan’s Roadhouse almost shut down due to the COVID, and is back with a limited menu, which does not include their grilled meatloaf, which had been a staple of my diet–fortunately, the Metro Diner has a better then adequate meatloaf to replace it.
I am taking this all to heart re: Cheddars (and it has been quite awhile since I was there).
Next on my onion ring quest is Sonic. I wouldn’t have thought of them but next time I have cabin fever that’s where I’m heading!
Panera pissed me off, too.
When I was working, there was one near my office. A half sandwich, usually a grilled cheese, was my go-to lunch. I would order from the kiosk and make multiple modifications to the order… adding things like bacon, tomato, steak, onion, etc. But usually bacon and tomato.
Then they redesigned the kiosk software so you couldn’t order half a sandwich outside of the “pick two” option.
So I had to order the same thing I’d always ordered from the counter. And they would never get it right and they’d always fight me on it.
4 cheese grilled cheese , add bacon and tomato. No, I don’t want YOUR bacon tomato version of the sandwich. Why? Because it has sun-dried tomato spread, not tomatoes. OK, now you want to hold the spread and add tomato because it’ll be cheaper for me? That’s awfully considerate but I tried that last time and I don’t get as much bacon when I order it that way, you get what you pay for, I guess. Just let me order the damned sandwich exactly as I described, please…I know they know how to make it, I’ve been ordering it for years from the kiosk until I couldn’t.
My other favorite there was the Caesar salad. Not the chicken Caesar, the plain one. It’s crisp and refreshing. But I must’ve been the ONLY person to ever order the plain one because nine times out of ten it came with chicken - I always checked the order slip and it was always correct.
It’s wasn’t the worst mistake in the world, I’m not vegetarian and I don’t detest chicken- I usually just pulled off the chicken and if I missed a few crumbs it didn’t bother me. Much.
The discontinued fast food item that I miss the most is the Burger King chili cheese char-grilled hot dogs. They were freaking awesome and I was pissed when they discontinued them - IMHO hot dogs are way underrepresented in the fast food universe.
They still offered a few other varieties, for a while at least, but those all had toppings I hated. I think those have been discontinued as well but I haven’t really been paying attention
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I’m the guy who misses the Arch Deluxe.
The Arch Deluxe was a hamburger sold by the international fast food restaurant chain McDonald’s in 1996 and marketed specifically to adults. It was soon discontinued after failing to become popular despite a massive marketing {Wikipedia}
I miss it also. Obviously you and I didn’t eat enough of them.
Testify!
Panera’s Strawberry Poppyseed salad (with or without chicken) has always been a seasonal item. It appears sometime in the spring and goes away at the end of summer.
It was designed for adults, but it was marketed to kids. The early ads showed kids eating it and showing they’re grown-up for doing so. This a point that might be important to a kid, but not to adults. And the ad is particularly bad at imparting the message – it only shows up at the very end.
Yeah, it was my go-to burger while it was there, but the ads really didn’t make the point.
Panera’s caesar dressing tastes like ranch dressing… but more bland.
BUMP
Taco Bell has continued to destroy their menu. They have removed the $1 Beef Burrito. My son and I really liked this item. I would have preferred they add 25 or 50 cents to its price rather than remove it. Honestly, it’s getting harder and harder to find things there that we like.