Another thread for some reason reminded me of how for a short time in the early 1990s Burger King offered “dinner baskets”. As I recall they offered chicken fingers, popcorn shrimp, and I think there was a third one I can’t remember. They even brought the food out to your table. It was essentially Burger King attempting to be more like what we would now call a “fast casual” restaurant. My main memory of them was that our local BK sponsored a school fundraiser where the teachers from our school worked as waitresses. Come to the restaurant on a certain night, order a dinner basket, get waited on by your teacher, and I assume the restaurant donated that night’s profits to the school or something. If it wasn’t for that I doubt I’d remember them at all.
This, obviously, is meant to be sort of a companion thread to the similar one about TV shows. Is there some menu item from a chain restaurant that was discontinued ages ago, that only you seem to remember?
I remember the BK dinner baskets; I might have even had one once. Wikipedia says that they also offered a steak sandwich, and a meatloaf sandwich (and, apparently, fried clams in the Northeast).
My contribution: when I was a little kid, in the late '60s or very early '70s, my family would occasionally go to Burger King for dinner. As a very fussy eater, the only thing on their menu which I would eat was a hot dog. At some point in that era, BK discontinued the hot dogs, but my parents convinced me to try a hamburger (it was, in fact, probably the first hamburger which I ate).
Jack in the Box for a short time had a mushroom burger. It was delicious. They also had nachos—simply chips, cheese sauce, and jalapeños. It was great—much better than Taco Bell’s.
Pizza Hut had a two-crusted deep dish offering in the 80s. I can’t remember what it was called for the life of me, but I used to order it whenever we went there. It wasn’t a calzone.
That… sounds familiar. But now that you mention it I remember going to Pizza Hut as a kid, and we were told about this new thing they had… and I remember it started with ‘P’. We tried it, and the whole family loved it, and it became the thing we always ordered when we went there. Until one day we tried to order it, and the waitress informed us it had been discontinued. I had completely forgotten about it until now, but it must have been the Priazzo.
