I’m reffering of course to the latest in a series of sometimes worthwhile but mainly idiotic “limited time” food promotions at giant fast food chains. Behold:
McDonalds has a great scam here. See they take their 99 cent “McChicken” sandwich, add a scoop of generic spaghetti sauce and a small slice of monzerella cheese. . . poof . . . its an “Italian chicken sandwich”. Price ? $2.99. Pure genius. Pure rip-off.
But wait!
Burger King has their own ideas to con customers. I give you the “salad in a sandwich”!! Which is essentially a chicken sandwich with 5 times the lettuce and a half teaspoon of ceaser dressing. “Wow! Its like I’m eating a salad and a sandwich at once!” Or “wow, its like a I’m eating lettuce burger!” Plus its also almost two dollars more than regular chicken foodstuff.
Finally (dis)honorable mention to Taco Bell. Not for ripping us off, but rather for sheer confusion. They are advertising the new “chicken ceaser wrap”. The commercial for this product describes the wrap, and concludes with the followings words (verbatim) : “plus crunchy red strips!”. Um. Huh? Crunchy red strips of what?? Paper? Granite? Fiberglass?
Buyer beware.
I saw the salad/sandwich commercial today, too, and thought it was really stupid. Especially since they’re saying “You know you SHOULD have a salad”–when the reason you know you SHOULD have a salad is because it does not contain fried chicken wads!
A friend of mine adores KFC’s popcorn chicken and was devastated for the short period they took it away just so they could bring it back and go, “Look! Popcorn chicken! We did not have this yesterday!”
I submit the latest McDonalds promotion in Australia. Done to coincide with Australian Idol showing on TV.
Between the hours of 5pm and 7pm you sing a song about Big Mac’s and get a free medium coke. Great just what we needed a dinner peak-hour is a bunch of idiots singing for their supper!
Two all beef patties special sause lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun ?
We had that one here in the 70s. many gimmick specials revolved around it.
They are (I think) red tortillas that have been cut up and fried. I was at a Taco Bell last summer and had a something-mexican-in-a-bowl that was all the rage this time last year with those same mysterious red strips.
A salad on a burger between a bun. I think they have college grads that think this stuff up. Does it actually work and increase sales? Are customers that naive?
What I want to see is a decent burger at Arby’s Roast Beef or Kentucky Fried Chicken, or Taco Bell
I can never eat there because someone in the group won’t give up on burgers. - They can all do one, anybody can. But, what? Are they affraid that then they might not be half vacant at noon when the burger place across the parking lot has lines out the door?
A salad on a burger between a bun. I think they have college grads that think this stuff up. Does it actually work and increase sales? Are customers that naive?
I enjoy the fact that right now, Taco Bell has a Caesar salad wrap that is, for all intents and purposes, a regular non-run-for-the-border Caesar salad (except for the lovely crunchy red strips of death!)
However, Wendy’s has a “new and improved” snazzy new salad which is a nice Southwestern Caesar salad.
