# What discontinued fast food item would you bring back? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [February 1, 2017, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-fast-food-item-would-you-bring-back/778783 "2017-02-01T22:53:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2017, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-fast-food-item-would-you-bring-back/778783/101 "2017-02-07T20:22:05Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > i miss the wendys all you can eat superbar also because the manager would get crap for food waste so hed only charge for the first 3 or so people who got it but didn’t mind sharing if your friends bought a burger … That’s exactly what I came in here to mention. I used to order the “Superbar” at least once a week; as I recall it had tacos and pasta in addition to the standard salad items. I’m not surprised it was discontinued. The waste involved must have been mind-boggling. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2017, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-fast-food-item-would-you-bring-back/778783/102 "2017-02-07T20:39:07Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I don’t know which fast food chain had these, but when I was an undergrad the campus dining hall had such fries made from potato mush. They were called “Frispos”, and they were awful. > > According to a quick internet search, Carl’s Jr. used to serve FRispos, so that;'s probably the chain you had in mind (I grew up on the East Coast. We didn’t have Carl’s Jr.s, which is why I know them from Campus Dining Service) > > [junkfoodblog.com - Your source for everything junk food!](http://www.junkfoodblog.com/2008/01/frispos-original-carls-jr-fries.html) > > [why Carls Jrs no longer have the crinkle fries or frispos :{ | San Francisco - Yelp](https://www.yelp.com/topic/san-francisco-why-carls-jrs-no-longer-have-the-crinkle-fries-or-frispos) Frispos were awesome. For about two minutes. After that, well, let’s just say that “crisp” was not a word anyone used in relation to them. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2017, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-fast-food-item-would-you-bring-back/778783/103 "2017-02-07T23:08:52Z")
I’m the only one who misses McDonald’s chicken biscuit? ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2017, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-fast-food-item-would-you-bring-back/778783/104 "2017-02-07T23:15:50Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > I’m the only one who misses McDonald’s chicken biscuit? I was going to say, no, there was someone at the beginning of the thread – but that was you. 🙂 I enjoyed it enough, but I prefer their regular sandwich version of the country chicken, or whatever they called it (which essentially was just their version of Chick Fil A’s sandwich.) We have Chick Fil A here now, so that scratches my itch (their politics aside.) ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2017, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-fast-food-item-would-you-bring-back/778783/105 "2017-02-07T23:44:31Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > The Arby-Q would be the one thing that would get me to enter an Arby’s again. I loved that sandwich. I’d even force down their lousy curly fries to have a couple of Arby-Qs again. I like their jamocha shakes and their potato cakes. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2017, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-fast-food-item-would-you-bring-back/778783/106 "2017-02-08T00:39:33Z")
KFC’s original gravy, before they changed it to library paste in the early 70’s. I agree with The Colonel who, after tasting the new corporate recipe gravy, said “How do you serve this God-damned slop? With a straw?” ---
**Author:** ![pohjonen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pohjonen/32/423_2.png) [@pohjonen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pohjonen)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2017, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-fast-food-item-would-you-bring-back/778783/107 "2017-02-08T00:49:27Z")
Forty years ago, Carl’s Junior used to have really good chili dogs. ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2017, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-fast-food-item-would-you-bring-back/778783/108 "2017-02-08T02:47:00Z")
> [@Calatin](#): > > Arby’s triple-cheese melt subs from the mid to late 90’s. They had a Parmesan sauce that was amazing! Oh hell yes, this. A thousand times this. Let me add another thing that haunts my dreams. An item that others tell me I imagined. The McDonald’s Steak, Egg and Cheese Bagel. I would die happy if I could have just one more. ---
**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2017, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-fast-food-item-would-you-bring-back/778783/109 "2017-02-08T02:56:47Z")
Two items: (a) McD’s original Shamrock Shake of yesteryear. Today’s does not seem as minty. And (b): McD’s Banana Shake. Does anyone remember these? Both would have to be prepared per the original recipe. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2017, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-fast-food-item-would-you-bring-back/778783/110 "2017-02-08T03:17:39Z")
> [@Pork\_Rind](#): > > Oh hell yes, this. A thousand times this. > > Let me add another thing that haunts my dreams. An item that others tell me I imagined. The McDonald’s Steak, Egg and Cheese Bagel. I would die happy if I could have just one more. Not imaginary…[and not discontinued apparently.](McDonald’s Steak, Egg and Cheese Bagel) ---
**Author:** ![Seydell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Seydell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seydell)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2017, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-fast-food-item-would-you-bring-back/778783/111 "2017-02-08T03:41:35Z")
Taco Bell Cinnamon Crispas (deep-fried flour tortilla triangles dusted with cinnamon sugar) Red Lobster’s Hush Puppies Red Lobster’s Langostinos and Shrimp ---
**Author:** ![John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_stamos_left_ear/32/3198_2.png) [@John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Stamos_Left_Ear)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2017, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-fast-food-item-would-you-bring-back/778783/112 "2017-02-08T08:20:44Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > The Arby-Q would be the one thing that would get me to enter an Arby’s again. I loved that sandwich. I’d even force down their lousy curly fries to have a couple of Arby-Qs again. I go for the potato cakes. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2017, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-fast-food-item-would-you-bring-back/778783/113 "2017-02-08T16:27:24Z")
I loved the Jack In The Box [Colossus Burger.](http://www.theimpulsivebuy.com/wordpress/2015/02/22/fast-food-flashback-jack-in-the-box-colossus-burger/) Half pound of beef, three different kinds of cheese, and _eight_ strips of bacon-made the so-called “Baconator” look like 7-11 microwave burger in comparison. ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2017, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-fast-food-item-would-you-bring-back/778783/114 "2017-02-08T16:38:47Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > McDonald’s chicken biscuit. That chicken and that biscuit are hands down the best things that McDonald’s had ever sold. literally just came in from McDonald’s and they had the McChicken biscuit back on the menu. Also a Chicken McGriddle. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2017, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-fast-food-item-would-you-bring-back/778783/115 "2017-02-08T17:11:02Z")
Really? I hope it’s back hereabouts. This thread is magic then ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2017, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-fast-food-item-would-you-bring-back/778783/116 "2017-02-08T17:16:34Z")
Good Taco Bell tacos? 😛 Really, what I’d most like is to bring back an entire chain. When I was younger, I really liked Roy Roger’s roast beef sandwiches. The sandwiches were really good (real roast beef, done rare and cut on one of those slicing machine thingies), the sauce was good, the fries were good and they served coke which was always my preference. If I could bring back anything, it would be that. What I REALLY want, though, is to bring back the days when fast food tasted good. To me, all of the fast food today is a pale shadow. I realize it’s because the fast food of old was really, really bad for you. But then, when I was a kid going to a fast food place was a treat, not something you ate every day. You MAYBE at at a McDonald’s or KFC or whatever a couple times a year. At most, maybe once every other month (that’s when my family got ‘rich’). ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2017, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-fast-food-item-would-you-bring-back/778783/117 "2017-02-08T19:29:01Z")
> [@jz78817](#): > > the chilito/chili-cheese burrito from Toxic Hell. crap, but a guilty pleasure. Damn Right. Chili Cheese Burrito from Taco Bell was the bomb! (in more ways than one!) ---
**Author:** ![sleestak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@sleestak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleestak)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2017, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-fast-food-item-would-you-bring-back/778783/118 "2017-02-08T19:56:56Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Enchirito! > > I hear rumors its on “the secret menu”, but haven’t ever tried to order one. I order those every time I go to Taco Bell. They always serve them. Slee ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2017, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-fast-food-item-would-you-bring-back/778783/119 "2017-02-08T22:16:09Z")
> [@Enright3](#): > > Damn Right. Chili Cheese Burrito from Taco Bell was the bomb! (in more ways than one!) Thems were a lot good. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2017, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-fast-food-item-would-you-bring-back/778783/120 "2017-02-08T22:43:46Z")
I love enchiritos and tostadas at Taco Bell. They never seem to both be available at the same time. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-fast-food-item-would-you-bring-back/778783.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-fast-food-item-would-you-bring-back/778783.md?page=7)