# 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:** 7
**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 8, 2017, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-fast-food-item-would-you-bring-back/778783/121 "2017-02-08T22:51:50Z")
> [@XT](#): > > 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. Maybe it depends on how old you are, but I’m 41, and fast food tastes pretty much exactly as it did when I was a kid. It’s also possible that what changed is your tastes. Sure, there were some changes like beef tallow for the fries but, otherwise, McD’s still has that signature McD’s tastes, as does BK. Wendy’s, though, perhaps that worsened, or my memories of it are fonder than they should be. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2017, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-fast-food-item-would-you-bring-back/778783/122 "2017-02-08T23:44:45Z")
Some Taco Bells still have the chili cheese burrito - I believe it’s up to the franchise operator whether they want to carry it or not. ---
**Author:** ![OsageOrange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/6a8cbe/32.png) [@OsageOrange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OsageOrange)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2017, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-fast-food-item-would-you-bring-back/778783/123 "2017-02-08T23:56:25Z")
Sonic used to have a steak sandwich on a large burger bun. Then they started putting in on Texas Toast :eek: and finally they got rid of it altogether. Occasionally, they’d have it as a “special of the month,” but they quit doing even that! ☹ So I’d bring back that original, on a _bun,_ steak sandwich. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-fast-food-item-would-you-bring-back/778783/124 "2017-02-09T01:04:08Z")
For awhile McDonald’s had Johnsonville Brats on their menu. It’s a Wisconsin brand, so maybe this was a upper Midwest thing. They were pretty darn good and a nice variation to their regular items. Now when I want a good brat I head to the local gas station! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-fast-food-item-would-you-bring-back/778783/125 "2017-02-09T01:58:16Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > I miss when McDonalds used to offer actual honey for their McNuggets. I remember this. I think Jimmy Carter was president. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-fast-food-item-would-you-bring-back/778783/126 "2017-02-09T17:54:09Z")
> [@Enright3](#): > > Damn Right. Chili Cheese Burrito from Taco Bell was the bomb! (in more ways than one!) Yes, I liked that one. ---
**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 9, 2017, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-fast-food-item-would-you-bring-back/778783/127 "2017-02-09T18:16:42Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > I remember this. I think Jimmy Carter was president. McNuggets were introduced in 1983, so you’re one president off. My recollection is that the pure honey was available at least through the late 80s, early 90s. It may be a franchise-by-franchise thing. [This reddit post from last year](https://www.reddit.com/r/McDonalds/comments/33ajo9/what_happened_to_honey/) suggests that at least some stores still have it. ---
**Author:** ![sitchensis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sitchensis/32/4892_2.png) [@sitchensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sitchensis)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-fast-food-item-would-you-bring-back/778783/128 "2017-02-09T18:16:52Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Maybe it depends on how old you are, but I’m 41, and fast food tastes pretty much exactly as it did when I was a kid. It’s also possible that what changed is your tastes. Sure, there were some changes like beef tallow for the fries but, otherwise, McD’s still has that signature McD’s tastes, as does BK. Wendy’s, though, perhaps that worsened, or my memories of it are fonder than they should be. Wendy’s has those shitty bread and butter pickles. ---
**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 9, 2017, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-fast-food-item-would-you-bring-back/778783/129 "2017-02-09T18:23:19Z")
> [@sitchensis](#): > > Wendy’s has those shitty bread and butter pickles. Yeah, I’m all about dill pickles, but that’s not something I really noticed, at least not consciously. I enjoyed the Dave’s Big Classic back in the day, but nothing they have today I’m really fond of. When I eat there, I end up getting the spicy chicken sandwich, which is reasonable. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-fast-food-item-would-you-bring-back/778783/130 "2017-02-09T18:29:22Z")
Already mentioned once - but the McDonald’s fried apple pies. Especially if they were just out of the fryer, and you had to nibble at them because the apple filling was surface of the sun hot. ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-fast-food-item-would-you-bring-back/778783/131 "2017-02-09T18:54:18Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Wendy’s, though, perhaps that worsened, or my memories of it are fonder than they should be. My beloved Wendy’s chili is as great as ever. “Raw onions, no cheese, no crackers, extra hot sauce, please.” ---
**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 9, 2017, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-fast-food-item-would-you-bring-back/778783/132 "2017-02-09T19:07:11Z")
> [@jnglmassiv](#): > > My beloved Wendy’s chili is as great as ever. > > “Raw onions, no cheese, no crackers, extra hot sauce, please.” Hmm…I totally forgot they have chili. Next time I find myself there, I might have to go for that, and I do like fast food chili from time to time. ---
**Author:** ![actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-fast-food-item-would-you-bring-back/778783/133 "2017-02-09T19:21:27Z")
As far as things mentioned in this thread, Wendy’s brought back the taco salad and promoted it heavily. Might just be in Ohio, idk. My daughter gets honey every time we go to McDonalds. As far as Arby’s and their regular fries go, to me they more than make up for it by being basically the only common fast food place with non-fries side options. Don’t like curly fries? They have potato cakes (a staple of my childhood breakfasts, more on that later), mozzarella sticks, jalapeno bites, onion rings. It’s much worse to me when a fast food place only has “regular” fries and they completely suck, like school cafeteria fries, Oreida frozen fries you can heat up at home, and those tasteless stringy fries. So, despite my love of Arbys’ side options, most of the foods I would like to bring back are from Arbys: 1. Arbys breakfast - they might have it somewhere, but I don’t know. My hometown Arbys had it and one of the memories of my childhood was getting a ham,egg, and cheese croissant and potato cakes. My mom told me they tore down the Arbys and built a new one. The new one doesn’t have breakfast. I doubt she’ll go there anymore. 2. Other Arbys sides - onion petals, loaded potato bites, loaded baked potato. When I was a college student I would often get the loaded potato for lunch, it was a meal in itself and cost $1.87 3. Arby’s thicker milkshakes/“real” ice cream bar type setup. When I was a teenager one of the Arby’s in town had a separate shake/ice cream section you could walk up to and they had real thick milkshakes. I used to get this thing called a Chocolate Peanut Butter Concrete. It was a shake, almost as thick as just getting a bowl of ice cream. And their watery shakes were cheap at least. They had a Shake of the Month for 39 cents, and the price rose gradually - 49,59,69,79 cents until the stopped. 4. Regular specialty burgers at most of the fast food chains (usually excluding Mcdonalds, whose extent of creativity is making a Big Mac bigger or smaller). It seemed like almost every month or so Burger King, Wendys, Arbys, Steak n Shake, etc would have a new limited time sandwich and they would often all hit the same theme (peppercorn bacon, ghost peppers, ranch so and so, whatever). Lately every time I go by one they have the same retreads. Steak n Shake has been promoting a bland cheddar burger for months, Wendys is featuring an Asiago chicken sandwich that’s been on the regular menu for years. Arbys is pushing unremarkable fish sandwiches. A lot of them are promoting weird cheap meals that include burgers and chicken nuggets. I like pulling up to these places and seeing “Try our limited time Habenero Ranch Peppercorn Bacon Gruyere Crispy Chicken with Artisan Bun,” Because in general there’s almost nothing on the main fastfood lunch/dinner entree menus that I get excited about. If I endup going there, might as well pick a random number. ---
**Author:** ![magnusblitz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@magnusblitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magnusblitz)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-fast-food-item-would-you-bring-back/778783/134 "2017-02-09T19:30:12Z")
Wendy’s chicken nuggets aren’t bad, but I miss the actual chicken strips they had about 10 years ago. I guess they got rid of them with a lot of the other Wendy’s chicken items folks have mentioned in this thread. I also wish they’d go back to their old style (pre sea-salt/natural cut) fries. ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-fast-food-item-would-you-bring-back/778783/135 "2017-02-09T19:54:34Z")
I consider [Horn](https://www.6sqft.com/horn-and-hardart-automats-redefining-lunchtime-dining-on-a-dime/)& [Hardart](https://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/17/the-automat-may-be-long-gone-but-its-recipes-are-in-demand/) old school fast food. First, I’d bring back the automat, then bring back their mac & cheese, baked beans and coffee. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-fast-food-item-would-you-bring-back/778783/136 "2017-02-09T20:09:47Z")
> [@Tibby or Not Tibby](#): > > I consider [Horn](https://www.6sqft.com/horn-and-hardart-automats-redefining-lunchtime-dining-on-a-dime/)& [Hardart](https://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/17/the-automat-may-be-long-gone-but-its-recipes-are-in-demand/) old school fast food. First, I’d bring back the automat, then bring back their mac & cheese, baked beans and coffee. They have something very like a automat in the Netherlands and Spain. and of course the Japanese have their own weird version. ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-fast-food-item-would-you-bring-back/778783/137 "2017-02-09T22:44:13Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Huh. You know, I’ve been to Superdawg, of course, but I’ve never noticed the onion chips on the menu. How 'bout that? Love those things. And now I’m craving a whoopskidawg. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2017, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-fast-food-item-would-you-bring-back/778783/138 "2017-02-10T00:25:31Z")
> [@Tibby or Not Tibby](#): > > I consider [Horn](https://www.6sqft.com/horn-and-hardart-automats-redefining-lunchtime-dining-on-a-dime/)& [Hardart](https://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/17/the-automat-may-be-long-gone-but-its-recipes-are-in-demand/) old school fast food. First, I’d bring back the automat, then bring back their mac & cheese, baked beans and coffee. Obligatory link to the famous [_Concerto for Horn & Hardart_, S. 27, by P. D. Q. Bach](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT6bxlnS1Is). ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2017, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-fast-food-item-would-you-bring-back/778783/139 "2017-02-10T00:26:50Z")
The Bar-Be-Cutie’s Beef Tips & Gravy on a bed of White Rice, smothered in their own Hot Sauce. Spicy. Makes yer lips tingle. ---
**Author:** ![JXJohns](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jxjohns/32/469_2.png) [@JXJohns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JXJohns)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2017, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-fast-food-item-would-you-bring-back/778783/140 "2017-02-10T04:28:56Z")
Not exactly fast food, but I seriously miss Pizza Hut’s priazzo. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/nFDl9jiLJpo/maxresdefault.jpg "Pizza Hut's Priazzo Roma Pie Commercial") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFDl9jiLJpo) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-fast-food-item-would-you-bring-back/778783.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-discontinued-fast-food-item-would-you-bring-back/778783.md?page=8)