# Which fast food items still taste the same as they used to, let's say 20 years ago or longer? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [February 8, 2024, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fast-food-items-still-taste-the-same-as-they-used-to-lets-say-20-years-ago-or-longer/997328 "2024-02-08T21:53:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2024, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fast-food-items-still-taste-the-same-as-they-used-to-lets-say-20-years-ago-or-longer/997328/121 "2024-02-23T12:49:38Z")
So did I - and as far as I can tell the US menu has changed since then. They don’t seem to have a Teenburger or a Mama Burger anymore , although they are on the menu in Canada ---
**Author:** ![Disinfectus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/disinfectus/32/11085_2.png) [@Disinfectus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disinfectus)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2024, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fast-food-items-still-taste-the-same-as-they-used-to-lets-say-20-years-ago-or-longer/997328/122 "2024-02-23T16:13:41Z")
> [@GargoyleWB](#): > > I treat/punish myself to a Jack in the Box ultimate cheeseburger once or twice a year. It seems to remain the same gooey calorie bomb it has been since the 90s. I tried one recently for the first time in quite a few years. I thought it tasted basically the same, but sure looked smaller than I remembered. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2024, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fast-food-items-still-taste-the-same-as-they-used-to-lets-say-20-years-ago-or-longer/997328/123 "2024-02-23T16:18:15Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > Except **A&W** , if you can find one. Our local _A&W_ has announced they’ll be opening for the season on March 16. Me and the wife like root beer floats and try to stop in every year. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2024, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fast-food-items-still-taste-the-same-as-they-used-to-lets-say-20-years-ago-or-longer/997328/124 "2024-02-23T21:24:07Z")
> [@sunacres](#): > > So is water, but people drown all the time. Usually just once. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2024, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fast-food-items-still-taste-the-same-as-they-used-to-lets-say-20-years-ago-or-longer/997328/125 "2024-04-21T03:53:58Z")
> [@Common\_Tater](#): > > Sausage McMuffin w/cheese are pretty tasty, though a lot of that depends on whether the particular restaurant is simply phoning it in or not. I make them at home now and then and they are _fantastic_ compared to the restaurant versions. I just wanted to let you know that this little comment has changed our weekend breakfasts greatly for the better. My wife keeps kosher, so she wouldn’t eat a regular Sausage McMuffin. Your suggestion of making one at home set off the proverbial light bulb. Some time ago I had bought a package of Impossible (plant-based) breakfast sausage, and hadn’t thought how to use it. After reading your post I tried using it in a sausage egg muffin sandwich, and it turned out great. She loved it, too. At first I simply scrambled the egg and folded it onto the sandwich, but then I bought some [egg rings](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BGPH72D5/) and learned the trick of dropping the egg, unscrambled, into the ring, breaking the yolk, then pouring a little water into the frying pan, outside the ring, and covering the pan. This yields a perfectly sized and cooked egg disk. Although they’re a little too time-consuming for weekday mornings, we’ve enjoyed them for breakfast almost every weekend for the past two months. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2024, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fast-food-items-still-taste-the-same-as-they-used-to-lets-say-20-years-ago-or-longer/997328/126 "2024-04-21T20:15:12Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Domino’s has always been trash and even though they revamped their recipe, it did not improve it in any way that made it good. > > I’m one of the minority, I think, who believe Little Caesar’s pizza is great. Dominos has gotten better. And Little Caesars basic pizza is really bad, but the deep dish is surprisingly good. > [@Common\_Tater](#): > > Exactly! If it’s a good crust, then it’s 90% of the way there, put it like that. Crispy crackly, redolent of garlic and parm - good enough by itself, almost. Yes, if you can eat the crust at the edge after all the toppings and sauces are devoured, , then that’s good crust. > [@Common\_Tater](#): > > “Colonel” Sanders of KFC said their gravy was turned into “sludge” after they changed the recipe, presumably after he retired, or something. Yep, the old gravy was great! Here’s his quote about the new gravy-_My God, that gravy is horrible. They buy tap water for 15 to 20 cents a thousand gallons and then they mix it with flour and starch and end up with pure wallpaper paste. And I know wallpaper paste, by God, because I’ve seen my mother make it. … There’s no nutrition in it and they ought not to be allowed to sell it._ But Col Sanders was made a Kentucky Colonel. ---
**Author:** ![fedman1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e495f1/32.png) [@fedman1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fedman1)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2024, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fast-food-items-still-taste-the-same-as-they-used-to-lets-say-20-years-ago-or-longer/997328/127 "2024-04-22T13:12:51Z")
You would have loved it when Walmart at one time sold egg “patties” in frozen section [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fast-food-items-still-taste-the-same-as-they-used-to-lets-say-20-years-ago-or-longer/997328.md?page=6)