rolling new food laboratory inventions for american chain restaurants thread

xp to Hurting OTM

I'm decidedly not a food snob and firmly believe that if you want to eat something, even if it's "bad," you should go ahead and eat it and fuck the haters, but for me I can't imagine that the gross feeling after eating a Doubledown would be worth what it actually tastes like. Just the thought of how greasy my mouth would feel is dreadful.

and fyi I will gladly take a bus and then walk a half mile to go to Taco Bell when the mood strikes, so it's really just about personal preference and, yes, diminishing returns on the particular type of food.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/07/the-year-in-hot-dog-innovation/277507/

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/mt/assets/science/dogecosystem.jpg

http://sportsrapport.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/white-castle-chicken-rings.jpg

Have we discussed the rise of the chicken ring yet?

I have not yet seen chicken rings for sale. But it's all just reclaimed, bleached chicken corpse meat pressed into shapes, right? Strip, ring, dinosaur, star, etc.

1) not american 2) i see this as something that has filtered upward from non-chain restaurants, not really a food laboratory invention. the lebanese donair and pizza place on my block in edmonton had a donair poutine, a donair pizza, a poutine pizza and a donair poutine pizza. this is in the same territory: pizza + poutine + shaved beef. most indie pizza places that do poutine pizza retain the tomato sauce, which recalls poutine italienne, but pizza hut takes the concept further by replacing tomato sauce with starch gelatinized beef gravy.

http://slice.seriouseats.com/images/2013/06/20130626-poutine-pizza2.jpg

http://slice.seriouseats.com/archives/2013/06/reality-check-pizza-hut-cheesy-beef-poutine-pie.html

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/mt/assets/science/hotdogpic.jpg
hot dog seems excited to be with two ladies

Faster Faster KILL KILL KILL

http://c767204.r4.cf2.rackcdn.com/3016377b-e8ee-4b21-b2bd-17f8ba8dcffc.jpg

39 megapixel burger

the kfc north america menu has remained stable for decades. i remember the introduction of the big crunch and the zinger and wraps and they seem dated now in a landscape of new food laboratory inventions for american chain restaurants. the only innovations over the last five years have been: no bun chicken, frozen corn mashed potatoes chicken in a bowl.

uhhhh i ate the bones

http://taiwanonymous.blogspot.ca/2008/07/cartilage-kebab-at-kfc.html

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-07-22/product-test-taking-the-pizza-plunge-with-neverwet#r=hpt-ls

http://25.media.tumblr.com/c164d8bea1581cf4f4d399826d6d4f22/tumblr_mqcplhUt821qzoj6fo1_250.gif

Once the novelty wears off, it becomes hard to imagine coating your clothes or shoes with the stuff.

Are you joking? I would coat all of my shoes in NeverWet. This guy must not walk in the rain very much.

http://www.burgerbusiness.com/

this is my favorite blog

― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass),

thanking u h4a, every new post is a revelation

haha i love that LTO in a burger context can stand for something besides lettuce-tomato-onion

also the endless pre-coverage anticipating the Wendy's pretzel burger

it's like the royal baby of burgers

the fancy lettuce on it made me feel guiltier about taking the lettuce and tomato off and throwing it back in the bag.

dude!

whats up?

the price of vegetables

i don't care if it's mesclun. years of picking off iceberg stumps and peruvian midwinter tomatoes have trained me: pop the top and discard all excess vegetables.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/07/28/article-2380308-1B080039000005DC-23_634x683.jpg

Somehow that makes me want to be a vegetarian even harder.

if i was just veggie for ethical reasons i would totally eat in vitro meat

B-b-but the cow didn't consent to having her stem cells harvested!

But a good hamburger is not 100% lean. Do they have a plan to grow in-vitro fat to get that good 80/20 mix?

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XskwWPbXC5A/UEKM-VS2AKI/AAAAAAAABHs/C_aJ63HTroM/s200/Toffiffee1.jpg

delicious stem cells

that's new?

http://www.burgerbusiness.com/wp-content/uploads/BK_GarlicMeatBest.png

so far, american fast food restaurants seem resistant to the idea of multiple animals represented on a hamburger. i think. right? at least a chicken burger slammed onto the top of a hamburger would seem bizarre.

i've heard there are mcdonalds where you can straight up order a mcgangbang and they'll make it for you

but the making of it seems like a pleasure which you wouldn't want to deprive yourself of

pork accents, ok; full pork representation alongside beef or chicken, no go

Look at the garlic slices on that thing. Jesus.

http://i.imgur.com/5K9PHap.jpg

http://www.boston.com/business/news/2013/08/06/taco-bell-expanding-test-waffle-taco-breakfast/VawV1fjUCPzxmYOuPFBklK/story.html

staring slackly at this like it's an indecent gif in the nsfw thread

one of my fave tortas is one with ham, chicken and beef on it. mmmm.

i hate that this is generating discussion of whether or not a waffle taco is a good idea in general. waffle sandwiches of any kind are undeniable, like at lucky j's in austin or at my house, but of course taco bell are going to make a terrible version of it.

I deny waffle sandwiches.

Thrice!

do they make it so it holds that shape??

(please let the answer be yes, a thousand tiems yes)

gross. Aren't waffles sweet?

have you ever had a waffle

http://www.burgerbusiness.com/wp-content/uploads/EpicBurger_CronutBurger.jpg

have you ever seen a cuter cronut burger

Oh barf.

http://www.cnfood.cn/infouploadimg/1209/1347591031.jpg

http://i2.s1.dpfile.com/pc/6d2014e91974cf847735ff6861a650f8%28700x700%29/thumb.jpg

okay. because it actually looks edible in the promotional materials.

I've been in Beijing for 24 hours and seen the poster for that (with the cool dude in the half-white, half-black outfit) in probably twenty separate locations.

Your mission is clear.

Went for the green rice-wrap burrito object instead. Not bad!