rolling new food laboratory inventions for american chain restaurants thread

in my current (French) town there are only two main pizza options: cheese or anchovies (without cheese). you can get other stuff on yr pie but that's mainly for tourists. so I've come to love the briny fish on a tomato sauced slice

https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3916/14846246950_179bf1dc1a.jpg

The best pizza topping set: anchovies, pepperoni, capers, and garlic, whole black olives optional. A friend of mine used to call this the "misanthrope special".

intermediate-level umami

Love how of all those things the olives are optional

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/336a81a736eb4a9483e62a6ad98a8501/throwing-shade-taco-bell-execs-bone-youth-lingo

language laboratory innovations

That proved true last year when he spoke at a presentation by Taco Bell parent company Yum Brands Inc., which also owns KFC and Pizza Hut. At the time, Niccol informed the audience of analysts and investors about the millennial phrase "on cleek," which he explained meant "on point."

Later, the website Buzzfeed noted that Niccol had meant to say "on fleek." In a conversation with The Associated Press, Niccol said his social media team was quick to correct him after the meeting.

"The next day they were like, 'You were close'," Niccol said. "I accused them of telling me it's 'on cleek'."

"In the end, that's how Taco Bell stays relevant," Niccol said.

Rad pandering, G. Keep gleaming that cube, hepcats!

see you on the flippity flop tacajos

Megan Jasper, a 25-year-old sales representative at Caroline Records in Seattle, provided this lexicon of grunge speak, coming soon to a high school or mall near you:

WACK SLACKS: Old ripped jeans

FUZZ: Heavy wool sweaters

PLATS: Platform shoes

KICKERS: Heavy boots

SWINGIN' ON THE FLIPPITY-FLOP: Hanging out

BOUND-AND-HAGGED: Staying home on Friday or Saturday night

SCORE: Great

HARSH REALM: Bummer

COB NOBBLER: Loser

DISH: Desirable guy

BLOATED, BIG BAG OF BLOATATION: Drunk

LAMESTAIN: Uncool person

TOM-TOM CLUB: Uncool outsiders

ROCK ON: A happy goodbye

Looking forward to the très cleek Taco Bell Bloated, Big Bag of Bloatation, for a limited time only.

http://media2.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2015_24/624466/pizzahut-hotdogpizza-today-150610_bf254d3344c1083af4ef19f40db60ad1.today-inline-large.jpg

http://www.today.com/food/pizza-hut-confirms-hot-dog-stuffed-crust-pizza-coming-america-t25591

Looks good.

so doesn't the pizza become crustless if you eat the hotdogs, or are you supposed to grab on to them and hope the perforations don't tear or whatever

can I order a hot-dog-stuffed-crust pizza with no middle

would pair nicely with a none pizza with left beef http://www.thesneeze.com/2007/the-great-pizza-orientation-test.php

no matter how many times I see that none/beef pizza I crack up every time I open the link

This is the threshold where I have a hard time seeing the stuffed crust as part of the pizza rather than a separate dish fused on. It's the radial orientation of the hotdogs.

Might as well start attaching tacos to pizzas at this point.

circular wienering squad

'new food' for the US maybe, this be some old shit for Japan.

http://static.mybs.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/hot-dog-pizza.jpg

https://youtu.be/8MFNNqoxAe4

If David Cronenberg designed pizzas

Or Wes Craven - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qw5YcXgQZw

or the catholic church.

http://www.brandeating.com/2015/06/review-ikea-veggie-balls-plate.html#more

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/news/burger-king-launches-red-burger-sets-sights-on-entire-colour-spectrum-10325953.html

taking a page from the geoff johns run on green lantern huh

http://www.seriouseats.com/2015/06/diy-dairy-queen-moorhead-minnesota.html

artisanal dilly bars

Is there something about Moorehead and tie-dye that I missed?

http://i.imgur.com/EYECJd1.jpg

that place sounds amazing, good on them.

also cool to imagine that at one point the dilly bar was a new invention, though clearly not from the food laboratory as such.

before big food, as it were

I'd never heard of a dilly bar before

"They held it up and someone said, 'isn't that a dilly!'" DeLeon recounts, before shrugging his shoulders and explaining that dilly was basically 1950s slang for "eureka."

haha that's great

So those Ikea things are falafels, basically.

"crunch patties!"
http://www.geocities.ws/per100s/khlav/k03.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/hbw72Gf.jpg

yes!

http://www.grubstreet.com/2015/06/swedish-pizza.html

violation of geneva convention

Or the Oslo Accords, for that matter!

"... named, of course, for Helsinki, Sweden."

I dunno, that looks kind of tasty! I just wouldnt think of it as being a pizza.

And it's really not crying out for ketchup.

definitely an adaptation of a doner rather than a pizza.

https://vine.co/v/MHvPbW3mh0r

http://i.imgur.com/hbw72Gf.jpg

sexy fast food jacuzzi

I ... what is that yellow stuff on the pizza in the vine? Mustard?

chick fil a sauce
http://www.girlplusfood.net/2012/07/chick-fil-sauce.html

Ah, so I wasnt far off.

Ew.

i like the hot dog toaster!

fun article
https://www.guernicamag.com/daily/helen-rosner-on-chicken-tenders

http://arbys.com/vegetariansupport