rolling new food laboratory inventions for american chain restaurants thread

White Castle to offer VEGGIE sliders.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/dec/31/white-castle-unveils-veggie-burger-option

I can't believe this is real. I won't believe it until I taste one, all greasy and smothered with onion. For vegetarians who love BAD FOOD, this is heaven.

otm, can't wait

Saw that they are Dr. Praegars - good shit

Stoked for the vegness

(My secret confession is that I may like veggie burgers better than most real burgers)

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2015/01/11/fast-food-deals-restaurants-burger-king-chipotle-pizza-hut/21599161/

Burger King on Monday will announce the return of one of its most popular deals from last fall: 10 chicken nuggets for $1.49. That's about half the usual price of $2.99 and it takes a serious jab at a popular McDonald's promotion that comes and goes of 20 Chicken McNuggets for $5.

"When we first offered our guests this value back in October, they went crazy for it," says Eric Hirschhorn, chief marketing officer North America, Burger King. So crazy, in fact, that the promotion had to end early when supplies ran out, he says. But Burger King's bringing back the offer, again, during a post-holiday time when folks are watching their wallets, he says, "and this time we're ready,"

Last go-round, says Hirschhorn, many consumers bought in bulk — even orders of 100 — often tweeting about the hefty purchases "as a badge of honor."

My local McDonald's was offering the 50 piece McNugget

50 pieces of one McNugget??

50 piece mandoline

xp - mine is too - as far as i can tell its target audience is exclusively groups of rowdy high school kids (which i guess makes sense)

50 shades of pink slime

They taste good as long as you get fifty sauces and dump them over the top and also don't look at them or think about how they feel in your mouth

i ate so much fast food until i graduated college/moved to a city and none since and it has deeply soured me on ever eating that shit again

I could probably sit down to a bowl of sawdust and turpentine, but chicken mcnuggets have grossed me out ever since they were added to the menu.

"When we first offered our guests this value back in October, they went crazy for it,"
"When we first offered our guests this value back in October, they went crazy for it,"
"When we first offered our guests this value back in October, they went crazy for it,"
"When we first offered our guests this value back in October, they went crazy for it,"
"When we first offered our guests this value back in October, they went crazy for it,"
"When we first offered our guests this value back in October, they went crazy for it,"
"When we first offered our guests this value back in October, they went crazy for it,"
"When we first offered our guests this value back in October, they went crazy for it,"
"When we first offered our guests this value back in October, they went crazy for it,"
"When we first offered our guests this value back in October, they went crazy for it,"
"When we first offered our guests this value back in October, they went crazy for it,"
"When we first offered our guests this value back in October, they went crazy for it,"
"When we first offered our guests this value back in October, they went crazy for it,"

I had chicken mcnuggets once last year in a moment of weakness and I can't digest that shit anymore

xps Too bad the Burger King nuggets are absolute garbage, especially compared to the McD's ones

t bomb

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-newest-item-on-dennys-menu-a-grand-slam-breakfast-tweet-1422228149

“It’s Jay Z’s birthday,” said one of the creative specialists. “Anybody have any thoughts on what we could do?”

Suggestions poured out, including “99 problems but lunch ain’t one” and “big shrimpin’,” both references to classic Jay Z songs.

http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/HC-GT393_Hash_B_G_20150125161518.jpg

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

where do they put the juicyfruit on that thing?

"pieces"

Doncha just hate it when the actual product doesn't match up with the advertising?

http://i.imgur.com/Y32TW6i.jpg

oh my god

the goatse of fast food

It's obscene.

Obscenely delicious!

is the chicken patty actually u-shaped like in the ad or is it just folded into the wrapper?

http://i.imgur.com/qY1fO2M.jpg

that's a concept there

this is not the world I grew up in

that cannot be real

I swear I read that earlier ad as "CHUCK'n CHEESE". Which is what would happen.

The Rise of the Frickle

Matt C
January 28, 2015 at 3:53 pm
Burger Bar in San Francisco has been rocking these for years. Holsteins in Las Vegas has great ones that used to come with a charcuterie platter so you could wrap salami around fried pickles. Great stuff!

^^^^^^

Sometimes called “frickles,”

No. This has never happened. I refuse to believe this.

the fickle frickle of fate.

425 results for "frickle" on Yelp, though sadly most of those are not reviews rhapsodizing over the most succulent and crispy frickles, but just people's names and/or people using it as a cutesy swear (not that that's less annoying). really thought the Fungry Foodies might have frickled at least once.

when i see 'frickle' all i can think about is this guy

http://www.greenfield-sanders.com/files/images/fricke.jpg

https://fricklechicks.wordpress.com/

Forget everything you thought you knew about movie theaters. The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema brings the movie watching experience to a new level, intact with deep fried deliciousness in the form of frickles.

The movie theater has benches across from each seat, so you can enjoy a meal from a full dinner menu, served by a wait staff during and throughout the movie. There’s also a full bar that you can enjoy before the movie, or order from during the feature presentation. It’s so awesome, we had to create a new word to describe this next-level amazingness. It was fricktastic.

We saw Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, which was also completely fricktastic.

fried pickle spears are fucking bullshit, surface area:interior hot pickle mush ratio is way off

otm. fried pickle *chips* otoh, pure gold

cosign

http://www.syracuse.com/food/index.ssf/2015/01/disqualified_at_syracuse_winterfest_no_cauliflower_chicken_wings_this_year.html#incart_m-rpt-1

SYRACUSE, NY -- Last year, it was Syracuse Winterfest's version of Deflategate.

LOFO, an Armory Square restaurant participating in the festival's annual Wing Walk (a chicken wing-tasting event), pulled a surprise on some festgoers: It offered 'wings' made from cauliflower florets, roasted and doused in LOFO's signature Dragon sauce.

The veggie alternative sparked a spirited debate among Winterfest fans, and even caught the attention of noted vegetarian diet advocate Paul McCartney.

Not this year. Winterfest organizers have decreed: No 'cauliwings.'

"Yeah, those wings are not going to fly this year," said Bill Cooper, the lead Winterfest organizer.

the only sane man in a crazy world

Should LOFO's 'cauliwings' be allowed in this year's Wing Walk?
Yes. Veggie alternatives are good.
No. A wing is chicken. Period.
Not sure / no answer
Vote
View Results

A friend of mine once placed in a chili cook-off with a white bean chicken chili and faced similar opposition from stalwart traditionalists. These are sensitive matters.

The problem isn't that they aren't wings. It's that they tossed some cauliflower in hot sauce and acted like that was a good idea.

"Yeah, those wings are not going to fly this year," said Bill Cooper, the lead Winterfest organizer.

the only sane man in a crazy world

that dog won't hunt