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30 Fast Facts About Fast Food

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30 Fast Facts About Fast Food

October 29, 2023

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The ‘I’m Lovin’ It’ Jingle

Justin Timberlake was paid $6 million to sing the I'm Lovin' It jingle M i'm lovin' it™ Timberlake recorded the McDonald's jingle expanded into a full song, written by Pharrell Williams. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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McDonald’s in Africa

McDonald's is only in four African countries ماكدونالدر McDonald's M بالدوبالت McDonald's If you find yourself in Africa craving a Big Mac, you'll have to go to Egypt, Morocco, South Africa, or Tunisia. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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White Castle

White Castle is the oldest fast-food burger chain, originating in 1921 White Castle WhiteChotte.com el Castle Save dron The company's assembly line style food preparation helped to lead the the entire fast food industry. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Shaq’s Five Guys Franchises

Shaq owns 155 Five Guys Burgers and 17 Auntie Annie's Pretzels. FIVE GUYS RE SHAME TE FIVE GUYS E BUT L BET CARD - NOT ENTER That's more than 10% of the Five Guys in the United States. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Museums vs. Fast-Food Chains

There are more U.S. museums than there are Starbucks and McDonalds- combined LOCANSE McDonald's SPEEDER SERVICE SYSTEM HAMBURGERS We have Sold OVER 1 MILLION McDonald's There are around 11,000 Starbucks and 14,000 McDonald's locations in the U.S., compared to 35,000 museums. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Dave Thomas

Before founding Wendy's, Dave Thomas used to work for KFC Colonel Sanders used to mentor Thomas. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Come on in, take a load off!

1 in 6 American workers has worked at McDonald's SVIII Each year, they hire about a million people. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Chick-fil-A buys more Sunkist lemons than anyone else They use over 250 million lemons per year. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Come on in, take a load off!

KFC offers a popular Christmas meal package in Japan Kentucky Christmas It's so popular they recommend ordering two months in advance. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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McDonald’s in Sweden

Sweden has a ski-through McDonald's Donald's A ski resort has a McDonald's you can ski right up to. How very Swedish of them. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Dairy Queen in Texas

Dairy Queens in Texas have a different menu Dairy Queen Dairy Queen Some Texas-specific products include the Hungr-Buster and the Dude Chick'n Fried Steak Sandwich. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Domino's managers allegedly burned down a nearby Papa John's In 2011, two Domino's managers were arrested for arson after their competition burned down. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Harold and Kumar were originally written to go to Krispy Kreme Krispy Kreme didn't want to be associated with the movie, but White Castle took the risk. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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KFC bath bombs KFC x VILLAGE VONGUARD - dock - GRACKED.COM In 2017, KFC Japan offered bath bombs that would make your skin smell just like the decadent fried flesh offered by your favorite poultry murder syndicate. — Source

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KFC's horny sex fiction CRACKED.COM KFC used the occasion of Mothers Day 2017 to commission an 83-page romance novella, called Tender Wings of Desire. — Source

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Burger King's sex toys Only on valentines Only from 6 PM KING BURGER Adults Meal - 18+ B+ CRACKED.COM For a few brief, sensual hours in 2017, ВК locations in Israel offered Adult Meals, which came with the mildest sex toys known to man. — Source

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The Noid caused a hostage crisis N PIZZA CRACKED.COM Domino's recently brought back The Noid, hoping we'd all forgotten that time in 1989 when a paranoid man, surnamed Noid, took two Domino's employees hostage because he thought the tagline avoid the Noid! was directed at him. — Source

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Menu Animation

Menu Animation GRACKED.COM Companies like McDonald's even use animation specifi- cally to direct your eyes away from the cheaper items, which is how you end up or- dering a $12 burger when you walked in singing a song about nuggies. — Source

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Seating Comfort

Seating CRACKED.COM Depending on how quickly they want you to leave, restau- rants adjust the comfort of their seats accordingly, which is why all fast food seats are twisted hunks of plastic deter- mined to make your butt the star of its own Hostel film. — Source

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Lighting People CRACKED.COM That's the same reason fast food restaurants all live in a fluorescent hellscape. On the other hand, fan- су restaurants keep the lights low so you have to lean in to read the menu, which encourages intimacy with your foodmates and keeps you talking and ordering outra- geously marked up wine. — Source

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Grill Marks

CRACKED COM Many fast food restaurants' hamburgers and chicken strips are imprinted with fake grill marks. — Source

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The Taste

Fast food is purposefully designed to overwhelm our taste buds, making a lot of it seem to taste the same. These meals leave no room for nuance and appeal to our sweet, salty, and bitter taste receptors all at once. This barrage of flavor triggers positive reactions in the brain causing us to crave more of this junk food. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Before 1965, chicken wings were discarded for being undesirable. Before buffalo wings, they were considered the worst parts of the chicken. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Arby's is a play on RB for Raffel Brothers, the founders. Arby's ROAST Beer Sandwich IS DELICIOUS. Arby's Leroy and Forrest Raffel almost named it Big Tex. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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McDonald’s

There's a McDonald's in Guantanamo Bay. TOUTE McDonald's BILLIONS AND BILLIONS SERVED oDonald's DRIVE-THRU - - Yup, that military base. There's also a bowling alley, a kickball league, and a water slide. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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DQ

The swirl on top of Dairy Queen's ice cream is trademarked. As a former DQ employee, I can testify there's an artform to get it looking nice. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Dunkin’ Donuts

Dunkin' Donuts was originally named Open Kettle. DUNKIN' DRIVETHRU DONUTS - The founder's architect came up with the name we know now, changed two years later. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Subway

Subway has the most locations of any fast food chain. SUBWAY REGATER OPEN SUB DAT With 43,800 stores in 110 countries, it beats out McDonald's and Starbucks. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Whataburger

Houston Police used Whataburger order numbers to mark crime scenes. WHATABURGER WHATABURGER 67 33 They were told to stop in 2017 after an image went viral. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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There's a Starbucks in the CIA Headquarters. For the safety of the officers, baristas don't use or write down customers' names. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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