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November 09, 2023

Quick! Which fast-food chain has the most locations in the entire world? Which fast-food chain has a restaurant in Guantanamo Bay?!?!

Don’t have those answers ready at a moment’s notice? Well, you’re gonna have a rough time on Fast Food Jeopardy! — a show that we just made up, but will most likely be a thing by this time next year! Let your training begin…

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

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McDonald's stopped making spoon-shaped coffee stirrers... x ...because people were using them as cocaine spoons. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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In the '60s, McDonald's was going to abandon their famous arches but... McDonald's Restaurant McDonald's McDonald's OPER NITTLE STAR a design consultant told them to keep them as Freudian symbol of a pair of nourishing breasts. 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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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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Chicken McNuggets

There are only four Chicken McNugget shapes. They are the Boot, the Ball, the Bow-Tie, and the Bell. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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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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In the '70s, the Filet-0-Fish briefly had a mascot. PhilA.O'Fish TM says: For a surprisingly good taste... M His name? Phil А. O'Fish, of course. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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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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Dave Thomas regretted naming Wendy's after his daughter. Не said, I should've just named it after myself, because it put a lot of pressure on . NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Colors M McDonald's M CRACKED.COM Have you ever noticed that all fast food restaurants have roughly the same color schemes? It's a lot of red and yellow, because yellow is a happy color but red is the col- or of alarms and stop signs and other things that lend a sense of urgency. Basically, they want you desperate to be happy. — Source

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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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Burger King

The ВК Piss Meal MUAD MIAS SED N FE M YAAAS и SALTY MEAL DGAF MEAL CRACKED.COM In a bizarre attempted dunk on the Happy Meal, Burger King introduced a series of competing mood-based meals, including, for some reason, the YAAAS Meal and the Pissed Meal. — 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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McDonald’s Flamin’ Hot Fitbit

McDonald's flamin' hot Fitbit if STEP-iT CRACKED.COM Step-Its were little Happy Meal pedometers that started giving kids mysterious burns, blisters, and rashes. McD's had to recall over 30 million units. — Source

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The moldy Whopper CRACKED.COM Burger King wanted to prove they were serious about removing artificial preservatives from their beef, so they publicized a neat timelapse of a putrid, rotting Whopper. — Source

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Burger King

BK's deadly Pokeballs GRACKED.COM To promote 1999's Pokemon: The First Movie, Burger King's kids' meals came with mon-filled Pokeballs. Sadly, the balls were the perfect shape to form an airtight seal around a kid's lower face, and two children died of asphyxiation. — 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

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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Max Hamburgers

Max Hamburgers was the first hamburger restaurant to ever out-compete McDonald's. MAX - CIVIL au SAMRER P The Swedish burger joint has driven several McDonald's out of business in Sweden. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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12 people have a VIP Burger King unlimited food card. BURG KING Crown Cardholders include George Lucas, Jennifer Hudson (who worked at Burger King before she was famous), Greg Garcia, Jay Leno, and Robert Downey Jr. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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A man awoke from a 47-day coma. His first words? I want Taco Bell. UUM Unfortunately, Jake Booth wasn't able to eat solid food for another three weeks. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Pizza Hut

Before 2012, Pizza Hut was the largest purchaser of kale in the U.S. They only used it for garnish around salad bars. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Burger King Halloween Whopper turned customers' poop green. The food coloring of the black bun led to the spooky stool color. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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In 1998 for April Fools', Burger King took out a full-page ad announcing a Left-Handed Whopper. - - - 200 I - - - - con Burger King introduces the left-handed Whopper. adidas - of support ist dated - and - bayer NONE - may - - - - - the Sale - They claimed the condiments were rotated 180 angles to suit left-handed people. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Taco Bell

NASA's shuttle crew used Taco Bell tortillas because they had a nine-month shelf life. 12 Flour TORTILLAS For Soft Tacos TACO BELL Because it was easier for astronauts to roll up food, NASA replaced bread with tortillas. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Pizza Hut

A woman being held hostage used the Pizza Hut app in order to receive help. 50.00 THANKS FOR YOUR ORDER TOWN TODAY - and DELIVERY TRACKER C WE'RE MAKING YOUR ORDER - MIC et 2004 MAKES BASK When her captor let her use a phone to order a pizza, she included Please help. Get 911 to me in the comments. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Chick-fil-A makes more per store than McDonald's, Starbucks, and Subway Combined All that, and it's closed on Sunday. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Dairy Queen

Dairy Queen sells soft-serve, not ice cream. Day Queen To meet the definition of ice cream, the butterfat content needs to be 10%. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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