28 Greasy Facts About Fast Food and the Joints That Dole It Out

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28 Greasy Facts About Fast Food and the Joints That Dole It Out
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We just wrung out the mop after cleaning the floor of our local fast-food fact joint, and this is what spilled out. They’re a little mucky, but hey, you’d be too if you spent the last week under a fryer.

Yeah, we really should clean more. You check out these fun fast-food facts while we hustle to finish before the pimply faced manager gets in.

Arby’s

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

The McDonaldland Characters

The McDonaldland characters aren't original -- they're just ripoffs. C McDonald's lifted everything from H.R. Pufnstuf, one of the most popular kids' TV programs in the '70s. It was so brazen, McDonald's got sued. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

The McDonald’s Origin Story

McDonald's 1940 HAMBURGERS - McDonald's BY aged CRACKED.COM Beginning as McDonald's Barbeque, the owners quickly realized hamburgers were outselling the BBQ at the drive-in restaurant.

Shake ‘Em Up Fries

Shake 'em Up Fries were DIY cheese fries. CRACKED.COM Burger King gave customers the experience of being a real fry chef! Customers would dump a packet of flavoring into a bag of fries, and shake the whole thing up until every fry was sticky as hell.

Ninja Burger

Ninja Burger BURGER KING NIN BURGE CRACKED.COM BK has tried several different black burgs in different parts of the world, with various ingredients dyed black with bamboo charcoal and squid ink. One version includes an oversized, floppy strip of meat to simulate the tongue of a popular anime ninja.

The Burger Pizza

Burger King's Burger Pizza In a clear publicity stunt (that we are continuing to help hype, so it's effective), a 2,500 calorie pizza-sized burger was only available in New York because New Yorkers aren't snobs about their pizza or anything. CRACKED.COM

The McLobster

The McLobster was a lobster meat hot dog. CRACKED.COM This abomination (which should have been called a Slobster Joe, first of all) had trouble gaining traction between the coasts because it's hard to ship lobster inland before it spoils.

The Double Sensation

The Double Sensation was a twin-crusted pizza. Pizze that SENSATION hitte CRACKED.COM Pizza Hut gave customers in Singapore more of what nobody really likes all that much--the crust! They called it a pizza within a pizza, but it was realy just an excuse to fill you up with more bread... and apparently offload some excess Alfredo sauce.

Dry Pork and Seaweed Donut

Dry Pork and Seaweed Donut DUNKIN' DONUTS Dry Pork and Seaweed Donut CRACKED.COM On paper, this looks like a lazy corporate April Fools Day joke. But in practice, it's actually a pretty daring savory experience from a company that specializes in sugar water. It's made with a special yeast dough, which kind of brings the whole thing together.

Angriest Whopper

Angriest Whopper BURGER KING CRACKED.COM This burger was supposed to be super spicy--to the extent that it warned off predators with its vibrant colors, like a poisonous frog. They even made a big deal about cooking the first batch with fire from a volcano, which is... honestly pretty rad.

Kit Kat Chocodilla

Kit Kat Chocodilla TACO BELL CRACKED.COM This dessert item is just... Kit Kats melted in a tortilla. It seems entirely possible that Taco Bell's r&d team is just two roommates who haven't been grocery shopping in a while and are too high to go now.

The Red Ramen Burger

Red Ramen Burger RED ROBIN CRACKED.COM The ramen burger became a big deal around 2013. And--not a lot of people know this, but -- ramen sounds a lot like robin. Red Robin swiftly capitalized on this synchronicity by releasing their Red Ramen Burger a full 3 years later.

McSalad Shakers

McDonald's McSalad Shakers Grilled Chef Chicken Caesar Garden Props to McDonald's for attempting to make salads fun, but there's a reason we don't normally eat salads out of cups. This stayed on the menu for three years, not bad for a healthier option. CRACKED.COM

The Black Jack Taco

Taco Bell's Black Jack Taco NEW! BLACK JACK TACO 89 The taco was not particularly notable aside from its black shell. Unfortunately,the shell had the unfortunate side effect of turning your poo green. Not a fun surprise. CRACKED.COM

Zac Efron Loves In-N-Out Burger

Celebrities' Favorite Foods Zac Efron In-N-Out Burger While he tends to eat clean and work out regularly to keep his stomach and abs tight, Efron will sometimes wolf down a Double-Double, a shake, and some animal fries just to keep him in his happy place. CRACKED.COM

Anna Kendrick Loves Taco Bell

Celebrities' Favorite Foods Anna Kendrick Taco Bell Cheesy Gordita Crunch While a fan of fast food, Kendrick has been trying to eat healthier. But she just can't quit the occasional trip to Taco Bell for this indulgence. CRACKED.COM

Beyonce Loves Popeyes

Celebrities' Favorite Foods Beyoncé Popeyes Chicken The Queen Bee loves that chicken from Popeyes - so much so that the franchise gave her a card guaranteeing NEAT her a lifetime supply! CRACKED.COM

Ronald McDonald

If you ask Ronald McDonald where burgers come from, he says they're grown. According to a former Ronald McDonald, the story for kids was that hamburgers grow in a patch and then they just get plucked. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

CIA Wartime Pizza Orders

A surge in pizza orders heralded Kuwait's attack by Iraq in the 1990s. That is, orders by the CIA-21 pizzas were delivered to CIA HQ on the night before the attack, a CIA record at the time. CRACKED.COM

Portion Sizes

GRAGKED.COM M M M happy A MOI L لله YUMA 18 MILKE M M DE - The portion size of fries in McDonald's Happy Meals are 1.3 ounces smaller now than they were a few decades ago. They shrunk to promote healthier eating in children.

Mass Beef Production

There are fewer cows in the U.S. now than in 1974, but beef production remains the same at a whopping 50 billion pounds per year. Why? Cows have changed BIG TIME over the last decades. Increasing rates of growth through genetic selection got them 200 lbs. bigger. CRACKED.COM

Veggie Health Risks

Salad carries more health risks than meat. Because vegetables are grown in the soil, they are exposed to pathogens that can only be killed by cooking them or really strong detergents, And salad is supposed to be raw. GRACKED.COM

Grill Marks

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

Fries

CRACKED.COM Potato-based products like potato chips and French fries release a chemical known as acrylamide.when heated above 248°Fahrenheit. This chemical is a potential carcinogen, and is proven to cause neurological damage.

Space Delivery

Pizza Hut delivered to the ISS. The company paid the Russian space agency $1 million to deliver a salami pie. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Cows in a Burger

One burger can contain hundreds of cows. All thanks to a 1960's innovation called the disassembly line. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Pizza Sizes

An 18-inch pizza is more than twice as large as a 12-inch pizza. Four square feet more, to be precise. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Pizza Hut and Kale

Pizza Hut used to be the largest purchaser of kale in the U.S. Pizza Hut Pizza-Hut 5' It wasn't even eaten - it was a garnish on their salad bars. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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