Fast food items not sold in the U.S.

GhostMachine · January 27, 2011, 05:41:55 PM

Found this at another board and thought some of the items looked tasty:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/gavon/fast-food-items-not-available-in-the-us-that-sho (no, the link isn't cut short)

Most of those items would bomb in the U.S. anyway, but I'd love to try the Nacho Whopper, Cheese Catsu Burger and the Beef Pentagon thing.

(Surprised the version of the Big Mac they have in India isn't listed. Since they don't eat beef, its made with Lamb and called the `Maharajah Mac', according to something I watched on the Travel Channel once)

Tawodi Osdi · January 27, 2011, 10:04:48 PM

Some of these might have limited success in niche markets. There is supposed to be a taco joint in either New Mexico or Arizona that serves tacos with tacos with just about every kind of meat imaginable and unimaginable, including kangaroo tacos and alligator tacos. The recently nixed their plan to introduce the lion taco because of the public protest.

thalaw2 · January 27, 2011, 10:44:22 PM

What??!?! No Chicken Maharaja-Mac? http://media.divinecaroline.com/ext/article_images3/maharaja-mac-india.jpg

That was the bomb in India.

lugaru · January 28, 2011, 04:43:00 AM

I've always thought the way that mcdonalds works in china (cucombers, spicy sauce) sounds appealing.

In Mexico you could get several "mexican" versions of pizzas from Dominos such as with chicken Mole (a spicy sauce that includes chocolate as an ingredient, a pre-hispanic tradition) but nobody buys from MacDonalds or KFC or Pizza Hut in my home town, with much better options available (I hope this has not changed since I moved). The funniest thing we had where Sushi Street Carts... we got a lot of japanese immigrants around WW2 (in my part, maybe not Mexico in general) so a lot of us grew up with stuff like sushi, salted plums and teriyaki.

As for crazy tacos I can get beef tounge which I love in Boston but I would do anything for a good beef intestine taco... intestine is like buttery, meaty bacon, so amazing. Brains are great too, and I'm not saying this to be gross... they just are.

detourne_me · January 28, 2011, 02:20:13 PM

Quite a few of the Chinese ones are popular in korea too, same with that pizza.
Korean pizza is...... A whole entity unto itself, and I love it now but it's not the same.
I once had a premium pizza with corn, shrimp, broken nachos and cream cheese lining just inside of the crust.
The crust was a cookie crust and it came with a blueberry sauce to dip the crust in. Yeah that pizza was almost forty bucks....
Shrimp and squid burgers are actually really good too.

I wish mexican food was more prevalent here though. There are about five or six restaurants in Seoul...and one Taco Bell.

Tawodi Osdi · January 28, 2011, 05:07:16 PM

Fortunately, we do have several styles of Mexican food, mostly Tex-Mex and Okie Mex, but we have a some restaurantes autenticos also.

The Phantom Eyebrow · January 29, 2011, 10:21:06 AM

Hmm-mmm, that Windows 7 Whopper looks like Good Eating! *

* not really

Tawodi Osdi · January 30, 2011, 03:36:23 AM

Quote from: The Phantom Eyebrow on January 29, 2011, 10:21:06 AM
Hmm-mmm, that Windows 7 Whopper looks like Good Eating! *

* not really

Yeah, but it will probably crash your diet program and turn all of your hardware into software.

Tomato · January 30, 2011, 05:09:31 AM

Well, clearly you guys are making fun of an ad or something, because clearly there's no way they'd be stupid enough to make a windows...

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Dang. That... That's just... wow, really?

thalaw2 · January 30, 2011, 05:13:35 AM

I saw a tv special for the Windows 7. I felt like I would have a heart attack just looking at the people eating it. it was reported to be over 2000 calories and only sold for a limited time to promote the launch of Win 7 for the PC.

Tomato · January 30, 2011, 05:24:09 AM

I just find it insane because we're talking about an operating system that was supposed to be LESS taxing on computer resources, and you're advertising it with a burger that would probably give me (a 21 year old, 6 foot, 167 pound male with no prior heart issues) a fatal heart attack after 5 bites.

lugaru · January 30, 2011, 05:25:22 AM

What is silly is that I can order a burger with 3 patties if I want, but I never do. 7 is just crazy, I'll just stay home and make some meatloaf (with a proper side of vegetables and salad) if I want that much ground beef.

bat1987 · January 30, 2011, 04:24:08 PM

Cordon Bleu Burger is available here in Serbia's Mc Donald restaurants. Very tasty if I u ask me.

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Fast food items not sold in the U.S.