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Weird History Food is gonna buy and fly to McDonald's for their Discontinued Menu Items. Sadly, McDonald's menu Items don't last forever. With the ever-changing fast-food landscape, these McDonald's treats just couldn't keep up
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Today, we're going to take a look at some discontinued McDonald's menu items people never forgot
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When McDonald's first introduced their now-iconic Chicken McNuggets, consumers could dip them in one of four sauces—barbecue, sweet and sour, honey, and hot mustard
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And in 2011, the fast food giant introduced some new varieties, including sweet chili, honey mustard, spicy buffalo, and creamy ranch
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With all the new options, it was decided that some of the old ones should move on
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and with that hot mustard sauce was slowly phased out being completely discontinued in the u.s in 2014
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introduced for a limited time in 1998 and then joining the menu on a more permanent basis in 2003
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chicken selects were essentially mcdonald's version of chicken fingers they undersold nationally and were deleted from the u.s menu in 2013
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In the summer of 1987, McDonald's decided, purely from the goodness of their hearts
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to offer consumers the chance to supersize their meal with an extra-large drink inside of fries
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Americans do love more, but McDonald's supersized menu items officially bit the
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dust in 2004 after lackluster sales. Originally introduced in the Midwest in 1985 and nationally
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in 1988, the cheddar melt is basically a quarter pounder topped with onions sautéed in butter
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teriyaki sauce and cheddar cheese sauce on a rye bun It was last seen in 2004 and briefly again in 2014 but as of 2023 it remains off the menu
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Introduced in 2009, the Angus Burger, also known as the Angus Third Pounder
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was part of a long series of attempts to market higher-end menu items. But it seems like the
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public just isn't interested in buying fancy food from McDonald's. The Angus Burger was put
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out to pasture in 2013. The McDLT stood for a McDonald's lettuce and tomato sandwich
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Introduced in 1984, the meat and bottom half of the McDLT were prepared separately from the top
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half, which included the lettuce, tomato, American cheese, pickles, and sauces. Both were then
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packaged into a specially designed two-sided Styrofoam container to be assembled when you
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were ready to eat. The problem was, that container was worse for the environment than a McOil spill
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The company discontinued the weirdly named Burger in 1991. Now considered one of the biggest product flops of all time
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the Arch Deluxe was McDonald's attempt to sell a burger for adults. The burger was made with high-end ingredients
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including a quarter pound of beef on a potato flour bun, bacon, leaf lettuce, tomato, American cheese, onions, ketchup, a secret mustard, and mayonnaise sauce
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But despite spending the modern equivalent of over half a billion dollars on its introductory advertising campaign
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more than any fast food company had ever spent to promote a menu item, the burger never took off with the public and was discontinued in 2000
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