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McDonald's Discontinued Menu Items
Apr 30, 2025
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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