/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.12851421]

I want to order secret menu items from fast food joints, but the idea of making a fool of myself by ordering something they don't know prevents me from doing so.
What's your experience with secret menu items, whether ordering them or working in the industry itself?

[Anonymous No.12851423]

wow, another fast food thread

[Anonymous No.12851427]

>>12851423
shut the fuck up retard

[Anonymous No.12851430]

>>12851423
With the wide availability of fast food in the U.S. it should be no surprise that such an easily accessible thing would have so many threads dedicated to it.

[Anonymous No.12851435]

Only try secret menu items from places with well known "secrets." Otherwise you look like a fag.

[Anonymous No.12851440]

>>12851423
YEAH I PREFER BASED WEBM THREADS ABOUT AWESOME EGG KING HAHA xDDD
HOW DOES HE GET OUT LMAO???

[Anonymous No.12851450]

>>12851435
How does one know what a well known secret menu item is? It occurs to me that many of these menu items may be regional along with varying from each individual location.

[Anonymous No.12851465]

>>12851427
>>12851430
>>12851440
why are fast fooders so sensitive?

[Anonymous No.12851504]

>>12851465
brain damage from eating the stuff or not getting paid by mickey dickey at the end of the month

[Anonymous No.12851705]

>>12851465
i made this thread and i don't eat fast food, i just find the subject of secret menu items fun and that makes me want to partake in them.

[Anonymous No.12851765]

>>12851421
If it's not on the menu, they won't know how to even put it in the system and what to charge for it, let alone make it.

[Anonymous No.12851934]

>>12851421
Ask for the Chicky Wicky special at Popeyes, you get an extra piece of spicy chicken for free.

[Anonymous No.12851940]

>>12851465
EGG

[Anonymous No.12851950]

Jamba Juice has a sour skittles drink on the secret menu

Also if you go into a Little Ceasers and ask for a "dead" pizza, they'll give you a hot and ready for half price. They can technically only keep them out for three hours or so, so on hour 4, a pizza is considered "dead" and not suitable to sell to customers

[Anonymous No.12851952]

>>12851465
Because they're literal shills getting paid to promote and defend their product. Stop treating fast food threads like normal threads. You are not engaging in conversation with a person, you are arguing with a machine. Stop posting in fast food threads you fucking morons.

[Anonymous No.12851980]

>>12851421
>worked at mcdonalds
>guy in drive-thru asks for a mcgangbang
>what
>"yeah the one on your secret menu"
>we don't have a secret menu
>"uh yes you do and i wanna order a mcgangbang"
>make him pull around to figure this out
>"man y'all take this top secret shit too seriously"
>clearly annoyed he has to order both things separately and put them together himself
>some pissant got agitated because he took dumb clickbait like this to heart

[Anonymous No.12851988]

Dairy Queens crispy chicken flamethrower is better than Popeyes or chick fil as but no one knows about it

[Anonymous No.12852248]

>>12851421
Is that the soul food I hear so much about?

[Anonymous No.12852337]

>>12851952
>Anyone discussing the foods the vast majority of the 4chan user base actually eats must be engaged in covert advertising
For me, it's not being mentally ill.

[Anonymous No.12852340]

>>12851421
>secret menu item
southwest skillet from Denny's but you got to ask the waitress if the cook can handle his shit because new guys won't know whats up

[Anonymous No.12852373]

>>12851421
Why do people do this? The real menu exists for a reason. It helps the workers actually know what you mean so they can get it to you quickly and with a decent chance of not fucking up.
If you want some alternative order just describe what modifications you want to a real menu item. Don't ask for some retarded pretend meme item using a made up name.

[Anonymous No.12852426]

>>12852337
fuck you normie schizophrenia is a super power, you'll never catch me slipping.... i never buy the same item twice in case someone is trying to poison me through product association

[Anonymous No.12852817]

>>12851950
Noice, how does it taste compared to the regular?

>>12851952
i would agree, but this isn't about a specific fast food chain. The generic practice of Secret Menus is part of food culture and is worth discussing

[Anonymous No.12852825]

>>12852373
because some items may not be sanctioned by the corporate hierarchy or might not be allowed to be sold due to regulation if sold otherwise.
regulation creates a prohibition on some items that a secret menu may find its way around because it's not officially being sold

[Anonymous No.12852843]

>>12851421
In-n-Out is good about it.
Usually get 2 flying dutchmans without salt and extra grilled onions whenever I'm doing locarb cycles.

[Anonymous No.12852848]

>>12851980
>not just slapping the chicken sandwich onto the burger sandwich
I guess it's 30 seconds of trouble.

[Anonymous No.12852867]

>>12851421
when i worked at starbucks we constantly had idiots coming in with pinterest recipes that were "secret menu items" but really just a basic bitch making something ridiculous for instagram. for example around Easter i had someone request a cadbury creme egg frappucino and she showed me the recipe and i made it. it tasted nothing like cadbury creme egg and looked like shit

[Anonymous No.12853321]

>>12851980
That's the appropriate response to give to these "secret menu" retards.
Why does everyone always want to complicate shit? It's fast food. The entire point is supposed to be running service assembly line style with very simple predetermined menu items that are built into the system and can be charged to the customer in a clear and consistent way that keeps data for inventory nice and transparent.
And why should the workers have to learn some made up bullshit imaginary menu you're trying to force-meme into existence? Just describe what you want if you want something modified. Don't use obnoxious meme names like "McGangbang."

[Anonymous No.12853335]

>>12853321
shut up and make me a McGangBang wagie

[Anonymous No.12853350]

>>12853335
I hope the wagies are as difficult as possible when customers try to pull that shit.

[Anonymous No.12853415]

>>12852825
Shouldn't you be in school by now?

[Anonymous No.12853457]

>>12851423
Yeah anon I agree, it’s really stupid that people talk about food on a board food and cooking.

[Anonymous No.12853480]

Even when the worker knows what you mean, you look like a retard if you go to the counter and ask for a "McGangbang"

It's the stupidest "secret menu" item, just order the two sandwiches and put it together yourself

[Anonymous No.12853498]

anyone who thinks they can order a "mcgangbang" is retarded. order the two separately and make the delicious, mouthwatering sandwich yourself

[Anonymous No.12853591]

>>12851423
americans do this

[Anonymous No.12853603]

>>12853591
do they really?

[Anonymous No.12853635]

>>12853591
>americans do this
Europeans do it more.

[Anonymous No.12853698]

>>12853635
Europeans aren't self aware.

[Anonymous No.12853710]

>>12853635
look at me, i'm the burger now

[Anonymous No.12853729]

>>12851421
>virgin McGangbang
vs
>chad McDank

[Anonymous No.12853731]

>>12852337
for me it's not being fat poor or gay

[Anonymous No.12853750]

>>12853731
It's true the majority of people who eat fast food are overweight.
That's a dumbass observation though since the majority of the developed world today is itself overweight prior to any segmenting based on restaurant sales.

[Anonymous No.12853752]

>>12853750
The majority of people who eat are overweight

[Anonymous No.12853755]

>>12853752
Exactly.

[Anonymous No.12854181]

>>12853752
>there is a direct correlation between the increase in hfcs consumption in the US and the exponential rates of obesity
>b-but people just eat too much, ok?
Keep burying your head in the sand amerilard, you're starting to creep into pacific island obesity levels since you're 12th most obese in the world and rapidly rising, lol! Stay fat and and dumb!

[Anonymous No.12854226]

As someone who worked at McDonald's I can tell you if you tried to order a "secret menu" item, I'd fucking berate you for your idiocy. Probably passive aggressive to you directly, but with coworkers I'd call you a retard and laugh.

[Anonymous No.12855615]

>>12854181
There's a direct correlation between the increase in hispanic population and the exponential rates of obestiy

[Anonymous No.12855617]

>>12854226
>I'll take one McGangbang please. And yes, I would like to super size that.

[Anonymous No.12855657]

>>12851980
>works at mcdonalds
>calls someone else a pissant
lel lad

[Anonymous No.12855956]

>>12854181
>durr corn R bad
Fuck off ketotard. The "direct correlation" is between CALORIES and obesity, and the US is far from unique in this regard e.g. 60% of the UK is overweight now.
https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/90/6/1453/4598059
>Increased food energy supply is more than sufficient to explain the US epidemic of obesity
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19246357
>Comparison of weight-loss diets with different compositions of fat, protein, and carbohydrates.
>CONCLUSIONS: Reduced-calorie diets result in clinically meaningful weight loss regardless of which macronutrients they emphasize.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.professor/index.html
>Twinkies. Nutty bars. Powdered donuts.
>For 10 weeks, Mark Haub, a professor of human nutrition at Kansas State University, ate one of these sugary cakelets every three hours, instead of meals. To add variety in his steady stream of Hostess and Little Debbie snacks, Haub munched on Doritos chips, sugary cereals and Oreos, too.
>His premise: That in weight loss, pure calorie counting is what matters most -- not the nutritional value of the food.
>The premise held up: On his "convenience store diet," he shed 27 pounds in two months.
>For a class project, Haub limited himself to less than 1,800 calories a day.
>His body mass index went from 28.8, considered overweight, to 24.9, which is normal.

[Anonymous No.12855967]

>>12854181
>>12855956
How do you even begin to explain the UK having similar rates of weight problems to the US when you believe it's corn subsidies making Americans become fat through magic non-calorie based HFCS weight gain? Nowhere outside of the US has those same corn subsidies so that argument doesn't stand up to even the slightest bit of scrutiny.

[Anonymous No.12855979]

>go to local Walmart Mcdonalds
>young native american girl working the register
>"I would like a McGangbang please"
>Native girl visibly confused/distraught
>think to self " oh she must not know this item by that name"
>"Oh i meant to call it the dirty burger"
>Woman seems very creeped out by me at this point
>i start sweating
>"its like ummm.. when you have a chicken patty between 2 burgers and the chicken is getting gangbanged by the burgers.. haha
>Lady just looks at me in disbelief
>i leave spewing spaghetti
FUCKING MCDONALDS

[Anonymous No.12856002]

>>12851988
>better than chick fil a
fuck outta here

[Anonymous No.12856342]

>>12851421
Just order the items separately and assemble it yourself.
Nobody would question you ordering a McDouble and a McChicken