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Not sure this qualifies as fast food, because it’s street food, but I nominate zapiekanki. They are cheap!

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World's Strangest Fast-Food Items

Not sure this qualifies as fast food, because it’s street food, but I nominate zapiekanki. They are cheap!

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I don't go there, because I can't eat the food

For someone, someday, YOU are going to be that cook (or that host). Food for thought (so to speak) – how to keep that someone from going hungry? Suggestions? This brings back a childhood memory – a long car trip (Yellowstone to San Francisco) with a first-time visitor from Taiwan, in the 70s. Roadside American food was all strange and repellent to him, and my mother was afraid he was going to starve, until he ate his first potato chip. Bingo! He lived on potato chips all the way from Utah to the SF State campus.

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What’s Your Favorite Weird Snack Combo?

I used to go to the LA Reader office on Friday mornings to collect my mail, then I'd stop in the chain drugstore nearby to pick up a piece of beef jerky, and a package of vanilla creme sandwich cookies, which I'd eat while driving to my day job. Not together, just back-to-back. Can't remember if I ate the jerky or the cookies first, nor why I thought those would make a good breakfast.

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Mother's Cookies Update After Kellogg's Purchase

I really hope Mother's Butter Cookies make the reissue. I'm down to my last half dozen.

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World's Strangest Fast-Food Items

@lunchblock:

I've had tunnbrödsrulle! I liked the concept. I had no idea it was sweedish; thanks!

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World's Strangest Fast-Food Items

@ Ms. Carey Jones: "...Tuna Pie (erk) at Jollibee in the Philippines..." -- don't knock it 'til you've tried...it's quite good. "...and in the Philippines, sweet tomato pasta with hot dogs is sold as "McSpaghetti."" -- McDonald's didn't sell spaghetti when it first opened here in the 1980s but Jollibee did. Jollibee sold Filipino-style spaghetti (sweet, with hotdog slices and "ham") and was selling a lot of it, which is why McD got on the bandwagon. But McD's first spaghetti offering was "Italian"-style (a bit sour but also with hotdog slices), which didn't go over well with 99% of the population, which led McD to reformulate their spaghetti sauce to it's until it got to its current formula...sweet and with hotdog slices. ;-)

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World's Strangest Fast-Food Items

You can get fried herring burgers in Stockholm in Sweden, though they're not all that common. They've also evolved a bunch of strange things to do with hotdogs; you can get two boiled frankfurters in a flatbread wrap with mashed potato and shrimps in mayo (tunnbrödsrulle). Langos, a (I think) Hungarian speciality is common too. It's a bread dough that is deep-fried and topped with your choice of sugar and cinnamon, or lumpfish roe, creme fraiche and diced red onion.

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World's Strangest Fast-Food Items

I just got back from Thailand and at the soft serve counter at a KFC they had a sweet corn sundae! Cold creamed corn on the bottom, a layer of ice cream, corn kernals and more creamed corn and a top layer of ice cream. yeah, it was pretty bad, but made a good photo opportunity.

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World's Strangest Fast-Food Items

When I worked at McDonalds:

I thought it was strange that we had to call the dehydrated flakes that turned into onions with water: "recons"

They smell very strange.

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World's Strangest Fast-Food Items

There's a pizza chain in Thailand that has the most disgusting pizza I've ever seen. Remember the cheese stuffed-crust pizza? Okay, it's like that but imagine inside the crust is a sausage/hot dog with a tube of neon cheese running through its middle.

The ads showing the cut-away of the crusts used to give me the shakes. They looked sooo gross.

To top it off, the pizza usually had corn on it!

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World's Strangest Fast-Food Items

Those fried cinnamon twists at Taco Bell. Don't know what they are made of. I used to love eating those in high school.

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World's Strangest Fast-Food Items

"loose meat" is just about the grossest phrase in the world.
gotta say, its weird whenever taco bell puts bacon in some new product. right now they have some kind of bacon burrito. it seems like there isnt really bacon in it, just some kind of bacony sauce or flavoring. the bacon crunchwrap supreme is bizarre but tasty... theres bacon glued in with the cheese that holds the crunchy shell and the gordita shell together. mmm... fat.

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World's Strangest Fast-Food Items

NOTHING is stranger than Hardees/Carl's Jr.'s burgers topped with other meat products, like the new one - a burger topped with philly beef and served with au jus.
They have also served a huge burger topped with tons of ham.
For breakfast, there is often a sausage bacon and ham biscuit lurking around. It is disgusting to pair your meats, other than the traditional bacon pairing, or chicken cordon bleu

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World's Strangest Fast-Food Items

Beetroot and egg are staples of burgers with the lot in Australia. Lookup the McOz sometime on google...

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World's Strangest Fast-Food Items

You can get spam, eggs, & rice at McDonald's in Hawaii!

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World's Strangest Fast-Food Items

Maritime provinces in Canada often have an over abundance of lobster that their McDonald's actually sells "McLobster" sandwiches.

I don't know if this is strange, but it sure is fantastic!

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World's Strangest Fast-Food Items

@Osmatic There's a couple of Jolibees in the Bay Area as well. I like their pancit palabok and their peach mango pies (probably because the pies are deep fried :D). The chickenjoy is a little oily (reminds me of Church's chicken) and I haven't had a Yumburger outside of the Philippines. There is some weird taste in the burger which is strange and not delicious, probably some weird chemical or filler.

As for weird fast food, Hot Dog on a Stick's cheese-on-a-stick is weird to me. Corn dog outside with melted cheese inside! Mindtrip!

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World's Strangest Fast-Food Items

I know a lot of people that love McGriddles but they are just too sweet for me! After going through the list, I think Burger King's "Chicken Fries" are weird; haven't tried them but BK doesn't have good chicken products so I bet they ARE disgusting!

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World's Strangest Fast-Food Items

The kimchee burgers in south Korea are awesome.

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World's Strangest Fast-Food Items

I was a McGriddle skeptic until I tried one and thought "This actually works!"

I have stayed away from them due to fear of becoming addicted.

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World's Strangest Fast-Food Items

@ cebonny - your description was spot on. Maid Rite came up with a term for just such an in-between concoction - "loose meat".

The Maid Rite website advertises:
"We are America's #1 Favorite
Made to Order Loose Meat Sandwich"

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World's Strangest Fast-Food Items

McDonald's in Thailand sold the Samurai Pork Burger. Could

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World's Strangest Fast-Food Items

I have to come to the defense of the crunchwrap supreme..those things are pretty tasty.

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What’s Your Favorite Weird Snack Combo?

Frosty and Fries (not weird)

Dunking Chocolate chip cookies in Orange juice... YUMM!

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Mother's Cookies Update After Kellogg's Purchase

Dang!!! Kellogg is taking over the cookie industry!!! Wish they would do it right though. Gaucho's are better then Nutter Butter by Nabisco. Recipes can be duplicated... if the ingredients are the same i.e. flour, sugar, butter, whole mike. But when you start cutting corners by using HFCS, margarine and such to make it...Safe and better for you.. LOL. Cookies are desserts not health food. The name Mother's Cookies instilled home made goodness and taste not artifical stuff. My Mother used the basics. We did not have margarine or High Fructose Corn Syrup. Back to basics, please.

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