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Then, there were things that were just bizarre. As fast-food chains competed to win over customers, they increasingly went wackier and wackier, with a boom in bizarre menu items in the mid-decade.
Here are six of the most over-the-top menu items in the last decade of fast-food history.
"The pizza portion itself was fairly standard Pizza Hut pizza with a soggy crust," a tester said."The hot dog was salty, the pretzel surrounding it was salty — there's just no way I could eat more than a slice of this."
Buffalo Wild Wings' Mountain Dew Wings
Also in 2015 — a wild year in fast food — Buffalo Wild Wings rolled out a new sauce made with Mountain Dew, lemongrass, ginger, red peppers, and soy sauce.
Burger King's Whopperito
Business Insider's Hollis Johnson somehow liked the Whopperito when it hit Burger King's menu in 2016.
"I'll admit, I came into this expecting a sopping, cheese-laden torpedo; I stand corrected," Johnson wrote. "The Whopperrito, despite how unappealing it may sound, is a delicious and flavorful item that exceeds expectations."
The Mac 'N Cheetos divided Business Insider when Burger King added them to the menu in 2016.
One critic said: "As a purveyor of absurdly flavored garbage guilt food, such as gas station corn dogs and dill pickle sunflower seeds, this was seriously disappointing. They really need to lean in more on the Cheeto flavor. It was like they took normal breading and made it orange, it didn't have that super-duper fake Cheeto cheese flavor that I wanted."
