Every Discontinued McDonald's Menu Item That Failed Bitterly Explained

Almost none of these products failed because the food was bad. They failed on packaging law, on fifty thousand dollar equipment costs, on volatile commodity pricing, on arriving two years too early, and in the most expensive case in the history of the fast food industry, on an advertising campaign that openly insulted the people it was trying to sell to. In this video, we break down 12 discontinued McDonald's menu items and explain exactly why each one failed — the real operational, financial and public relations reasons behind them, not just the jokes. From a burger sold in a two-compartment foam container that died because of the container rather than the burger, to a promotional sandwich that triggered an international scandal, to the single most expensive product failure fast food has ever seen, this is the full catalogue. What You Will Discover in This Video: How a failed 1970s fried onion snack became the direct production blueprint for Chicken McNuggets, one of the most profitable fast food products ever made. Why the McDLT was cancelled over its polystyrene foam packaging rather than the food, and why the burger could not survive without the container. The reason franchise owners were still selling McPizza years after it was cancelled, and the fifty thousand dollar piece of equipment that trapped them. How McDonald's ended up holding roughly ten million pounds of unsold frozen chicken wings, and the clearance pricing used to dump them. The head-to-head Friday sales contest between Ray Kroc's own pineapple burger and a franchisee's fish sandwich, and the reported six units that decided it. Why a burger marketed as ninety-one percent fat free collapsed the moment customers learned what had been used to replace the fat. The full story of the Arch Deluxe: a reported two hundred million dollar launch, a Radio City Music Hall event, and an advertising campaign that told families the product was not for their children. Whether you remember these items from childhood or have never heard of half of them, this breakdown covers exactly what goes wrong when the largest restaurant company on Earth gets a product launch wrong. 🔔 Subscribe for more complete visual catalogs of discontinued, recalled and forgotten products! 💬 Drop a comment below: Which of these did you actually eat, and which one do you want brought back?