‘Cursed’ 70s McDonald’s menu item divides opinion as fans say it makes them ‘want to gag’

McDonald’s is perpetually changing up its menu, giving customers caller items and bringing backmost fan-favourites.

For instance, from November 20 astatine the fast nutrient chain the Big Tasty volition beryllium returning, and the McRib precocious appeared connected the paper for a fewer weeks, aft 9 years away.

But it seems there’s 1 point that galore radical would emotion to tuck into erstwhile more, adjacent though it’s been much than 40 years since it was past sold successful the UK.

Before the iconic Chicken McNuggets launched successful 1984, determination was a antithetic merchandise disposable successful nugget signifier and it’s just to accidental that it proved somewhat controversial. 

Onion Nuggets were sold astatine McDonald’s from 1976 onwards, and were disposable successful the US arsenic well. These rather virtually were chunks of onions, heavy fried successful a aureate batter. 

They were intended arsenic a vegetarian option, for those who didn’t privation to bid a burger, but they weren’t a precise palmy product, arsenic radical preferred bulb rings. Ultimately they were axed from the paper a fewer years later.

The chickenhearted mentation that we each cognize and emotion was really inspired by the mislaid Onion Nugget product.

McDonald’s erstwhile improvement chef, René Arend, who joined the concatenation successful the precocious 1970s, started moving connected chickenhearted nuggets successful 1979, erstwhile Chairman Fred Turner suggested the idea, but they didn’t motorboat successful restaurants until the 80s. 

Despite being deemed ‘unsuccessful’ the Onion Nuggets person a beardown instrumentality basal online, with galore on Reddit demanding Maccies ‘bring them back’. 

u/cool_weed_dad said: ‘I would f***ing destruct a 20 portion of these, they should bring them back. It’s conscionable bulb rings successful nugget form.’ And u/Banjo-oz agreed, saying: ‘I deliberation they souns beauteous delicious, though they look similar the laziest bulb rings ever. “Rings? Nah, conscionable hack em into chunks and batter em!”’

While u/nando82 wrote: ‘From what I hear, these were rather good. Here’s hoping Mcdonald’s bring these onions backmost 1 day.’

However, not everyone was rather truthful keen with a fewer reasoning the Onion Nuggets sounded ‘cursed’, ‘disgusting’, and ‘made them privation to gag’.

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This comes aft McDonald’s celebrated its 50th day successful the UK and shared a look astatine a timeline of its changes implicit the years. The very archetypal McDonald’s successful the UK launched connected November 13, 1974 successful Woolwich, and backmost past a Big Mac outgo conscionable 45p and a cheeseburger was 21p. 

The concatenation besides reminded radical of different forgotten paper item, this 1 from the 90s: McPizza.

Yep, successful the mid-1990s, McDonald’s trialled idiosyncratic pizzas successful the UK, which were an 8-inch pizza divided into 4 slices. These came successful 3 antithetic flavours: Cheese, Cheese & Pepperoni, and the Deluxe (cheese, greenish pepper, onion, pepperoni, and more).

These were launched up of 1994, erstwhile the concatenation launched the power/breakfast/working luncheon which allowed metropolis workers to bid nutrient to their desks. Orders were placed by fax oregon telephone and paper options included the idiosyncratic pizzas.

According to McDonald’s website, the pizzas were sold for a ‘limited play successful immoderate restaurants’ successful the mid-1990s arsenic portion of a ‘sales and merchandise test’.

This nonfiction was primitively published connected November 15, 2024.

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