Why did the gimmick food phenom not last? Imagine the things we could have had
* KFC Double down
* Grilled cheese burger
* Pizza hut cheeseburger crust
At the time it felt we were approaching a golden age.
Logistics vs value
>>8821872
Because eating a bacon sandwich where the bread is also chicken is slightly more depressing than eating chicken from a bucket.
>the gold rush sandwich is still not nationally available.
>>8821872
The gimmick food trend didn't fall off, it turned into hipster food.
>Doughnut burgers
>17-cheese mac and cheese
>Elevated toast
Also, bacon was co-opted by the hipster food movement and lost its mainstream appeal. That was a big blow. Now it's pretty lame to put bacon where it doesn't belong.
>>8821878
Is it really?
>>8821872
There's a burger place in my city that has something like that as a regular menu item.
>>8821894
Yeah. It's relative, though.
It did McDonald's just keeps doing what ever collage kids tell them to do at that shit in texas they ruined there entire company fucking burger bars
>>8821900
>tfw not one, but two local restaurants with grilled cheeseburgers on the menu in my small town
>>8821890
What the fuck is elevated toast?
>>8822602
>What the fuck is elevated toast?
Hipster shit of very slightly modifying a traditional bread recipe and giving it some fancy as fucking name.
Spread some artisan hand churned butter from Himalayan goats milk, churned by a blind monk from Tibet
top with free range organic hand made gluten free jelly
>That will be $27.93