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Taco Bell Doritos Locos Tacos Cause High School Lockdown

Jeremy Taylor — Wed, 01 May 2013 15:11:12 +0000

If you spend a lot of time with high school students you should be pretty well acquainted with Taco Bell.

Which is why it's surprising that the delicious fast food was able to cause so much confusion at Del Campo High School in Sacramento, California.

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Man Calls 911 Nine Times to Request a Cheeseburger

Jeremy Taylor — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 17:29:04 +0000

There is just something about fast food that makes people abuse 911. In the past, folks have been arrested after calling emergency services to report problems with their orders at Burger King, McDonald's, Subway and Hardee's.

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Subway Pledges to Make Every Footlong Sandwich Actually a Foot Long

Drew Weisholtz — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 21:13:19 +0000

If you thought Subway wasn’t going to budge an inch on its stance regarding the scandal over how long its footlong sandwiches really are, you’re wrong.

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Teen 'Sick and Disgusted' After Finding Brain Inside KFC

Donald Deane — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:20:37 +0000

While it sure is tasty, KFC is always a bit of a risk. A UK student learned that the hard way when he discovered what he thought was a brain inside a piece of chicken he was eating. Um, maybe we'll be avoiding the Colonel from now on.

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Students Send First Burger Into Space

Donald Deane — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 16:38:32 +0000

Thanks to a group of Harvard students, a fast food burger has boldly gone where no burger has gone before -- into the edge of space. Hey, it's better than eating it. Those things'll kill ya.

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Canadian KFC Serves Up Raw Chicken Burger

Jeremy Taylor — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 16:26:23 +0000

When you remove a fast food burger from its wrapper and bite down, you are taking it on faith that there isn't something really disgusting between the buns.

Last week a KFC diner in the Toronto-area paid for this faith. As you can see, he took a big bite of his chicken burger only to find that somebody forgot to stick the chicken part in the deep fryer.

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What Ingredient Is Making Fast Food Taste Different in the US Than in Other Countries?

Shauna Wright — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:39:46 +0000

Foods in foreign lands are often different than what US residents typically eat, but even the fare at decidedly American chains like McDonald’s or Burger King may not taste the same — and now a new study reveals why.

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What's America's Best Fast Food Chain?

Jeremy Taylor — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 21:18:59 +0000

It there is one thing Americans like, it’s our food fast. Our great nation pioneered the fast food game, and judging from a new report from The Temkin Group we are doing a great job at it, if we do say so ourselves.

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