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Moley
11-29-2011, 06:31 PM
I'm suprised that many fast food franchises miss out on the revenue they would be bound to get if they were to supply christmas themed foods. Perhaps some of them do, but in my part of the world they are very thin on the ground.

Has anyone spotted a fast food christmas special?
ChantelleJoy
11-29-2011, 06:47 PM
Here in Canada we have a restaurant called Swiss Chalet which while not strictly Fast-Food it does offer take-out and delivery service. Every year they have the "Festive Special (http://swisschalet.com/home.php)" which I look forward to - ever since I was a kid.

Also Denny's is offering special "Taste of the Holidays (http://dennys.com/#/menu/menu-25)" menu.

Even McDonalds had special "Seasons Dippings (http://foodology.ca/?p=1677)" holiday nugget sauces last year.

I'm sure there are lots more I can't even remember right now! :elf3:
jessicayy
11-29-2011, 06:57 PM
i didn't notice this ,we often have a party at home and make food by ourselves.
Moley
11-29-2011, 07:11 PM
I'd love to see McDonalds McTurkey burgers and Mini christmas McPuds in cranberry ice cream for desert. I rarely go to fast food outlets for a number of reasons but there are times you get ambushed by festive hunger...
ChantelleJoy
11-29-2011, 08:18 PM
I'd love to see McDonalds McTurkey burgers and Mini christmas McPuds in cranberry ice cream for desert. I rarely go to fast food outlets for a number of reasons but there are times you get ambushed by festive hunger...


McTurkey's could have breading that tastes like stuffing instead of regular breading! I would eat A HUNDRED of those! :)

:christmasdinner:
Not Long Until Christmas
11-29-2011, 10:12 PM
I'd love to see McDonalds McTurkey burgers and Mini christmas McPuds in cranberry ice cream for desert. I rarely go to fast food outlets for a number of reasons but there are times you get ambushed by festive hunger...

You are sort-of in luck http://www.marketingweek.co.uk/sectors/food-and-drink/mcdonald%E2%80%99s-launches-christmas-ad-campaign/3032288.article but turkey is off the menu http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/nov/24/mcdonalds-advertising-christmas
JollyElfDC
11-29-2011, 11:53 PM
I remember the Festive special. It was a pretty good deal. I hear you no longer get the Toblerone bar.:mad:

I remember in around 1987 McDonalds had a Christmas promotion where you could get Mcnuggets with cranberry or apple sauce.

I know here in the states you can buy a deep fried turkey from Popeye's but I don't know anybody who ever has.

In Japan KFC has done a good job convincing the public that KFC is a traditional Christmas Dinner. From what I've been told they line up around the block at Christmas to order it.:xmaseyeroll: Christmas is very different over there.
mina553
11-30-2011, 04:56 AM
chantelle we use to have a Swiss charlet here i loved there chicken dinners .
ChantelleJoy
11-30-2011, 08:08 AM
I remember the Festive special. It was a pretty good deal. I hear you no longer get the Toblerone bar.:mad:


I KNOW! They switched over to Lindor Truffles like 10 years ago (ish), it's just not quite the same. :elf2:
MinnesotaMike
11-30-2011, 08:13 AM
The McDonald's commercials here are saying "come enjoy the McRib for the holidays"! HA!!
JollyElfDC
11-30-2011, 09:34 AM
The McDonald's commercials here are saying "come enjoy the McRib for the holidays"! HA!!

I have never used "enjoy" and "Mcrib" in the same sentence.:no:

I guess some people like them butI have never been one of them.
JollyElfDC
11-30-2011, 09:42 AM
I KNOW! They switched over to Lindor Truffles like 10 years ago (ish), it's just not quite the same. :elf2:

I like Lindor Truffles, but Toblerone was sort of a tradition. I seem to recall one year you even got tupperware (or a tupperwear knock off) and it was all for a pretty cheap price. I miss Swiss Challet, Tim Horton's, Second Cup, M&M Food stores, and Loblaws stores.:crying: Americans don't know what they're missing.
Moley
11-30-2011, 06:25 PM
I didn't think the Mc Rib was that bad, provided you had plenty of sauce on it. I shall trek the mile and a half to the outskirts of town to our McDo to see what is going on. They used to have an outlet in the town centre, but high rents, and the opening of a multiplex cinema/bowling/franchise resturaunt park on the outskirts of town (and it is an awful place!) persuaded them to move.
JollyElfDC
12-14-2011, 03:25 PM
I think Boston Market brings in ham for the season. They also have turkey year round.
Mr. Christmas
08-08-2012, 10:48 PM
McTurkey's could have breading that tastes like stuffing instead of regular breading! I would eat A HUNDRED of those! :)

:christmasdinner:
That sounds great or eggnog milkshakes and play land redone into a Christmas village for the kids
JollyElfDC
08-08-2012, 11:51 PM
That sounds great or eggnog milkshakes and play land redone into a Christmas village for the kids

I got an eggnog milkshake somewhere, but for the life of me I don't remember where.:sad elf: I rarely go to McDonalds, but it very well could have been there. Does anyone remember them doing an eggnog shake?
ornamentmaven
08-09-2012, 07:46 AM
I got an eggnog milkshake somewhere, but for the life of me I don't remember where.:sad elf: I rarely go to McDonalds, but it very well could have been there. Does anyone remember them doing an eggnog shake?

Yes they def had one
JollyElfDC
08-09-2012, 08:45 PM
Yes they def had one

Thanks! It was driving me nuts trying to remember.