The great thing about Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and and KFC all being owned by the same company is that you can go to hybrid restaurants and buy food from more than one of these fast food chains at a single location. As great as being able to order a Gordita Supreme with a side of Pizza Hut breadsticks or a KFC Double Down with some Taco Bell cinnamon twists for desert is though I really feel like they’re missing out on a huge opportunity by not having anything on their menu that combines foods from their multiple restaurants into one item, so I decided to do something about it.
I headed over to a Pizza Hut / Taco Bell for lunch recently and purchased a Cheesy Double Decker Taco from the Taco Bell side of the menu and a Personal Pan Pizza from the Pizza Hut side and suddenly the Triple Decker Personal Pan Taco was born! It’s quite easy to make actually, since all you have to do is fold the pizza around the taco. The only problem I ran across with this new fast food creation was that since the pizza is pre-cut into four slices it started falling apart as soon as I took my first bite. This could easily be remedied however by just not cutting the pizza at all.
So, if anyone from Yum! Brands (the parent company of Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and KFC) is reading this and you like my idea please feel free to use it. You don’t even have to pay me or anything. I mean, if you want to give me some free food I obviously won’t turn it down, but the Triple Decker Personal Pan Taco is my gift to you!
I absolutely love breakfast, but the fact that I’m not a very good cook usually means that unless I go out to eat I end up making myself one of three things; scrambled eggs, French toast or oatmeal. I’ve gotten sick of eating the same few things for breakfast almost every day though so I recently came up with a new breakfast concoction; mini pancake and mini waffle breakfast sliders!
The great thing about these sliders is that they don’t take any sort of culinary skill whatsoever. I started off by using some egg rings to fry up some perfectly round eggs on my stove. While those were cooking I threw some frozen mini waffles in my toaster and some frozen mini pancakes in my microwave. Once the eggs, pancakes and waffles were done I cooked some round maple syrup flavored breakfast sausages that I had in my freezer, thawed some hash browns, assembled my sliders and enjoyed my meal!
Back in January I wrote a blog post about how I longed for a McDonald’s burger. It wasn’t just any burger that I lusted after however, it was the Mega Tamago, a burger that McDonald’s only made available in Japan. Well, there’s a new burger on my mind now thanks to Burger King and their Meat Monster Whopper, and once again it’s only available in Japan. The only solution? Recreate it like I did with the Mega Tamago.
This recreation is actually pretty easy since the Meat Monster Whopper basically just consists of two Whopper patties, a TenderGrill Chicken Sandwich and some bacon. Since neither the Whopper nor the TenderGrill include bacon I just ordered a Single Stacker and used the bacon from that on my burger.
All in all I ended up spending about $11.50 to recreate the Meat Monster Whopper (not including the onion rings and soda I purchased along with it). Although mine wasn’t quite as visually appealing as the original picture it still tasted pretty good, so I’d consider it money well spent. Now all Burger King has to do is start selling this burger in the U.S. so I can just walk in and buy one instead of buying everything individually and assembling my own!
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? It’s a question that can be traced all the way back to the Greek philosopher Aristotle who lived from 384 – 322 BC. Honestly though, who cares which one came first when you can enjoy both foods together in one delicious sandwich!
My Which Came First Sandwich started with wheat bread that I topped with a chicken patty. On top of the chicken patty I placed a few chicken fingers, which were in turn topped with some chicken nuggets. Covering the chicken nuggets were a couple scrambled eggs, followed by a boneless, skinless chicken breast, while the icing on top of the delicious sandwich came in the form of a fried egg.
Did this sandwich solve the centuries old question of which came first? Nope. Did it fill my belly? Absolutely!
It seems like every time I post a story about some crazy food that I’ve made I get suggestions from DudeFoods readers on how to improve upon it. Well, here’s your chance to put your money where your mouth is!
You see, April is National Grilled Cheese Month and the fine folks at Sargento have hooked me up with a pretty sweet gift basket to give away to the DudeFoods reader that can come up with the best grilled cheese sandwich. The best part of all? They’re letting me make the contest rules!
So, if you want a chance to win a $50 Williams-Sonoma gift card, six packages of Sargento Blend cheese slices, an artisanal bread loaf and some gourmet mustard all you have to do is come up with your version of what you think is the “Ultimate Grilled Cheese.”
I’ll be taking submissions starting right now and accept them for two weeks up until Monday, April 25th, and at that point I’ll pick my five favorite sandwiches and post them on the DudeFoods Facebook page for everyone to vote on. The grilled cheese with the most “likes” on Facebook by midnight on Saturday, April 30th will take home the gift basket and all the awesome prizes!
If you want to enter just send an email with a picture of your sandwich and a short description to me at contests@DudeFoods.com. I’ll be basing my top five sandwich picks on originality and pretty much just on how bad I want to eat your grilled cheese. Need some inspiration? Check out this grilled cheese sandwich that I made a couple weeks ago.
Update: 4/25/2011 — I’ve selected my finalists! Head on over to the DudeFoods Facebook page to see them all and to vote for your favorite!
The great thing about Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and and KFC all being owned by the same company is that you can go to hybrid restaurants and buy food from more than one of these fast food chains at a single location. As great as being able to order a Gordita Supreme with a side of Pizza Hut breadsticks or a KFC Double Down with some Taco Bell cinnamon twists for desert is though I really feel like they’re missing out on a huge opportunity by not having anything on their menu that combines foods from their multiple restaurants into one item, so I decided to do something about it.
