My dad worked at the first Taco Bell in Montana and he said it totally changed people’s lives up there. No one had ever seen or heard of a taco, or really had any Mexican food. The ingredients are simple, whole, and easy to use in many items. On an innovation scale, Taco Bell would have to be up there with the best of them.
That's really cool, and you're right about the ingredients. I think Taco Bell was the main inspiration for the tacos my family made when I was growing up. They're nothing like American tacos, and I would be surprised if they're much like Mexican ones as well, but they're almost a direct copy of the soft shell taco bell tacos.
2000's was boon for fast food. We got McGriddles, Crunchwrap, Cheesy Gordita Crunch, and the Baconator all in the same decade. All of which are now iconic items at each of their respective establishments. It was really a renaissance of fast food.
Taco Bell was one of the most innovative because it took tacos to locales that had never seen one before. Burgers and chicken were everywhere, tacos were highly unique.
Tacos had existed well before Taco Bell made it more palatable to white folks. The one thing they did do was make it more accessible to places that didn't have a large or growing Mexican population/business presence. Its not innovative to steal someone else's sh*t and profit off a b*stardised version of it 🤷🏼♀️
I want Josh to do a series on outdoor and camping cooking. Like how to cook on a state park public grill, over a fire, in a pit, on a cheap charcoal, underground, in the sand like a clam bake, s’mores etc.. For summer. Pretty pretty please? Also I am beyond impressed with the I cooked “blank” a hundred million ways taste tests. Like how does he cook so many dishes in one day?? 😮
The real victim of McDonalds giving up beef tallow for canola oil in frying wasnt the fries, but the apple pie. Today its baked (lame) but back in the day it was deep fried in beef fat. And it was GLORIOUS. I would have been no older than 4 at the time but i swear i can still remember the taste.
One of the McDonald’s locations in Los Angeles still makes and sells the deep fried ones. It’s a massively overrated fast food apple turnover. But it’s fine.
I think they're probably on the same level. McD's fries were a food group of their own until they switched. Now, they have a nasty aftertaste and often, the unthinkable happens: They are discarded without being finished.
It makes me want to eat the crust even less, and unless I eat all the crusts first it's gonna be cold and rubbery. Hotdog stuffed crust on the other hand...🤤
@@tree427 PLEASE I was with you until the hotdog part haha! To each is own though, I like the crust with garlic or marinara sauce, the crust problem isn't even a problem as most people like it or you can simply not eat it!
Josh! Pizza Hut's real inventiveness was the, 'Personal Pan Pizza'. Yes, it's a small pizza, but it was so successful it got McDonalds into making "McPizzas" (or as we in Cda called them, "Pimmas". Suffed Crust was just jumping the defibrilator.
Exactly right. This video is really weird and unrepresentative of those decades. No research done, when it would've been easy to email a few industry people or marketing professors or .. something, anything
I remember the stuffed crust commercial. Pizz Hut was giving a demo for the PS1 with Crash Bandicoot, and a dude in the Crash costume yelled through a window that you could eat the slice backwards. I miss the 90's
Yeah, that was 1995, with Pizza Hut. This video has some odd choices. Stuffed crust never took off, and was basically a flop for Pizza Hut, more of a gimmick at the time, which lives on in its zombie form, but was never popular. Weird choice to represent the 1990s. Also weird to feature the "double down" rather than anything that actually was a huge success, like the Popeye's fried chicken sandwich craze
The Automat was a wonderful experience for a young child back in the day. It seemed magical, you could put coins in a slot and get real food that was hot and filling. As a child, I thought it was magical until a busboy informed me that "we cheat a bit there are people behind the wall putting the food in those tiny windows.
My dad, born in '48, said the automats were on the way out when he was a boy, but he still recalled a few in operation in Charleston, SC, USA, in his childhood. Said the worst was the "egg sandwiches".... whatever they were in the 1950s was something that brought him a worse PTSD-induced eye glaze than his days spraying Agent Orange in Vietnam. What the heck was IN those egg sandwiches? Yeesh!
They were still around in Manhattan in the early 1960s and far superior to today's fast food joints. They may had to be better in NYC because of competition from other food outlets.@@LindseyLouWho
I worked as a manager for Pizza Hut when the stuffed crust came out. Different dough than normal, I didnt like it. One night, we took leftover stuffed dough and linked it all, rolled it up and ran it through the conveyor oven. It made about a 60 foot long breadstick 😂
@@pinbi7 are you a current employee? This was 25 years ago or so, so yeah, it adds up. The dough was proofed for a few hours, not overnight. Cooks came in around 6 AM, mixed the secret bag with flour and water, weigh and cut, roll in the double roller, pan and proof for a few hours before the buffet lunch, make some more in the afternoon if required. I can go on. I started delivering on my 16th birthday, then served, then cooked, then supervisor, then manager. My story doesn't add up, geezus carhoist.
Sounds like my party loaf made from three thawed sticks of Jimmy John's bread. Stretched, braided, sprayed with oil baked. Was long as baking pan is corner to corner, and 5 inches wide. My SiL used it to make a super sub for her grandson bday. A triumph.
Even in the early '70s, Taco Bell was still "selling" the idea of Mexican food. I can remember their ads -- "lettuce from California, cheese from Wisconsin, it really is American -- think of it as a cheese burger that goes 'crunch'." So definitely a big leap forward in the mainstreaming of Mexican food.
Dude i used to love your channel. You had the best recipes, top notch humor, and most importantly I learned something. You’ve turned into a buzz feed article. Bring it back to the open cupboard days my G. We miss you ❤
I cant say I fully disagree with you, I was around when he had around 100k subs I believe. But eventually you gotta up the 'wow' factor to stay relevant and bring in views and new subs. He's still got humor and great editing that I enjoy but I do miss things being a bit more intimate.
0:22 "A lot of people would say fast food has gotten BETTER and BETTER." Who actually thinks that? It's never been more apparent that most fast-food companies are cutting some major corners when it comes to their product's quality, and hiking up the prices to add insult to injury.
Gotta shoot Cam down for his idea that the age of excess started in 2010, in 1987 McDonald's introduced Supersize options to the menu and then Wendy's did the BIGGIE options, and everyone else followed suit. This option ended in 2004 along with many of the "Ultra" sized options available that had made their way into almost everything.
Josh! Here’s a challenge for you!!! Make a good breakfast that can be made using a “Truckers kitchen” meaning only stuff stored in a mini fridge, a microwave, and a small electric pot. See what you can cook with just that stuff!!
Fun fact: Stuffed crust pizza was a result of collaboration with the Got Milk campaign as a result of the US Government needing to reduce its investment on dairy farm subsidies because there was hundreds of millions of dollars of cheese stored in a cave in Missouri because it was the best way to store all the milk the government bought from American farmers.
They're obviously not giving each food the same criteria. If THEY don't like it, then it gets a bad score. If it's something that was created during their lifetime, then it gets a better score. Typical shallow, self-important millennials with little to no self awareness.
8:43 you are wrong, about Taco Bell. The shell was his invention. He invented it for expedience sake. The shape of the shell made it a lot faster to fill and produce tacos.
The phrase "winner winner chicken dinner" originated from American gambling culture. It's believed to have come from Las Vegas casinos where a winning bet of $2.00 was enough to buy a chicken dinner, thus the phrase was used to celebrate a win.
I'm really proud of papa's success and love the channel ❤️but I sort of wish we still got more in depth cooking content instead of so many "trend" and "ranking" videos
I will always stand by saying that the mcgriddle is the best breakfast sandwich idea ever. I am still shocked that I've never seen a higher quality version of this idea.
If you wanted to actually make the kfc fried chicken, there's a mix out there called 99-X, which according to MatPat, is basically indistinguishable from KFC nowadays except for the extra ingredient KFC now uses which is citric acid. That's probably the closest you'll be getting since 99-X was a product of Kernel Sanders himself in collaboration with another company after he saw KFC becoming a shit hole
@@Shagyamum i wasn’t around for those but maybe but if early 2000 was extremely innovative for me and makes everything now seem lame I couldn’t imagine experiencing better and having to deal with what is available today
Hey man, been watching you for years now and my gf just bought me both of your cookbooks for my bday today. Absolute amazing stuff. Love the texture you put on the 2nd one. Very creative. And as a professional photographer, the photos look great. Props man I'm proud of you. Been in the restaurant world for over 10 years myself and I'm a home cook for everyone so the books will go to use
The beef fat that they used to fry fries in actually is a Belgian tradition, as we BELGIANS invented the fry NOT THE FRENCH as every American seems to think, french is actually the way its cut, its frenched. Thank you for coming to my ted talk
They’re called French fries because they were popularized by US soldiers stationed in Belgium where French was spoken. French cut refers to julienning. A proper julienne is much different then the cut of French fries.
The double down and the nacho cheese burger were both items I saw that I instantly went "Ohh that sounds amazing" and the moment I tasted it thought "What on gods green earth ever convinced me this was a good idea"?
Fries were basically ubiquitous, thin sliced chips were invented in the 1850's and popular in restaurants, having only really been available in packages for about 20 years, because freshly fried chips taste good.
My White Castle here in jersey currently sells a burger called the “1921 burger” that’s made exactly how it originated. It’s a limited time item so get it quick if ya wanna try it 🤷🏼♀️
It's intriguing to trace the evolution of fast food over the century, from a simple mac and cheese dish to ingenious inventions like the McNugget and McGriddle. However, it seems the imaginative spark has dwindled in recent years.
I was THERE when Arbys opened in Ohio in the 70's . Back then it was an actual roast being thin sliced , and the restaurant itself was considered kind of fancy for fast food . You saw the guy slicing away and it was kind of cool The beef and cheddar isn't really the hit though , you got to go with the flagship classic with both Arbys sauce and Horsey sauce .
Where! Is! Chick-fila! The chicken sandwich that changed the game, the fries that were waffle shaped, the service that increased speeds to hot meals and they are always pleasured to do anything for you! Josh… you have spectacular videos and I appreciate everything you do. If I recall correctly you live in Texas where Chick-Fila is, so please make a video with you making everything on chick-fila menu because I feel like you owe it to your viewers now since they were not in this video. Much love, Billy
@SilentNinjaSparks I think the county as a whole wouldn't mind seeing that come to fruition. It's 2024 and it still has not happened. I'm the U.S. at least...
We all know that u r a great chef, but most of the times we watch u cause u can let us forget what a crapy day we had. Thank you for being a psycotherapist, stand up comedian and a great chef all together.
That mac and cheese casserole looks genuinely delightful. It’s a cream sauce and melted cheese on top of carbs. I don’t think it gets better than that.
I'm one of those weird ones that actually really like the Double Down. Like it's a double patty chicken sandwich without all the bread to over fill you. I know I'm crazy but... I like it.
History of this is great when it got to the 80’s I was like a kid again! As far as wanting to buy the book?! I was sold videos ago ! Good videos Josh keep it up you inspire me to move and cook more with love!
In Russia we had fast food chain which make traditional slavic dish блины с начинкой(basically stuffed folds of crepes, they are neutral, or very lightly salted/sweetened, you could add any stuff) as fast-food, love it, cause it could be low on fat and relatively low on carbs. Its my favourite second after shawarma, in slavic countries we dont usually add fries to shawarma, but more veggies/salad and meat instead, so it's generally good food.
Papa Josh, there is this amazing side dish from Sudan called Dakwa salad. its amazing you should look it up and feature it in one of your videos, its like a peanut butter appetizer dish or you can use it as a dipping sauce! I'm 100% sure you will love it! its consistent of unsweetened peanut butter, lime juice, vinegar, garlic, and tomatoes, or something like that! Anyways you should give it a try! Love you Papa Josh!
Today, I reached 200k in my journey, and I'm incredibly thankful for all the knowledge and insights you've shared with me over the past few months. It's amazing to think that I started with just 14k back in June 2022. 🇺🇲
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I think age is a factor in some of this scoring. Arby's now is just another overpriced place. Arby's then was special. We had family that literally started visiting us more often because our town had Arby's and theirs did not. Beef 'N Cheddar and Arby-Q (which was larger and more delicious than what they sometimes put on their menu now) were wildly popular along with their potato cakes (fries at Arby's? no thanks). Drench it all in Arby sauce, horsey sauce, or both and it was fast food heaven!
My friend told me he knew a gal that would use a coupon to get 50% off the 2nd of 2 beef n cheddars and would buy about 16 of them and then freeze them at home to stretch out her lunch budget for work.
YES! Arby's is not what it once was but it's still one of the few fast food places I'll eat at. I'll take curly fries dipped in Horsey Sauce over Micky D's fries and ketchup any day.
The thing that I liked about Arby's was their sauces. The combination of the Arby's sauce and the horsey sauce was so good. I loved it on the roast beef.
@@agentsculder2451 Yes! The best sauces in the business. Their roast beef really is kind of mediocre without the sauce but Arby's Sauce and Horsey Sauce take it to a whole other level.
What about Panda Express, bringing the glories of American Chinese food to the masses? Oh, and I agree about the McGriddle. Peak fast food. I wish they served it all day; I would happily eat it for lunch.
Macaroni and cheese existed long before 1902. Edit: I’m kinda proud that I’ve never heard of the 2020s Wendy’s thing. I haven’t eaten out or watched tv in years. I have no way of even hearing about this thing.
Remember when Josh would make videos about remaking food and you would think to yourself, I can make that at home. Then he put out a cookbook and you thought maybe I should support him. Then he built $100,000 kitchen set and now all of his videos are way over the top. Well this is an all too common story with youtube. Crieators get bigger than they need to be and then start falling off thinking that they're preaching to a bigger crowd when they're really still preaching to the same people who have been with them since the beginning. Now most of those people sadly have moved on. Its difficult to force myself to hit play amd I only stay subscribed hoping he returns to his roots.
The Wendy’s is definitely just an attempt at fusion, taking two cuisines and mashing them together, which can be awesome in the right combo. I think there should be honorable mentions for Chipotle (they were first at a mass high-quality, assembly model), Chick-fil-a (OG chicken sammie), pizza hut’s personal pan pizza concept, Chinese and pizza delivery, and Kirby’s pig stand for being the first drive-thru!
I grew up in a small town in michigan. I always hated Mexican food bc I thought it was Taco Bell. I never had real mexican food (or avocado) until I traveled to California for the first time when I was 19. been in love ever since
The peak back in 2015-2017 when they had just released the MCD app and gave out so much free food plus had the artisan sandwiches. I thought they were gonna stick around 😢
I've never been to a Chipotle or Qdoba that was "fast". Subway had great marketing for a brief time, but I definitely wouldn't call them revolutionary.
If you grew up in NYC eating at real Italian, Jewish, and German delis, Subway was rancid garbage. I remember the first time I ate at one in Florida in 1988, and asked for a turkey and provolone, and the clerk didn't know what provolone was. I went through a list of common deli cheeses, and the kid continued to look at me like I was speaking Greek. Feeling like I was in a Monty Python sketch, I asked what kinds of cheeses did he have, and he responded with just the singular "cheese." It was white, pasty, and triangular, and I was so damned confused. Nowadays their food is banned in placed like Ireland because there's so much sugar in their food that it's classified as cake!
14:54 It’s because their moto was “they don’t cut corners.” Joshua, brah, that’s like the most clever marketing slogan ever. Built right into their food 😮
Nah I'm with Cam on this one for the stuffed crust pizza, it was 100% CRAZY moment for food, maybe not a wow factor but definitely a OMF THIS IS GREAT WHY HAVE WE ONLY JUST NOW DONE THIS
I have been a fan of Joshua Weissman for years now. I have never commented before. I feel the direction of his videos is getting very repetitive. He continues to do these rating videos and most of the video and criticism is him and his panel constantly bashing and belittling what ever It is you’re tasting. The pizza review the chicken sandwich review and now the fast food review. I understand it’s an attempt at new content but it is really driving me away. Good luck and hopefully we see change in the future.
Josh, you really gotta try the "Tastien Chinese 'burger' ", it's basically a fried chicken sandwich in a freshly baked roujiamo bun, that might topple the 2020s fast food of choice
Guys I'll be honest, I think Josh has a book he wants us to buy
😂😂
Not sure what gives you that idea. I think he'd say something about it if he did.
Lmao, dude plugs his book every couple minutes😂
@@DanielRodrigues-qr2sd he does but in a funny way so I don't mind lol
Don’t buy it
"Let's kick things off"
*Shows a guy walking with one leg*
0:36
I laugh so hard in that part lmao
i thought you were joking....but holy shit...he had to do that intentionally.....this should be top comment
😂😂😂😂
de-monetised
Damn, I just noticed
My dad worked at the first Taco Bell in Montana and he said it totally changed people’s lives up there. No one had ever seen or heard of a taco, or really had any Mexican food. The ingredients are simple, whole, and easy to use in many items. On an innovation scale, Taco Bell would have to be up there with the best of them.
And the fact that he didn't mention the Doritos Loco Taco is a crime.
I imagine the same holds true today! Not too much innovation heading up to the true midwest.
That is Take-O to you, Sir.
That's really cool, and you're right about the ingredients. I think Taco Bell was the main inspiration for the tacos my family made when I was growing up. They're nothing like American tacos, and I would be surprised if they're much like Mexican ones as well, but they're almost a direct copy of the soft shell taco bell tacos.
Yeah it's a 10
I love the fact that despite EVERYONE knowing the KFC recipe at this point we still have to pretend it's a secret due to lawyers existing, lol.
2000's was boon for fast food. We got McGriddles, Crunchwrap, Cheesy Gordita Crunch, and the Baconator all in the same decade. All of which are now iconic items at each of their respective establishments. It was really a renaissance of fast food.
Especially having a super size option in McDonald's before they were sued and the movie "Super Size Me" was made.
@@alfredoavalos714 That never went away they just renamed it small-medium-large
Taco Bell was one of the most innovative because it took tacos to locales that had never seen one before. Burgers and chicken were everywhere, tacos were highly unique.
Taco Bell is still the best fast food joint ever, nothing will change my mind
They were innovative by serving tacos in a new town? Woooow... Such creativity. How did they come up with it?!
Unique ≠ innovative
I agree they didn’t think about how Taco Bell could’ve changed the whole food culture in places across the countr
Tacos had existed well before Taco Bell made it more palatable to white folks. The one thing they did do was make it more accessible to places that didn't have a large or growing Mexican population/business presence. Its not innovative to steal someone else's sh*t and profit off a b*stardised version of it 🤷🏼♀️
I want Josh to do a series on outdoor and camping cooking. Like how to cook on a state park public grill, over a fire, in a pit, on a cheap charcoal, underground, in the sand like a clam bake, s’mores etc..
For summer. Pretty pretty please?
Also I am beyond impressed with the I cooked “blank” a hundred million ways taste tests. Like how does he cook so many dishes in one day?? 😮
I second your suggestion! Then he won't have to dirty up his kitchen!
i third your suggestion
I fourth your suggestion
I fifth your suggestion, I love that idea🔥🔥🔥
Sixth
The real victim of McDonalds giving up beef tallow for canola oil in frying wasnt the fries, but the apple pie. Today its baked (lame) but back in the day it was deep fried in beef fat. And it was GLORIOUS. I would have been no older than 4 at the time but i swear i can still remember the taste.
No they were sued by a religious group. Forced to switch.
Yup good old religion strikes again! If it's against your religion or beliefs then simply don't eat there. Stop ruining things for everyone else
Have to go to Jollibee or any McD's in Asia to experience the glory that is a deep fried pie.
One of the McDonald’s locations in Los Angeles still makes and sells the deep fried ones. It’s a massively overrated fast food apple turnover. But it’s fine.
I think they're probably on the same level. McD's fries were a food group of their own until they switched. Now, they have a nasty aftertaste and often, the unthinkable happens: They are discarded without being finished.
The way the hated in stuffed crust so much 😭 i think it was inventive because it solves the age old don’t wanna eat the crust problem
It makes me want to eat the crust even less, and unless I eat all the crusts first it's gonna be cold and rubbery. Hotdog stuffed crust on the other hand...🤤
@@tree427 PLEASE I was with you until the hotdog part haha! To each is own though, I like the crust with garlic or marinara sauce, the crust problem isn't even a problem as most people like it or you can simply not eat it!
@@tinntinnamp Exactly, dipping sauces already solve this problem.
I'd save the crust for later and dip them in garlic butter.
Eat the crust like an adult
“If it’s available today, we’ll get it from the restaurant”
I'm glad I'm not the only one confused by the cheese placement on the taco. When I make tacos, the cheese goes on the meat!!!
Less cheese looks like more if it’s on top of cold ingredients
Not only does it stay cold but half of it falls off before you eat it. I think they do it as a garnish because plain lettuce on top looks... plain.
I'm honestly fine with cold cheese on a taco. I don't want warm cheese competing with cold lettuce.
As a 90's kid from Poland, stuffed pizza crust was insane for me. To this day I think it slaps.
well you think wrong because Food. Does. Not. Slap. 📠📠📠
@@chansesgomez2081yeah it can, you’ve never been smacked across the face with a tortilla it seems
Josh! Pizza Hut's real inventiveness was the, 'Personal Pan Pizza'. Yes, it's a small pizza, but it was so successful it got McDonalds into making "McPizzas" (or as we in Cda called them, "Pimmas". Suffed Crust was just jumping the defibrilator.
AND they used to come with a TOY which was the highlight of my pizza hut days
The list in this video was pretty lame and limited.
after 2s is 20s foods :)
Exactly right. This video is really weird and unrepresentative of those decades. No research done, when it would've been easy to email a few industry people or marketing professors or .. something, anything
9:12 the red sauce on the beef n cheddar isn’t arbys sauce, it’s red ranch which is just Catalina dressing.
I remember the stuffed crust commercial. Pizz Hut was giving a demo for the PS1 with Crash Bandicoot, and a dude in the Crash costume yelled through a window that you could eat the slice backwards. I miss the 90's
Yeah, that was 1995, with Pizza Hut. This video has some odd choices. Stuffed crust never took off, and was basically a flop for Pizza Hut, more of a gimmick at the time, which lives on in its zombie form, but was never popular. Weird choice to represent the 1990s. Also weird to feature the "double down" rather than anything that actually was a huge success, like the Popeye's fried chicken sandwich craze
Maaaaan, he got this new kitchen and we have yet really seen him cook a "but better" style video in it yet. I'm just saying.
This channel fell off. You're not only one saying this either. Sad to see but happens to a lot of content creators.
For real. It’s all BS click bait now
If I wanted this trash I’d subscribe to buzzfeed. Show me how to cook stuff.
@@OldSchoolMindedI mean he’s averaging 1-2M views per video consistently. That’s hardly falling off.
GBD Gey bullshiet dude
The Automat was a wonderful experience for a young child back in the day. It seemed magical, you could put coins in a slot and get real food that was hot and filling. As a child, I thought it was magical until a busboy informed me that "we cheat a bit there are people behind the wall putting the food in those tiny windows.
How old are you?
I've always love Automats.
My dad, born in '48, said the automats were on the way out when he was a boy, but he still recalled a few in operation in Charleston, SC, USA, in his childhood. Said the worst was the "egg sandwiches".... whatever they were in the 1950s was something that brought him a worse PTSD-induced eye glaze than his days spraying Agent Orange in Vietnam. What the heck was IN those egg sandwiches? Yeesh!
Bruh shut up, you ain't fucking 110+ years old typin' on no youtube video.
They were still around in Manhattan in the early 1960s and far superior to today's fast food joints. They may had to be better in NYC because of competition from other food outlets.@@LindseyLouWho
I worked as a manager for Pizza Hut when the stuffed crust came out. Different dough than normal, I didnt like it. One night, we took leftover stuffed dough and linked it all, rolled it up and ran it through the conveyor oven. It made about a 60 foot long breadstick 😂
Now that’s Inventive!!!
the dough is made daily proofed over night , they don't make 2 different batch for stuffed crust , your story doesn't add up
@@pinbi7 are you a current employee? This was 25 years ago or so, so yeah, it adds up. The dough was proofed for a few hours, not overnight. Cooks came in around 6 AM, mixed the secret bag with flour and water, weigh and cut, roll in the double roller, pan and proof for a few hours before the buffet lunch, make some more in the afternoon if required. I can go on. I started delivering on my 16th birthday, then served, then cooked, then supervisor, then manager. My story doesn't add up, geezus carhoist.
Sounds like my party loaf made from three thawed sticks of Jimmy John's bread.
Stretched, braided, sprayed with oil baked. Was long as baking pan is corner to corner, and 5 inches wide.
My SiL used it to make a super sub for her grandson bday. A triumph.
@@CommonContentArchive sure. It was a hell of a long time ago.
Even in the early '70s, Taco Bell was still "selling" the idea of Mexican food. I can remember their ads -- "lettuce from California, cheese from Wisconsin, it really is American -- think of it as a cheese burger that goes 'crunch'." So definitely a big leap forward in the mainstreaming of Mexican food.
Yeah I feel like they did Taco Bell dirty with the score, it helped introduce an entirely new type of food to many Americans!
Dude i used to love your channel. You had the best recipes, top notch humor, and most importantly I learned something. You’ve turned into a buzz feed article. Bring it back to the open cupboard days my G. We miss you ❤
I cant say I fully disagree with you, I was around when he had around 100k subs I believe. But eventually you gotta up the 'wow' factor to stay relevant and bring in views and new subs. He's still got humor and great editing that I enjoy but I do miss things being a bit more intimate.
0:22 "A lot of people would say fast food has gotten BETTER and BETTER." Who actually thinks that? It's never been more apparent that most fast-food companies are cutting some major corners when it comes to their product's quality, and hiking up the prices to add insult to injury.
Oh good, it's not just me lol
this is certainly one of the cooking videos of all time
You're comment is certainly unoriginal
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But yeah, I agree with you
@@Bombarrow213your response is certainly useless
This guy really put on post notifications just to comment that 💀
Gotta shoot Cam down for his idea that the age of excess started in 2010, in 1987 McDonald's introduced Supersize options to the menu and then Wendy's did the BIGGIE options, and everyone else followed suit. This option ended in 2004 along with many of the "Ultra" sized options available that had made their way into almost everything.
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Agreed. 2008 or 2009 was when the age excess ended, not started. It's when gas went up and the housing market crashed and things started to get weird.
20s foods after 01s
@@Judith-m3e I don't understand what you mean.
The book/documentary "Super Size Me" had an impact on ending the massive portion sizes as well
The man saying his idea of Mexican food was Taco Bell til he was 16 and Josh dying visibly was hilarious
Josh! Here’s a challenge for you!!! Make a good breakfast that can be made using a “Truckers kitchen” meaning only stuff stored in a mini fridge, a microwave, and a small electric pot. See what you can cook with just that stuff!!
Always appreciate Cam’s in-depth analysis.
Fun fact: Stuffed crust pizza was a result of collaboration with the Got Milk campaign as a result of the US Government needing to reduce its investment on dairy farm subsidies because there was hundreds of millions of dollars of cheese stored in a cave in Missouri because it was the best way to store all the milk the government bought from American farmers.
I see someone else watches Fat Electrician🥹
The literal introduction of tacos into fast food and that’s the rating on the “innovation” scale you gave it?!
None of their ratings ever make sense.
That's exactly what I'm saying they ranked the Whopper higher than Taco Bell's tacos like bruh
They're obviously not giving each food the same criteria. If THEY don't like it, then it gets a bad score. If it's something that was created during their lifetime, then it gets a better score. Typical shallow, self-important millennials with little to no self awareness.
8:43 you are wrong, about Taco Bell. The shell was his invention. He invented it for expedience sake. The shape of the shell made it a lot faster to fill and produce tacos.
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The phrase "winner winner chicken dinner" originated from American gambling culture. It's believed to have come from Las Vegas casinos where a winning bet of $2.00 was enough to buy a chicken dinner, thus the phrase was used to celebrate a win.
well its also from a battle royal called "PUBG" the phrase pops up when we win the match
I'm really proud of papa's success and love the channel ❤️but I sort of wish we still got more in depth cooking content instead of so many "trend" and "ranking" videos
You chose to speak facts
Doesn't help that the takes are so weirdly specific and have basically no objectivity at all.
And a little less book shilling
Are you a girl? You are right?
How could you forget Arthur Treachers' Fish and Chips in 1969 followed by Long John Silvers and Captain Ds? Truly, no one else was doing this.
Arthur Treachers was so hot and crispy back in the 70s, I haven't had or made anything like it since then.
The batter was great and they fried everything in peanut oil, which does give a certain flavor. (I worked for them)@@johnnydidonna6081
Honestly this guy is great at giving me ideas
I will always stand by saying that the mcgriddle is the best breakfast sandwich idea ever.
I am still shocked that I've never seen a higher quality version of this idea.
You should probably get out of the house more often.
@@paulandrews5611 I know where you live
If you wanted to actually make the kfc fried chicken, there's a mix out there called 99-X, which according to MatPat, is basically indistinguishable from KFC nowadays except for the extra ingredient KFC now uses which is citric acid. That's probably the closest you'll be getting since 99-X was a product of Kernel Sanders himself in collaboration with another company after he saw KFC becoming a shit hole
I like how Josh makes certain recipes from hand and knows how to do it right and doesn’t do anything half-assed, into perfection
It's almost like he's a professional chef and has a popular UA-cam channel!
Early 2000 to the mid 2010s fast food will go down in history of the golden age of fast food
Think 90s were generally more innovative tbh but a lot of these things haven't spread outside the US
@@Shagyamum i wasn’t around for those but maybe but if early 2000 was extremely innovative for me and makes everything now seem lame I couldn’t imagine experiencing better and having to deal with what is available today
Hey man, been watching you for years now and my gf just bought me both of your cookbooks for my bday today. Absolute amazing stuff. Love the texture you put on the 2nd one. Very creative. And as a professional photographer, the photos look great. Props man I'm proud of you. Been in the restaurant world for over 10 years myself and I'm a home cook for everyone so the books will go to use
It's so interesting to see how far we've come!
Literally the first fast food hamburger chain: 7.5
A slightly upgraded breakfast sandwich: 9
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I agree, Mcgriddle is insanely over-hyped. McDonald's breakfast in general is mid af. I'd take a Burger King croissandwich over McD's any day
It’s funny cause White Castle has the burger and it really good…it’s literally called 1921 burger
The beef fat that they used to fry fries in actually is a Belgian tradition, as we BELGIANS invented the fry NOT THE FRENCH as every American seems to think, french is actually the way its cut, its frenched. Thank you for coming to my ted talk
They’re called French fries because they were popularized by US soldiers stationed in Belgium where French was spoken. French cut refers to julienning. A proper julienne is much different then the cut of French fries.
Don't care. It's Chips.
@@Snes64Let's just give praises to America and move on.
Belgians are just French pretending to be German.
@@Snes64fries and chips are different you divvy
The double down and the nacho cheese burger were both items I saw that I instantly went "Ohh that sounds amazing" and the moment I tasted it thought "What on gods green earth ever convinced me this was a good idea"?
Double down was good tho
Fries were basically ubiquitous, thin sliced chips were invented in the 1850's and popular in restaurants, having only really been available in packages for about 20 years, because freshly fried chips taste good.
Fried chips have been in packages since 1908 technically.
A company started the practice.
I really enjoy the videos of this channel, including this one! :)
I'm surprised that Subway or Panda Express etc wasn't included as they seem innovative compared to some on the list.
This video wasn't really about innovation. It was kind of a lame video.
Also no mention of any Asian style fast food, which seems weird.
If McD's can have reliable ice cream machines, that'd be real inventive!
Fun fact..most times they work fine we just don't want to use it so it doesn't have to be cleaned. Yes an admission of my past 17yr old lazy self.
My White Castle here in jersey currently sells a burger called the “1921 burger” that’s made exactly how it originated. It’s a limited time item so get it quick if ya wanna try it 🤷🏼♀️
The 1921 slider is now a regular menu item. It's my favorite, and even better the few times it's available as a BOGO mobile-app deal.
Icl Josh is the GOAT at plugging his recipes and book I’m not even mad at it
It's intriguing to trace the evolution of fast food over the century, from a simple mac and cheese dish to ingenious inventions like the McNugget and McGriddle. However, it seems the imaginative spark has dwindled in recent years.
I was THERE when Arbys opened in Ohio in the 70's . Back then it was an actual roast being thin sliced , and the restaurant itself was considered kind of fancy for fast food . You saw the guy slicing away and it was kind of cool The beef and cheddar isn't really the hit though , you got to go with the flagship classic with both Arbys sauce and Horsey sauce .
isn't that what they still do?
I thank you again for not using uncanny thumbnails,
Joshua you should do a video trying every national dish, obviously this would be over multiple video or maybe one huge video.
He could try to do it by continents
Dude plugged his book like 5 times. Desperation looks bad on anyone but good god man.
Where! Is! Chick-fila! The chicken sandwich that changed the game, the fries that were waffle shaped, the service that increased speeds to hot meals and they are always pleasured to do anything for you!
Josh… you have spectacular videos and I appreciate everything you do. If I recall correctly you live in Texas where Chick-Fila is, so please make a video with you making everything on chick-fila menu because I feel like you owe it to your viewers now since they were not in this video.
Much love,
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I remember the baconator. Then the son of baconator.🤣
Imagine those who have been alive for 100 years, and experienced all of these
They probably didn't eat any of it, that's why they're over 100 lmao.
I would absolutely love to see you tackle a full South African braai. Boerewors, braaibroodjies, the works. It would be lekker!!
Nou praat jy! Snoek with apricot jam also needs to be on that list
Cam cracks me up. This is a highly bingeable channel.
The production value in this video is off the charts!!
The deepfry pressure cooked chicken is both fast and delicious.
Honestly in terms of fast food inventiveness, I would LOVE to see more fish focused meals. Like actually good fish sandwiches or fish strips
Culver's fish and chips is pretty decent - depending on the location, beats some restaurants. Good fry, fresh, great for fast food.
@@ATXFoodies true, Culver's is the only fast food place I know that has decent fish
@SilentNinjaSparks I think the county as a whole wouldn't mind seeing that come to fruition. It's 2024 and it still has not happened. I'm the U.S. at least...
A papa video, with background music that reminds me of How to Drink. A fantastic blend.
fast food has evolved so much, there is so much innovation that can happen with it
Arby’s sauce be hittin though I can’t lie, and I love their maple bacon roast beef with cheese sandwich and then their fries be 😫
Everyone knows the McRib is the best fast food innovation of all time, real shame it got shunned on this list. 😢
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TacoBell getting rid of the Dollar menu has been one of the biggest fast food Losses in years 😢
The Taco Bell taco deserved more. That was innovative for the time.
We all know that u r a great chef, but most of the times we watch u cause u can let us forget what a crapy day we had. Thank you for being a psycotherapist, stand up comedian and a great chef all together.
Just realize that my great grandma is older than the entire McDonald’s franchise
That mac and cheese casserole looks genuinely delightful. It’s a cream sauce and melted cheese on top of carbs. I don’t think it gets better than that.
I'm one of those weird ones that actually really like the Double Down. Like it's a double patty chicken sandwich without all the bread to over fill you. I know I'm crazy but... I like it.
I have seen so many videos like “100 Years of burgers” but this is so far the best one I have seen 😊
The GOAT of munchie youtube entertainment
History of this is great when it got to the 80’s I was like a kid again! As far as wanting to buy the book?! I was sold videos ago ! Good videos Josh keep it up you inspire me to move and cook more with love!
In Russia we had fast food chain which make traditional slavic dish блины с начинкой(basically stuffed folds of crepes, they are neutral, or very lightly salted/sweetened, you could add any stuff) as fast-food, love it, cause it could be low on fat and relatively low on carbs. Its my favourite second after shawarma, in slavic countries we dont usually add fries to shawarma, but more veggies/salad and meat instead, so it's generally good food.
Papa Josh, there is this amazing side dish from Sudan called Dakwa salad. its amazing you should look it up and feature it in one of your videos, its like a peanut butter appetizer dish or you can use it as a dipping sauce! I'm 100% sure you will love it! its consistent of unsweetened peanut butter, lime juice, vinegar, garlic, and tomatoes, or something like that! Anyways you should give it a try! Love you Papa Josh!
I feel like you left out fast food chains like chipotle( yes chipotle is fast food) which were highly innovative as far as what fast food can offer.
Chipotle is considered fast casual, like Panera, not fast food. Like a tier above fast food but below sit down casual chains
The OG Double Down with Colonel Sauce was way better than the re-released pale imitation with mayo
Should have thrown some cajun spices in there Joshy
You should have added the M on top of the McGriddles and turned it upside down and called it a W for Weissman
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I think age is a factor in some of this scoring. Arby's now is just another overpriced place. Arby's then was special. We had family that literally started visiting us more often because our town had Arby's and theirs did not. Beef 'N Cheddar and Arby-Q (which was larger and more delicious than what they sometimes put on their menu now) were wildly popular along with their potato cakes (fries at Arby's? no thanks). Drench it all in Arby sauce, horsey sauce, or both and it was fast food heaven!
My friend told me he knew a gal that would use a coupon to get 50% off the 2nd of 2 beef n cheddars and would buy about 16 of them and then freeze them at home to stretch out her lunch budget for work.
YES! Arby's is not what it once was but it's still one of the few fast food places I'll eat at. I'll take curly fries dipped in Horsey Sauce over Micky D's fries and ketchup any day.
The thing that I liked about Arby's was their sauces. The combination of the Arby's sauce and the horsey sauce was so good. I loved it on the roast beef.
@@agentsculder2451 Yes! The best sauces in the business. Their roast beef really is kind of mediocre without the sauce but Arby's Sauce and Horsey Sauce take it to a whole other level.
"No thanks" to Arby's fries??? Those curly fries are hands down the best fries in the entire fast food game.
What about Panda Express, bringing the glories of American Chinese food to the masses?
Oh, and I agree about the McGriddle. Peak fast food. I wish they served it all day; I would happily eat it for lunch.
American Chinese was a cultural phenomenon for decades before Panda Express ever came around.
They don't even ever serve it in McDonalds here, it's only served in 9 of the 120 countries McDonalds operates in.
Macaroni and cheese existed long before 1902.
Edit: I’m kinda proud that I’ve never heard of the 2020s Wendy’s thing. I haven’t eaten out or watched tv in years. I have no way of even hearing about this thing.
I love that you guys chose a photo of Pizza Hut with a late '80s Buick that the body trim is falling off. Classic.
Remember when Josh would make videos about remaking food and you would think to yourself, I can make that at home. Then he put out a cookbook and you thought maybe I should support him. Then he built $100,000 kitchen set and now all of his videos are way over the top. Well this is an all too common story with youtube. Crieators get bigger than they need to be and then start falling off thinking that they're preaching to a bigger crowd when they're really still preaching to the same people who have been with them since the beginning. Now most of those people sadly have moved on. Its difficult to force myself to hit play amd I only stay subscribed hoping he returns to his roots.
The Wendy’s is definitely just an attempt at fusion, taking two cuisines and mashing them together, which can be awesome in the right combo. I think there should be honorable mentions for Chipotle (they were first at a mass high-quality, assembly model), Chick-fil-a (OG chicken sammie), pizza hut’s personal pan pizza concept, Chinese and pizza delivery, and Kirby’s pig stand for being the first drive-thru!
I grew up in a small town in michigan. I always hated Mexican food bc I thought it was Taco Bell. I never had real mexican food (or avocado) until I traveled to California for the first time when I was 19. been in love ever since
I would love to see a video of you making every kind of “rice cake” there is as there seem to be a lot across different cultures
Did you know the original KFC recipe lives on in a tiny restaurant in Limerick, Ireland? Much tastier than the modern KFC we know today.
The peak back in 2015-2017 when they had just released the MCD app and gave out so much free food plus had the artisan sandwiches. I thought they were gonna stick around 😢
Leaving out Subway and Chipotle/qDoba as fastfood innovators was a harsh decision.
I've never been to a Chipotle or Qdoba that was "fast". Subway had great marketing for a brief time, but I definitely wouldn't call them revolutionary.
If you grew up in NYC eating at real Italian, Jewish, and German delis, Subway was rancid garbage. I remember the first time I ate at one in Florida in 1988, and asked for a turkey and provolone, and the clerk didn't know what provolone was. I went through a list of common deli cheeses, and the kid continued to look at me like I was speaking Greek. Feeling like I was in a Monty Python sketch, I asked what kinds of cheeses did he have, and he responded with just the singular "cheese." It was white, pasty, and triangular, and I was so damned confused.
Nowadays their food is banned in placed like Ireland because there's so much sugar in their food that it's classified as cake!
Where did all the recipe videos go and why did suddenly it become a rating channel of fast food?
Sad but true I think Josh has sold out to the algorithm
14:54 It’s because their moto was “they don’t cut corners.” Joshua, brah, that’s like the most clever marketing slogan ever. Built right into their food 😮
Nah I'm with Cam on this one for the stuffed crust pizza, it was 100% CRAZY moment for food, maybe not a wow factor but definitely a OMF THIS IS GREAT WHY HAVE WE ONLY JUST NOW DONE THIS
This channel has really gone down the tubes. Why would I want to watch anyone recreate 100 years of fast food in a modern kitchen??
I agree! Josh is running out of quality content to keep his audience entertained instead he is using recycled content in slightly different forms.
Something to keep in mind... the ingredients we have today weren't available then. The wheat was different, there was no HFCS, etc.
I have been a fan of Joshua Weissman for years now. I have never commented before. I feel the direction of his videos is getting very repetitive. He continues to do these rating videos and most of the video and criticism is him and his panel constantly bashing and belittling what ever It is you’re tasting. The pizza review the chicken sandwich review and now the fast food review. I understand it’s an attempt at new content but it is really driving me away. Good luck and hopefully we see change in the future.
Josh, you really gotta try the "Tastien Chinese 'burger' ", it's basically a fried chicken sandwich in a freshly baked roujiamo bun, that might topple the 2020s fast food of choice
Here's a challenge for the "fast food" category: make every type of food as a hand-held fast food... without the use of bread.