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Pinterest is rife with cute little pictures of layered salads in Mason jars. Simply shake them up to distribute the dressing and voila! Salad!

Except McDonald’s TOTALLY did that already. 

The Golden Arches might have a thriving premium salad menu now, but the McSalad Shaker was their entry into the world of healthier eating.

It was also a big, fat failure.

Other fast food restaurants have had menu items suffer the same fate. Wendy’s Superbar, anybody? (Salad! Tacos! Pizza! ANYTHING YOU WANT!)

While some of these ideas were doomed to failure before they even got off the ground, others developed a legion of followers that led to customers petitioning to keep the items.

Failing that, they brought in their own supplies to recreate them. Love ’em or hate ’em, here are 11 memorable fast food items that no longer exist: