Halloween Discussion Forums, Costumes, Horror!

Welcome to the Halloween fast food and junk food thread, every year around this time various fast food places offer their customers a treat by adding some Halloween themed items to their menus.

Here you can post about some of the yummy and unhealthy treats that you come across during the season, and share your opinions on them, whether it's something currently available, or something from the past that you want them to bring back.

I already posted about the Addams Family menu at BK right now, but when I was looking up the info for that I found out that Krispy Kreme has Ghostbusters donuts available for the holiday. There are 4 different Ghostbusters donuts to choose from, Slimer, Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, the Ghostbusters logo Cookies N’ Creme, and the Ecto-Sprinkled donut with orange icing and sprinkles to give it a Halloween look.

I brought my kids with me to try them today, while most of them taste fine like you would expect from regular donuts, the Slimer donut was a very nice treat, it is filled with green lime flavored jelly to look like slime, and it has green and purple icing. I should also mention that the donuts come with a character shaped candy on top.

If you're a Ghostbusters fan, or you just like donuts, then I recommend that you try them if you can find them in your area. I had to make my kids promise that they wouldn't tell their mother that I brought them there, because if my wife knew that I was eating someone else's deliciously evil pastries she would kill me... normally I would put a smiley face behind that, but I'm absolutely serious.

I've posted pics below, as usual, what you get doesn't look as good as their promotional pictures, but at least they taste good.

Those are cute!

I haven't been to a fast food place recently, but I did buy some pumpkin spice Moon Pies at Kroger tonight. Does that count?

If I were to go out for donuts, I'd go to Donut Country, a local place within walking distance of our house. There's a Krispy Kreme a couple of miles from here. I know they're good, too, but I prefer our local business.

I've seen those Ghostbuster's donuts advertised! Krispy Kreme is a bit of a drive for us though.
But then again, so is Dunkin' Donuts. Apparently, Dunkin Donuts is having their own Halloween and fall offerings as well. They are offering a bucket of donut holes also called "munkin's." And of course, most places are offering pumpkin spice coffee, lattes and the like.
Oddly enough I've always seen donuts as a big part of the Halloween season. We used to have donuts and cider. Of course, the "apple cider donut" seems to be a new thing that people like to talk about. But typically, I'm talking about the cider drink served with a donut.
I've also seen the Addam's Family burgers advertised as well.
McDonald's is supposed to bring the Boo Buckets back. They have these new monster designs. They didn't get the best reviews, but I think they have charm.
When they brought them back in 2022 I did get a few. XD
I think Wendy's sells "Boo bucks" too.
I'll have to see what other fast food offerings are out there.

I think that most of the food that is available out there today can be considered to be fast/junk food, if you walk into a supermarket today 90% of what they sell is premade stuff that is ready to eat and doesn't require any preparation and it is usually filled with chemicals and is extremely unhealthy for you. With that said, life is short and as long as you enjoy these treats in moderation then you should be fine.

So I do count any store bought cakes, pies, cookies, chips, cereals, and any other snacks as fast/junk food for this thread, as long as they have a Halloween theme.

For example, there is a cookie snack we usually buy for the kids called Bear Paws, they are meant to be like bear claws, but they recently changed the packaging for Halloween and called them Scare Paws. It is a nice little way to make your product appeal to more people during certain holidays.

I know that Pillsbury has had the Great Pumpkin cookies since the 90s and they offer a variety of products for different holidays now. My mother usually makes her cookies from scratch, but occasionally she will still get some of their cookies for the holidays.

When I was a kid McDonald's didn't really offer any special food items for Halloween, but they always had some awesome promotional things for kids like the Boo Buckets, and the McNugget Buddies with costumes in the Happy Meals. They actually brought back the McNugget Buddies last year, and they were specifically made for adults that grew upwith them, the only bad thing was that they were charging $16 for each Happy Meal, so I didn't get any because that's just nuts.

I also remember Pizza Hut had some Halloween items on their menu about 20 years ago, I don't think it was popular because they haven't done it since, well, I haven't heard that they have.