Discontinued Fast Food Breakfast Items You Forgot About

In 2016, McDonald's announced a miniature, kid-sized breakfast as part of its all-day breakfast menu. The Breakfast Happy Meal came with either an egg-and-cheese McMuffin or two McGriddles, along with a side of apples, hash browns, or yogurt.

Apparently, the Happy Meal Breakfasts were only a test item and McDonald's retired them when they didn't catch on.

In the summer of 2001, McDonald's introduced the Eggs Benedict McMuffin. Sandwiched between two toasted English muffins were eggs, Canadian bacon, American cheese, and Mickey D's special breakfast sauce. Alas, the Eggs Benedict McMuffin was only available for a limited time. 

It was, believe it or not, a movie tie-in for Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire. 

Another truly original Taco Bell creation, the Chicken Biscuit Taco was, in the restaurant's words, their way of "paying 'respect' to the Southern staple that is the fried chicken biscuit." It was a soft, taco-shaped biscuit enveloping a chunk of fried chicken drizzled in jalapeño honey.

The Chicken Biscuit Taco quietly disappeared from the menu not long after its premiere in 2015.

Wendy's 2012 foray into the most important meal of the day was a short-lived dud. The menu strived to transcend typical fast food, and included artisan breakfast sandwiches and steel-cut oatmeal. The Mornin' Melt Panini featured two slices of buttered, toasted sourdough bread stuffed with Asiago and cheddar cheeses, eggs,  tomato, and sausage or applewood-smoked bacon.

Wendy's gave up on artisan items in 2013, but is now offering more familiar fast-food breakfast fare like bacon, egg, and cheese biscuits, and a sausage egg burrito. Steel-cut oats are off the menu, but plain and cranberry-pecan oatmeal options are available.

Perhaps it was Carl's Jr.'s answer to the Cronut. In 2014, the fast food chain attempted their own donut hybrid. Marrying traditional biscuit and donut doughs, the Bisnut was available with either vanilla or chocolate frosting.

As a finishing touch, the hybrid pastry was covered in sprinkles, of course. 

Carl's Jr. tested out Blueberry Muffin Buns in a few select locations in 2016. The blueberry muffin tops replaced Carl's Jr.'s standard bun, and were used to bookend an egg, meat, and cheese breakfast sandwich.

As of 2019, they have not yet been made a permanent menu fixture.