A $456 McRib & 24 other ‘fancy’ fast foods that may (or may not!) be worth it

Would you spend over $400 to make a fancy McRib? Well, the YouTube Channel Mythical Kitchen did for their series “Fancy Fast Food!”

Chef Josh Scherer and his team at Mythical Kitchen take popular fast food items and recreate them using fancy and, of course, rather pricey ingredients. At the end of the episode, they determine if the price was worth the “fancier” taste. Spoiler: Sometimes, it’s not!

So if you’re wondering if you should splurge on making your own $374 version of Panda Express’s orange chicken, look no further than this list of all the Mythical Kitchen’s fancy fast food experiments they’ve posted on their channel as of January 2022.

We’ll start with their oldest concoction, the McDonald’s Filet-O-Fish, and work up to their newest, the KFC pot pie.

Original Price: $3.79

• Fancy Price: $379.34
• Was it worth it?: Yes!
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Original Price: $7.50 (medium)

• Fancy Price: $374.16
• Was it worth it?: Yes!
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Original Price: $6.09

• Fancy Price: $237.89
• Was it worth it?: Yes!
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Original Price: $10

• Fancy Price: $364.21
• Was it worth it? Eh, maybe not. Chef Josh did admit there was a pretty big flaw in the fancy version: You can’t taste the entire sandwich all at once because it’s just so massive!
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Original Price: $8.46 (6-pack)

• Fancy Price: $218.71
• Was it worth it?: Yes!
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Original Price: $5.25 (venti)

• Fancy Price: $214.89
• Was it worth it?: Yes … although, to be fair, they did add 10-year-old Bourbon…
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Original Price: $6.99

• Fancy Price: $314.81
• Was it worth it?: Not at all!  The dry-aged burger meat was, as they put it, “funky” and not for everyone.
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Original Price: $11.99

• Fancy Price: $420.17
• Was it worth it?: Eh, depends. There wasn’t a clear winner on this one, with the Mythical Kitchen deciding they were just too different to compare. But Mythical art director, Lucas Strader, who guest starred on the episode, hated the truffles on the fancy pizza, so maybe there was a non-official winner, after all …
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Original Price: $3.49

• Fancy Price: $298.64
• Was it worth it?: Yes, although, as Josh says of the original Mexican pizza, “I mean, it is still pretty good…” So maybe just stick to the original, anyways.
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Original Price: $3

• Fancy Price: $308.72
• Was it worth it?: Yes!
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Original Price: $3.69

Note: For this episode, the McRib was not available at the time of production, so the Mythical Kitchen team made a more realistic version of the McRib to compare to the “fancy” McRib.

• Fancy Price: $455.77
• Was it worth it?: Yes!
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Original Price: $4.49

• Fancy Price: $231.19
• Was it worth it?: Yes!
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Original Price: $4.79

• Fancy Price: $274.48
• Was it worth it?: Yes!
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Original Price: $4.20

• Fancy Price: $419.21
• Was it worth it?: Yes!
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Original Price: $3.99

• Fancy Price: $207.51
• Was it worth it?: Not at all! As Chef Josh said, “I feel a deep sense of shame about it.” Yikes.
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Original Price: $15.99

(original is on the right)

• Fancy Price: $203.68
• Was it worth it?: Yes!
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Original Price: $8.69

• Fancy Price: $379.81
• Was it worth it?: Yes!
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Original Price: $11.19 (for eight tacos)

(original on the left)

• Fancy Price: $239.21
• Was it worth it?: Yes, even though, for the first time on the show, the original food was larger than the fancy version!
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Original Price: $9.98

• Fancy Price: $379.51
• Was it worth it?: Yes!
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Original Price: $36.34 (family pack)

• Fancy Price: $840.75 (or just about $200, sans giant cheese wheel)
• Was it worth it?: Yes! As Josh said, “Wow, that was fire!” I did have quite a bit of rum in it … plus, who says no to eating spaghetti out of a bowl made of a giant cheese wheel?
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Original Price: $6.99

• Fancy Price: $219.21
• Was it worth it?: Yes, although, as Josh Chef notes, it really is a “new take” on the burger, so don’t expect to get that original Whopper taste if, for whatever reason, you ever decide to recreate the fancy version …
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Original Price: $12.95

• Fancy Price: $409.09
• Was it worth it?: It’s American and A5 Wagyu: I mean, of course it’s worth it compared to Jersey Mike’s!
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Original Price: $5.49

• Fancy Price: $399.97
• Was it worth it?: Yes!
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Original Price: $6.99

• Fancy Price: $569.12
• Was it worth it?: Yes! As Chef Josh said, “You can’t put a price on art…” Which this truffle-ized version of the pizza pretzel apparently is.
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Original Price: $3.99

The Fancy Price

• Fancy Price: $209.70
• Was it worth it?: No! As Chef Josh explained, “That’s too much money for a pie!”
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