Mr. Delicious, The Fast Food Mascot Who Sold Roast Beef With A Side Of Middle-Aged Angst

from Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson · host Brady Carlson

Today in 1992, the fast food chain Rax filed for bankruptcy, a few months after launching an ad campaign featuring the fast food world’s first smart-alecky, ironic and probably very depressed mascot. Plus: a contestant in the Miss Mundo Chile pageant performed an original death metal song, complete with roaring throat singing. The Short, Sad, Strange Life of Mr. Delicious (NathanRabin.com)Miss Chile Contestant Stuns Audience With Original Death Metal Performance (My Modern Met)Back our podcast on Patreon so we don’t have to hire a cranky, overly chatty mascot to drum up business for us

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