Mushroom: First major fast food hamburger restaurant chain to offer a "belloburger" (which is a
hamburger that uses portobello mushroom caps instead of bread buns) and "bello fries" (seasoned and baked/fried strips of portobello mushroom caps) at all of their restaurants. [These two additions to any fast food restaurant menu will then provide customers with a delicious alternative to the high-carb regular hamburgers and French fries.] As a bun substitute, the caps are roasted with cooking oil and seasoned (which can be simply salt and pepper) and then used in place of a bread bun. As a French fries substitute, the strips of portobello caps are either baked or fried and then seasoned (can be just salt) before being put into a normal French fries serving cups.
Future Challenges:
1) First fast food restaurant chain (10 or more restaurant units) to no longer serve bread-bun hamburgers and French fries but instead serve belloburgers and bello fries.
2) First major fast food restaurant chain (1,000 or more restaurant units) to no longer serve bread-bun hamburgers and French fries but instead serve belloburgers and bello fries.
3) First US private boarding school to only use portobello mushroom caps for all of their hamburger buns and bello fries instead of French fries.
4) First public school in the US (elementary, middle or high school) to only use portobello mushroom caps for all of their hamburger buns and bello fries instead of French fries.
5) First US school system (elementary, middle and high schools) to only use portobello mushroom caps for all of their hamburger buns and bello fries instead of French fries.
6) First US state to mandate that all public schools within its state to serve belloburgers and bello fries instead of bread-bun hamburgers and French fries.
7) First cruiseline to offer the passengers on all their cruiseships belloburgers and bello fries as a menu choice whenever they offer regular bread-bun hamburgers and/or French fries.
8) First naval aircraft carrier to offer belloburgers and bello fries to their crew members instead of bread-bun hamburgers and French fries.
9) First military of a nation (all branches) to only serve belloburgers and bello fries to their soldiers instead of bread-bun hamburgers and French fries. Any nation in the world can qualify for this future challenge.
10) First US prison to serve belloburgers and bello fries instead of bread-bun hamburgers and French fries.
11) First US state to mandate all of the state and local prisons within their state serve belloburgers and bello fries instead of bread-bun hamburgers and French fries.
12) First US House Representative or US Senator to successfully introduce and get passed a law that is signed by the US President (or their veto over-ridden) that mandates all federal prisons serve belloburgers and bello fries instead of bread-bun hamburgers and French fries.
13) First mushroom growers association (e.g., The American Mushroom Institute) to fund a national promotion campaign promoting belloburgers and bello fries.
14) First US mushroom growers association to offer an annual $1 million prize for the best belloburger recipe and another annual $1 million prize for the best bello fries recipe. These prizes being the end result of an annual series of cooking competitions held at all fifty US state fairs. The winners of each state fair competition is flown in free by the association and put up in hotels for free to be able to compete in the national competition at which they are the only contestants. Fast food restaurant chains can enter their belloburgers and bello fries in any state fair where they have at least one restaurant unit in that state and can enter more than one state fair competition. As all the state fair competition judging will be blind (the judges don't know who made what), this should assure fast food restaurants that they have a fair chance at winning the competition. [This will also hopefully result in fast food restaurants improving every year the belloburgers and bello fries they make. Not to mention how much they'll promote their belloburgers and/or bello fries if they win a state-level competition, if not the national competition.]
15) First prime-time US broadcast network TV drama series to have one of its characters eat and enjoy a belloburger and bello fries made by a fast food restaurant chain.
16) First major motion picture (premiering in at least 4,000 movie theaters) that has one of its characters eat and enjoy a belloburger and bello fries from a fast food restaurant chain.