Takeaway Truth is an occasional Lifehacker feature where we compare marketing images to what you actually get served. Today: KFC's Big Cheese Burger. (Plus taste test!)

Takeaway Truth is an occasional Lifehacker feature where we compare marketing images against what you actually get served. Today: McDonald's Wagyu Beef Burger. (Plus taste test!)

Takeaway Truth is an occasional Lifehacker feature where we compare marketing images against what you actually get served. Today: McDonald's Big Brekkie Burger. (Plus taste test!)

As part of a promotion run by The Economist, a pop-up ice-cream stall opened in Martin Place for the day, right near our offices in Sydney. Awesome! I love ice cream! I'll go check it out, I said. The catch? The ice-cream was filled with insects. I was already in too deep to back out.

Now you, dear reader, get to experience what it is like to fill your mouth with dairy and dirt-dwellers. Hakuna Matata.

Lifehacker has indulged in some highly unorthodox taste tests over the years. From bacon milkshakes to placenta pizza, we've stuck a lot of weird and horrifying things into our mouths. To round off Friday, here are ten of the grossest gastronomical nightmares to squelch into our office. (You might want to read this one on an empty stomach.)

We were invited to KFC's flagship store in Mascot NSW to see how the company makes its chicken first-hand. We were shown every step of the process; from how meat is stored and prepared to the various ways KFC keeps its "secret" herbs and spices out of the hands of suppliers. Read on for a full kitchen tour.

Takeaway Truth is an occasional Lifehacker feature where we compare marketing images against what you actually get served. Today: Guzman Y Gomez's Breakfast Nachos. (Plus taste test!)

Takeaway Truth is an occasional Lifehacker feature where we compare marketing images against what you actually get served. Today: McDonald's Chicken Big Mac.

In 1923, Cyril P. Callister invented Vegemite. 94 years later, we have Vegemite: Blend 17.

It's the ultimate junk food face-off! In the red corner: a Maple-glazed fried doughnut. In the blue corer: a big, fat slice of New York-style pizza. There can only be one winner.

Today, Coca-Cola launched Coca-Cola No Sugar in Australia - a new diet version of its popular soft drink that purports to taste much better than Coke Zero. We'll be the judge of that.

Yesterday KFC sent us a ridiculous four buckets of their latest chicken -- which is reportedly marinated in Tabasco for 24 hours. We ate a lot of it.

Here's what we thought.

To celebrate the 2017 Lunar New Year, KitKat is bringing two of its famously exotic flavours to chocolate connoisseurs Down Under: the Citrus Creme Brulee KitKat and Red Bean and Toasted Coconut KitKat. For the princely sum of $68, you can purchase a selection of both flavours in a Special Edition gift set. That's $68. For some KitKats. Let's see what they taste like.

Pumpkin pie. It sounds weird to anyone born in Australia, where pumpkin is reserved for soup, roast dinners and occasionally for mixing in with mashed potato to make it a little bit healthier. We certainly don't see it as a sweet food, much less a dessert, though as it turns out pumpkin pie is actually a delicious dessert that every Australian should try at some point in their life.

The NcNutella Burger (AKA Nutella Sweety) is a dessert-based burger exclusive to McDonald's Italy. As its name implies, it's essentially a burger bun filled with creamy hazelnut cocoa spread in place of a meat patty.

Sadly, the Nutella Sweety currently isn't available at McDonald's Australia - so we decided to make our own. The results were surprisingly good!

Meet Hayley, Tiffany and Quang -- three typical 20-something millennials. In addition to working for Allure Media, they share something else in common: none of them have ever eaten a Big Mac. No, really.

Apparently, this is quite common for their age group and Big Mac sales are suffering as a result. Something clearly needs to be done here. The very existence of McDonald's beefy mascot could depend on it. So we force-fed our coworkers a bunch of Big Macs, for the greater good.

"Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun."

This used to be McDonald's unofficial anthem -- disseminated through jingles, poster taglines and freebie promotions. But a move towards premium-style burgers coupled with changing generational tastes could see the Big Mac consigned to the deep fryer of history.

According to a recent report in the Wall Street Journal, a whopping four-in-five millennials have never eaten a Big Mac. That's like, 80 per cent of everyone aged between 18 and 34.

At first, we scoffed at this story. Who hasn't tried a Big Mac at least once while growing up? Going from a Happy Meal cheeseburger to a fully-fledged Big Mac is a rite of passage. It's the unhealthy kids' version of taking training wheels off a bicycle. However, a quick office poll proved that the report might have some merit.

A sizable portion of our workplace had either never tried a Big Mac or hadn't eaten one in decades. Most of the lifetime abstainers were millennials. So it's all true then. Millennials are killing the Big Mac.

I'm really not okay with this, albeit mostly on principle. To be honest, I don't actually buy Big Macs all that often -- I'm more of a Fillet-o-Fish man myself. And yet, I take comfort in knowing it continues to exist.

Having the Big Mac on the menu is like having an old high school acquaintance on Facebook. (The one who never left your home town and is still trying to be a successful DJ.) You'll probably never hang out with Kirk again, but it's nice knowing the possibility is still there.

To save the Big Mac, we need to get more millennials eating them, so we don't have to. This is more important than the decline of traditional theatre or opera. Actual culture is at stake here, guys.

In a bid to do our part, we fed a Big Mac to Hayley, Tiffany and Quang at lunchtime. Hayley and Quang were bona fide first-timers, whereas Tiffany was a reformed Mac fan. We also invited Gizmodo editor Campbell Simpson along because he doesn't like Big Macs and I like to watch him suffer. Here is the video:

And here are their individual verdicts:

Quang Tran, Account Manager

I came in with low expectations but my first impression of the Big Mac was that it was a sad sight. The burger looked smaller than what I imagined and what I’ve seen in adverts so visually and literally the Big Mac didn’t live up to its name. Taking a look under the hood I stared down at a thin piece of grey, dry looking thing which passed for a beef patty and the unnecessary lettuce looked like shredded office paper.

Taking a bite into the burger it tasted pretty much as it looked. The burger was dry and the famous big mac sauce did not grace my tastebuds until I made my way towards to centre of the burger. The sauce was alright but a more even distribution across the bun would have been nice. Now I’m not one to waste food but 1/3 of the way into the burger I just gave up. I wouldn’t try this again, if I had to get a burger from the Macca’s menu I would go for a cheese burger or the quarter pounder.

Hayley Williams, Social Media & Community Editor

After more than 20 years of eating McDonalds, I finally tried my first Big Mac. It was not exciting at all. Even compared to my usual go-to Maccas burger (the humble cheeseburger) it was really bland. The sauce was barely there, and the only thing really adding any flavour was the pickle. Luckily, I love pickles. But I’d rather just eat a jar of pickles than another Big Mac. With three layers of soft, bland white bun, McDonalds’ particularly uninspiring lettuce and two dry patties, it was a struggle to finish it (in the worst possible way). The Big Mac really just needs to step up its game.

Tiffany Roma, Campaign Manager

I feel like everyone has a McDonalds story, and at a time the Big Mac was a part of mine, but not anymore. It’s not that I don’t like it -- I really do, It's nice, but it’s not just for me.

It’s filling: if you get enough sauce-to-bread ratio, then you’re good. There’s a perfect little dance of cheese and onion and lettuce complementing the two beef patties -- and it definitely is big. The middle layer of bread evens everything out and it’s the right consistency. Everything points to a good burger, but I’m just not sure it’s good enough.

Campbell Simpson, Gizmodo Editor

Big Macs are fine. But they're worthless gutter trash compared to the glory that is the McDonald's cheeseburger.

So there you have it. We potentially converted one of our four taste testers. Not the best result, but every little bit helps. Stay strong, Big Mac. We got you.

KFC’s Wicked Wings have their fair share of fans, and now KFC is trying to reinvent them, presumably to convert even more people to the wing side. The result: the Cola BBQ Wicked Wings, which are deep fried, crispy chicken wings smothered in a sticky cola bbq sauce.

Takeaway Truth is an occasional Lifehacker feature where we compare marketing images against what you actually get served. Today: Pie Face's "Double Cheeseburger" Pie. (Plus taste test!)

Salted eggs might sound disgusting to you, but it’s a commonly eaten food in Asian countries. For the uninitiated, this delicacy is made from soaking duck or chicken eggs in brine then preserving them with salt. I personally love salted egg yolk (the gelatinous egg white, not so much) so when I saw McDonald's was selling the Salted Egg Yolk Chicken in Singapore, I jumped at the chance of a taste test. Here's my verdict.