Burger King's decidedly creepy mascot, the King, disappeared for a few years. What happened to the fast food chain's ...

Ever since the mid-20th century, when fast food restaurants ... by transforming a corporate logo into something that ...

Take the whitest, most slave-owner looking southern gentleman you can find and then make him the mascot for a fast food chain that ... owner-gentleman-appearing logo for longer than is prudent.

Some fast food mascots have remarkable staying power. Ronald McDonald, for example, is decades older than most of his customers today. Other mascots come and go too quickly to remember.

It’s not often that a mascot for a fast-food franchise will detail the discomfort prompted by hemorrhoid surgery in a national television advertisement. But Mr. Delicious rarely played by the rules.

Over the past decade or so, a number of smaller, hipper brands have resuscitated the mascot logos of the ’50s ... The final deadline for Fast Company’s Brands That Matter Awards is this ...

OK, I just named the ones I personally think are creepy. If your most shuddersome mascot didn't make the list, that's why. Or I wasn't aware of them, or they weren't high profile enough to make ...