Wendy's Could Only Convince 360 People That BBQ Should Be America's National Food

Wendy's is failing incredibly hard at its attempt to make BBQ America's national food. According to Businessweek, the chain launched a cutesy White House petition — which drops the terms "Merica!" and "edible democracy!" — in conjunction to its new barbecue pulled pork menu as a fun marketing "faux-cause."

The move sort of backfired: The chain needs 100,000 signatures by October 19 to even get a response from the Obama administration and they are currently at a grand total of 364. The only thing people care about less is making the second Friday in October National Haunted House Day (310 signatures).