Fast Food Emoji

🍔 Hamburger is the fast food emoji in the literal sense, and most platforms draw it as a cheeseburger: sesame bun, patty, cheese, lettuce and tomato. It stands for burgers, for a burger joint, and for junk food in general. 🍟 French Fries comes in a red carton on Apple, Google and Samsung, which is why it also serves as the unofficial McDonald's emoji in bios and quizzes. 🌭 Hot Dog is a sausage in a bun with a line of mustard: ballparks, street carts and backyard cookouts. 🍕 Pizza is one slice, pepperoni on every major platform; it is also one of the most-sent food emoji overall because it means "pizza night" and "order in" at once. These four, with 🍗 Poultry Leg for fried chicken, are what people mean by fast food emoji; 🍔🍟🥤 together is the combo meal.

The rest of the counter: 🥪 Sandwich (a sub, a club, a packed lunch), 🌮 Taco and 🌯 Burrito for Mexican-style fast food, 🫔 Tamale for the real thing from the street stall, 🥙 Stuffed Flatbread for a kebab, gyro, shawarma or doner wrap, and 🧆 Falafel for its vegetarian cousin. 🍗 is officially Poultry Leg but everyone reads it as fried chicken, and it covers wings, nuggets and tenders too, since none of those has an emoji. 🍖 Meat on Bone is the cartoon ham hock from manga and video games, used for ribs and barbecue.

Burger emoji meaning and fries emoji meaning in slang

Most of the time 🍔 and 🍟 mean exactly what they show: someone is hungry, craving junk food, or asking "burger run?". Add 😋 or 🤤 and it is a craving; add 🫃 Pregnant Man or Pregnant Person and it is the food baby afterwards, the bloated, happy state after a big meal that people post with "food coma". 🍟 on its own in a bio or a caption usually means a McDonald's regular. 🍕 means pizza, but also "let's stay in", because a pizza is what gets ordered when nobody wants to cook. 🍿 Popcorn has drifted furthest from the food: in comment threads it means you are settling in to watch a drama unfold, as in "🍿 grabbing popcorn".

Two burger facts people search for. In October 2017 the media analyst Thomas Baekdal pointed out that Google's 🍔 put the cheese under the patty while Apple's put it on top; the tweet went viral, Google's CEO Sundar Pichai promised to "drop everything" to fix it, and Android 8.1 moved the cheese. And in 2014 Taco Bell ran a Change.org petition for a taco emoji; 🌮 arrived in Unicode 8.0 the next year, together with 🌭 Hot Dog, 🌯 Burrito, 🍿 Popcorn and 🧀 Cheese Wedge. The original 2010 emoji set from Japan had 🍔 🍟 🍕 🍗 🍩 🍦 but no hot dog, taco or burrito at all.

Fast food emoji quiz: restaurants in emojis

The most common search around fast food emoji is the guessing game: a chain written as two or three emoji, passed around a group chat or a story with "guess the fast food restaurant". There is no brand emoji, so the puzzles work by rebus. The answers people agree on are 🍔👑 Burger King, 🌮🔔 Taco Bell, 🍕🛖 Pizza Hut, 🐔🅰️ Chick-fil-A, 🍟Ⓜ️ or 🍟🤡 McDonald's, 🚇🥪 Subway, 🥤👑 or 🥛👑 Dairy Queen, 🤡📦 Jack in the Box, 🐼🥡 Panda Express, 5️⃣👦👦 Five Guys, ⬜🏰 White Castle, 👨🍕 Papa John's, 🍩☕ Dunkin', ⭐💵 Starbucks, 🌯🌶️ Chipotle, 🐄🥪 Arby's, 💨🍔 Sonic, 🥤🏠 Shake Shack, 🍔❓ Whataburger and 🐕🍗 Raising Cane's. A quiz for a big group works best with the easy ones first and the rebus ones (🚇, 💨, ❓) last.

If you are making your own, mix one food emoji with one clue for the name: the food sets the category and the clue carries the pun. The grid above has the food half; for crowns, bells, animals and letters see Crown Emoji, Animal Emoji and Letter Emoji & Alphabet Symbols.

Junk food emoji: sides, drinks, desserts and takeout

"Junk food emoji" and "unhealthy food emoji" are searched almost as often as fast food, and they mean a wider set. Sides and snacks: 🍟 fries, 🍿 popcorn, 🥨 soft pretzel, 🧅 onion (the onion ring stand-in), 🌽 corn, 🥔 potato, and the fast-food breakfast of 🥯 bagel, 🧇 waffle, 🥞 pancakes, 🥐 croissant, 🍳 fried egg and 🥓 bacon. Drinks: 🥤 Cup with Straw is the soda, milkshake or iced drink in a lidded takeout cup, 🧋 bubble tea, 🧃 juice box, 🥛 milk, ☕ coffee and 🧊 ice. Desserts from the dessert counter: 🍦 soft serve, 🍨 sundae, 🍧 shaved ice, 🍩 doughnut (pink-frosted with sprinkles on most platforms), 🍪 cookie, 🧁 cupcake, 🥧 pie, 🍫 🍬 🍭 chocolate and candy. Every sweet thing in more detail is in Dessert & Sweets Emoji.

Takeout is the other half of fast food: 🥡 Takeout Box is the folded Chinese takeout carton, with 🥢 chopsticks, 🥟 dumpling, 🥠 fortune cookie, 🍜 noodle soup, 🍛 curry rice, 🍤 fried shrimp and 🍱 bento, the Japanese lunch box. 🥡 🥟 🥠 and 🥢 were all added in Unicode 10.0 (2017) after a campaign by the journalist Jennifer 8. Lee, who had noticed there was no dumpling emoji and co-founded the group Emojination to propose one. Toppings and sauces close the menu: 🧀 cheese, 🍅 tomato, 🥬 lettuce, 🥒 pickle, 🌶️ hot sauce, 🥑 guacamole, 🧂 salt, 🧈 butter and 🫓 the flatbread that becomes a pita, a tortilla or a naan wrap.

Fast food emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and Discord

The characters are the same everywhere, so 🍔 sent from an iPhone is 🍔 on Android and in WhatsApp; only the drawing changes. Apple's burger has the cheese on top and a tall sesame bun, Google's is flatter since the 2017 redesign, Samsung's shows a double patty. The newest members need a reasonably recent phone: 🫔 Tamale, 🫓 Flatbread and 🧋 Bubble Tea are from Emoji 13.0 (iOS 14.2, Android 11), 🧆 Falafel, 🧇 Waffle, 🧈 Butter and 🧃 Beverage Box from Emoji 12.0 (iOS 13.2), and 🫃 from Emoji 14.0 (iOS 15.4). On a phone older than that they show as a blank box. On an iPhone, open the emoji keyboard and type "burger", "fries" or "taco" in the search field; Gboard on Android works the same. On Windows press the Windows key + . (period), on a Mac Control + Command + Space.

On Discord, Slack and GitHub type the shortcodes: :hamburger: 🍔, :fries: 🍟, :hotdog: 🌭, :pizza: 🍕, :taco: 🌮, :burrito: 🌯, :poultry_leg: 🍗, :sandwich: 🥪, :popcorn: 🍿, :cup_with_straw: 🥤, :takeout_box: 🥡 and :doughnut: 🍩. For the full keyboard of food and drink see Food & Drink Emoji; for the coffee counter, Coffee & Tea Emoji.