McDonald's let the internet design burgers and regretted it immediately

Learning that the internet is a terrible place is a formative moment in one's life.

It's a lesson McDonald's learned following the cancellation of their Create Your Taste competition in New Zealand.

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The Create Your Taste tool allows anyone to make a custom burger, selecting from a variety of choices for each layer. While you can only choose between beef or chicken for the meat, there are a lot of options available for toppings. Your creation can include guacamole, grilled pineapple and even chili lime aioli.

The contest asked users to create burgers and vote on their favorite designs. Unsurprisingly, the internet went wild with the plethora of options and used the competition as an opportunity to troll the Golden Arches.

Some of the funniest creations were from people who figured out that the "burger" could just be a "bunch of lettuce."

Unfortunately, the internet also took advantage of the ability to name the burgers whatever they wanted. This resulted in a lot of crude and offensive names, like "Girth" or "Rektal Prolapse." This presumably led to the shutdown of the contest.

The original link to the New Zealand contest now redirects you to the McDonald's homepage. The feature first launched last year in Australia, but that tool does not currently let users name their burgers (and probably never will based on what just happened).

However, the Create Your Taste feature is still pretty awesome in theory. After masterminding a burger, you receive a QSR code that you can bring to a McDonald's Create Your Taste Kiosk. There, the staff will realize the burger of your dreams. 

Mashable Australia tested out the feature last year, and created some gorgeous-looking burgers. Below is the Queensland burger, designed by Mashable Australia.

Image: Mcdonald's

While it's possible that the burgers end up like a big Pinterest fail, especially if you add as many toppings as the feature allows, the results appear pretty good so far. 

One Twitter user built the biggest burger they possibly could and it wasn't a huge mess.

There is not yet word on whether the Create Your Taste contest will return to New Zealand. At the time of publication, McDonald's has not returned Mashable's request for comment.