30 McDonald Facts Every Child Of The 80s Remembers

Who does not remember McNugget Buddies - and the fact that fries really tasted better?


For babies '80,McDonalds was more than a restaurant. It was a place where you could have your best birthday party, where happy meal toys flowed like a coke of the fountain and where the McDonaldland world seemed sort of a pure joy. It's hard to not put nostalgic on theseMcDonald 80's facts... how much do you remember?

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1

The fries have better tasted.

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The author and journalist Malcolm Gladwell has been helpless by the realization that the French fries of McDonald have not tasted as well as the fries of his youth, as well as real Malcolmladwell form - he made aFull podcast episode about that. The guilty? In 1992,McDonald changed the method of frying From the use of beef tallow to a generic vegetable oil - all below the erroneous notion that the oil would be considered healthier. The switch disappointed fans of French fries disappointed everywhere and left many pins for the rich and tasty fries of yesteryear. So, if you remember deliciousMcDonald's fries From your youth, you do not neglect them.

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2

You have a lot of free McDonald during the Olympics.

When the us wins you win mcdonalds marketing campaign for 1984 la olympics
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"If the United States earns, you win." This was the slogan McDonald's Cooke for its advertising campaign during the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, as indicated byThe New York Times. The idea was that with every purchase, you will get a scratch ticket that revealed a sports category, and whenever an American has won a medal in this category, you would earn a price. A gold medal meant a free big Mac, a silver medal gained French french fries and bronze has a coke. The only plug? The Soviet Union boycotted the games this year after the United States, the same at a previous Olympique in Moscow and that America swept the ground with what was remaining from competition. American customers have won, McDonald's guests have won and McDonald's lost more than twice the number of great Macs they had budgeted.

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3

The McNuggets chicken was all rage.

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Of course, the McNuggets chicken still exists today, but they are somewhat contaminated by the idea they are made ofPink slime-A refined rumor that was distributed over the Internet for years. But the children of the 80s remember the way McNuggets headed for the first time in our collective consciousness: it was a pure excitement. They were so popular when they struck restaurants in 1983 that channels have almost immediately supply problems.

4

The prices were incredibly low.

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If you remember the price of a McDonald hamburger being scandalously low as a child, your memory does not deceive you. According toInsist, your average hamburger costs about 40 cents (with a regional fluctuation healing room) and increased only 62 cents by 1987. This has left a lot of extra pocket change to cover your French fries and a drink. - a steal of today's standards.

5

McDonald tried to steal the thunder of pizza hut.

Mcdonalds pizza box from 1989
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Maybe they always had Rimain after the success of their new McNuggets or the advent of the good meal. Maybe they just became too big for their arms. But in1989, McDonald's had it in his head that it could and should she pull a power of the eleventh hour and get into the pizza game. Although they fail to convert so many fans of Pizza Hut and DominoAs they hopeThey developed a little cult afterkept the article running to select channels until 2017.

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6

The chances of McDonald were the best happy meal toys.

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When the children of the 80s take a walk to the memory of the gold of the golden years of happy meal toys, a series is distinguished as supremely emblematic:The chances of McDonald. Released in 1987, they were plastic interpretations of all our favorite meals processed into robots (and in the third series that made its debut in the 90s, dinosaurs). Of course, they were of course free at that time, these days, they are still liked they regularly recover up to $ 50 each on eBay fans and dedicated collectors.

7

The hot wheels also reigned the supreme.

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Something is comforting to know that happy meals includedHot wheelsSince many of us have been born and they continue to be released every year to date. In 1983 - for reference, it's about 10 years before your parents finally started wondering if it was worthwhile to get an Internet access connection, the chain started to release collectible car designs who sent children everywhere in a frenzy.

8

The Hamburglar had a necessary makeover.

Mcdonalds hamburglar in the 1980s
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The Hamburglar was an interesting character: his only mission was to steal and remedy McDonald's burgers, yet there was a close friend of Ronald McDonald himself. When it was created for the first time in the 70s, it was a more troll character who only spoke of Gibberish and had features resembling goblins. The rather threatening society named it "The solitary jogger. "But in the mid-1980s, they gave the character aimage makeup, refined and humanizing his features and rename it with the most playful name he has today.

9

The value pack was the best deal around.

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Before the advent of the dollar menu in the 90s, there was theMcDonald Value Pack. From 1985, you can get a large Mac, replace fries and coke, all packed perfectly in a box for only $ 2.59. Is the Comments section of this Commercial Valuation Value overflowing with Old McDonald enthusiasts of nostalgic hair removal on the pricing of the good days Ole, not to mention the possibility of "superser!"

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10

The uniforms were emblematic.

Mcdonalds woman working register in early 1980s
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Here is a game that should help any history of history of McDonald Pointe de Your age: close your eyes and you imagine to the counter of the McDonald's your childhood. What is the worker behind the register wearing? If it's a red striped and white button with a large necklace, there is a good chance that you are an 80-year-old child. If, instead, you imagine a red polo with a white neck and some horizontal stripes on the chest, congratulations! You have aged at the end of the 80s.

11

Mac tonight was the dirtiest mascot.

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RememberMac tonight? He had a moon for a head, shades of slick and a gift for the jazz piano, which he played in the light of Starlight to announce the night menu of the night from McDonald's 1986. Because the character and many of the ads were a play on "Mack the knife", was finally pursued by the Darin Bobby domain to illegally copy the style of the Mac Tonight race of the Song-finishing as a mascot. of McDonald in 1989.

12

There was finally a character from the McDonaldland woman.

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Just like Mac tonight has been deployed to announce the McDonald menu of the night,Birdie early lift was an ambassador of the McMuffin egg and other rates early in the morning. But perhaps more importantly and more memorable, Birdie was one of the first female female characters in McDonaldland when she entered the scene in 1980.

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13

The best birthdays were at McDonald's Play.

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No matter who you are or what your childhood was as if you grew up in the late 80s, it is likely that you went to a birthday party - or dozens of them - in a play McDonald. In 1987, the chain made its debut the interior jungle gyms, which had bullet pits and type tubes of the discovery area to crawl - so massive, once you went to the labyrinth tube, your parents Could only hope you finally tighten at the bottom of some diaposities. You and your friends have had happy meals and toys have felt like it was everyone's birthday.

14

You could not live without a Flintstones Wonderland cup.

Flintstones Wonderland Cup
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Because the idea of ​​every child of fun in the 80s, drank a soda, then taking the sticky plastic cup in their backpacks, McDonald had a very successful race with theirCups of Wonderland in 1989. These include all our favorites of cartoons, including Flintstones, Scooby-Doo, Jets and Smurfs. Nowadays, Mary Kondos du Monde could endure rising plastic cupboardes, but you know what? They gave us joy at the time and they always do.

15

McNugget advertisements were a low budget explosion.

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In the elegant world of today's advertising industry, our craziest ideas are alive with CGI animation - a cry away from hot glued puppets and painful cheese jokes that feed full-time advertisements in years 80. The execution of thePublic McNuggetsPerhaps looked like a college art project, but these characters always collar with US decades on the line: the nugget of Cowboy, the nursery nursery and the favorite of each, the Pack Fanny-Pack- Tennis star Nugget. They put circus acts, carried out in rock bands and challenged Ronald McDonald to basketball games so that they could "Dunk" (in barbecue sauce, of course). And you know what? They were fun.

16

The MCDLT was ingenious.

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The secret of the MCDLT was not the recipe (a simple concoction of hamburger, lettuce, tomato and Mayo), but the way the presentation preserved the temperature. As Jason Alexandre de Sevefeld says in theBurger's 1985 advertising campaignIt was essential to "keep the warm hot side and the cold cold side". The hamburger was served in a polystyrene package that separated the cold vegetables from hot meat until you are ready to modify, but all the idea fell on the edge of the early 1990s, when people represent against Such a damaging container to the environment.

17

You needed the full collection of Snoopy glasses.

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McDonald's started selling promotional glassware from the 1970s, but in 1983, she published a range of particularly popular camper goggles in Snoopy, which you could buy with a meal for a reduced price. They sold a different glass every week, many customers have made the pilgrimage to complete the set of five with all the gang with peanuts. Today you can always buy the Snoopy Collection camp onAmazonAlthough it will cost you almost $ 25 with delivery for a single glass. Good sorrow!

18

Grimace got his second of two transformations.

Grimace from mcdonalds in a 1980s commercial
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Like the Hamburglar, Grimace was a sinister character when he arrived on the stage. According toInternal business community, his name was "Malefic grimace, "And he was known to fly milkshakes and chasing children from the restaurant. When they realized in the early 1970s, the children were terrified from the scaly saw, four weapons, they toned his image and the have made much less threatening but he always had a pink slobbery mouth and a generally unwanted form. In 1985, McDonald's again refined his look, finally doing so in the friendly gum, we all remember today.

19

Mickey's birthday racetracks had the impression of going to Disneyland.

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For the 60th anniversary of Mickey Mouse in 1988, McDonald's celebrated with a series of pullfack runners featuring all our favorite Mickey's Playhouse characters. Mickey could appear a Wheelie, the car car from Minnie in circles, and for an inexplicable reason, Donald Duck led a locomotive, despite the other characters driving cars. If your family never went to Disneyland, it was the next best thing.

20

We had the teacher to thank for McNugget Buddies.

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The professor was McDonaldland's resident scientist and, although he existed technically in the 1970s, he rarely had roles in advertisements and has always been considered a tangential character. All this has changed in 1983, when it became the mascot of the launch of McNuggets and was reintroduced into the world as a character from Dr. Frankenstein who made McNuggets becoming alive. We have to thank for all these good ads of McNugget buddies, not to mention the invention of the DIP-O-Matic.

21

You could earn $ 1,000,000 by learning McDonald's menu song.

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TheMcDonald Menu Song was a promotional campaign where the chain gave vinyl registers of atinkle This listed a sip of McDonald menu items at a catchy melody. On about 80 million recordings, singers jostled the lyrics and abandoned, but on a lucky record - the winning folder - they sang straight without a single mistake. In 1989, a thirteen boy in Galax, Virginia, named Scotty Landreth claimed the price at a million dollars and millions of people learned to recite theMcDonald Menu by heart along the way.

22

You had about 10 of each Berenstain toys.

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In 1986, McDonald's gave little thingsBerenstain Figurines Door with their happy meals. Mama and Dad Bear both pushed mists as if they kept gardening, and the brother and the sister bore both both on small trolleys. Because there were only four in the series, people often collected whole armies of them, with multiples of each character. Maybe that's what makes them so hard to forget!

23

The baby toys Muppet were perfect for the race.

Muppet babies toys mcdonalds happy meal
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TheMAPPET BABES JOY TOYSwere double the pleasure because each character was on a set of wheels. Kermit, Miss Piggy, Gonzo and Fozzie come with vehicles: a car, a trike, a skateboard and a rolling horse, which you could exchange between the characters for apparently endless race combinations. They were so popular that McDonald's's's's released them in the 1990s.

24

The Garfield cups were "the most sought after".

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At the end of the day'80s commercial, Garfield refers to his face on this glassware as "the most popular cup in America". (See what he did there?) And only 69 cents with the purchase of a happy meal, they sold like hot cakes. Although the Internet seems to have confounded the date of the mark (1978) with the date of publication of the product (1987), the children of the 80s have no question about when they are out: we can always feel the burning Nesquik through the glass of our hands while we return the channel ofGrowth pains ToDaddy's Girls.

25

The packaging was a disaster of the environment.

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Back in the 1980s, before climate change is a housekeeping topic, almost all items you could buy from McDonald's were served in Styrofoam. While you could always visit these boxes with burger unfortunately well preserved in landfills and oceans to date, theCompany announced in 1990 That it would exchange its styrofoam for paper packaging and slowly made the passage on a matter of decades.

26

In Big Mac's playground prison, the Burger has eaten you.

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You may remember the Big Mac agent for his massive burger-shaped head, his old gendarme hat, or his clown shoes. Or, if you were a real child of the 80s, you remember him for climbing prisons for the children he apparently allowed, approved and created in his image. The idea of ​​the child prison as playground would have been disturbing, but the children of the 80s are probably doubly haunted by the climbing memory directly in the mouth of the Cop-Burger. The McDonald finally removed the character in 1985 when they streamlined the distribution of McDonaldland characters, but restored mountaineers were spotted on eBay, as well as an episode of television.American catering.

27

McDonald's came attacked by competitors.

Wendys wheres the beef commercial 1984
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The rivalry between McDonald's, Burger King and Wendy's is earlier than the 1980s, but it was during this decade as the gloves came out and the Burger King and Wendy gloves targeted Mickey D directly into a series of cheeky ads. You could hardly light your TV without being caught in the crossed fire. While McDonald's has been hardly dethroned (it is undisputed that McDonald's will sell the most hamburgers and covers the most territory), many would say that Wendy's Wendy won the war of advertising with his extremely memorable "Where is the beef?"Campaign that made its debut in 1984.

28

Everyone liked fries children.

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Fry children were essentially anthropomorphized pumps with eye and googly sneakers. But boy, do they have some sense in the 80s. Initially separated in two groups of frying guys and french fries, the team became a student in 1985 under their new name, in fantastic advertisements McDonaldland theme that told us all to "keep your eyes on your fries". If they have haunted your dreams since the 80s or have been a source of sincere nostalgia, it is difficult to forget these peaks of the French mop with French fries.

29

Halloween was all about McDonald dishes.

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In 1986, McDonald's started to give what many saw as the best price of happy meal of all time: Halloween's ribs for a trick / treats. There were three in the original release and, although the faces of Jack-O-Lantern looked almost identical, they received names (McPunk'n, McBoo and McGoblin) to encourage people to collect the three. The fact that no child needed three ribs to dwell on Halloween did not prevent them from going back whenever there was areintroduce.

30

Happy meals were all we had never knew we needed.

Mcdonalds first happy meal
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Happy meal first struck the market in 1979 and we hit Peak Happy Meal-Mania in the 1980s. According toReader's DigestThey were inspired by children's cereals with promotional toys in boxes, another popular food food of the time. In 1987, the creator of the Joyeux Corner, Robert A. Bernstein de Bernsin-Rein of advertising, was endowed with a replica of bronze of aMerry feast For its changing game contribution to the Fast Food Channel. Now, as a result of this invention, there are innumerableTokens of happy meal toys that remind you of your childhood.


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