McDonalds - I'm Lovin' It

[Buck Mullet]

Reminded me of the birthday parties they used to do there, my brother had one that was on one of our 8mm home movies.

Found this gem from my 6th or 7th birthday party at McDonalds. Terrifyingly perfect timing.

 

[Fatcat]

someone found a cockroach inside their wrap at the macdonald near my house, floor is always sticky there so that definitely was a big red flag in the first place but didn't stop me from eating there couple times, we got tons of other fast food places with non-sticky floor so its all good.

 

[Trilby]

I was once eating a ceasar salad at a McDonalds trying to be all healthy and sitting close to me, a table away, was an older gentleman and a kid. The kid suddenly goes "Uncle, what's that man eating?". The uncle goes "He's trying to be a dinosaur that eats green leafs. We are not dinosaurs, we are carnivours. We need to eat red meat."

Okay...

That was pretty harsh.

 

[MysticMisty]

Reminded me of the birthday parties they used to do there, my brother had one that was on one of our 8mm home movies.

My sister once went to a birthday party held at McDonald's, but I don't know if it had official involvement with the location it was held at or not. What I do know is that the parents of the birthday kid did not communicate properly with any of the parents and the result is that the birthday kid and their family ate dinner while 29 unhappy kids just watched.

 

[AnOminous]

My sister once went to a birthday party held at McDonald's, but I don't know if it had official involvement with the location it was held at or not. What I do know is that the parents of the birthday kid did not communicate properly with any of the parents and the result is that the birthday kid and their family ate dinner while 29 unhappy kids just watched.

I bet that kid was popular from then on.

 

[vertexwindi]

I went to a McDonald's birthday party once when I was 5 that was officially arranged. It was alright.

 

[sasazuka]

McDonald's birthday parties when I was a kid always seemed to be in the "dungeon", back when McDonald's often still had basements, in dingy rooms next to the boiler room. Maybe some McDonald's had the parties in the PlayPlace room on the surface level with windows but I don't remember such things existing in McDonald's in my area (the outer edge of the Montreal suburbs) in the 1980s.

 

[Kiwi Jeff]

Maybe some McDonald's had the parties in the PlayPlace room on the surface level with windows

Yeah, that's what we've always had in my area.

McDonald's birthday parties when I was a kid always seemed to be in the "dungeon", back when McDonald's often still had basements, in dingy rooms next to the boiler room.

This is terrifying.

 

[AnOminous]

Yeah, that's what we've always had in my area.

This is terrifying.

Not much is more terrifying than being a child trapped in a basement dungeon with a clown.

 

[Trilby]

McDonald's birthday parties when I was a kid always seemed to be in the "dungeon", back when McDonald's often still had basements, in dingy rooms next to the boiler room. Maybe some McDonald's had the parties in the PlayPlace room on the surface level with windows but I don't remember such things existing in McDonald's in my area (the outer edge of the Montreal suburbs) in the 1980s.

Must be a local thing. Most of the McD's I knew never had basements but the birthdays usually were held right in the usual seating areas.

 

[sasazuka]

Basements seem to have been more of a thing with McDonald's locations built in the 1960s and 1970s than today.

The basement wasn't generally open to the public at the specific McDonald's I'm thinking of (just off a major highway west of Montreal) but they made exceptions for kids' parties, which were held in a room I believe in retrospect was the staff lounge.

The one in the video is obviously not in Quebec but it's similar to what I vaguely remember from going to someone's party when I was a tween.

 

[Rational Volcel]

Frankly, I wish I was an american so I didn't JUST have to go to McDonalds to get my gamer food(tm), and could instead eat at a zillion different chains like Wendy's and Sonic and Steak n' Shake and have new fast food releases every few weeks. Europe is a primitive shithole by comparison.

 

[sasazuka]

Frankly, I wish I was an american so I didn't JUST have to go to McDonalds to get my gamer food(tm), and could instead eat at a zillion different chains like Wendy's and Sonic and Steak n' Shake and have new fast food releases every few weeks. Europe is a primitive shithole by comparison.

I know there were a handful of Wendy's in London in the 1990s and, according to this blog post at Imgur, there were a few Wendy's franchises in mainland Europe as far back as 1979. In 1988, a man named Raymond Warrens opened an unrelated fish-and-chips shop called "Wendy's", named after his daughter, in Goes, Netherlands. The blog entry doesn't say when Wendy's, the American fast food chain, completely closed shop in mainland Europe, but notes that the brand was not in use in the Benelux countries (Belgium, Netherlans, and Luxembourg) by 1995, when Raymond Warrens snatched the "Wendy's" trademark for Benelux, which, apparently, also makes it very difficult for Wendy's U.S. to operate under that name anywhere in the European Union, which the Benelux countries are also member states of.

The last British Wendy's closed down in 2000 but Wendy's has shown interest in trying again, operating a pop-up restaurant in a bar in London on a single day in July 2017.

 

[Alex Krycek]

Nah I avoid most fast food. The only exceptions are KFC and Chic-Fil-A and if I can find them fried fish places offering something other than catfish like Long John Silvers. I’m Vegetarian like twice a week, so I end up making a lot of my own food. Dining out is for special occasions and even then I’m going to a proper seafood, Asian, or Taqueria instead of a fast food joint. Gotta admit I do love KFC though.

I remember enjoying their fries and the Quarter Pounder in College though.

 

[drtoboggan]

Frankly, I wish I was an american so I didn't JUST have to go to McDonalds to get my gamer food(tm), and could instead eat at a zillion different chains like Wendy's and Sonic and Steak n' Shake and have new fast food releases every few weeks. Europe is a primitive shithole by comparison.

Sonic is overpriced and the quality is lacking. European food is awesome by comparison.

 

[Rational Volcel]

Sonic is overpriced and the quality is lacking. European food is awesome by comparison.

As a (gamer) monk my monastic wovs disallow eating actual food, and instead I must subsist on a diet of frozen pizzas, takeaway, and hipster sugarfree energy drinks. So the awesome food doesn't really do much for me.

 

[Rational Volcel]

I know there were a handful of Wendy's in London in the 1990s and, according to this blog post at Imgur, there were a few Wendy's franchises in mainland Europe as far back as 1979. In 1988, a man named Raymond Warrens opened an unrelated fish-and-chips shop called "Wendy's", named after his daughter, in Goes, Netherlands. The blog entry doesn't say when Wendy's, the American fast food chain, completely closed shop in mainland Europe, but notes that the brand was not in use in the Benelux countries (Belgium, Netherlans, and Luxembourg) by 1995, when Raymond Warrens snatched the "Wendy's" trademark for Benelux, which, apparently, also makes it very difficult for Wendy's U.S. to operate under that name anywhere in the European Union, which the Benelux countries are also member states of.

The last British Wendy's closed down in 2000 but Wendy's has shown interest in trying again, operating a pop-up restaurant in a bar in London on a single day in July 2017.

This is unironically interesting to me because it seems like fast food chains in general are kinda entering into this sort of secular stagnation. You'd have thought that with increasing globalism we'd see more Wendy's and KFCs and all that opening up everywhere, but instead it's going in the opposite direction.

McDonalds financial problems are pretty bad, and the whole "artisanial burger" thing is kind of very hit and miss. It doesn't help that if you get one of those artisanial burgers at micky D where I live, they cost the equivalent of 10-11 bucks. For about a dollar more you can instead go to an actual burger place, and get a super hipster burger with blue cheese creme and pickled onions and all that crap, prepared by an actual chef. Fast food is really damn expensive over here.

 

[Trilby]

Basements seem to have been more of a thing with McDonald's locations built in the 1960s and 1970s than today.

The basement wasn't generally open to the public at the specific McDonald's I'm thinking of (just off a major highway west of Montreal) but they made exceptions for kids' parties, which were held in a room I believe in retrospect was the staff lounge.

The one in the video is obviously not in Quebec but it's similar to what I vaguely remember from going to someone's party when I was a tween.

At least they have a place to store things in. I suppose such a room as the one shown in the video might be used for meetings and training purposes, like showing films like this...

 

[MysticMisty]

Sonic

Sonic's food isn't that great, the best thing about them by far are the drinks. Getting drinks at Sonic is like going someplace with a freestyle drink machine, except they've been doing it for longer they've been around (to my knowledge) and probably have more options.

 

[Rational Volcel]

Sonic's food isn't that great, the best thing about them by far are the drinks. Getting drinks at Sonic is like going someplace with a freestyle drink machine, except they've been doing it for longer they've been around (to my knowledge) and probably have more options.

What are the good fast food places in the US? Please educate an ignorant gwailo like myself.