However, despite their initial failure, McDonald's brought back the wings in at a discounted price and tried to launch them in Atlanta once again in The '90s were all about going low-fat, which may have been the reasoning behind the launch of the McLean Deluxe. Sadly, this supposedly healthy option failed to earn the admiration the chain sought and was subsequently discontinued.
Highlighting just how strange the '90s were is the rollout of the Diet Coke Float in If you were born in , you might just share a birthday with one of McDonald's many '90s rollouts, the McStuffins. Similar to a Hot Pocket, this enclosed sandwich came in a variety of fillings, none of which garnered sufficient popularity to keep the McStuffins on the menu past ' While it's hard to imagine most superheroes chowing down on greasy McDonald's snacks before fighting crime, that's exactly what the company was going for with the Superhero Burger in This triple-patty burger, launched as a tie-in with Batman Forever , was also sold under the name the Triple-Double Burger, and named after local sports stars in certain markets, like the Boselli Burger, a tribute to Jacksonville Jaguars star Tony Boselli.
However, this wasn't the first time the chain tried to make fair food a part of the menu. The Hamburglar was an interesting character: His sole mission was to steal and hoard McDonald's hamburgers, yet he remained a close friend of Ronald McDonald himself.
When he was first created in the '70s, he was a more troll-like character that spoke only gibberish and had goblin-like features.
The company rather menacingly named him " The Lone Jogger. The comments section for this Value Pack commercial is just brimming with old McDonald's enthusiasts waxing nostalgic about the pricing of the good ole days, not to mention the option to "supersize! Here's a game that should help any McDonald's history buff pinpoint your age: Close your eyes, and picture yourself walking up to the counter of the McDonald's of your childhood. What is the worker behind the register wearing?
If it's a striped red and white button-up with a large collar, chances are you're an early '80s kid. If instead, you imagine a red polo with a white collar and a few horizontal stripes across the chest, congratulations! You came of age in the late '80s.
Remember Mac Tonight? He had a moon for a head, slick shades, and a gift for jazz piano, which he soulfully played by starlight to advertise the late-night menu at McDonald's beginning in Because the character and many of the advertisements were a play on "Mack the Knife," McDonald's was ultimately sued by the estate of Bobby Darin for illegally copying the style of the song—ending Mac Tonight's run as a McDonald's mascot in But perhaps more importantly, and more memorably, Birdie was one of the first female characters in the world of McDonaldland when she entered the scene in Doesn't matter who you are or what your childhood was like: if you grew up in the late '80s, chances are you went to a birthday party—or dozens of them—at a McDonald's PlayPlace.
In the chain debuted the indoor jungle gyms, which had ball pits and Discovery Zone-type tubing to crawl through—so massive that once you went into the tube labyrinth your parents could only hope you'd resurface eventually at the bottom of some slide. You and your friends all got Happy Meals, and the toys made it feel like it was everyone's birthday. Because every kid's idea of fun in the '80s was drinking a soda and then taking the sticky plastic cup home in their backpacks, McDonald's had a very successful run with their Wonderland Cups in These days, the Marie Kondos of the world might balk at hoarding cheesy plastic cups, but you know what?
They gave us joy back then, and they still do. In the sleek world of today's ad industry, our wildest ideas come alive convincingly with CGI animation—a far cry from the hot glued puppets and painfully cheesy jokes that used to fuel prime time advertisements in the '80s.
The execution of the McNuggets commercials may have looked like a middle schooler's art project, but those characters still stick with us decades down the line: the cowboy nugget, the fireman nugget, and everyone's favorite, the fanny-pack-wearing tennis star nugget.
They put on circus acts, performed in rock bands, and challenged Ronald McDonald to basketball games so they could "dunk" in barbecue sauce, of course. And you know what? They were fun. The secret to the McDLT was not the recipe a simple concoction of hamburger, lettuce, tomato, and mayo but the way the presentation preserved the temperature.
As Seinfeld's Jason Alexander said in the burger's ad campaign , it was key to "keep the hot side hot and the cool side cool. McDonald's began selling promotional glassware beginning in the s, but in it released a particularly popular line of Camp Snoopy glasses, which you could buy with a meal for a discounted price.
Every McDonald's has a busy kitchen and the pizza slowed down our game. And since speed of service is a top priority and expected by our customers, we thought it best to remove this menu item.
For now, our pizzas will have to remain a tasty bit of history. In early , a story on Canada. Both locations are owned by the same franchisee, Greg Mills, who has ignored repeated requests by media for comment. In , the company flirted with the idea of putting personal-sized pies into Happy Meals. If they do ever bring back the dish, it will still require some patience. Billy Wolfe, a reporter from the Charleston Daily Mail , wanted to try the now-mythological food and waited 10 minutes at the West Virginia location for his order to arrive.
BY Jake Rossen. Check out some of our greatest hits below, explore the categories listed on the left-hand side of the page, or head to CR. The Burger Nerd on YouTube. The folks over at Mental Floss dip into the halls of fast food history, uncovering a long lost tale of pizza failure. Expanded testing started in , with about 24 restaurants in Indiana and Kentucky participating.
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