(Want fries with that?)
Santa brought this McDonald’s Drive-Thru playset to my daughter a couple of Christmases ago. So now, whenever I get a hankering for Ronald’s fries, all I have to do is belly up to the plastic window and yell for the short order cook.
Or, in my case, the short cook.
The interactive toy has yielded hours of fun for our family, and while my daughter is still nearly a decade away from officially working under the real Golden Arches, the kid can flip a burger and swirl a McFlurry better some of Mickey D’s paid employees.
The playset comes with a slew of McDonald’s classics, including pretend Chicken McNuggets, plastic buns and burgers, fake French fries and empty Happy Meal boxes. However, my drive-thru chef often throws in a few “specials” that she digs up from her stock pile of non-McDonald’s make-believe food, including pizza, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and the occasional Kentucky Fried Chicken drumstick.
Interestingly, she’s not too far off with her pizza idea.
Do you remember the McPizza? It debuted at select McDonald’s locations in the late 1980s and early 1990s, along with lasagna and spaghetti, but the fast-food giant’s attempt to go Italian didn’t last long. Customers complained that the wait times for the made-to-order pizza were crazy long, so company officials dumped the pie from the menu.
They did the same for the Hula Burger.
If you were around in the early 1960s, you may remember that epic fail. According to McDonald’s historians, company founder, Ray Kroc, wanted to cater to Catholics who abstained from meat on Fridays. His grand idea was to market a nonmeat “burger” made from a slice of grilled pineapple topped with cheese and nestled in a bun. Turned out no one liked the culinary creation, and the Hula Burger danced off into oblivion.
What fun facts have you learned playing with your kids’ toys?
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