High prices are hurting sales. So McDonald's is going back to an 1980s idea: Happy Meals boxes with building blocks to make little dinosaurs or robots or living trash cans. Big mistake. They should have chosen cat figures instead. 

 

Nope. No cats. Won't succeed. 

 

The last time I went to the market I checked meat prices.  $8 a pound for stew meat to $30 a pound for Filet Mignon.

I've heard a family of four going out for bugers at McDonalds will pay $75 or more.  

Noel

Instead of giving away stuff, maybe they should reduce prices by whatever those junk toys cost them.

Yep... And when some 3 year old swallows or chokes on one of the pieces because their self absorbed Parents were paying more attention to their smartphones instead of minding what their kids were putting into their mouths, they'll sue McD's for a gazillion quatloos and those toys will be removed from Happy Meals once again.

4 hours ago, birdguy said:

The last time I went to the market I checked meat prices.  $8 a pound for stew meat to $30 a pound for Filet Mignon.

I've heard a family of four going out for bugers at McDonalds will pay $75 or more. 

Whatever they use to "enhance the fiber content" of the burgers is probably very expensive. You know, the "filler." I'm sure edible sawdust ain't cheap.
 

2 hours ago, Mike A said:

Instead of giving away stuff, maybe they should reduce prices by whatever those junk toys cost them.

Five cents won't make much of an impact on the final price. Let's just say the toys aren't made in Switzerland.
 

5 hours ago, Fielder said:

Nope. No cats. Won't succeed.

Is now the time to post the pic of my toy cat grooming itself? 😄 
 

Perhaps they could reduce their prices by switching from expensive processed food to organic. After all, highly processed food is literally designed to be eaten and taste really good. Organic is just something they found on the ground somewhere. 🙂

There's gotta be a market for something advertised as "all organic" and no one expects it to taste all that good anyway.

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10 hours ago, Fielder said:

They should have chosen cat figures instead. 

 

😲 Oh my God! Not to have chosen cat figures is a major violation of the Cat Adoration Code. Or CAC. 

To violate CAC is to invite any feline within proximity to vomit CAC on said instigator of such a severe violation. 

 

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Instead of dangerous plastic toys how about kiddy cat trading cards. Kids could collect them, trade them, and decades from now they will be worth a mint. Each happy meal would be an investment towards the kid’s retirement.

7 hours ago, LHookins said:

Perhaps they could reduce their prices by switching from expensive processed food to organic. After all, highly processed food is literally designed to be eaten and taste really good. Organic is just something they found on the ground somewhere. 🙂

There's gotta be a market for something advertised as "all organic" and no one expects it to taste all that good anyway.

Hook

Sounds like you are suggesting "Roadkill" burgers.  I remember a famous quote from Jim Varney:

"Roadkill stew sounds mighty fine"!

Remember the days of 23¢ hamburgers and the sign proudly boast over 1 million sold.  Now they probably sell that many every day.  Also, remember when their french fries used to be the best, now they're just ordinary soggy limp fries☹️

What's truly sad is that there are so many Mickey D's and Booger Kings in both Spain and France.  I was
there in Sept/Oct. this last year and it seems like we passed one or the other every few blocks! ☹

3 hours ago, tdflightsim said:

Remember the days of 23¢ hamburgers and the sign proudly boast over 1 million sold.  Now they probably sell that many every day.  Also, remember when their french fries used to be the best, now they're just ordinary soggy limp fries

That's called progress.

Noel

7 hours ago, tdflightsim said:

Remember the days of 23¢ hamburgers and the sign proudly boast over 1 million sold.  Now they probably sell that many every day.  Also, remember when their french fries used to be the best, now they're just ordinary soggy limp fries☹️

I remember 18¢ hamburgers. The Big Mac was 45¢. I also remember 33¢ gasoline and $3000 cars (my 68 Chevelle SS396 was $3500). Google says the 1 million sold signs appeared in 1955. I'm not sure about that. Minimum wage was $1.25 per hour.

McDonalds fries were considered some of the best for two reasons. They were cooked in beef tallow, giving them a good flavor. They were also frozen before cooking, dumped directly into the hot grease (well, in the basket, of course) which was quite dramatic, giving them a good texture which, combined with the beef tallow, was still good the next day.
 

7 hours ago, charliearon said:

Sounds like you are suggesting "Roadkill" burgers.

You never had roadkill? My wife's relative worked as a police dispatcher in a small town in Oklahoma. Whenever they got a report of a deer getting hit, they sent someone out to collect it and it ended up in their freezer. This may or may not be legal in all jurisdictions... at least for citizens. 😄 

The idea of "organic" being "something they found on the ground somewhere" was generic, not necessarily the mystery meat.

Hook

8 hours ago, Patco Lch said:

decades from now they will be worth a mint. Each happy meal would be an investment towards the kid’s retirement.

"I used to be a millionaire. Then my mother threw out my baseball card collection." 

Hook