r/interestingasfuck • u/Charming_History7423 • 12d ago

/r/all McDonald's in the 80s compared to today

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u/-paperbrain- 12d ago

To be fair, when it looked like that, people criticized them for using all that stuff to get children hooked on junk food. It was seen as exploitation of the vulnerable.

Now that they ditched it all and the advertising and spaces aren't targeting kids so much people say. they miss the warmth and whimsy.

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u/Disastrous_Meat_ 11d ago

Also probably easier to clean then the old way. The McDonald’s play place  stank still haunts me from childhood sometimes 

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u/lazergoblin 11d ago

I played in the play area exactly 1 time back in the day. I shit you not I still have nightmares about how unsettling it was. The smell, the lighting, the claustrophobia, the lack of personal space. It's gross and I'm kinda glad they removed them tbh.

There are better places to have your kid play than at a fast food burger place

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u/TerroristBurger 11d ago

I didn't go in them much but the last time I did I remember some random child bit me and i tried to run to the slide to get away from the kid and there deadass was a shit at the top of the slide... I found another way out and proceeded to run into the glass panel fence things that were around it and knocked myself out. Then I remember waking up crying in the car with a massive egg on my head. It took me years before I went to maccas again, and never went in a play place EVER.