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• jedibob5@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  '90s-'00s McDonald’s primarily appealed to kids, as the colorful characters and Happy Meals were a big part of the draw.

  '10s-'20s McDonalds has pivoted to marketing towards adults, in part because they had come under fire for marketing greasy, oversalted calorie bombs to children as the US obesity epidemic took off. The other reason is that mid-to-low income adults became a much more lucrative demographic after decades of wage stagnation basically created an entire generation that’s too tired and overworked to cook for themselves but too poor to go out to eat anywhere else.

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  • Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Don't forget that generation also saw home economics classes removed from school, so if they don't learn to cook from their parents they just don't learn to cook.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      My daughter had whatever they call home ec now (consumer science?) last year when she was in sixth grade. They baked cookies.

      And that was about all I did in home ec back in the late 80s too. That and sew a stuffed animal dog.

      So I don’t know that home ec is actually all that worth it. Not the way it’s been done for decades, anyway.

      Industrial arts was the same way. He had us make wooden tulips after telling a bunch of horror stories about how the power tools would maim you, so I refused to use them. And had I used them, I know now as someone who has used them since that cutting tulip pieces out of a piece of wood with a jigsaw is not much of a learning experience.

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    • GiveMemes@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Alternatively, they could take some initiative and use this wonderful tool called the internet…

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  • postmateDumbass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Also those grease bomb refugees that were 5-15 during the 90s?

    They were 25-35 for the '10-'20 pivot.

    They never had a chance…

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• undergroundoverground@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No, it doesn’t look like a prison. It looks more like a school or a factory.

  …wait a minute.

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• spujb@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  OP has never seen a prison

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  • Exusia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s not terribly far off. The barebones brutalist style where the chairs are attached to the floor, hard plastic molded tabletops. Lack of items that can be moved or taken completely conveys “do your business and leave”. Obviously a screen that size that wouldn’t be that accessible in a prison, but it only adds the harsh nature and lack of human touch of the room.

    7/10 definetly reminiscent of chow hall.

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    • Telodzrum@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      brutalist style

      This is in absolutely no way consistent with the brutalist movement.

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    • son_named_bort@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That also describes the old McDonald’s. All the seats in the older photo are also attached to the floor with hard plastic molded tables.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I was thinking ‘Apple’ when I saw it, but I didn’t make the meme. So I put it in the title instead. If you change ‘prison’ to ‘designed by Apple,’ it works better.

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  • Splatterphace@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You mean the person who originally made the meme that OP posted

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    • spujb@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      no i mean OP. unless OP outright says otherwise, it’s fair to assume they probably have at least a marginally similar opinion to the original creator otherwise why would they post it?

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• Daft_ish@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ve don’t think this person has seen prison.

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• I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I grew up with this McDonald’s, it had a jukebox. My sister had life threatening food allergies, so we only ever went there to get orange juice, but I still loved it.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The Rock 'n Roll McDonalds in Chicago was pretty cool when I went to it as a kid. Looks like it’s gone now.

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  • Rolando@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Your sister risked death so you all could hang out at a place with a shark’s head biting a surfboard. Respect.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If there were ever anything worth risking death over, it would be to hang out at a place with a shark’s head biting a surfboard.

      Also, that was like all we had to do back in the 80s when cartoons weren’t on.

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  • eatCasserole@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s rad.

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  • cyborganism@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    🎶 Denver, the last dinosaur. He’s my current and a whole lot more!🎶

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    • macrocarpa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      So denver is fwb?

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• Jimbo@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You say that but dear god, that tree has seen some shit

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• A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “Come into my fun Playland”

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  • experbia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    FUN!!!

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  • postmateDumbass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    youtu.be/FHqcNj0Pv6c

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• fidodo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Old MacDonalds was a trip gone bad

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  • Lommy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    E I E I O

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• cley_faye@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I miss everything having distinctive features, personality, and allowing themselves to use colors and shapes.

  Restaurants, business logo and branding in general, apps, everything getting normalized to the death. I know a large part of that is accessibility and cost reduction, but it’s a bit sad.

  In my town, subway stations where all themed around what’s above them. No two stations where the same (there isn’t a lot, so there’s that). Now that the network is getting extensions and the old stations are remade, they’re all flat, white walls with square lights, flat uniform labels (harder to see, since they’re lined with the walls). If you were dropped in one without indication, it’d take some time to even know where you are.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And just none of it is fun anymore. Noble Roman’s Pizza, before it became gas station pizza, had windows where kids could watch them make the pizza and they showed old silent movies and cartoons on the wall. It was awesome.

    Now? Even the McDonalds playgrounds I’ve driven past look depressing.

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    • creditCrazy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Tbh I’m finding that to be quite the trend for everything today as a car guy do see some cars being cool and fun but compared to the 50s when even their equivalent of a Prius shit box was still trying so hard to look like a god damn spaceship rocket thing with so many colors that almost every car had two colors per car green and pink where common place today everything is ether trying to look like a ford focus or a SUV brick granted I currently work at a Toyota dealership so I’m constantly surrounded by Toyota cars that are in my opinion are the blandest of bland cars that only good because of their reliability Honestly even when modern cars try to copy old car design they always end up looking like the old car having a allergic reaction

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    • HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      in my state, NC, they don’t even have the playgrounds anymore (I think they outlawed fast food joints being allowed to have play places, as I typically only see them when I vacation in Virginia)

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  • UsernameIsTooLon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think there’s now a law about the modernization/regulation of fast food restaurants. Just so we don’t have a bunch of leftover Pizza Hut buildings anymore when a store closes.

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• LazyBane@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Probably good that a junk food merchant isn’t marketing to kids to heavily.

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  • UsernameIsTooLon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Jokes on you, they dont need to anymore :)

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  • HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What makes you think they’re marketing to kids?

    I mean we are living in an age where Call of Duty’s audience is 14 year olds and Pokemon’s audience is like 40

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    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      CoD was always 14 year olds.

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  • bitwaba@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They’re not marketing to kids because those kids grew up and are adults now.

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    • LazyBane@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They’re not marketing to kids becuase:

      A) it’s illegal in some countries

      B) It should rightfully be looked down on

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  A Finnish prison? That’s way too nice for an American one.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Maybe it’s a Turkish prison.

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    nordic prisons are unironically way nicer than this, they’re basically particularly boring and secure dormitories with normal looking (if very clean) rooms.

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• femboycuddles@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I was so confused when the lyrics didnt rhyme
  E I E I O

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• Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Idk if other countries had this period, but there was a time where mcdonalds in sweden all had these semi-transparent glittery green glass mosaics on the walls and that is 100% the nicest it has ever been, it was actually nice to look at and the generally dark interiors made it very comfortable to be there.

  The current interiors are… okay, but so fucking uninspired… At least they have some wood panels here and there, but christ would it kill them to tone down all the stark white?

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• IvanOverdrive@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That tree looks like the stranger on the street who offers to babysit your daughters for free.

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  • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And you say “okay… come on over” and make sure that stranger is never seen again.

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• ricdeh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Top one looks like from a horror movie…

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You didn’t grow up in the 70s or 80s, did you? That was what half the shows we watched looked like.

    And by design.

    en.wikipedia.org/…/Sid_%26_Marty_Krofft_Televisio….

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• Stovetop@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Gotta love the bottom picture.

  Gigantic displays that can theoretically put whatever message you want on there before people interact with them.

  Each has two printed leaflets taped to the sides.

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• Blademax@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Old McDonald was more fun, E-I-E-I-O

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• BluesF@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Neither of these looks good

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Someone never went to a McPlayplace when it was watched over by friendly Mayor McCheese as a kid…

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    • BluesF@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You’re not wrong, I have 0 interest in anything McBranded

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  • state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think modern McDonald’s looks appropriate.

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  • seriousconsideration@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The 80s were a different time, man. You may not like it, but it was peak aesthetic.

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• sfxrlz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Old McDonald’s looks like an „okay“ bad trip in this case

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  • sfxrlz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    nvm that tree is creepy af

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• fne8w2ah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And the old style chairs which you could “twist” the seat on lol 🤣

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• HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And that’s why I hate everything and everyone

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• Sgn@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Top image looks like a dystopia abandoned place from a Disney villain. Low image looks like a nice simple area

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• Fleppensteijn@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m missing the ashtrays in the 90s photo

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• someguy3@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  A youtuber had a good take: MacDonald’s used to be cheap cheap cheap. Then they slowly tried to become fancier. So I think now they’re stuck in a weird middle ground. Great opportunity for a new chain to go back to cheap cheap cheap.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t even think they tried. They became cosmetically fancier. Other than some coffee options to compete with Starbucks, it hasn’t really changed the menu a whole lot in terms of basic offerings. Just higher prices and slicker, more corporate restaurants. I’m guessing they still do most of their business in burgers and fries, plus maybe McNuggets,

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    • someguy3@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Lots of things slowly crept up the prices. I looked it up awhile ago so going off memory: All day breakfast, new equipment for something or other, as you said fancier decor, fancy coffee. It all adds up.

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• BuryMyHorse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  McDonalds is a reflection of the zeitgeist.

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• mrmanager@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The world is not McDonald’s though. But yes, there is a trend towards sterile clean environments with muted colors.

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• raptore39@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m guessing it’s for more efficient cleaning. Bummer.

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  • TGTX@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They don’t want you to spend time in the restaurant. Less and less McDonalds PlayCenters are surviving. The seats in the restaurant purposely get uncomfortable after 20 minutes of sitting. Harsh lighting. Drab surfaces. They want you to get your food and go. Even better if you use the drive thru or mobile app.

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That doesn’t mean it has to be eye searing white, imagine if they went with gray granite-like surfaces instead, that would be so much mre pleasant.

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• postmateDumbass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Old times: people did the good drugs New times: drug tests

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• Rolando@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Compare to the Carl’s Junior kiosks in Idiocracy.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That movie really wasn’t supposed to be a documentary.

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Great read, thanks for sharing that!

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• FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My old McDonald’s in my hometown had a GameCube / N64 hooked up with 2 controllers. Was pretty dope. I think they got rid of it though, haven’t been in years.

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