No, it doesn’t look like a prison. It looks more like a school or a factory.
…wait a minute.
The world has become Applefied.
Submitted 7 months ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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undergroundoverground@lemmy.world 7 months ago
spujb@lemmy.cafe 7 months ago
OP has never seen a prison
Exusia@lemmy.world 7 months 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.
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 7 months ago
brutalist style
This is in absolutely no way consistent with the brutalist movement.
son_named_bort@lemmy.world 7 months 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.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 months 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.
Splatterphace@lemm.ee 7 months ago
You mean the person who originally made the meme that OP posted
spujb@lemmy.cafe 7 months 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?
Daft_ish@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’ve don’t think this person has seen prison.
I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 7 months ago
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 months 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.
Rolando@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Your sister risked death so you all could hang out at a place with a shark’s head biting a surfboard. Respect.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 months 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.
eatCasserole@lemmy.world 7 months ago
That’s rad.
cyborganism@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
🎶 Denver, the last dinosaur. He’s my current and a whole lot more!🎶
Jimbo@yiffit.net 7 months ago
You say that but dear god, that tree has seen some shit
A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 7 months ago
TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 7 months ago
“Come into my fun Playland”
experbia@lemmy.world 7 months ago
FUN!!!
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 7 months ago
fidodo@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Old MacDonalds was a trip gone bad
Lommy@lemmy.world 7 months ago
E I E I O
cley_faye@lemmy.world 7 months 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.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 months 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.
creditCrazy@lemmy.world 7 months 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
HawlSera@lemm.ee 7 months 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)
UsernameIsTooLon@lemmy.world 7 months 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.
LazyBane@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Probably good that a junk food merchant isn’t marketing to kids to heavily.
UsernameIsTooLon@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Jokes on you, they dont need to anymore :)
HawlSera@lemm.ee 7 months 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
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 7 months ago
CoD was always 14 year olds.
bitwaba@lemmy.world 7 months ago
They’re not marketing to kids because those kids grew up and are adults now.
LazyBane@lemmy.world 7 months ago
They’re not marketing to kids becuase:
A) it’s illegal in some countries
B) It should rightfully be looked down on
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 months ago
A Finnish prison? That’s way too nice for an American one.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
nordic prisons are unironically way nicer than this, they’re basically particularly boring and secure dormitories with normal looking (if very clean) rooms.
femboycuddles@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
I was so confused when the lyrics didnt rhyme
E I E I OSwedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months 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?
IvanOverdrive@lemm.ee 7 months ago
That tree looks like the stranger on the street who offers to babysit your daughters for free.
helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 7 months ago
And you say “okay… come on over” and make sure that stranger is never seen again.
ricdeh@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Top one looks like from a horror movie…
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 months 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.
Stovetop@lemmy.world 7 months 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.
Blademax@lemmy.one 7 months ago
Old McDonald was more fun, E-I-E-I-O
BluesF@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Neither of these looks good
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Someone never went to a McPlayplace when it was watched over by friendly Mayor McCheese as a kid…
BluesF@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You’re not wrong, I have 0 interest in anything McBranded
state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
I think modern McDonald’s looks appropriate.
seriousconsideration@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
The 80s were a different time, man. You may not like it, but it was peak aesthetic.
sfxrlz@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Old McDonald’s looks like an „okay“ bad trip in this case
sfxrlz@lemmy.world 7 months ago
nvm that tree is creepy af
fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 7 months ago
And the old style chairs which you could “twist” the seat on lol 🤣
HawlSera@lemm.ee 7 months ago
And that’s why I hate everything and everyone
Sgn@programming.dev 7 months ago
Top image looks like a dystopia abandoned place from a Disney villain. Low image looks like a nice simple area
Fleppensteijn@feddit.nl 7 months ago
I’m missing the ashtrays in the 90s photo
someguy3@lemmy.ca 7 months 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.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 months 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,
someguy3@lemmy.ca 7 months 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.
BuryMyHorse@lemmy.world 7 months ago
McDonalds is a reflection of the zeitgeist.
mrmanager@lemmy.today 7 months ago
The world is not McDonald’s though. But yes, there is a trend towards sterile clean environments with muted colors.
raptore39@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I’m guessing it’s for more efficient cleaning. Bummer.
TGTX@lemmy.world 7 months 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.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months 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.
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Old times: people did the good drugs New times: drug tests
Rolando@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Compare to the Carl’s Junior kiosks in Idiocracy.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 months ago
That movie really wasn’t supposed to be a documentary.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Great read, thanks for sharing that!
FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months 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.
jedibob5@lemmy.world 7 months 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.
Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 7 months 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.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 months 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.
GiveMemes@jlai.lu 7 months ago
Alternatively, they could take some initiative and use this wonderful tool called the internet…
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 7 months 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…