Old School Fast Food

I was thinking about McDonalds today (for some reason). Sometimes, you've just gotta have it (fast food, that is). It seems like McDonalds, Wendy's, and Burger King alike have all gone through huge changes in their menus, promotions, and activities in the past 30 years I've been around. I thought I would "reminisce" a bit about what "I" remember from fast food restaurants from when I was younger. Feel free to add . . .

McDonalds:

• Double Feature burger
• Cheddar Melt
• McRib Sandwich (for the Flintsone movie with John "I ate my family" Goodman)
• Daily Double (had real fresh tomatoes and real lettuce . . not the usual crap)
• Happy Meals in pails that you could bring to the beach with you. They usually came with little shovels and strainers so you could collect crabs and such
• 2 for 2 dollars Big Macs (now they're like almost 4 dollars for one!)
• McLean Deluxe (the low fat burger thing they had)
• Bullseye BBQ Burger (with bacon!)
• (help me out with this one!) They had some burger that came in a styrofoam little container so the hot side (meat) stayed hot, and the cold side (iceberg lettuce and tomatoe) stayed cold. What was that called?
• Burgers coming in Styrofoam little containers
• Little plastic caps that you used to put on top of your car roof if your drive thru order wasnt ready. Remember those? They had a special parking lot for those people, and usually you got something free (apple pie) for waiting . . .
• Happy meals that came in little "pumpkin buckets" around Halloween. I had "McBoo."
• The "other" characters (who have been upstaged by that pedophile we call Ronald) like Birdie, Fry-Guys, Grimace, and the Ham-burgalar
• The wonderful Christmas season commercials McDonalds used to have (my favorite was when pedophile Ronald helped some sorry looking kid, sitting alone on the side of a pond while his friends all ice skated with great aplomb, become the greatest ice skater of them all, as Ronald swirled him around the ice and then touched his buttocks).

Burger King:

• Burger Buddies (stuck together little burgers--cute)
• A.L.F. puppets that you could get with the purchase of a burger
• the "double cheeseburger" not being a "regular" menu item-but a special
• When Burger King, one day, decided they would become more like a regular restaurant--you were seated, given popcorn as a free appetizer, and then given a menu from which to order. Remember that?
• International Chicken Sandwiches: Ham and Swiss cheese (French), Mozzarella and marinara sauce (Italian) and lettuce, tomato (American)
• The whole "Herb" campaign Burger King had, where some mysterious guy named Herb was stealing all the Whoppers all across the country. To help catch this "Herb" guy, if you identified yourself by name to the cashier ("my name is Jared and I'd like a Whopper") then you would get a Whopper for 99 cents. If your name really WAS Herb, then you were supposed to say "I'm not the Herb you're looking for." Does anyone else remember this?
• 99 cent Whoppers
• Simpsons watches that talked when you pressed the button
• Cakes--they used to have Burger King cakes, because Kris used to have them for her parties. They had pictures of the "king" on them

Wendy's

• Without question, they had THE best toys
• When you paid for your order, your change came out via a cool little slide on the side of the cash register
• Wendy's had "beads" you had to walk through to get through the doorway (like hippy beads)
• "Where's the beef?" commercials