There was a time, albeit quite a while ago, when fast food wasn't all that terrible. At least it wasn't to me. I would have been pretty young back then, but I know that standards across the board have plummeted while productivity and profitability reign supreme in that market.
At any rate, McDonald's was a pretty regular thing for me up until sometime late in my high school career. As a kid, it was great.
Also great were the collectibles that they had. Not the Happy Meal toys, but the actual collectibles. One of my favorites was always collectible drinking glasses. Sadly, that trend cheapened with everything else from the Golden Arches as they became plastic and generally very cheesy. Until recently.
With the new Shrek movie coming out, Mickey D's signed on and offered drinking glasses. Real drinking glasses. Like, the kind actually made of glass. I was stoked. Not only were they glass, but they were very decorative and made for a killer oversize cocktail tumbler.
Well, they would have, until now. I'd bet a dollar this crap came from China.
*sigh*
Is there anything McDonald's can't screw up these days?
tweaker
The glasses were actually made in New Jersey. I would have expected China too. My mother bought a couple and doesn't want to return them because she never planned on using them as drinking glasses, but I don't see the point in keeping the darned things.
ReplyDeletethere's a lot of 'The CPSC has said the glassware is not toxic' on the McD's website. And yet they state a voluntary recall is appropriate. Me thinks there be something hokey goin on in McDonaldland.
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