🎵Ba da ba ba bah! It’s Brave New World.🎵
I’d like to change the order of the meme
The food is also going to be shit like bugs or lab-made pink paste. Possibly made with bugs.
More like hambinger
The harburgler of doom. Robble robble!
The order needs to be reversed. People don’t really read from the bottom up.
Oh, it’s been harbinged. We’re in it.
The soon one makes sense 'cause of global warming. We don’t be able to do it like the good old times.
If you want fast food, just go to Panda Express or something. Way better than Mcdonald’s shit.
Or just a local Chinese Restaurant if you don’t need “fast” food. Actual real food btw
Welcome to McDonald’s, the All-American Restaurant, papers please
I mean, I wouldn’t say no to a brutalist McDonald’s.
I would, but I’m rejecting the mc d’s part not the brutalist part.
brutalist architecture is fucking cool.
$3.99 Big Mac combos 😭
We used to have the only McDonald’s (that I know of) that was in a building designed by Eiffel.
They “modernised” it last year.
From beautiful 19th century architecture to boring modern office lounge. Not everything needs to be updated for current trends.
My college did this. It might have been due to bedbugs. They swapped the cozy built in furniture with this weird vinyl stuff. Bugs can’t get into the seams.
Wow, which piece of shit did they bribe for that? They completely destroyed the interior of the building. Isn’t there any heritage protection?
AFAIK it was part of a larger restoration of the whole building complex (this is the Budapest Nyugati railway station), and the global redesign of McDonalds. They justified it by saying that the architecture is closer to the original - the lower level only became part of it when they built the McDonalds in 1990, before that it was a separate diner for the poors in third class. The furniture is default McDonalds.
The overall restoration on the building at large is not bad per se, but they basically destroyed a symbol of the Hungarian 90s - 00s. This was the place where if you lived in Budapest and got wasted, you could get some nutrition in the city center, and it wasn’t full of tourists because they didn’t think that the railway station buffet was so good.
BTW the local franchisee is trying to cater more to a “fast casual” crowd rather than the bare minimum, so a McDonalds in Hungary has a menu three times as long as one in the Netherlands for example. All I’m saying is that it was a nice place considering. Sic transit gloria mundi I guess.
Waiting for this…
“Two golden menus!”
I was born in the early '80s. The 2000s picture was what my McDonald’s always looked like throughout my childhood. I’ve never seen a McDonald’s that looked like the '90s pic.
The 2020 pic shows current McDonald’s, but they changed to that sometime in the mid-2010s.
That 1990’s McDonald’s picture is the specific restaurant that was across the entrance from the Dallas Zoo, hence the animal theme. While it’s now remodeled and much more dull, it still looked like the picture up until just a few years ago. In any case, it’s not typical of what a McDonald’s has ever looked like.
As someone born around the same time as you, I do remember when the typical McDonald’s had a bright red roof with the yellow lights, which the 2000’s pic is a toned-down version of.
When I talk about how much I miss the 90s McDonalds, I’m mostly complaining about the loss of a third space. My parents would go to McDonalds so we had a safe, climate-controlled, indoor play space, and we could spend hours there for the price of something off the dollar menu.
I don’t know of anywhere comparable these days. Anything indoors is going to be expensive, you have to get the city to unlock the local hoops, the cops start asking questions if you just want to hang out with friends, and if you have too many friends they make you get a permit to use the public park.
Library? ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Libraries don’t have playgrounds, and don’t allow food, drink, or birthday parties with friends.
Actually a lot of libraries do events. They have separate areas for it
Libraries are basically the only remaining third space, but they don’t fill the same need as the original commentor. Libraries don’t have places for kids to run around, be noisy, and climb things. That would be awesome though
And the right+libertarians want to destroy libraries too.
Some do. My library has a play area set up for littles and another area set up for infants. On Saturdays they have a sing along story hour thing, and other events like that throughout the week. We also have plenty of local parks with playground equipment. No free place with indoor slides and ball pits though like McDonald’s used to have.
