# Anyone remember the McDonalds promo? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 11, 2002, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-the-mcdonalds-promo/142126 "2002-12-11T22:54:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-the-mcdonalds-promo/142126/1 "2002-12-11T22:54:54Z")
Anyone remember the McDonalds promo where they sent you a mini record in with your news paper? There was a melody on the record (In which I still remember much of), and if the chorus sang the whole song without screwing up, you won something? Big Mac - Mc DLT - A Quarter Pounder with some Cheese, Fillet-a-Fish - A Hamburger - A Cheeseburger - A Happymeal, Mc McDonald’s Tasty Golden Fries, Both Regular and Larger Size… When in the 80’s did they do this. I was still pretty young. ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-the-mcdonalds-promo/142126/2 "2002-12-11T22:56:49Z")
Mc Nuggets - Tasty Golden Fries, Both Regular and Larger Size… Sorry! ---
**Author:** ![Orual](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/779978/32.png) [@Orual](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orual)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-the-mcdonalds-promo/142126/3 "2002-12-11T23:01:08Z")
AH! Nostalgia Attack! And for dessert hot Apple Pies and Sundaes, Three Varieties… I was just a wee tyke when that came out, my sisters and I listened to it on our Fischer-Price record player… you had to put it on top of a real record to get it to work. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-the-mcdonalds-promo/142126/4 "2002-12-11T23:02:26Z")
[The twisted folks at X-Entertainment do.](http://www.x-entertainment.com/messages/358.html) Here, they give the lyrics to the song (which they claim “reads more like what a hungry person orders than a song.”) and make snide remarks. Also highlighted is the Arch Deluxe Line Dance, which looks more like moving around drunkenly to me. ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-the-mcdonalds-promo/142126/5 "2002-12-12T10:37:00Z")
Thanks Mobo! On the link it said: “you heard Ronald sing about four lines before stuttering on his words and telling you that because of his f\*\*\*up, you’re not winning no money. Lousy clown.” He may have the first time as an example, but I distinctly remember a chorus singing it, and 'F’ing it up. Am I crazy? ---
**Author:** ![RexDart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b77776/32.png) [@RexDart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RexDart)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-the-mcdonalds-promo/142126/6 "2002-12-12T10:50:51Z")
They sang it once through on the record correctly, then a chorus attempted to do it, failed, and you didn’t win anything. The full page ad it came with in that paper had the correct words on it, and I listened to the record a few times looking at the paper, and memorized the whole dang thing. I still know it today, it’s pretty much my only special talent…and these darn kids today are too young even to remember it!! My one special talent, purposeless now! ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-the-mcdonalds-promo/142126/7 "2002-12-12T11:34:04Z")
I remember that. Man I feel old. Oddly enough, I remember exactly as much of the song as was posted in the OP. ---
**Author:** ![c\_goat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@c\_goat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/c_goat)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-the-mcdonalds-promo/142126/8 "2002-12-12T14:30:27Z")
(Some corrections in italics) > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MyFootsZZZ \* > \*\*Big Mac - Mc DLT - A Quarter Pounder with some Cheese, > > Fillet-a-Fish - A Hamburger - A Cheeseburger - A Happymeal, > > Mc _nuggets_, Tasty Golden _french_ Fries, Both Regular and Larger Size… > \*\* salad: chef or garden or a chicken salad oriental. Big big breakfast, egg mc-muffin, hot hot cakes and sausage, maybe biscuit bacon egg & cheese or sausage, _danish?_, hash browns too. And for dessert hot apple pies or sundaes three varieties, a soft serve cone, three kinds of shakes and chocolatey-chip cookies and to drink a coca-cola, diet coke, an orange drink or sprite, a coffee, decaf too, or low-fat milk, also an orange juice. I love mc donalds, good time great taste, and I get this all at one place. From memory, so it’s not perfect. I think the danish might be another “maybe”. ---
**Author:** ![c\_goat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@c\_goat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/c_goat)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-the-mcdonalds-promo/142126/9 "2002-12-12T14:32:24Z")
oops, I didn’t see the link with the word already. I bet you’re all impressed now though 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-the-mcdonalds-promo/142126/10 "2002-12-12T14:47:38Z")
I don’t remember that but I do remember this. Bun seed sesame a on onions pickles cheese lettuce sauce special patties beef all two. Say that in less than 5 seconds to the manager of any Mc Donalds and get a free Big Mac. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-the-mcdonalds-promo/142126/11 "2002-12-12T15:11:08Z")
So what was: Big Mac, Filet O Fish, Quarter Pounder, French Fries, Icy Cokes, Thick Shakes, Sundaaaaaaes, and Apple pies ? ---
**Author:** ![Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harvey_The_Heavy)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-the-mcdonalds-promo/142126/12 "2002-12-12T20:01:43Z")
[quote] Zebra Member originally posted by Zebra: > [@](#): > > Bun seed sesame a on onions pickles cheese lettuce sauce special patties beef all two What the hell is that? Wasn’t it “Two-all-beef-patties-special-sauce-lettuce-cheese-pickles-onions-on-a sesame-seed-bun”? ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-the-mcdonalds-promo/142126/13 "2002-12-12T20:06:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Harvey The Heavy \* > \*\*What the hell is that? Wasn’t it “Two-all-beef-patties-special-sauce-lettuce-cheese-pickles-onions-on-a sesame-seed-bun”? \*\* The other thing is the exact same thing backwards. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-the-mcdonalds-promo/142126/14 "2002-12-13T14:36:17Z")
And if you could say it backwards in less then 5 seconds you would get a free big mac. Actually it was the first big mac I ever ate. (I had always been and still am suspicious about the “special” sauce.)