I got it from my dad. He’s an old white guy and has called it Mickey D’s for as far back as I can remember.
So it’s a Judeo-Christian thing.
Hmmm. Locally, we seem to be split between Rotten Ronnie’s, Mickey D’s, and McPuke’s. Definitely not a black thing, since there might be twenty black people in the whole territory.
Might.
Heard it more than 20 years ago I think, because I was still living in the mid-Atlantic states. Called “Mickey D’s” on a series of commercials, all with black actors, though that could have been demographic targeting for my mostly-black area.
You use a check at McDonald’s?
Interesting, I was thinking along the same lines as the OP, since the first time I ever heard “Mickey D’s” was in a Boston-area TV ad in the early 90’s that featured an all-black cast.
Coincidence, apparently.
The first time I saw it was in the late 80’s/early 90’s in a print ad in Ebony magazine. It really stuck out at me because I had never heard anything remotely close to that phrase before. It might have even said “Mackey” D’s, I can’t remember.
It’s not just american. It is referd to a Mickey D’s over in Ireland too sometimes.
Another vote in the straw poll: “Macca’s” in the UK (well, among the people I know).
I know my Ma’s been calling it that for a good two decades as well.
I personally haven’t eaten there in years and refer to it rarely if at all.
I’m an old, Catholic, white woman and I’m pretty sure we were calling it Mickey D’s when I was in high school in Minneapolis in the 70’s.
StG
The only time I’d EVER heard it called Mickey D’s outside of my neighborhood(a good mix of white,hispanic,black and asian…mostly hispanic)was on the recent commercial with the black couple doing an opera(???)version of what seems to be Romeo and Juliet.
IDBB
This is a hijack, but …
Does “goin’ to the BK lounge” come from a song? I’m thinking I heard that in a rap tune by De La Soul?
I also notice that a lot of Australians tend to call it “Maccas”…whereas I call it “Macca Daccas”. But I’m weird like that.
I just started thinking about the whole “You call it corn, we call it maize” thing and nearly peed myself.
I am not even sure why this is funny.
DwGrumby wrote:
Wow, I wonder where the two PA white boys (my roommates as a freshmen) heard that from? I did a little searching, and you’re right.
Artist: De La Soul
Album: De La Soul is Dead
Song: Johnny’s Dead AKA Vincent Mason (Live From the BK Lounge)
From here.
I heard people refer to it that way occasionally as far back as the 80’s, and I thought it sounded kind of cutesy-stupid. Then when McDonald’s started referring to themselves that way in their own commercials, I thought that sounded stupid in a “parents trying to sound cool by using the slang of their teen-age kids” kind of way.
My bf says it, and he is English and white. Dunno where he got it from…if it is an americanism that is pretty funny 'cos he pitches a fit every time I say an americanism (because he hates it!) ha! he’s a hypocrite!!!
This is kind of a hijack, but has anyone ever noticed that when white people are eating at McDonald’s in the commercials, they are usually with their families, but when black people eat at McDonald’s in the commercials, they are with people their own age, presumably their friends. I don’t know why this has always bugged me.
I call it that and I’m not black (although my mother-in-law thinks I am sometimes).