On the Big Mac Index, India’s entry mentions it’s a chicken burger.
My point, in case it was not obvious, is that in my (perhaps flawed) memory, ads later than he ones you referenced suggested that a single burger, fries and a Coke could be bought for a single dollar. Perhaps as inflation meant that two burgers, fries and a Coke would cost more than a dollar.
That’s fair, it seems I was oblivious to your context.
I’m not misremembering.
Unless you can find me a timeline that disproves what I remember - that in the late 60’s, McDonalds used real ice cream in their shakes.
I had a hard time tracking down any supporting documentation, but I did find this:
i’m an old dude who, in high school, over the summer of 1965, worked at the first mcDonalds in Worcester, Mass. The shakes were great! I made them! That was my 4 hour a day job. REAL ice cream+flavoring+coloring= what you remember…good or bad.
I think Goa is where you’ll find most of the beef-eaters in India. I recall reading somewhere that Europeans in India during the Raj held Goan chefs in high regard because they had no moral compunctions against cooking beef or pork.
Funny, my friend from southern California moved to here (Kobe) in Japan last year and says the McDonalds in Japan is vastly superior to that in the states. But I remember coming to Japan in the 90s from Australia and thinking the McDonalds in Japan was greasier and saltier, but not terrible.
I think its the McDonalds you go to I’ve had perfectly average meals at one of the mcd’s in town and I get salty pucks that alternate between tasting like styrofoam or cardboard from the other one
But the filet of fish looks like the saddest thing I’ve ever seen from any place I get them for my aunt …
Define ‘real’. Today, they basically use a low fat soft serve but the fat content is too low for it to be considered ice cream. That would also been true back then (a milk based dessert with potentially not enough milkfat to call ice cream). A milkshake can even have a separate definition. So, it can even today be considered a ‘real’ milkshake using ‘real’ ice cream or not depending literally on if you use FDA (or local state) definitions of ‘ice cream’.
Also, what one person remembers is subject to typically limitations on human memory. Worse yet, any individual franchise can often get away with doing things differently. At least for a time.
Is it possible that this one person scooped out tubs of ice cream to make milkshakes in 1965 at a McDonald’s? Sure. Would that have been general McDonald’s policy? Much more questionable.
Yeah, specific timelines are hard to find. See L.A. Times article linked below. Summary: Kroc was selling blenders designed to make shakes from ice milk (that is, too low fat to be called ice cream) when he made contact with McDonald’s.
Perhaps the memory is of the blenders, which were replaced in the early 1970s by the soft-serve style machines.
Maybe it’s splitting hairs - “Ice cream” vs “ice milk.”
I just remember getting a shake that wasn’t a smoothie - as it melted, it left a cold lump in the bottom of the cup, unlike today’s drinks, which are completely uniform.
Shakes are definitely different now than back then. They’ve changed the formula multiple times–it’s just never been ice cream.
You sure? Apparently someone eats gator burgers.
I don’t know if they changed it again (for the worse?), but the last time I had a quarter pounder a few years ago they had actually improved. They were using fresh beef and it was cooked. It actually had the grease and texture of a normal burger, and 4oz was still 4oz (I think).