The Dew must not have been very popular. My local food surplus store is now selling them for $6.00 for a 24 bottle flat. (I bought a flat—I had tried one bottle once and it was barely different from a normal drink, only a trace of heat.)
Times got tough, they moved on, and formed a Black Sabbath cover band.
I lurve the spongmonkeys! It made me want to eat Quizno’s. (Unfortunately, something else didn’t.)
Where’d the breakfast cereal mascots go? War overtook their homeland. Obligatory link to a description of Breakfast of the Gods by Brendan Douglas Jones:
He was wiped out
I agree with this. It’s why companies without strong leadership can lose direction and switch focus from what made them successful in the first place.
And in Abu Dhabi Mall and a roadside service complex on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi (the same sort of thing as the “ONroute” complexes you see along the 401).
Easily the coolest thing I’ve seen all week.
I was surprised just now by a new McDonald’s commercial featuring the Hamburglar! (The youthful smiling one, not my preferred villainous adult one.)
Resurrecting the thread in honor of a resurrected character!
I haven’t seen the commercial, but there’s been a billboard up for months around here in Chicago, just off the Stevenson (a section of I-55 in the Chicago area) that features the Hamburglar. It occurred to me when I first saw it that I hadn’t seen the McDonaldland characters in quite awhile.
Not only is he back but he has a kickass sports car to help him flee the Burger Cops, the Burgercuda.
No I did not make that up.
Hamburglar Hits the Road for America’s Most Wanted Burgers
Pester Power?
I’ve seen the commercial dozens of times and cannot figure out what word he is saying. Anyone know?
I haven’t seen it, but as a kid he always said something like “robble robble robble”
I’ve only heard a radio commercial that reintroduces the character. Which consists of that with a host “translating”.
Now I want a burger warmer in my car!
Speaking of mascot cars, we spotted the Wienermobile in Phoenix last week, at a Safeway. What joy!
There’s a perpetual Craigslist ad for someone in my neighborhood selling a big Ronald. But not like it’s shown in the picture. $3000. Trade for guns.
That’s what it sounds like! I thought maybe it was an actual word.
Not so, according to folks In The Know on social media. It’s still a key demographic but for darker reasons.
The idea that McD’s is serving meat made from kidnapped children remains popular among QAnon-sympathetic loons, and that ties in to the disappearance of McDonald’s characters like Ronald, whose red shoes made it all too obvious what he was up to. 
Yeah, but when did you last see him in a commercial?