Also I literally never saw a McDonald's that looked like the 90s one and my family did a lot of traveling as a kid back then. They all looked like the 2000s one.
This is an extension of the growing influence of the finance sector though. All buildings are generic to maximize their resale value and minimize construction costs.
Yeah, like I get OP's point and I agree nostalgia for corporations is stupid, but at the same time, the original post does kinda have a point. Everything is generic and completely devoid of any personality. I don't give a shit about McDonald's, but we really are in a time where everyone and everything now conforms to a boring standard instead of trying to stand out.
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Play place McDonald's were awesome as a kid because my parents sucked and would never take me to an actual playground and I lived in a suburb that was like 95% old people without kids. But there was only a McDonald's close by for fast food and we went there way more than we should have (parents sucked, remember?). Most of the time they'd just let me out and go through the drive thru so it was like 10 minutes tops.
Fuck this is depressing and not nostalgic at all.
This sucks because people spend the entire 00s and 90s (and probably 80s) shitting on McDonalds for being the epitome of shitty fast food. McDonalds was the punchline of every fast food joke. Did people not remember Supersize Me or how people always make fun of the Fillet o Fish for not being fish? McDonalds only began being rehabilitated when other franchises (Subway, Starbucks) replaced it as the epitome for shitty food franchises.
I would go far as to say if you showed people in the 90s and 00s this, they would go, "wow, did McDonalds finally stopped sucking as hard as it does now?"
Yeah, almost everybody made fun of McDonald's back then. Unless you were a little kid, the parent/guardian of the little kid, or an old person who hangs out there with their old friends for several hours a day and orders nothing but senior size coffee, there was no reason to get your food from there.
every day more and more millennials discover they're not children anymore
“How could gay marriage steal my precious slop from me!” - words spoken by the utterly deranged.
The 90s one was like... one McDonald's. Most Play Places were just a building extension with an indoor jungle gym (still better than having one table in the corner with an ipad game for literal babies tho)
McDonald's in the 2000s wasn't too bad
McDonalds in the 2000s:
- Secretly illegally marketing oversized portions and hiding nutrition. Major recognised contribution to childhood obesity.
- Directly contributing to mass deforestation. Eventually being forced into a moratorium with Brazilian traders.
- Hundreds of millions of dollars in wage theft
- Recurring use of criminally low wages, union-busting, and reliance on child labor
- Secretly feeding beef in it's vegetarian meals
- Already had its own dedicated 'legal cases' wikipedia page
I mean yeah all that but at least they had a playground.
I worked there during this era and became a vegetarian as a teen while working there.
I ate a large fry with buffalo sauce by itself every time I ate at work, assuming that since I'd personally fried them in vegetable oil and they were potatoes, that there weren't any dead animals in them, turns out they were precooked in cow fat.
My cow violence slop trough used to have horrible creature art molded onto it.
Better days, better days.
I think the bottom one is actually from a brief window in the late 2000s where some of them got similar refits. I think most just got like themed stickers in their windows or something, though.
A 90s chud would have used the bottom image as an example of how the gay satanist cabal had destroyed america
Also I literally never saw a McDonald's that looked like the 90s one and my family did a lot of traveling as a kid back then. They all looked like the 2000s one.
I think I did but it was in the 2000s so I think they've messed up the order here badly.
The 2000s one they have there was probably the 1990s model, the 1990s one they have there was probably one put up in select areas in the 2000s through early 2010s. As if you look closely you can see it's probably just a facade on the model they have under 2000s in that picture, McD's put some fake stone, exterior, some animal stuff and transformed that tiled sloped roof look into something a bit more interesting looking. Because that same old roof style is under all that.
I'm nostalgic for a time when new Government buildings didn't look like corporate offices.
"My fondest memories of childhood where when I was exploited by a corporation for my parent's money and tricked into eating garbage food and was too young to properly analyse how I was being manipulated."
