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Wes Cook and the Centralia McDonald's Mural

Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:32:09 +0000

This post is about a found mural, a lost artist, and a conference talk. It’s the full story of Wes Cook and The McDonald’s Mural. Grab a beverage, sit back, relax, and thank you for joining me.

Tags: #art #cabel #mcdonalds #panic #wescook #xoxo

Mini Halloween McBuckets by JRSly

Fri, 23 Aug 2024 16:31:58 +0000

Highlight:Begging your parents to buy you a Happy Meal has been a time honored tradition for decades, but kids growing up in the '80s and '90s know the pestering was even more necessary in October when the wonderful pumpkin buckets appeared. It seemed burgers were just a little juicier and fries were just a little saltier when they came served in these. And then you got to hang on to them and fill them with candy on Halloween night! Available in my Etsy storeBegging your parents to buy you a Happy Meal has been a time honored tradition for decades, but kids growing up in the '80s and '90s know the pestering was even more necessary in October when the wonderful pumpkin buckets appeared. It seemed burgers were just a little juicier and fries were just a little saltier when they came served in these. And then you got to hang on to them and fill them with candy on Halloween night!Most of us may have grown out of eating happy meals and trick-or-treating, but these nostalgic, iconic designs can live on as small ornaments perfect for decorating a desk or mantle. The buckets have been faithfully recreated, measured from a real bucket to get the right proportions and profile but tweaked just enough to be easy to print without supports. The memorable pumpkin-ribbed lids with the little button on top are removable and the handles swing satisfyingly. The face designs were carefully redrawn exactly from photos, the witch even has the sneaky spider hiding in the back amidst her hair. There are two variations available, if you opt for the set with holes, you can add a string of LED lights and really make them pop!I've found this size seems to work really well without needing any supports and is a good size to use with standard LED lights. Any larger and you'll likely get some drooping in some of the face elements and the rim of the bucket. It might be fun to make larger, candy dish sized buckets, but I haven't experimented with going that big. The inside of the lids, without supports will probably look a mess, but who really cares. right? The handles might look a bit precarious but I'm able to print these, and even smaller, without a brim or raft just by slowing down my speeds a bit. They are small and only take a few minutes anyway, may as well slow things down and give them the best chance for success. Once printed, trim the middle support piece away,as shown in the picture above, and bend the handle just a bit to get it to pop into the bucket holes. Don't trim away too much or the posts will be too short and the handle may slip out of the bucket easily. Try using cjgkun's Light Clips to help secure your lights inside the buckets!

Tags: #3dprinting #halloween #imported:raindrop #mcdonalds #toys

A Conspiracy of Hogs: The McRib as Arbitrage | The Awl

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 03:09:44 +0000

And for its part, the McRib makes a mockery of this whole terribly labor-intensive system of barbecue, turning it into a capital-intensive one. The patty is assembled by machinery probably babysat by some lone sadsack, and it is shipped to distribution centers by black-beauty-addicted truckers, to be shipped again to franchises by different truckers, to be assembled at the point of sale by someone who McDonald’s corporate hopes can soon be replaced by a robot, and paid for using some form of electronic payment that will eventually render the cashier obsolete.

Tags: #business #economics #fastfood #mcdonalds #mcrib #pork #yuck

Assholes and proud of it - Hullabaloo

Sun, 06 Nov 2011 02:40:09 +0000

In the middle of an Occupy Chicago teach-in this week, traders at the Chicago Board of Trade dumped several sheets of paper on top of the heads of protesters below. Demonstrators were angered to find out they were showered with employment applications for McDonald’s.

Tags: #mcdonalds #occupychicago #ows #politics

Retro Thing: What Really Happened to Mayor McCheese?

Mon, 05 Apr 2010 04:21:35 +0000

Tags: #80s #advertising #mcdonalds

Gizmodo - A Tour of McDonald's Horrifying Mechanized Meat Factories - Mcdonald's meat factory

Tue, 05 May 2009 01:13:59 +0000

"a torrent of beef spews out of a giant mechanical meat-hole onto a speeding conveyor belt; tubs, pipes and boxes of various sizes and shapes carrying a roiling mass of beef slurry; countless, mysterious processing chambers, each of which does who knows what else to the patties"

Tags: #beef #beefslurry #fastfood #food #horror #mcdonalds

Made in England by Gentlemen Ronald bitch slaps customer

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:25:48 +0000

Tags: #for:missadroit #funny #mcdonalds

Using McDonalds’ As Pizza Toppings

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 01:45:44 +0000

"This is a culinary Frankenstein cooked by Bizarro, a crude combination of deliciousness into an artery-jamming fatty Voltron."

Tags: #fat #food #mcdonalds #pizza

Tuberaider Video: Ghetto Big Mac

Mon, 07 Aug 2006 20:24:34 +0000

"This video will take you through the steps and have you stacking your own $1 Big Macs"

Tags: #bigmac #fastfood #food #gross #mcdonalds #videos #youtube

McDonald's Implements New, Very Far Away, Drive Through Order Technology - Consumerist

Thu, 13 Apr 2006 14:21:30 +0000

"The person on the other end isn't even inside the restaurant youve pulled up to, theyre in Hawaii Santa Maria, California."

Tags: #fastfood #mcdonalds #outsourcing #weird

The Photo McDonalds Didn't Want You To See :. WillPate.org

Tue, 19 Apr 2005 13:40:16 +0000

"So in the interest of showing how silly corporate policy can become, I've posted the pictures to Flickr and wrote about my experience."

Tags: #coffee #fastfood #mcdonalds #morons #photography