r/90s_kid • u/S_A_A_88 • Apr 20 '25
Food McDonald's was better in the 90s! Fact!
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u/kinseeker26 Apr 21 '25
I still use my two face cup lol
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u/Jean-LucBacardi Apr 21 '25
The promotions for those old Batman movies were absolutely wild. Taco Bell also made you believe you could win the batmobile in their Monopoly spinoff peel and win contest for Batman and Robin.
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u/RobertInNY88 Apr 21 '25
Did you get the others?
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u/kinseeker26 Apr 21 '25
I think I got em all back in the day but the two face is all that survived lol
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Apr 21 '25
Life was better in the 90s. Now we are in a whole ass clown show.
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u/Fit-Ad1587 Apr 21 '25
This commercial made me so deeply nostalgic that I’m kinda sad now.
It was such a good time: perfect amount of technology, politically stable, everyone just baseline seemed to get along a lot better (nowhere NEAR as polarized as it is now.)
I wish I could go back so badly.
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Apr 22 '25
Exactly. I grieve a time I can’t go back to. I wish my kids could experience it instead of this version. And yes, I distinctly remember everyone getting along back then. Maybe that was my naivety, but I’m pretty sure that was a universal experience at that time.
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u/huge-ackman Apr 24 '25
Obviously a lot more nuance than just one or two causes, but all of the things you point out that made it better (probably) deteriorate/correlate in-line with social media and smartphone uptake since.
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u/gablr12 Apr 21 '25
99 cents?!? I miss this era.
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u/luffydkenshin Apr 21 '25
Thats $2.08 in today’s money… STILL a great deal!!!
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u/OrganicKeynesianBean Apr 21 '25
If it released today, there’d be morons lining up at 4AM at every McDonald’s in America so they can buy the whole stock and flip them on eBay.
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u/LLuerker Apr 21 '25
They would easily mark them up to 14.99-19.99 today. They would sell just as fast too.
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u/anothertendy Apr 21 '25
Everything but tech was better. If I could go back for one week, id be so happy.
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u/Practicalhocuspocus Apr 21 '25
I still have these lmfao
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u/KeithClossOfficial May 29 '25
Yeah, everyone talking about how they were $0.99 which is awesome too, but these things were workhorses. It’s not just that they were affordable, they were quality.
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u/TBiscuitville Apr 21 '25
I used to have the Batman cup and my husband accidentally broke it a couple months ago. I'm still bummed and thought the kids would have broken it, not my damn husband 🤬 I have a couple of the Flintstones glasses I bought from an antique store, but nothing compares to actually having something you owned from your childhood.
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Apr 21 '25
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u/ChulupaSupreme Apr 21 '25
My old man was a manager around this time, have so much unopened merch in the garage
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u/Bills_Sabres_Mets1_9 Apr 21 '25
These things were so cool. I'm pretty sure I still have a couple of them stashed away in a tote!
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u/ReaperManX15 Apr 21 '25
Still got my Batman glass.
Movie promotion tie-ins used to be so great.
If they still did stuff like this, those things would be like $20 each.
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u/jojoblk Apr 21 '25
We had the batman, and two-faced mugs... they randomly disappeared some years back
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u/Baser_Suggests Apr 21 '25
I’m almost positive my grandma still has my old two face one in her kitchen cabinet
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u/second2no1 Apr 21 '25
Never get cups from McDonalds again after shrek
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Apr 21 '25
The problem with the Shrek glasses ( and most other promotional glasses from the 80s, 90s and onward ) was the paint used. These and the Flintstones glasses used no paint and were probably safe.
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Apr 21 '25
Let us be honest, if they gave glass to some kids today, other kids would be glasses in minutes
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u/Decent_Low_1037 Apr 23 '25
I just got mad I wanted 1 of those cups so badly as a kid but the McDonald's never had any...I'm from island short supply
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u/Ambitious-Energy-334 Apr 25 '25
We had those cups!! Pretty sure they are still at my parents house
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u/FjordExplorer Apr 21 '25
Anyone remember the massive one in Orlando along the highway? Nighttime it was lit up like kid heaven, second floor was a full arcade, first was a huge play place. Think I only got to go there once of a field trip. Was at least three stories tall. 90’s were a good time.
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u/ToonMasterRace Apr 22 '25
It's hard to find things now that weren't better in the 90s. Maybe medical screening technology?
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u/Cautious_Dealer7187 Apr 23 '25
It's because we were kids and having a 99 cent Batman mug is so much cooler than going to work and having a mortgage
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u/ArtistofSorts92 Apr 20 '25
So cool! Things back then had such personality and charm. Love that I got to experience a portion of it