Few things are better than eating a burger and fries, even if it comes from McDonald’s. This might qualify though: a full McDonald’s meal—burger, fries, coke—made completely out of cookies. Everything is somehow a cookie! Made by a Twitter user’s sister who’s presumably a master baker, it’s pretty incredible work. I mean, those fries? That patty? A cookie? Whatever. I want to eat it.
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It’s not pink goop. It’s more like a beige-ish sludge. Gross? Not entirely because ground up raw chicken meat made on a mass level will probably never look appetizing, no matter how clean the process and how delicious the result is. But at least it’s good to know you’re not eating alien meat?
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So how do you get customers to not only eat your questionable mystery meat products with a side of fries and come back for more? If you are McDonald’s, the key is to offer kick-ass toys. Many people will normally choose a healthier meal, but give them an awesome toy and they will wolf down whatever swill you are serving. I say, serve me up whatever you want, but just make sure you give me that BMO figure and I’m good. Cool?
A line of Adventure Time toys are coming to McDonald’s Happy Meals starting January 17th. Mathematical! These are the ones. There’s bendy versions of Jake and Finn, a channel-changing BMO, sword-swinging Finn, spring-action Jake, and ice-blast shooting Ice King.
Gotta get ‘em all. They should have no problem selling cheeseburgers and fries this month. In fact, I’m just gonna go claim my own table and live there for awhile. While I wait, I’m going to kill some time coloring:
[via Kotaku via Geekologie]
A man lost 37 pounds and his cholesterol level dropped from 249 to 170 by eating exclusively at McDonald’s for 90 days. He ate everything: from Big Macs to salads to sundaes to shakes to quarter pounders. It’s the antithesis of Supersize Me, the pseudo-documentary of a man who did the same—with two crucial differences:
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Man, I am so sick of Japan getting all of the cool stuff and us Americans getting not so cool stuff. Like this. This is the line of Super Mario toys that McDonald’s will be giving away in Japan’s Happy Meals. What are we going to get in the US? Probably some Barbie toy or something. It’s just not fair. Why does God love Japan so much more?
All of these Mario toys either play music or perform an action (described in the badly Google translated text above), which is all the more reason to be sad. They are not just figures that stand there doing nothing.
The toys will be given away in Happy Meals starting on November 22nd, and are expected to run out in about three weeks. I don’t know about you, but I’m looking up the price of airline tickets to Japan. Holy Hogwarts! Have you seen those prices? I’m just going to play with my crappy American toys and save myself a couple thousand bucks.
[via NewLaunches via Geekologie]
McDonald’s Happy Meal toys have been a staple of the restaurant chain for quite a long time. But the company that has served billions upon billions of burgers to the public may be considering using 3D printers inside of its stores in order to create those very toys that children go crazy over with each visit. (more…)
McDonald’s Considering 3D Printing For Happy Meal Toys original content from Ubergizmo. 
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McDonald’s, one of the most popular fast food chains in the U.S., if not the world, is currently developing a mobile application. Lisa McComb, a spokeswoman for the fast food giant, confirmed in an email to Bloomberg that McDonald’s is currently testing an app in Salt Lake City and in Austin, Texas. The app will allow customers to place their orders and pay for them, they can then decide to pick up food in stores, curbside or at drive-thru windows.
McComb said that while they’re testing the technology in a few markets, “its premature to speculate on the decisions we may make after the tests.” McDonald’s already offers an app for U.S. customers which allows them to locate the chain’s restaurants, search for jobs and even find nutrition information. According to the report, this new app will also include special promotions and a loyalty program. A mobile app just might be exactly what McDonald’s needs to draw in the millennial market, it has already been introducing new products so as to bring in new customers. The fast food chain has more than 14,000 outlets in the U.S. alone, it remains to be seen if such an app will be released for other markets as well. McDonald’s has over 34,000 outlets around the world.
McDonald’s Might Soon Let You Order And Pay Through An App original content from Ubergizmo. 
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For years now, McDonald’s has thrown in a toy either promoting the release of a new film, cartoon series or just for the heck of it in their Happy Meals. Children and some adults have enjoyed playing with these toys for years, but they may be getting a huge upgrade if its latest experiment, called the Happy Table, actually makes it into McDonald’s restaurants.
The Happy Table requires the child, or adult, to have a smartphone that supports NFC capabilities along with a free application which will turn the device into a car driven by one of the fast-food chain’s famous mascots. The underside of the Happy Table will have a number of NFC stickers located at certain areas of the underside of the table, which are used to trigger hazards at different sections of the race track, but can also be used to trigger mini games.
Happy Tables are slowly making their way to McDonald’s restaurants across Asia, although it’s unknown at this time if or when they’ll be making their way to other markets. If it comes out in the U.S., we’re sure many of you will check it out at least once, to never go back to McDonald’s again at the realization just how awful you’ll feel after eating their food. Or, at least, that’s what will happen when I go.
McDonald’s Happy Table Turns Your Smartphone Into Digital Playgrounds original content from Ubergizmo. 
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The Happy Meal is as synonymous with McDonald’s as the Big Mac, but now the international fast food chain is experimenting with what it’s calling the Happy Table. It’s another attempt to lure kids in that uses simple NFC stickers to turn its dining tables into virtual interactive race tracks.
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