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7 Responses to “McDonald’s Menu, Circa 1973”

1. 1 Will Errickson April 23, 2015 at 2:19 am

   Have you seen this McDonald’s training video from 1972? It’s one of my most favorite things I’ve ever found on the internet!

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2. 2 Will Errickson April 23, 2015 at 2:53 am

   Here’s the link:
   

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   • 3 2W2N April 23, 2015 at 3:31 am

     Holy Jesus. It’s like an indoctrination into the cult of positive thinking. The “wise guys” line is my fave.

     Also, I raise you the “clean it” training video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kuA2G2lX5Q

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3. 4 narvo April 23, 2015 at 7:22 pm

   There’s something unnerving about that character on the left. Maybe it’s just ‘coz I saw The Babadook last night (which was well done, btw imo).

   Anyways, the prices on the board piqued my curiosity, so I did some research and found out that the average U.S. hourly wage was $4.08 in April of ’73. A $.65 Big Mac wasn’t too bad then, being roughly 16% an hour’s pay. It’s still relatively cheaper to today’s $4.80 cost of a Big Mac, which is almost a quarter of the average hourly wage today ($20.86).

   Source: http://www.data360.org/dsg.aspx?Data_Set_Group_Id=773&count=all

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   • 5 2W2N April 23, 2015 at 8:30 pm

     Did you know there’s something called the Big Mac Index?

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     • 6 2W2N April 23, 2015 at 8:31 pm

       Oops. Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Mac_Index

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       • 7 narvo April 23, 2015 at 8:39 pm

         Good heavens, I can’t believe it. I seriously had no idea. It’s weird, while I was doing those calculations, I envisioned the impact on a typical McD’s customer and their value judgment while standing in line.

         I did a similar study when calculating the relative prices of those cool old ’50s and ’60s toys and found out that they were pretty darn expensive, when accounting for the average American wage(s) at the time.

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