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re: Speaking of McDs..anyone old enough to remember the 1984 Olympic McDs promotion/debacle?
Posted on 10/21/25 at 7:51 pm to CAD703X
Posted on 10/21/25 at 7:51 pm to CAD703X
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tell me i lied about anything.
I didn't work there in 1984 but your story is how I remember it as well. I also remember news stories about McD's taking a huge hit on the promotion!
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Posted on 10/21/25 at 7:55 pm to CAD703X
Crazy. I don’t remember that at all and I was a freshman in high school working at McDs.
Wonder if it was a mental block or what.
Wonder if it was a mental block or what.
Posted on 10/21/25 at 7:57 pm to CAD703X
I MEMBER!
Posted on 10/21/25 at 8:06 pm to Yesca11
Yep, that episode is the first thing I though of. 
Posted on 10/21/25 at 8:24 pm to CAD703X
Had my first big Mack with that promotion.
Posted on 10/21/25 at 8:51 pm to dandan
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Oh yeah. If you got track and field or swimming event you pretty much knew you were getting a free big mac or fries.
You could get 1 free ticket a day so we would walk up there as kids and the summer each day.
Well that was if you had an actual McDonald's around. Back then the nearest McD's was 80 miles away.
No way to get the game or the food.
Posted on 10/21/25 at 9:05 pm to CAD703X
Yeah, I was in high school in a small town and had to be at my summer job around 5:30 so I’d go up there and cash in my ticket for a Big Mac and buy fries for whatever they cost back then, and get another ticket (I could get soft drinks for free where I worked) and sometimes several more if I knew the girl working.
Dinner an a can of Kodiak back then would cost less than $2.
Dinner an a can of Kodiak back then would cost less than $2.
Posted on 10/21/25 at 9:06 pm to CAD703X
Back then a big mac cost like 50 cents
This post was edited on 10/21/25 at 9:07 pm
Posted on 10/21/25 at 10:16 pm to Cosmo
A friend of mine was dating a girl who worked at McDonalds that summer. One night just before drive thru closed we went thru. She was working the drive thru and gave us one of those white McDonald's bags full of tickets. We ate free the rest of the summer
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Posted on 10/21/25 at 11:04 pm to Yesca11
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Yesca11
I was a one year old at the time, and I'm only familiar with the situation because of the Simpsons.
Posted on 10/22/25 at 2:09 am to This GUN for HIRE
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quote:1984 In the running for the greatest year
That was peak America…
Team USA kicking arse, Reagan winning the Cold War, Magic-Bird rivalry, the start of Hulkamania…
Posted on 10/22/25 at 2:36 am to RougeDawg
1984 was the summer of free McDonalds
Posted on 10/22/25 at 6:11 am to W2NOMO
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Worked at McDs in 1984. Fun times.
SAME !
Posted on 10/22/25 at 6:15 am to W2NOMO
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Worked at McDs in 1984
So you're not a former VP, because you actually worked there?
Posted on 10/22/25 at 6:26 am to CAD703X
Posted on 10/22/25 at 6:40 am to CAD703X
Epic as the Harrier - Pepsi debacle
Posted on 10/22/25 at 7:11 am to armytiger96
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remember news stories about McD's taking a huge hit on the promotion!
Plus the company doing the security I think for the promotion rigged it for like 4 yrs in a row for the grand prize money.
Posted on 10/22/25 at 8:04 am to TechBullDawg
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Epic as the Harrier - Pepsi debacle
the fricking 80s and 90s, man.
WE WERE KINGS!
Posted on 10/22/25 at 8:05 am to holmesbr
quote:you're thinking of the monopoly promotions, not the 80s olympic promotion.
Plus the company doing the security I think for the promotion rigged it for like 4 yrs in a row for the grand prize money.
Posted on 10/22/25 at 8:13 am to CAD703X
I was 14 at the time.
Me and my 2 friends ate McD's free every day for 2 months.
It was epic.
Me and my 2 friends ate McD's free every day for 2 months.
It was epic.
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