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Did somebody say McDonald's?
That's probably how you got to this page -- it's probably ''the'' most common "not-a-wiki-word" that appears on the [[TV Tropes]] Wiki, since their wiki parser automatically converts [[CamelCase]] into article links -- and [[All The Tropes]] faithfully carried over all those links (and this article!) when we converted the tropebase to MediaWiki.
And since [[McDonald's]] is such a [[Popcultural Osmosis|big part of modern culture]], we're still going to make the visit worth your while. (Would you like fries with that?)
It all started in 1954 when Ray Kroc, a milkshake mixer salesmen, found out that one of his customers brought many more mixers
Since then, McDonald's has added more than the original burgers, fries and sodas to its menu. Since the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], breakfast items are sold from opening until 10 A.M. (11 A.M on Sundays), unlike most independent restaurants in their price range who'll serve their breakfast menu all day if they have one. The Filet-O-Fish was created to cater to the Catholic communities that ate no meat on Fridays during Lent (fish doesn't count). The Happy Meal and corporate [[Mascot]] Ronald McDonald were created to appeal to children. McCafé items (after the café section offered in a few countries) were later added to compete with Starbucks and other coffee vendors.
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The quality and nutritional value of the food served is debatable - if nothing else, it sets the floor that everyone else has to do better than to be in the restaurant business - but no one can deny that the ubiquity of this fast food restaurant (over 30,000 in 119 countries) has a significant impact on human culture.
Until the mid-2000s, McDonald's also owned Donatos Pizza, Boston Market (a "fast casual" chain specializing in rotisserie chicken) and Chipotle Mexican Grill. They also spun off the Redbox automated video rental service.
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{{examples|Pop culture references to McDonald's (or similar [[Bland-Name Product]]s) include:}}
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* [[Bland-Name Product|WcDonalds]] is such a popular spoof name in Anime that the company [[Defictionalization|defictionalized]] it in 2024.
== [[Film]] ==
* In ''[[Pulp Fiction]]'', Jules and Vincent discuss what a Quarter Pounder with cheese is called in France. It's apparently called a "Royale with Cheese" and a Big Mac is called "Le Big Mac". <ref>[http://www.mcdonalds.fr/alacarte/sandwichs-1/products-0 In real life], ''Royal Deluxe'' and just plain ''Big Mac'' respectively.</ref>
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== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* "WacArnold's" on a skit from ''[[Chappelle's Show]]''.
== [[Music]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'': Lots with respect to Krusty Burger, the "premiere"(?) fast-food chain in Springfield. It all starts with the restaurant's proprieter-founder, Krusty the Klown.
** Episodes featuring specific references to McDonald's -- both at Krusty Burger and elsewhere:
*** "Lisa's First Word": The 1993 episode features the Simpson family flashing back to 1983-1984. With pop culture references abounding (including one for rival chain Wendy's), the major one relating to McDonald's is a spoof of the chain's "scratch-and-win" promotion for the 1984 Olympics, where customers could win a Big Mac, french fries, a soft drink, or even a cash prize of up to $10,000 if Team USA won a medal in the visitor's listed event. Krusty Burger customers could also win food prizes or cash, but (like McDonald's in [[Real Life]]), the promotion was created and the tickets printed before the Soviet Union announced it was backing out of the Summer Games. Many of the tickets were printed to reflect events in which the USSR or another Eastern Bloc country was favored to win; with their withdrawal, the United States won many of those events, causing Krusty Burger to lose millions of dollars because they awarded more food than they had budgeted for.
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* "[[Bland-Name Product|Weenie Burgers]]" in ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'' and countless [[Anime]] productions.{{verify|reason=The Anime references, not the Western Animation reference. Please name an anime that uses the 'Weenie Burgers' name.}}
* "MacMeaties" from ''[[Invader Zim]]''.
* The limited time promotional [[Mulan]] schezwan sauce at McDonalds was a plot point in ''[[Rick and Morty]]''.
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