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McDonald’s briefly had these small plastic spoons as coffee stirrers in the 70’s. They really looked almost designed for coke. We made a lot of fun about it. By

McDonald’s briefly had these small plastic spoons as coffee stirrers in the 70’s. They really looked almost designed for coke. We made a lot of fun about it. By the next year they had switched to a flat plastic stirrer that could not hold anything. I think they heard all the jokes about getting a Big Mac and a Coke. https://dangerousminds.net/content/uploads/images/made/content/uploads/images/mcdonalds-coke-spoon_234209482_465_438_int.jpg https://dangerousminds.net/content/uploads/images/made/conte...

Stratoscope 5y ago
Harry Turtledove wrote a great SF short story in 1988 that relates to this: https://archive.org/stream/New_Destinies_06_1988-Winter_Gorgon776#page/n249/mode/2up https://archive.org/stream/New_Destinies_06_1988-Winter_Gorg...
- webmaven 5y ago
  Nice! The twist at the end was a bit obvious, but I was expecting it to be a soda. Coca-Cola used to have cocaine in it, so a version where the caffeine is removed instead of the cocaine would have made sense: https://archives.drugabuse.gov/blog/post/coca-colas-scandalous-past https://archives.drugabuse.gov/blog/post/coca-colas-scandalo...
golergka 5y ago
They've been used in Russia to at least 00s.
- grishka 5y ago
  Hm, I don't remember ever seeing these or jokes about these. Also how many mcdonalds restaurants were there in Russia in the 90s, anyway?
  - golergka 5y ago
    Not sure about Russia in general, but as I lived in Moscow, it was a staple already in the 90s.