The Sun give the latest Mcdonald’s menu a taste test
And as the US burger giant celebrates 50 years on our high streets, the familiar golden arches are set to multiply, with plans for 200 more branches in the next four years, creating 24,000It is half a century since the firm’s mascot Ronald McDonald and burger bandit The Hamburglar led the brand’s UK invasion, with its first restaurant opening in a former Burton’s menswear shop in Woolwich, South London.Here, Nadia Cohen serves up 50 fun facts to mark McDonald’s big McBirthday.
WHILE the inventor of the Ronald McDonald character is disputed, Willard Scott was the first actor to portray him. He was later fired for being “too fat”. Ronald himself was let go in the early 2000s as the firm moved away from advertising to kids, stung by claims it was fuelling childhood TO try to make the UK McDonald’s menu taste more American, at first onions were imported from California, apple pies from Oklahoma and pickles from New York.BACK then the most popular item on the menu was the All Star Meal — a hamburger, small fries and soft drink for 48p.ROAST beef sandwiches and strawberry shortcake were not big sellers and soon ditched from the original UK menu.THE breakfast menu was introduced in 1982, led by the Egg McMuffin.
SALES plummeted 50 per cent in 1996 amid an outbreak of BSE, or mad cow disease, which can spread to humans who eatTHE McFlurry ice cream was added to the desert menu in 2000.THE firm has more than 36,000 restaurants around the world, in more than 100 countries.CHARITABLE foundation Ronald McDonald House Charities UK celebrates its 35th birthday this year. It provides accommodation for families with children in hospital.
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