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What Happened to Ronald McDonald? Part Two: Supersizing A Mystery

Ridiculous History

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Macdonald's Happy Meal

Macdonald tries another mascot. It is an anthropomorphic happy meal named in a burst of creativity. Happy is not successful. But that was not the final, that was notThe final fry in the coffin. Because something else happened in 20 16,. yet this was completely out of m donald's control. This was one of those cultural moments where a trend starts and begins to build and has rippling repercussions for unrelated entities. So mc donald's, in a way, is a vic as were we all. And i think it's appropriate to the way our story turned a part two.

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