🎵Ba da ba ba bah! It’s Brave New World.🎵
It should be a hole underground.
That’s the 2040s after WWIII
$3.99 Big Mac combos 😭
Those were the days. Don’t look at how the size changed over time. It’ll make you too sad.
Oh, it’s been harbinged. We’re in it.
The food is also going to be shit like bugs or lab-made pink paste. Possibly made with bugs.
I don’t know if that will be better or worse than what they currently serve up.
Soylent Green didn’t test well with consumers, so we fed it to bugs and made Soylent Pink.
needs to change the sign and logo to be more brutalist as well
You’re entirely right, but you might be writing cheques my 5-year-old phone can’t cash.
More like hambinger
The harburgler of doom. Robble robble!
Damn, I wish I’d thought of that.
Instead of McCafe, it should be “McSoylent”.
Would you like a 64 oz McEnergy with your McSoylent?
“I’ve exhausted my monthly ration allowance for McEnergy, so I’ll have to pass today.”
Excellent suggestion. Here you go:
Welcome to McDonald’s, the All-American Restaurant, papers please
You laugh, but a cashless society means ID’ing oneself with every transaction.
A couple of minutes in Dystopika, annnnnd…
McDonalds: Fuck you I’m eating! / Home of the Extra Bigass Fries
I was so sure that movie was hyperbole.
The French branch puts some effort in it, usually they look like this
If I saw that in America I’d think it used to be a Starbucks.
And god knows McDonald’s wouldn’t want to be confused with inferior coffee.
Looks about the same in Sweden. Wood panels with green accents together with the golden arches
Same(ish) here in the Netherlands. The fact that the near vicinity isn’t entirely asphalt and concrete, due to there not being 300 parking spaces for a fast food place, probably helps it not feel like a Nazi bunker.
Brutalist fast food restaurants? Don’t threaten me with a good time. Fuckin love me some brutalism
If it were borne out of a progressive, socialist democracy, I’d be on board. Auth-right brutalist fast food would be a horror show.
Upton Sinclair has entered the chat
Upton Sinclair has left the chat in frustration.
“I warned you, but did you listen?!”
McNormandy opens June 2026
Don’t give them any more ideas.
It’s going to suck to be forced to eat there. But what can you do, the ziabatsu commands it.
Yeah, we’re nearly back there. I didn’t have revisiting feudalism on my bingo card.
I’m actually going to say that I think designing a restaurant for disastrously unhealthy fast food in a way that makes it look and feel like a playground shouldn’t be legal, and I’m happy to see them look as dull and unappealing as possible to young children.
The ongoing health crisis is so severe in no small part because of things like that 1990s picture getting kids addicted to trash. This post feels like a boomer from the 1960s yearning for the days of Joe Camel.
I recently watched a (german) video about the exact development of McDonalds depicted in the meme and it made me realize how much of the experience had been catered towards children and how I felt when I went there more often (or at all) when I was younger.
Interesting take. Maybe they should be designed like an art gallery of various medical office styles. Kids would hate that.
Edit: I’m glad cigarettes are on their way out, but I used to love these when I was even stupider:
it’s not about mc d’s. almost every business is doing this. Everything fun, colorful, expressive and artistic MUST go. All must be replaced with homogeneous minimalism.
mc d’s is used as the example because they led the way with this shit.
I also read that cars turned less colorful since 1970s.
And a colleague told me that he read that skirts got longer on average since 1970, but idk about that one.
Also i noticed that most pop music these days are break-up songs.
Really shows you the mood of society.
Fair point! I entirely agree with that perspective in other areas. If we’re using this as an example, then I understand why, but I actually think this is one example where the change is a tangibly good thing.
That’s what makes using mc d’s as the example is a bad choice, but nobody consulted me about it.
I’d like to change the order of the meme
Me, too, but I wasn’t about to chop the original meme and stitch it back together in a better order. If you do it for me, you can have all my imaginary internet points, though.
