My mom worked at McDonalds in the '80s and they fired her for refusing to wear the Asian straw hats that went along with this promotion. I wish I could find an image of them!
Hah! I was working at McD's in New Mexico when this promotion was going on. When I tell people I first learned to use chopsticks at McDonalds they think I'm pulling their leg. People at the drive-thru would get mad when we sometimes ran short on the Asian-styled McNugget boxes because they ordered the "McNuggets Shanghai", not realizing that it was the same nasty McNuggets either way, and only the sauces were different.
i worked at mcdonalds when they had this promotion. they also had the straw hats you see on people working in rice paddies. i recall painting windowsfor the promotion, using oriental images and japanese and being concerned about spelling mcdonalds properly in japanese. (we used to have an interment camp during WW2 and there's a large asian presence as a result).i found out later teriyaki is japanese, not chinese. on the plus side, i learned to use chopsticks...
I remember McDonald's employees wearing the conical straw hats during the promotion period. We use to comment that some poor veteran might have a flashback when dining there!
I had a weird memory about this promotion the other day. I was a kid back in the 80s and my father was a McDonald’s store manager back then. He always came home with the “leftover” promotional items. Silly me, I didn’t think the save any of those awesome happy meal toys…I could probably retire now. 😉 I remember him bringing home a big box of leftover chopsticks and I taught myself how to use them. I remember this skill really impressing people at the time. But I was also living in Tennessee then, so there weren’t many Asian people around and very little of their culture had come to the area at the time. It seems so bizarre looking back on this promotion… but then again, BTS has a current promotion with McDonald’s, so everything old is new again. 😜 Anyone out there using chopsticks to eat their McDonald’s food? 🤔🥢
I always wondered how this tasted as a kid watching this commercial but everytime I went to McDonald's my parents didn't wanna bother getting me this since the would assume I wouldn't like it lmao!!!
they still have the first 2 sauces available, just not the teriyaki. But yeah you can still order hot mustard or sweet-and-sour dipping sauce at mcdonalds.
@@virg0_lem0nade 12 years ago I never ordered McNuggets but they’ve been a staple of my traditional order for the past 5-10 so I never knew they had those sauces at the time (sweet and sour’s my go to).
I remember this! I was four years old at the time, on vacation when we stopped over for a meal. I probably had fun trying to fiddle with the chopsticks XD
"And here i assumed stereotyping was just mostly bad in the US in the 80's. The funny Asian guys always make me laugh - Then feel racist afterward..." I believe this same ad also showed up in the US too. I'm sure the whole gimmick was shared between both countries. Just went to a garage sale today and picked up 60 of those McDonald Chicken McNuggets Shanghai chopsticks still in their wrappers (all for fifty cents)! I don't know why but I did.
I think that was the last time McDonald's ever dabbled in introducing cuisines from other cultures. This ad would be offensive and racist by today's standards. Not all Asians wear suits, thick glasses and have goofy Chinese accents. Its too bad really. I've always wondered what McDonald's would've done with Halal. No McAllah Ackbar McNuggets. Dipping sauces would include blood, crude oil and clitorises. Shame about our Politically Correct ways. They're no fun.
"cuisines from other cultures." lol, I don't think McNuggets with vaguely "oriental" dipping sauces counts. Then again, McDonalds barely counts as food on it's own...
There is nothing racist about this commercial. Quit being so stereotypical yourselves. This culture today, of being overly sensitive.. Calling anything racist, you've all became a near farce of yourselves. You all belong in a South Park cartoon. I read a comment saying the way he speaks is racist. Guess what einstein, that's how many dialects sound when Asians speak.. are we not supposed to celebrate them and their natural dialects when they speak English? Isn't it racist not to ?
@@lepsonical4763 I live in South Korea, and over the summer I actually saw a farmer guy wearing one of those conical straw hats. I was so happy to finally see one of those in real life :D
Bwa-ha-ha, I love reading all of the outraged responses to this commercial. McDonald's should have just gone all out and featured a white guy with Charlie Chan makeup and a 1940s propaganda movie Japanese accent. But the gong was definitely a nice touch.
This is so racist lol. See how this would have been played in Vancouver BC. Primarily the spot where asians would be immigrating to at this time because of Tienanmen square. They used a familiar symbol of chopsticks to get new asian immigrants money.
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My mom worked at McDonalds in the '80s and they fired her for refusing to wear the Asian straw hats that went along with this promotion. I wish I could find an image of them!
lol
Have you found the the picture
Why wouldn’t she wear it
She deserved to get fired, I was a kid in the 80s and I cried when the bitch working at McDonald’s wasn’t wearing the hat
Based mom
Hah! I was working at McD's in New Mexico when this promotion was going on. When I tell people I first learned to use chopsticks at McDonalds they think I'm pulling their leg.
People at the drive-thru would get mad when we sometimes ran short on the Asian-styled McNugget boxes because they ordered the "McNuggets Shanghai", not realizing that it was the same nasty McNuggets either way, and only the sauces were different.
I remember these and I am from New Mexico too
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i worked at mcdonalds when they had this promotion. they also had the straw hats you see on people working in rice paddies. i recall painting windowsfor the promotion, using oriental images and japanese and being concerned about spelling mcdonalds properly in japanese. (we used to have an interment camp during WW2 and there's a large asian presence as a result).i found out later teriyaki is japanese, not chinese. on the plus side, i learned to use chopsticks...
McDonalds would be cancelled in a split second if this aired today 🤣😂
Yes I totally agree with sadly the radical cancel culture would be all over this, unbelievable
Yes
I remember McDonald's employees wearing the conical straw hats during the promotion period. We use to comment that some poor veteran might have a flashback when dining there!
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Asian McStereotype Shanghai!
I just felt my spine want to leave my body after this.
I had a weird memory about this promotion the other day. I was a kid back in the 80s and my father was a McDonald’s store manager back then. He always came home with the “leftover” promotional items. Silly me, I didn’t think the save any of those awesome happy meal toys…I could probably retire now. 😉
I remember him bringing home a big box of leftover chopsticks and I taught myself how to use them. I remember this skill really impressing people at the time. But I was also living in Tennessee then, so there weren’t many Asian people around and very little of their culture had come to the area at the time.
It seems so bizarre looking back on this promotion… but then again, BTS has a current promotion with McDonald’s, so everything old is new again. 😜
Anyone out there using chopsticks to eat their McDonald’s food? 🤔🥢
I always wondered how this tasted as a kid watching this commercial but everytime I went to McDonald's my parents didn't wanna bother getting me this since the would assume I wouldn't like it lmao!!!
😂😂
These sauces were better than the regular ones.
If my memory is correct, I was eleven years old when McNuggets first came out. By the time I was twelve, they were the talk of the town!
Where I live, they had them at least as far back as early 1981. I was born in March of 1969.
@prettyinpunk666 They found it rascist back then too, I recall back when this ad first aired people in the Asian community complained about it.
Anyone know if this was linked with a movie or something?
These were so good.
Those sauces actually look pretty good.
they still have the first 2 sauces available, just not the teriyaki. But yeah you can still order hot mustard or sweet-and-sour dipping sauce at mcdonalds.
@@virg0_lem0nade 12 years ago I never ordered McNuggets but they’ve been a staple of my traditional order for the past 5-10 so I never knew they had those sauces at the time (sweet and sour’s my go to).
@@Jotinko oh dang i didnt realize how old that first comment was until now haha 😂
@@virg0_lem0nade I hate these assholes who say “this comment is 10,15 years old wtf?” after replying to it. Comment threads have no set time limit 🙂
We need more asians on tv with those funny accents.
NO.
woe I remember this
Can I just go to a real Chinese restaurant instead?
Not to get Chicken McNuggets Shanghai.
I remember this! I was four years old at the time, on vacation when we stopped over for a meal. I probably had fun trying to fiddle with the chopsticks XD
That used to be Canadian airlines now it's air Canada
Thank you for sharing with us that very interesting part of your past!
30 years ago
I wonder why the teriyaki is the only one of the sauces you can't get any more.
The teriyaki sauce was my favorite during that promotion. Go figure.
Were you born around this time? I was born around the time the McNuggets became a nationwide item (they were launched a few years before that).
I do not consider myself crazy and I remember this! I was seventeen years old when it first came out. In any event, nice chatting with you!
This is hilarious
In the UK we have sweet and sour sauce it doesn't taste like when you get real sweet and sour at all
chicken made the mcdonalds way
Rick and Morty time
Right, let's bring this shit back
Ah, Canadian airlines - now merged into Air Canada.
Puggalug Air Canada now flies to Taipei
@khunopie LMAO
I searched up chopsticks and this was the first result 0-o Anybody else in 2020?
So you were born in 1971 or '72, as McNuggets didn't come out until 1982 or '83.
Acquired by Air Canada
This is Air Canada
Canadian Airlines was merged into Air Canada
This not 98 im in the wong year lol
Why your mcnuggets turn green
IDK
my fortune cookie said i will get McGas and need to take a McShit
Hahahaha.... Aw dang it I spilled my coffee 🤣
korean chopsticks.
"And here i assumed stereotyping was just mostly bad in the US in the 80's. The funny Asian guys always make me laugh - Then feel racist afterward..."
I believe this same ad also showed up in the US too. I'm sure the whole gimmick was shared between both countries.
Just went to a garage sale today and picked up 60 of those McDonald Chicken McNuggets Shanghai chopsticks still in their wrappers (all for fifty cents)! I don't know why but I did.
There's nothing racist about this commercial.
This commercial is from Chinese New Year 1977-1991 in Canada.
Me rikey so vely vely good! Build me a time machine, 80's the best
"They come in 9-pak and 20-pak too!" OMFG, the '80s were great but this kind of stuff is horrifying. Stereotyping - shamelessly!
it's only horrifying if you are stupid. it's supposed to be pandering, not stereotyping. it is not a big fucking deal.
@@003SOK This is one of the most retarded commercials anybody could have come up with and you just make yourself look like a moron
That's waisis!
😬
That's Long Duk Dong from Sixteen Candles.
Nah, that's not Gedde Watanabe, although there is a slight resemblance.
people would call this "racist" somehow today
And here i assumed stereotyping was just mostly bad in the US in the 80's. The funny Asian guys always make me laugh - Then feel racist afterward...
Heerrrooo!!
Yea, i use the rubber sorry chinese man....
I think that was the last time McDonald's ever dabbled in introducing cuisines from other cultures. This ad would be offensive and racist by today's standards. Not all Asians wear suits, thick glasses and have goofy Chinese accents. Its too bad really. I've always wondered what McDonald's would've done with Halal. No McAllah Ackbar McNuggets. Dipping sauces would include blood, crude oil and clitorises. Shame about our Politically Correct ways. They're no fun.
but this one guy does
"cuisines from other cultures."
lol, I don't think McNuggets with vaguely "oriental" dipping sauces counts. Then again, McDonalds barely counts as food on it's own...
lol this comment was a roller coaster
There's nothing at all racist about this commercial.
Kevin Arco the proper term is Oriental
I would call this racist but......
There is nothing racist about this commercial. Quit being so stereotypical yourselves. This culture today, of being overly sensitive.. Calling anything racist, you've all became a near farce of yourselves. You all belong in a South Park cartoon. I read a comment saying the way he speaks is racist. Guess what einstein, that's how many dialects sound when Asians speak.. are we not supposed to celebrate them and their natural dialects when they speak English? Isn't it racist not to ?
The employees had to wear straw hats.
Is there at least just a sliver of racism here?
I also make offensive jokes, so you can't pin that overly sensitive crap on me.
@@lepsonical4763 PC troll at work. I hope you can find something else to be offended by today.
@@lepsonical4763 I live in South Korea, and over the summer I actually saw a farmer guy wearing one of those conical straw hats. I was so happy to finally see one of those in real life :D
Wtf?
Oh gawd
Bwa-ha-ha, I love reading all of the outraged responses to this commercial. McDonald's should have just gone all out and featured a white guy with Charlie Chan makeup and a 1940s propaganda movie Japanese accent.
But the gong was definitely a nice touch.
imagine being a grown man who literally writes "bwa-ha-ha"....... jesus christ
@@virg0_lem0nade Imagine a grown man with so much time on his hands that he posts about it. Good luck with your getting off the dole.
Oh my gosh the woke mob's heads would explode.
@meghan151993 abso-freakin'-lutely. but in the 80's, nobody was concerned by it. looking back on it, asians should have been offended.
I am more offended they want to fly me to china from america on canadian airlines.
@@potatochobit --- no, this is a canadian commercial.
This is so damn racist !
Back in the day, I used to love getting the McNuggets with the chopsticks. Looking back on it, though, this commercial was racist.
...And this comment was made 9 years ago. Scott must be completely "WOKE" by now.
Back in better days when liberals didn't ruin everything, and people were not so sensitive.
.....but you're so sensitive that you can't stop whining about the big bad wibbawuls for a single second. 😂
This is so racist lol. See how this would have been played in Vancouver BC. Primarily the spot where asians would be immigrating to at this time because of Tienanmen square. They used a familiar symbol of chopsticks to get new asian immigrants money.
this is kinda racist
You kinda don't know what the word means, apparently.