Canadian McDonald’s trades large fries for Monopoly money

Will Brinson

Screen shot 2011 04 15 at 10.58.07 AM Canadian McDonalds trades large fries for Monopoly moneyWhen it comes to McDonald’s, there’s only one thing (Sausage Egg McMuffin) that I’ll even consider eating on the menu. (And yeah, I’m a food snob, okay, and if we’re talking about s****y fast food, I’m going to complain. Deal with it.) The only exception to this is when McDonald’s runs the Monopoly game.

Because when that happens, I will randomly pull off the street into a McDonald’s while driving an important errand, and order a Big Mac, three large fries and a biggie-size Coke. And I don’t even like thousand island dressing or drink soft drinks.

And if America follows suit from our favourite northern neighbours in Canada (EH!) and starts allowing Monopoly money to be used at McDonald’s stores, I have a feeling I won’t be the only one  jerking the wheel to the right and under the arches.

Of course, no, you can’t lock down a full meal with a pile of Monopoly cash, but you can score yourself a large fry. And yes, you do have to be in Canada … for the moment anyway.

What I don’t get: how has this not been used before???? In the 80′s, this would have been a cash-freaking-cow, because people actually played board games and actually had Monopoly money laying around the house and I know my family would have been dragged to the local McDonalds to eat a bunch of different meals, solely dependent on how many fake $100 bills I had laying around my living room.

So, McDonalds’ marketing folk: do not pass your office for the coffee machine, do NOT go out and get lunch, and do not think about passing go until you make this happen and allow America do what it does anyway. Which is, you know, sling around technically worthless paper currency in exchange for some sort of item that will likely be killing us down the road.

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