McDonald’s announced that it would be releasing McDonald’s Happy Meals for adults as part of a collaboration with the fashion streetwear brand Cactus Plant Flea Market. People made fun of the idea, but I think it actually makes a lot of sense.
The massive fast-food chain McDonald’s announced on Thursday that it would be releasing special Happy Meals for adults as part of a collaboration with the fashion streetwear brand Cactus Plant Flea Market (CPFM). Once it launches Monday, people will have a chance to get one of four collectible figurines of McDonald’s mascots — Grimace, the Hamburglar, Birdie, and a new friend named Cactus Buddy — all packaged in a special edition Happy Meal box.
CPFM is a high-end fashion brand known for its eccentric and playful graphic imagery. The figurines that will come with this meal look like cursed, distorted versions of the McDonald’s mascots. Grimace, for example, has four eyes and looks like he was made by a child with clay.
Of course, Happy Meals exist as a special way to lure kids in, so the news that McDonald’s was making Happy Meals for adults led to a lot of clowning online. One person said that the “creation of a Happy Meal for adults is the logical endpoint of American culture,” and another said that the concept of adult Happy Meals is a “pretty powerful index of mental and moral decline.
