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Valued Member
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Yes. You are the only one that remembers that.
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Moderator
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Crud...I'm hungry now. Need Shoneys all you can eat breakfast!  |
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I don't remember the coins but I remember when their signs had the number served under 100,000, and then when it went to a million served.
I remember some of the cereal coins as the one halfabustisbetter listed, I think there were three different Kellog's cereals that had coins in them.
Madspec
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Pillar of the Community
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Sorry in the 80's I was in my forties and did not eat at Mc Donalds, however now I am in my sixties and I do how come ?
Bruce.
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Pillar of the Community
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I don't recall the Mc Donalds give away, but I do remember the breakfast cereal bank notes. I still have a few myself.
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Valued Member
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I remember when their hamburgers were like 28 cents. And when coke was still cola, and a joint was a nice place to be.
Sorry guys.
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Pillar of the Community
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I don't know of a time when a joint wasn't a good place to be.
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Bedrock of the Community
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cfuller43, back in the 80s when I was a YN, I begged my parents to take me to McDs as often as possible so I could get all of the coins  I think I ended up with a couple full sets of them plus many extras. I thought that was the coolest thing as a kid- getting money from countries that I had only seen in books. My dad's favorite cereal is Almond Delight so it was easy to get all of those notes too. |
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I spent the entire 10 years of the 80's in Germany we had a micky D's but I don't think they gave much away for free.
and it's not the 80's that are not remembered it is the 60's. lol they say if you remember the 60's then you wasn't there lol must be true I don't remember a thing.lol do you see the pretty colors lol. sorry I wasn't there lol
Gary
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Pillar of the Community
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I don't recall that at all.
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Valued Member
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with hyperinflation in some countries, I bet the coins/notes were cheaper than actually having something made up to give away.
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New Member
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biokemist6 - Thanks for that, I was wondering if I had made it all up myself.
By the way, I'm really not that old, I'm only 28. I just recall alot from my childhood.
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Pillar of the Community
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cfuller34 I'm sorry, I have already forgotten the question what was it  Bruce. |
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quote halfabustisbetter: "I don't know of a time when a joint wasn't a good place to be."
halfabust, the point was that "coke" and "joint" have taken on new meanings than what they meant years ago. Keep in mind Merle Haggard wrote those lyrics over 25 years ago. The comment was more relevant then.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Sure I remember it. The McDonalds giveaway was in 1987 or 88. There have been several different give-aways of foreign coins and banknotes by the cereal companies since the 1960's. I never ate much cereal and the types I ate didn't have those promotions (I usually ate Special K) so I never bothered to notice those promotions very much. I do know that it seems like the most common note given away was the Indonesea 1 sen note.
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