I'm Lovin' It

Well, I'd like to formally announce to everyone that I am, as of now, a professional writer. Yes. Indeed. Thanks to Google Adsense, I have made 1 cent on this page. I mean it seems like a lot I know but you have to remember that after taxes and everything it won't be nearly as much.

I should be cleaning my room. I have nothing to say right now. Except that I don't feel like cleaning.

This weekend was alright. I'm back from staying at my cousin's which is nice. Went out to a party last night. It was decent. Jeff and I rapped. We laid the hip hop flava all over that scene. I drank out of a Happy Meal cup, which eventually somebody ashed in. Looking at the cigarette butt inside my Happy Meal cup...it really...reminded me of my childhood. But not really.

Do kids still have birthday parties at McDonalds? Remember when McDonalds did parties? How sweet was that? Happy Meals, toys, purple Grimace cake, oh man...the works. I doubt they still do that. Do they? And what is Grimace? Birdie is clearly a bird. Hamburgler is a...hamburgler. The McNugget buddies are McNuggets. One would deduce that Grimace would be a grimace. But as it would seem, he is not a grimace at all. He is quite cheerful, actually.

I try to keep all of my entries as condusive to learning as possible. That said, a short visit to Wikipedia later I have found the answers we were looking for. What is Grimace?!?

In the first cycle of McDonaldland commercials, Grimace was the "Evil Grimace", with several pairs of arms with which to steal Triple-Thick Shakes. After that first campaign, the character was revised to be one of the "good guys", and his number of arms was reduced to two.

Today, Grimace is generally portrayed in McDonalds' commercials and merchandise as a sort of well-meaning doofus, whose clumsy antics provide a comic foil to the more serious and mature Ronald McDonald.

Grimace is a fantasy character, and not intended to "be" anything specific. However, ever since the character's introduction there has been much speculation (though much of it tongue-in-cheek) about his appearance. Because the majority of McDonald's characters more or less directly represent a food product sold at the restaurants (ie: Mayor McCheese, Fry Guys, Chicken McNuggets Buddies, etc) many have naturally tried to guess as to what, if any, food product Grimace is supposed to represent.

The old evil, four-armed Grimace

A common speculation is that he is supposed to be a giant McNugget, but his appearance pre-dates the release of that food. A better explanation is that he is a taste bud, though there are many more fanciful attempted explanations. In reality, Grimace's "official" role, according to McDonald's, continues to be to represent the chain's famous milkshakes. However, he does this out of love for the taste, and not because he is in any way a shake-based creature himself.

I hope this was educational for you.