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madoka

madoka

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Jun 22, 2004
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I didn't think it possible, but here it is: the MacCoin.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/mone...elebrate-big-macs-50th-anniversary/844522002/

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Starting at the lunch rush on Thursday, customers can receive a MacCoin with the purchase of a Big Mac at 14,000 participating restaurants across the United States, McDonald's announced Sunday.

And what's the coin good for? Another Big Mac.

Customers can redeem the new currency for a free Big Mac starting Friday and running throughout the rest of 2018.

In an Interview with USA TODAY, McDonald's CEO Steve Easterbrook explained Thursday was selected as the release date for the brass-colored coins because it would’ve been the 100th birthday of Jim Delligatti, a McDonald’s franchisee in western Pennsylvania who invented the Big Mac.

The coin idea sprung from the role that the Big Mac has played in measuring purchasing power.

In 1986, The Economist started using the Big Mac Index as a way of measuring the purchasing power of international currency. "They use it to this day,” Easterbrook said. “Why not have some fun with it? Create our own currency.”
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sdifox

sdifox

No Lifer
Sep 30, 2005
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I don't know Madoka, I think your lego head box is worth more than a maccoin.
 
ultimatebob

ultimatebob

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Jul 1, 2001
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Yeah, I can't compete with that. I do have a t-shirt in the Coolcoin store for the first person who gets 1,000 of them, though. At the rate I'm handing them out, I might need to hand out a t-shirt about 20 years from now :)

Come on guys, try harder!
 
sdifox

sdifox

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ultimatebob said:
Yeah, I can't compete with that. I do have a t-shirt in the Coolcoin store for the first person who gets 1,000 of them, though. At the rate I'm handing them out, I might need to hand out a t-shirt about 20 years from now :)

Come on guys, try harder!
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So just give me a thousand coolcoin and call it a day?
 
Kaido

Kaido

Elite Member & Kitchen Overlord
Feb 14, 2004
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Isn't this how Idiocracy starts?

The year is 2029. All governments have fallen. The earth is ruled by MacCoin. Live by the burger, die by the burger.
 
ElFenix

ElFenix

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do i get this if i buy the big mac for $1 on the app? 2 big macs for $1?
 
madoka

madoka

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Jun 22, 2004
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The beauty of the MacCoin is that it's good INTERNATIONALLY. So I can earn MacCoins here and take them to Europe, Asia, etc. and exchange them for Big Macs there.
 
slayer202

slayer202

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Nov 27, 2005
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madoka said:
The beauty of the MacCoin is that it's good INTERNATIONALLY. So I can earn MacCoins here and take them to Europe, Asia, etc. and exchange them for Big Macs there.
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I'm starting an exchange to buy US coins to sell in the UK. pm me
 
GagHalfrunt

GagHalfrunt

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Apr 19, 2001
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I must have missed a memo on this, someone please explain how the math works. A single Big Mac is awful, it's like the lowest form of pseudo-beef available and nobody that respects their body or a good burger would eat one. But getting twice as many awful burgers that you don't want to eat is now a good thing?
 
ultimatebob

ultimatebob

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madoka said:
The beauty of the MacCoin is that it's good INTERNATIONALLY. So I can earn MacCoins here and take them to Europe, Asia, etc. and exchange them for Big Macs there.
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I love it... The Big Mac as the new universally recognized measure of value. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it, Euro users :)
 
madoka

madoka

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The 6.2 million MacCoins being distributed to more than 50 countries were minted in Cincinnati
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I suspect there's going to be a healthy counterfeit market of these once the Chinese figure out they can get free Big Macs for them around the world.
 
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