The shrek glasses weren’t even the first time McDonald’s sold toxic cups. The Garfield cups they sold in the 80’s turned out to have a high level of lead paint
Fun fact: those Garfield cups had over *five hundred-thousand* times the legal limit of plutonium. To add salt to the wound, they mug's drawing had Garfield saying _"You should scrape this paint off with your teeth!"_
Exactly. Or watched over the ones who were older and educated them on what not to do with 'em. Because we know that babies and toddlers have that tendancy to shove anything they can somewhere on their face. It's just common sense.
Even so, these parents already paid the ultimate price for their mistakes. They'll have to live with the guilt of what they did for the rest of their lives. Yes, we should learn _from_ the mistakes, and yes, it could have been easily avoided. But I've never felt comfortable kicking the people involved while they're already down.
@@AiLoveAidoru That warning probably was there, but it only just started being required four years prior. It wasn't common knowledge at the time, and it wasn't until high-profile incidents like this that people actually started _paying attention_ to the warnings; most people just assume things made for their kids had to be safe. A fallacious and dangerous assumption, but not an unreasonable one.
I love how it seems that Strider is the responsible one between the 3 of them. Also your wife and best friend joining the church of Hello Kitty was adorable!
@@skootergirl22 It still would've been less of a problem if Burger King had stopped selling them damn things. Like, they cared more about the Pokemon craze than the safety of children and infants.
Ok so as much as burger king is in the wrong for not recalling the pokéball toys or at least putting out a warning _way_ sooner than they did, i also have to ask... _who is leaving their 13 month old baby alone with something that could easily suffocate them???_
It doesn't take long, a baby can suffocate in seconds. Most parents would assume there was a hole to let air through. If they have multiple kids then they could turn away to stop one grizzling, turn back and it's too late.
the pokeballs was 95% the parents fault obviously leaving a child with this toy is going to cause issues when they are that young parents just do not know how to watch the so called children if parents are watching the kids that young playing with any toy a lot of issues could be avoided
Speaking of the QR Code thing, Heinz had a similar thing happen with ketchup bottles. Bottles would have once taken you to a Heinz created website... But Heinz let the domain lapse and someone bought the domain and made it a XXX thing.
The pokeball thing wasn't really BK's fault. Parents need to supervise their kids when playing with toys, especially kids that was way too young to even have thin plastic anyway. It's not fair that every kid had to sent back their toys just because some parents were stupid and didn't look after their babies properly
Still should have put holes. They share some blame. A lot of parents have kids of varying ages so one toy that’s safe for one of them is not for the other. Kids aren’t known for having the best judgment, so an older kid might let the younger one play with a toy not suitable for them, or leave the toy in a place accessible for the younger one. Parents are human, not gods. While parents definitely need to watch their kids, It’s unreasonable to expect parents to monitor every single little thing kids do. Simply putting breathing holes would have avoided all of this to begin with.
My family still has the Shrek The Third glasses and uses them too. I’m pretty sure it was just the Shrek Forever After glasses that had cadmium, because those were the only glasses we had to return.
Honestly. I like the non cartoon related videos better despite that's the reason I subscribed to this channel in the first place lol. Keep up the great content. You should look into unsettling kids apps sometime in the future.
Are you kidding me dude? You'd have better luck counting every grain of sand in the Saharah Desert than picking out the 10 most stand out of those messed up kids apps.
I did NOT know about the Shrek the Third glass paint being poison 😬 I had two of them and drank chocolate milk in them like every day when I was a kid oops. Although the paint faded very quickly with wash and eventually the cups were thrown out within at least a year but maybe more. Though upon reflection maybe we shouldn’t have put it in the dishwasher with all of our other dishes 😮 This was over a decade ago I’m sure I’m fine….
Same here! We have some for Shrek and even a few for Disney! Me and my family have been using them for years with no real issues to this day. I had no clue they were toxic! But hey, we’re not dead yet so… 🤷🏼♀️
If you guys are talking about the McToran, they were great happy meal toys! A bit simple, sure, but they have a certain charm to them, and they're Lego as well, so they're probably better quality than most toys that fast food chains normally hand out
I personally liked the Neopets toys. Even if I didn’t really play the game, they were just neat to me. I also remember trying to collect the full set of W.I.T.C.H keychain dolls with my cousin (neither of us really did get the whole set on account of our local McDonald’s being given way too many of one out of the set) The Sanrio watches were pretty good too but I never got one sadly.
The adult only QR code incident reminds me of something that happened in the animaniacs reboot the same year. When The Brain gives a fake number to call for world domination and it turned out the number actually lead to an adult only phone line.
There's another adult only number in The Santa Clause with Tim Allen. It's supposedly a joke number, but when you call it, it is real and it's...Very adult only.
Something similar happened with The Santa Clause, The phone number Scott Calvin says turned out to be linked to a sex phone line so they had to change the number in later edits of the film
Well they did always say that adult clubs was the second oldest profession in the world I can see someone thinking that would be a good way of world domination lol 😂
If you thought you saw The Minions everywhere you went, Hello Kitty has been on every form of merchandise since the 1970s. A religion dedicated to this Chibi Cat was honestly inevitable.
I’m just surprised That the Burger King pokeball controversy isn’t number 1 because of how infamous it is because it even got a PSA announcement on tv which is VERY RARE for any recall on products even others have parodied or made psa ads similar to the Pokeball PSA
The Back to the Future cartoon wasn't too bad from what I remember, a lot of the cartoon's focus was on Jules and Verne, mostly. There were also some live action bits with Christopher Lloyd reprising Doc's role but it was campy Saturday morning cheese.
Hey strider I just want to say how much I love your videos! I remember the first video I’ve ever watched of yours I was beginning 6th grade and now I’m about to finish my freshman year of college! You’ve come such a long way and I just really like the positive, informative, and happy attitude you have! I also really like the switch ups you’ve been doing lately with talking about toys and food rather than just cartoons! One video I would absolutely LOVE if you could do is a top 10 cancelled Nickelodeon video games video! There are so much games that never came to be such as a cancelled nicktoons unite game and racing game and I would love to hear your thoughts on them! Again thanks for these amazing videos and stay awesome!!!!
As a responsible adult, I would like to formally apologize to all the McDonald's employees I used to bother in my youth about their toys in my kids meals. I used to complain about not getting the "right toy" (I used to always get the toys labelled for boys then), but since none of them were these, I feel a lot better about my obscure kids toys collecting dust.
Nowadays they just give greasy cardboard.... Which is to save the "environment"... Yeah, great idea! But little timmy is gonna get sick by the bacteria growing on the grease that's leaked on their Supergirl cardboard figurine!
@@MXOY99yep and in a plastic bag lol i collect fast food toys but i do love the books from chik fil a im not in americas so i use ebay but they are the best but yes 90s -2000s era good now ujst bad
I remember fast food toys very vividly. My siblings and I would add them to our "family" of toys, despite their poor quality. Fortunately, we were never harmed from these toys, however our dogs would sometimes get them in their chompers and, well, bye bye toy 😂
Minionese is actually a combination of several different languages including Spanish. And also yeah I didn't get the 'so so horny' thing in the Donna Summer song either because I didn't hear those lyrics I heard...'when i'm bad i'm so so bad' and 'scold me, to hold me.'
I remember my grandma took all my poke balls away. I felt so upset because I amassed a whole bunch of them by trading and I felt insulted that someone would assume I’d choke as a preteen. I bet those would of been very collectible too. First world problems am I right lol
I think I still have that pokemon fast food toy just not the actual ball container. Sadly that PSA went over my head to not really know exactly how dangerous this was. I know most of us wanna blame BK back then for not putting a label warning, thou part of me kinda wanted to know if said parents were in the same room with their 3 year old toddlers playing around with this toys before they had to unfortunately call the ambulances. Sorta makes you feel bad that those kids never got to see how many generations pokemon would be today if by some chance they still enjoy pokemon. Hard to believe thats alot of McDonald choking hazard toys
Strider failed to mention that the Doc Brown toy is one of the best Happy Meals ever made, the sparks that come out were insanely fun and we’re top tier when it came to happy meals.
Too be fair, I don't think Burger King should be the only ones blamed for the Poke ball incidents. It is also the parents' responsibility to pay attention to what the child is doing. Sure, BK should have made the warnings upfront but still. Also, yes there is a Back to the Future cartoon along with The Mask, I think an Ace Ventura cartoon, Robocop cartoon, A Rambo cartoon I think.
What in the hell was the parent doing giving their infant the BK toy? Of course they will hurt themselves with it I am sorry but most places offer different toys for younger children they just wanted to give their kids pokemon toys. They could have put a warning on the label about the hazard of the toy and it would have been fine. this would be more of neglect of whichever adult gave them the toy
I was wondering if the Burger King suffocation Poke Ball would be on the list, and you did not disappoint Strider. As for my thoughts on it. All Burger King needed to do, was poke air holes in both ends of the Poke Ball. Or at least put a goddamn choking hazard/suffocation warning on their product! Seriously, it's not hard!
@@Mooms Yeah, that too. Hense why I suggested Burger King add air holes to the Poke Ball. Just in case some stupid parent can't keep an eye on their infant.
@@nine_tails137 its that tendency to attack people in numbers and say they're the "little guy", in some shape or another its happened to most people or they've been part of that themselves which is something that happens a lot, I don't think I need to get too specific, I think that's why its easier for them to go for a corporation. When one pays attention many aren't so different as individuals and as groups to what they accuse some corporations of.
@@Idkanymore9029 i'd be mimikyu if i were a ghost (or fairy type) type if i were a steel type i'd be revavroom, if i were a posion type id be a Grafaiai, and if i were a flying type id be a altaria. Heres a list of the other types i didnt mention, the list of pokemon i'd be Ground: Flygon Dragon: Dragapult Rock: Diancie Fire: Ninetales Ice: Aloan Ninetales Dark: Murkrow Fighting: Mienshao Water: Mudkip Grass: Leafeon Normal: furret Bug: Butterfree Electric: i know its basic but pikachu is cute, i'd love to be cute Psychic: (normally i'd pick to be mew but mew is a legendary) Chimecho Hands down i'd pick being mimikyu over all of them though XD
I think, iirc, McDonalds also did a Pokemon promotion way back when, too. I remember the Poke Ball being similarly designed, but the toys inside were plush like beany-babies. Actually, now that I think about it, I seem to recall McDonalds also doing a "Teeny Baby" toy lineup for their happy meals at one point back then. I remember getting the squirrel from it; I still have that little guy. I have to wonder about the Step-It, meanwhile...maybe the reason the Step-It gave kids blisters might have been due to the material used in the wristband; like, maybe it was a certain chemical or combination used in the...I guess it looks like latex...of the band? Maybe it had a material found in certain fabrics that can cause allergic reactions? That's the best I can gather, honestly. :/
@@AiLoveAidoru *facepalm* Uh...wow...okay...that's actually WORSE than what I thought it'd be. I shudder to ask...what kind of battery was it? I can't imagine a device so simplistic would need a particularly powerful battery, but you never know with McDicks. :/
All BK had to do was recall the balls temporarily and drill a tiny hole in them to prevent a vacuum-seal. Hell, the restaurants could have done it themselves, but the money was just too good, I guess.
BK's Pokemon scandal is very complicated because while the fault was of the parents, the way they took pride in not making an announcement or whatever to calm things down is insane like... Just say "we're sorry about what happened, here's a PSA about how to be a better adult and again, we're really sorry" what's the problem in it? Maybe the recall didn't even happened if they didn't acted like assholes.
I’m gonna be really honest Strider, I like a lot of your content, but the exaggerated hyper-criticism of things you obviously have disdain for makes it a bit insufferable for me to sit through. 😣 I had to stop during the Minions segment. It’s fine that you don’t like them and find them annoying, but at least respect the fact that you’re not the Target audience, and the intended target audience adores them. I personally at times find SpongeBob obnoxious and annoying and think as a whole he’s been overhyped and marketed to death, but I respect how much he’s loved by his fanbase. And with all due respect regarding the tragedy connected, those “crappy Pokémon toys” were far from crappy. Everyone on the school bus had at least 5 or more of those “crappy toys” and we were playing with them and trading them for months. They were so popular that they were brought back to Burger King (minus the balls) and even held a weekly trading night at participating restaurants. I traded a pile of the cards that each toy came with to a kid for a talking Pikachu! During that time when I was struggling with a couple of classes, a student teacher who tutored me would actually purchase those toys and give them to me as a reward for doing a good job. 🙂 I still have my complete collection of those Pokémon toys, and they bring me joy every time I look through them, especially the Geodude keychain with movable arms, the light up Mewtwo which made my fellow fifth graders jealous, the super cute beanbag set (not to be confused with the ones from KFC), and of course all 3 talking Pikachus. Sorry to vent, but as a fellow neurodivergent who happens to have an encyclopedic knowledge and experience with both fast food toys and 90’s pop culture, I felt I had to say something. 🤷♀️
Thank you for your eloquence in regards to the hyper-criticism in this video. "insufferable" sums it up perfectly, and this is the first Strider vid I've downvoted.
Aw, I remembered listening to the Wendy’s cds. I couldn’t get that song Ain’t No Mountain High Enough out of my head when I was a kid! As for the Minion “Swearing” Toy, it sounds more like it‘s saying…What the Buck? Yeah this toy was made for a quick buck and honesty, if I knew this happy meal toy was around, I would be saying WTF too.
Who in their right mind would give a plastic small toy to a 13 month old? It’s people like this that ruined it for everyone else. How about be a parent instead of blaming the company that gave you a toy that was too small for a baby?!
The poke ball itself was dangerous, but not the pokemon. Well at least they havn't done that thing again. Also the type of happy meal toy I remember getting was a husky plush with the big head. And it was a safe toy case it was a plush, not plastic. Also I wasn't the type to put in my mouth. I maybe autistic, but I had some sense that I should not do that.
I guarantee you, fast food toys were the combatants of most of the action figure "battles" we had as a kid. What easier way to have crossovers from the farthest reaches of pop culture?
Seriously...I Had ALOT MORE HappyMeal Toys Then Those Actually Purchaced in Stores! As MY Parents Weren't Loaded Enough To Provide Every New Fad Which Came About & AT LEAST KidsMeals Had Food with It.
My opinion on the PokeBall toy is that there is no possible way a kid could keep it on their face like that I think they were more than likely suffocated by an adult sadly
Shitty thing is the Burger King Pokéball issue was more on the parents not paying attention to their children than anything. If you think your child can fit the toy in its mouth and it’s not old enough to know better then that’s simply bad parenting. Common sense goes a long way but the cliche that “it’s not so common” is unfortunately so true. People would rather blame it on the company because ya know “BiG cOmPaNy BaD” and the consumer does no wrong whatsoever lmao.
Gotta disagree with most parents about certain toys when they buy it for their kids. Example the pokemon shenanigans, while it's tragic of the child losing a life, I blame mainly the parent for not keeping an eye on their kids cause the argument can be said the same of : what if your kid got a plastic ball and choke on it? Is it the companies fault? Or the parent?
I've seen the Back to the Future animated series, Strider. It picked up after Part 3, and had live action segments with Christopher Lloyd and Bill Nye the Scientology Guy.
I won't lie, I feel like some of these recalls are also due to the parents not watching over their kids. I'm sorry, but let's be real, a 13 month old BABY does NOT need a toy that's not intended for babies! And everyone knows how babies and toddelrs stick anything and everything in their mouths, noses, or face in general. Just watch and/or educate your kids (the latter if they're old enough to understand what you're saying, even if it's just "don't eat that"), and make sure that anything dangerous is out of reach... I have some of these Pokemon toys, and I am still alive because I know to not stick them in my mouth! Of course, I wasn't a toddler, but anywho... Regarding the Minion toy, I didn't hear the phrase in that one vid: I heard a clucking chicken more than anything. xD
Amazing video Josh. I have heard of quite a few of these actually. I don’t think I have ever kept a fast food toy for more than a month. They really are cheap
wonderful video yet again, i remember in the past you done a video on the best bobs burgers episodes i just watched the last few of the newest season so heart wrenching and loving, so if anyone is a fan i recoment watching these, you visit bobs mums grave and see Louise being mature. i know there is a lot of fans in the comments let me know what you thing of them... much love also stop... stryder time
Man, I knew Burger King have a bad food and it’s generally a bad version of McDonald’s, but I never knew that the toys were also bad and yet they still try to defend themselves!? 19:21
I'm so glad you mentioned the PokeBalls, I actually still have a few of the mons, including the talking Pikachu (I remember getting the Ditto but I lost it)
Great video. I remember seeing the Back to the Future cartoon when it was first on. Sadly it did not have the charm of the original, though it did have some live action bits with Christopher Lloyd that were fun. The Bill and Ted animated series was better.
I remember the Pokeball case. I never found out but the parent that let it happen should have gotten charged for child endangerment if not more. The Toys clearly said, "3 years & up" and last I checked 13 months younger than 3 years old. The child dyeing was clearly not Burger King's fault and why should they have recalled it. I never return my kid meal Pokeballs, I still have them all. As for the other two case, you never gave the ages or how the toy harmed them. So, we must assume that they were younger than 3 years old and the same thing happened, considering that all the Pokeball toys later had holes in them.
I was one of those kids whose parents didn't bring back the pokeball and I was 5 when I got my 10 or so. I used them things for Barbie item holders. I still can't believe I was even allowed to have them, since my mom was one of those Christians who thought Pokémon were demon spon.
As a massive fan of the Heisei Godzilla series, I can confirm cadmium is not very good for your mouth. Seriously, watch Return of Godzilla, they make missiles out of the stuff.
@15:30 there have been countless stories like this involving many talking toys. Parents always claim the toys are saying something offensive but when you listen to it, it's either misunderstood or it's gibberish.
EXCEPT in The Case Of Barbie & GI*JOE Voices Being Swapped OR #TickleMeElmo Suprise... Yeah, We Sold THOSE At #KayBee! Or How About That Lifesize Vibrating #Nimbus2000 Broom From: #HarryPotter? Oh IT EXISTS!!
“Last rapper this plastic had a happy meal toy with it. I’m serving billions and I can’t be beat. You’re a bin of lettuce facing da feet.” Ronald McDonald
hey josh! just coming on by to say that you're geniunely one of my favorite youtubers as of right now. your content is simply so wholesome and entertaining, i can't help but smile while watching your videos,,, i know that there's probably tons of people out there who write comments like this for you, but i really wanna remind you how great of a person you are. please keep up the good work mate, i hope that you get more recognition in the future! 🙏
With the Pokeball, I feel like the toy isnt at fault, its more so just the kids being kids and doing the dumbest things. Honestly any container shaped like that could've caused the same, if a kid covered their mouth with it. Just like plastic bags, they aren't banned
I am always gobsmacked by how many parents give their under 4 children plastic toys and/or small toys or toys that can break in to parts. With toddlers it’s basically only toys larger than their mouth that can not be broken and are not concave (smothering hazard). And even those toys are not supposed to be left with children unless supervised. Almost any toy can become a danger to a curious child (some much more than others) so it’s so crazy to me when people let their kids just have toys out of sight.
I don't think any toys at Fast Food restaurants should be recommended for under 5's let alone under 3's. The moneymakers are 7 and over franchises so why make toys available for younger? Also some common sense needs to be taken from parents. Check what you're giving children. The Shrek glasses is definitely knowledge the manufacturer should have not made them but when a toy can be played with parents need to make the call "Can my child play with this?“
As a designer and toy collector there is a lot of art in fast food toys, despite their cheapness in more recent years. Some fast food toys from the 80s/90s and even 2000s rival mass retail toys. There is a lost art in fast food advertising, toys and junk food packaging. It’s a weird niche interest of mine that often gets overlooked, but it’s art non the less.
i totally agree! it's a fascinating art kinda overlooked but the appearance and design of things associated with food is a pretty big part of the eating experience-you dont really want to eat something that comes from off-putting packaging, do you? designers can be really creative
The shrek glasses weren’t even the first time McDonald’s sold toxic cups. The Garfield cups they sold in the 80’s turned out to have a high level of lead paint
I actually found those toxic garfield cups in a flea market store
My jaw dropped when I saw them
Fun fact: those Garfield cups had over *five hundred-thousand* times the legal limit of plutonium.
To add salt to the wound, they mug's drawing had Garfield saying _"You should scrape this paint off with your teeth!"_
And I regularly drank out of one as a kid... probably explains a lot.
I have the shrek the third glasses
I actually have a Garfield and Shrek glass in my cup cabinet. 😮😮😮
If you think a church for Hello Kitty is crazy, there’s actually a cult for Gadget Hackwrench (from that Chip and Dale rescue rangers show) in Russia.
BRUH
Wth
Why does that not surprise me
the furry nation
there's also a ralsei (from deltarune) worship church in australia
That pokemon fast food toy recalling PSA strikes a certain uncanny fear that I cannot for the life of me explain.
It looks like one of those scary drug PSAs from the 80s and 90s. Like the one with peewee herman warning us about crack
Omegamart played off of this psa well
Same! I literally just watched a video yesterday that had it in it. Repressed memories..I'm so traumatized looking at that.
Did some people think that it was Nintendo's fault
Same
That whole Pokémon Burger King Toy Ball could've been avoided if the parents didn't give the open toys to their baby children.
Exactly. Or watched over the ones who were older and educated them on what not to do with 'em. Because we know that babies and toddlers have that tendancy to shove anything they can somewhere on their face. It's just common sense.
Even so, these parents already paid the ultimate price for their mistakes. They'll have to live with the guilt of what they did for the rest of their lives.
Yes, we should learn _from_ the mistakes, and yes, it could have been easily avoided. But I've never felt comfortable kicking the people involved while they're already down.
I’m kinda shocked that they didn’t put the usual “Not for children under 3 years old” as a warning label
@@AiLoveAidoru That warning probably was there, but it only just started being required four years prior. It wasn't common knowledge at the time, and it wasn't until high-profile incidents like this that people actually started _paying attention_ to the warnings; most people just assume things made for their kids had to be safe. A fallacious and dangerous assumption, but not an unreasonable one.
@@LendriMujina That warning definitely was on those toys. And even if it wasn't, why leave half of a plastic ball in your one year old's crib?
I love how it seems that Strider is the responsible one between the 3 of them. Also your wife and best friend joining the church of Hello Kitty was adorable!
She is
Is Cinnamaroll associate paster? Also I thought the PokeBall would be number 1!!
absolutely
😐...the **responsible** one??!?!?!? 🤔 he's the one who hired them! 😁
Has it ever occured to the fast food industry to have the people who buy the toys toys run test on them first?
The history of Burger King toys and Pokemon will never be forgotten or referenced
I had that spiderman toy
It's the parents fault to give to toys to the child in the frist place
@@skootergirl22 It still would've been less of a problem if Burger King had stopped selling them damn things. Like, they cared more about the Pokemon craze than the safety of children and infants.
@@skootergirl22 Oh no! How dare parents give their children toys!
Are you stuipid?
@@skootergirl22 I must say I disagree,and blame Burger King for not warning parents before,but I see where you are coming from.
Ok so as much as burger king is in the wrong for not recalling the pokéball toys or at least putting out a warning _way_ sooner than they did, i also have to ask...
_who is leaving their 13 month old baby alone with something that could easily suffocate them???_
I don't think burger King is on the wrong at all for not recalling them, the deaths happened because of ignorant parents
Honestly though, why would anyone in their right mind leave a baby with a choking hazard!!
@@Smiley.08 EXACTLY it’s the equivalent of leaving them with a plastic bag, those parents should have known better
It doesn't take long, a baby can suffocate in seconds. Most parents would assume there was a hole to let air through. If they have multiple kids then they could turn away to stop one grizzling, turn back and it's too late.
the pokeballs was 95% the parents fault obviously leaving a child with this toy is going to cause issues when they are that young parents just do not know how to watch the so called children if parents are watching the kids that young playing with any toy a lot of issues could be avoided
Speaking of the QR Code thing, Heinz had a similar thing happen with ketchup bottles.
Bottles would have once taken you to a Heinz created website... But Heinz let the domain lapse and someone bought the domain and made it a XXX thing.
"...that's not Heinz mayonnaise."
It went from Heinz to Hinies.
LMAO. That happened to me and I got transported to a *specific* site.
The pokeball thing wasn't really BK's fault. Parents need to supervise their kids when playing with toys, especially kids that was way too young to even have thin plastic anyway. It's not fair that every kid had to sent back their toys just because some parents were stupid and didn't look after their babies properly
Still should have put holes. They share some blame. A lot of parents have kids of varying ages so one toy that’s safe for one of them is not for the other. Kids aren’t known for having the best judgment, so an older kid might let the younger one play with a toy not suitable for them, or leave the toy in a place accessible for the younger one. Parents are human, not gods. While parents definitely need to watch their kids, It’s unreasonable to expect parents to monitor every single little thing kids do. Simply putting breathing holes would have avoided all of this to begin with.
seeing all of these retro fast food toys really makes me wonder how far we've come when it comes to the toys today
ummm you mean backwards??
@@tyrashelm6014 potato potahto
McDonald’s sold actually mini video games back then, let that sink in…
we went from toys to shit
Yeah how far backwards we’ve come
My mom actually collected all of the Shrek glasses! We still use them frequently and they have never made us sick, maybe we’re just lucky?😂
Nah the fallout radiation meter just hasn't filled all the way, your on your depleted main health. But fr tell your doctor about the cup thing.
If I were you. I would never use them and just display them as trophies.
My family still has the Shrek The Third glasses and uses them too. I’m pretty sure it was just the Shrek Forever After glasses that had cadmium, because those were the only glasses we had to return.
Are you immune?
You don't have to worry too much, it’s just in the paint. If you're not licking the pictures you should be alright
Honestly. I like the non cartoon related videos better despite that's the reason I subscribed to this channel in the first place lol. Keep up the great content. You should look into unsettling kids apps sometime in the future.
Are you kidding me dude? You'd have better luck counting every grain of sand in the Saharah Desert than picking out the 10 most stand out of those messed up kids apps.
Well he can always do 12 or 15 of em like some of the other lists.
I did NOT know about the Shrek the Third glass paint being poison 😬 I had two of them and drank chocolate milk in them like every day when I was a kid oops. Although the paint faded very quickly with wash and eventually the cups were thrown out within at least a year but maybe more. Though upon reflection maybe we shouldn’t have put it in the dishwasher with all of our other dishes 😮 This was over a decade ago I’m sure I’m fine….
it was for Shrek 3 actually.
@@jadedheartsz yup I realized that, went back and edited it. And mine were the Shrek 3 ones 🫠
Same here! We have some for Shrek and even a few for Disney! Me and my family have been using them for years with no real issues to this day. I had no clue they were toxic! But hey, we’re not dead yet so… 🤷🏼♀️
Even with these missteps (no pun intended), I still have some happy memories from old McDonald's toys. My bionicle ones are my favorite.
I still got those!
If you guys are talking about the McToran, they were great happy meal toys! A bit simple, sure, but they have a certain charm to them, and they're Lego as well, so they're probably better quality than most toys that fast food chains normally hand out
@matthewkuscienko4616 yes, first ever bionixle I got was hewkii. And now all these years later, I still love bionicle
I personally liked the Neopets toys. Even if I didn’t really play the game, they were just neat to me. I also remember trying to collect the full set of W.I.T.C.H keychain dolls with my cousin (neither of us really did get the whole set on account of our local McDonald’s being given way too many of one out of the set)
The Sanrio watches were pretty good too but I never got one sadly.
I actually have one of those minions,it technically belongs to Sideshow Bob's son but he was annoying me with it so I took it and hid it in my room
The adult only QR code incident reminds me of something that happened in the animaniacs reboot the same year. When The Brain gives a fake number to call for world domination and it turned out the number actually lead to an adult only phone line.
Yikes!
There's another adult only number in The Santa Clause with Tim Allen. It's supposedly a joke number, but when you call it, it is real and it's...Very adult only.
Wait really? I thought cartoons and shows had to use 555 to avoid real phone numbers
Something similar happened with The Santa Clause, The phone number Scott Calvin says turned out to be linked to a sex phone line so they had to change the number in later edits of the film
Well they did always say that adult clubs was the second oldest profession in the world I can see someone thinking that would be a good way of world domination lol 😂
Nice coverage here. Why not do the worst fast food toys next? You be surprised (and shocked) what's out there
Or, for a bit of a bright side, the best fast food toys!
If you thought you saw The Minions everywhere you went, Hello Kitty has been on every form of merchandise since the 1970s. A religion dedicated to this Chibi Cat was honestly inevitable.
I’m just surprised That the Burger King pokeball controversy isn’t number 1 because of how infamous it is because it even got a PSA announcement on tv which is VERY RARE for any recall on products even others have parodied or made psa ads similar to the Pokeball PSA
I loved the part about the church of Hello Kitty. But I will now continue to remember this about Boo.
It's no different than the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
The Back to the Future cartoon wasn't too bad from what I remember, a lot of the cartoon's focus was on Jules and Verne, mostly. There were also some live action bits with Christopher Lloyd reprising Doc's role but it was campy Saturday morning cheese.
It was also canon. And it was included on the 2015 30th Anniversary Blu-ray box set.
Fun fact: Omega Mart made a parody of the PokeBall recall PSA with lemons.
To add on to the pokeball recall references: A live Deltarune event, the Spamton Sweepstakes, also referenced it
5:43 not to mention Hello Kitty actually was the one of the very first characters that Tara Strong ever voiced
And her current Japanese voice is Megumi Hayashibara. Rei Ayanami, Yuki Nagato, Shantotto in Dissidia Final Fantasy, and Sage in Sonic Frontiers.
@@HydraSpectre1138 hooray for Megumi!
Actually the McDonald's Shrek glasses were actually from 2010 prompting the 4th movie. Not the 3rd movie from 2007
Hey strider I just want to say how much I love your videos! I remember the first video I’ve ever watched of yours I was beginning 6th grade and now I’m about to finish my freshman year of college! You’ve come such a long way and I just really like the positive, informative, and happy attitude you have! I also really like the switch ups you’ve been doing lately with talking about toys and food rather than just cartoons! One video I would absolutely LOVE if you could do is a top 10 cancelled Nickelodeon video games video! There are so much games that never came to be such as a cancelled nicktoons unite game and racing game and I would love to hear your thoughts on them! Again thanks for these amazing videos and stay awesome!!!!
As a responsible adult, I would like to formally apologize to all the McDonald's employees I used to bother in my youth about their toys in my kids meals. I used to complain about not getting the "right toy" (I used to always get the toys labelled for boys then), but since none of them were these, I feel a lot better about my obscure kids toys collecting dust.
agreed and i don’t even care what i get anymore too
jerk
Nowadays they just give greasy cardboard.... Which is to save the "environment"... Yeah, great idea! But little timmy is gonna get sick by the bacteria growing on the grease that's leaked on their Supergirl cardboard figurine!
@@MXOY99yep and in a plastic bag lol i collect fast food toys but i do love the books from chik fil a im not in americas so i use ebay but they are the best but yes 90s -2000s era good now ujst bad
@@MXOY99 from the looks of thingsi t seems wendy toys al crad bored now
I remember fast food toys very vividly. My siblings and I would add them to our "family" of toys, despite their poor quality. Fortunately, we were never harmed from these toys, however our dogs would sometimes get them in their chompers and, well, bye bye toy 😂
Minionese is actually a combination of several different languages including Spanish. And also yeah I didn't get the 'so so horny' thing in the Donna Summer song either because I didn't hear those lyrics I heard...'when i'm bad i'm so so bad' and 'scold me, to hold me.'
I remember my grandma took all my poke balls away. I felt so upset because I amassed a whole bunch of them by trading and I felt insulted that someone would assume I’d choke as a preteen. I bet those would of been very collectible too. First world problems am I right lol
Your grandma did this, so she can protect you
your grandma did this so she could sell the pokeballs to buy gift cards for a nigerian prince
I think I still have that pokemon fast food toy just not the actual ball container. Sadly that PSA went over my head to not really know exactly how dangerous this was. I know most of us wanna blame BK back then for not putting a label warning, thou part of me kinda wanted to know if said parents were in the same room with their 3 year old toddlers playing around with this toys before they had to unfortunately call the ambulances. Sorta makes you feel bad that those kids never got to see how many generations pokemon would be today if by some chance they still enjoy pokemon.
Hard to believe thats alot of McDonald choking hazard toys
When I was a kid I had this milkshake toy from McDonald's that turned into a pink monster. I remember I had a lot of fun with it
Strider failed to mention that the Doc Brown toy is one of the best Happy Meals ever made, the sparks that come out were insanely fun and we’re top tier when it came to happy meals.
The #MarvelSuperHeros
Storm Toy Made Sparks &
Even Smelled Like Smoke?
5:07: "I'm wondering if there's a church of Hello Kitty."
*Seconds later*
"No I'm don't wanna join..."
Too be fair, I don't think Burger King should be the only ones blamed for the Poke ball incidents. It is also the parents' responsibility to pay attention to what the child is doing. Sure, BK should have made the warnings upfront but still. Also, yes there is a Back to the Future cartoon along with The Mask, I think an Ace Ventura cartoon, Robocop cartoon, A Rambo cartoon I think.
What in the hell was the parent doing giving their infant the BK toy? Of course they will hurt themselves with it
I am sorry but most places offer different toys for younger children they just wanted to give their kids pokemon toys. They could have put a warning on the label about the hazard of the toy and it would have been fine. this would be more of neglect of whichever adult gave them the toy
agreed
I was wondering if the Burger King suffocation Poke Ball would be on the list, and you did not disappoint Strider.
As for my thoughts on it. All Burger King needed to do, was poke air holes in both ends of the Poke Ball. Or at least put a goddamn
choking hazard/suffocation warning on their product! Seriously, it's not hard!
there was, the parents were to blame for not watching literal babies as they showered.
Or parents should’ve just watched their kid
@@alexanderavila4662 Yeah, that part still frustrates me to this day.
@@Mooms Yeah, that too. Hense why I suggested Burger King add air holes to the Poke Ball. Just in case some stupid parent can't keep an eye on their infant.
@@nine_tails137 its that tendency to attack people in numbers and say they're the "little guy", in some shape or another its happened to most people or they've been part of that themselves which is something that happens a lot, I don't think I need to get too specific, I think that's why its easier for them to go for a corporation. When one pays attention many aren't so different as individuals and as groups to what they accuse some corporations of.
Not gonna lie, Boo wearing devil horns is absolutely adorable.
Hey strider if you could be any non legendary pokemon what would you be?
I’m not Strider but I would see myself as a male Delphox.
I'm obviously not Strider, but I would be a smeargle or mimikyu. Idk, maybe a Blaziken?
@@Idkanymore9029 i'd be mimikyu if i were a ghost (or fairy type) type if i were a steel type i'd be revavroom, if i were a posion type id be a Grafaiai, and if i were a flying type id be a altaria.
Heres a list of the other types i didnt mention, the list of pokemon i'd be
Ground: Flygon
Dragon: Dragapult
Rock: Diancie
Fire: Ninetales
Ice: Aloan Ninetales
Dark: Murkrow
Fighting: Mienshao
Water: Mudkip
Grass: Leafeon
Normal: furret
Bug: Butterfree
Electric: i know its basic but pikachu is cute, i'd love to be cute
Psychic: (normally i'd pick to be mew but mew is a legendary) Chimecho
Hands down i'd pick being mimikyu over all of them though XD
Charizard
mawile!
In my opinion, the Back to the Future animated series is pretty good, it picks up sometime after the 3rd movie and features a rebuilt Time DeLorean
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I think, iirc, McDonalds also did a Pokemon promotion way back when, too. I remember the Poke Ball being similarly designed, but the toys inside were plush like beany-babies. Actually, now that I think about it, I seem to recall McDonalds also doing a "Teeny Baby" toy lineup for their happy meals at one point back then. I remember getting the squirrel from it; I still have that little guy. I have to wonder about the Step-It, meanwhile...maybe the reason the Step-It gave kids blisters might have been due to the material used in the wristband; like, maybe it was a certain chemical or combination used in the...I guess it looks like latex...of the band? Maybe it had a material found in certain fabrics that can cause allergic reactions? That's the best I can gather, honestly. :/
From what I could find apparently it was the battery that caused the burns and blisters.
@@AiLoveAidoru *facepalm* Uh...wow...okay...that's actually WORSE than what I thought it'd be. I shudder to ask...what kind of battery was it? I can't imagine a device so simplistic would need a particularly powerful battery, but you never know with McDicks. :/
I can see
All BK had to do was recall the balls temporarily and drill a tiny hole in them to prevent a vacuum-seal. Hell, the restaurants could have done it themselves, but the money was just too good, I guess.
I actually knew that the pokemon toys from burger king was gonna be in there!
I personally think that Minion toy sounds like a chicken clucking! I’m glad I’m not the only one who’s fed up with the Mionions!
BK's Pokemon scandal is very complicated because while the fault was of the parents, the way they took pride in not making an announcement or whatever to calm things down is insane like... Just say "we're sorry about what happened, here's a PSA about how to be a better adult and again, we're really sorry" what's the problem in it? Maybe the recall didn't even happened if they didn't acted like assholes.
I’m gonna be really honest Strider, I like a lot of your content, but the exaggerated hyper-criticism of things you obviously have disdain for makes it a bit insufferable for me to sit through. 😣 I had to stop during the Minions segment. It’s fine that you don’t like them and find them annoying, but at least respect the fact that you’re not the Target audience, and the intended target audience adores them. I personally at times find SpongeBob obnoxious and annoying and think as a whole he’s been overhyped and marketed to death, but I respect how much he’s loved by his fanbase.
And with all due respect regarding the tragedy connected, those “crappy Pokémon toys” were far from crappy. Everyone on the school bus had at least 5 or more of those “crappy toys” and we were playing with them and trading them for months. They were so popular that they were brought back to Burger King (minus the balls) and even held a weekly trading night at participating restaurants. I traded a pile of the cards that each toy came with to a kid for a talking Pikachu!
During that time when I was struggling with a couple of classes, a student teacher who tutored me would actually purchase those toys and give them to me as a reward for doing a good job. 🙂 I still have my complete collection of those Pokémon toys, and they bring me joy every time I look through them, especially the Geodude keychain with movable arms, the light up Mewtwo which made my fellow fifth graders jealous, the super cute beanbag set (not to be confused with the ones from KFC), and of course all 3 talking Pikachus.
Sorry to vent, but as a fellow neurodivergent who happens to have an encyclopedic knowledge and experience with both fast food toys and 90’s pop culture, I felt I had to say something. 🤷♀️
Thank you for your eloquence in regards to the hyper-criticism in this video. "insufferable" sums it up perfectly, and this is the first Strider vid I've downvoted.
Ya know it's an odd day when you have to wonder "does the Hello Kitty church believe in ghosts?"
I hated the pokeball one, especially when that ad haunted me.
What do you mean by haunting you?
@@christianparrish3292 the ad? It haunted me for the rest of my life. Especially when you watch it at midnight
@@diaquallo like how? What made it terrifying?
@@christianparrish3292 idk, parodies of it ig.
The still image, it being dimly lit, the font.. a fun kid's toy being portrayed as something dangerous.
8:06 should have made it "and when I'm bad, I go to Wendy's"
Ok but actually "horrid" would be a good replacement for horny.
That pokemon one could've been avoided if they drilled small holes in the balls. I mean it's so simple
That or the parents could have been parents and watched their kids.
@@roxassora2706 it's the companies job to make a quality product even if it's a happy meal toy
Aw, I remembered listening to the Wendy’s cds. I couldn’t get that song Ain’t No Mountain High Enough out of my head when I was a kid! As for the Minion “Swearing” Toy, it sounds more like it‘s saying…What the Buck? Yeah this toy was made for a quick buck and honesty, if I knew this happy meal toy was around, I would be saying WTF too.
“And McDonald’s gave your job to a box with a face, left you behind like a quiet kid in a PlayPlace.” Wendy
One of the best rap battles, imo
Who in their right mind would give a plastic small toy to a 13 month old? It’s people like this that ruined it for everyone else. How about be a parent instead of blaming the company that gave you a toy that was too small for a baby?!
The poke ball itself was dangerous, but not the pokemon. Well at least they havn't done that thing again.
Also the type of happy meal toy I remember getting was a husky plush with the big head. And it was a safe toy case it was a plush, not plastic. Also I wasn't the type to put in my mouth. I maybe autistic, but I had some sense that I should not do that.
McDonald's also released Garfield mugs with very high amounts of lead in the paint
They weren’t even the first. Pizza Hut sold Care Bear glasses that also have high levels of lead paint
Fun Fact: “minionese” is actually not gibberish, it is a mix of multiple different languages so you could translate “minionese” to English.
Actually, the skitterbug toy was for a Fisher price deal, not Playmobil. Very, very different
Probably whenever you scan the QR some of the Mickey toys you go through the person's search history what made them😂
9:41 nice to see Connor in a countdown
Better than his food takes :3
There was a Mystic Knights McDonalds toy that functioned as a lighter. A wheel switch is used to light sparks inside the knight's shield.
I Had Wind (White), Rock (Silver),
Water (Blue), Earth (Green) & A
Horned Villian with Orange Hands!
As much as I am not a religious person, I kinda want to see what this Church of Hello Kitty is like in real life
I guarantee you, fast food toys were the combatants of most of the action figure "battles" we had as a kid. What easier way to have crossovers from the farthest reaches of pop culture?
Seriously...I Had ALOT MORE
HappyMeal Toys Then Those
Actually Purchaced in Stores!
As MY Parents Weren't Loaded
Enough To Provide Every New
Fad Which Came About & AT LEAST
KidsMeals Had Food with It.
Actually minionese is basically just multiple languages all-in-one couple words are in Spanish others I don't know chinese-korean whatever Spanish
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I like that idea
My opinion on the PokeBall toy is that there is no possible way a kid could keep it on their face like that I think they were more than likely suffocated by an adult sadly
I DON'T Doubt THAT...MANY
Folks Forget #TheSixthSense!
Shitty thing is the Burger King Pokéball issue was more on the parents not paying attention to their children than anything. If you think your child can fit the toy in its mouth and it’s not old enough to know better then that’s simply bad parenting. Common sense goes a long way but the cliche that “it’s not so common” is unfortunately so true. People would rather blame it on the company because ya know “BiG cOmPaNy BaD” and the consumer does no wrong whatsoever lmao.
Totally 💯% Correct.
I gotta say that I'm loving to see your wife being more participant in your videos
Wait this is phantomstrider’s wife
When you said Music CDs toys for Wendy’s, it gave me warm memories of the songs that played on the Kids Bops CDs you can get as a toy from McDonald’s!
I wanna see more of Boo! He's such a cool dude
Gotta disagree with most parents about certain toys when they buy it for their kids. Example the pokemon shenanigans, while it's tragic of the child losing a life, I blame mainly the parent for not keeping an eye on their kids cause the argument can be said the same of : what if your kid got a plastic ball and choke on it? Is it the companies fault? Or the parent?
I don't recall hearing the adult version of Last Dance, didn't even know it existed.
Yeah, guess I had the radio edit version on a 1970’s album.
I've seen the Back to the Future animated series, Strider. It picked up after Part 3, and had live action segments with Christopher Lloyd and Bill Nye the Scientology Guy.
5:13 This entire interaction was adorable. Starting to love this channel more and more recently.
Stop loving he 13:42 14:40
He roasted horribly twice the Minions
I won't lie, I feel like some of these recalls are also due to the parents not watching over their kids.
I'm sorry, but let's be real, a 13 month old BABY does NOT need a toy that's not intended for babies! And everyone knows how babies and toddelrs stick anything and everything in their mouths, noses, or face in general.
Just watch and/or educate your kids (the latter if they're old enough to understand what you're saying, even if it's just "don't eat that"), and make sure that anything dangerous is out of reach...
I have some of these Pokemon toys, and I am still alive because I know to not stick them in my mouth! Of course, I wasn't a toddler, but anywho...
Regarding the Minion toy, I didn't hear the phrase in that one vid: I heard a clucking chicken more than anything. xD
Amazing video Josh. I have heard of quite a few of these actually. I don’t think I have ever kept a fast food toy for more than a month. They really are cheap
Awesome!
wonderful video yet again, i remember in the past you done a video on the best bobs burgers episodes i just watched the last few of the newest season so heart wrenching and loving, so if anyone is a fan i recoment watching these, you visit bobs mums grave and see Louise being mature. i know there is a lot of fans in the comments let me know what you thing of them... much love also stop... stryder time
Man, I knew Burger King have a bad food and it’s generally a bad version of McDonald’s, but I never knew that the toys were also bad and yet they still try to defend themselves!? 19:21
I'm so glad you mentioned the PokeBalls, I actually still have a few of the mons, including the talking Pikachu (I remember getting the Ditto but I lost it)
I don't get how or why a baby would put half of a ball over their mouth and nose
Seeing clips from Rugrats (1991) in this video is all the more reason I want to see some best and worst lists based on that show from you.
Not surprising that a delorean got recalled. It was never a safe car.
Great video. I remember seeing the Back to the Future cartoon when it was first on. Sadly it did not have the charm of the original, though it did have some live action bits with Christopher Lloyd that were fun. The Bill and Ted animated series was better.
A hello kitty church? Sounds more like a cult.
I remember the Pokeball case. I never found out but the parent that let it happen should have gotten charged for child endangerment if not more. The Toys clearly said, "3 years & up" and last I checked 13 months younger than 3 years old. The child dyeing was clearly not Burger King's fault and why should they have recalled it. I never return my kid meal Pokeballs, I still have them all. As for the other two case, you never gave the ages or how the toy harmed them. So, we must assume that they were younger than 3 years old and the same thing happened, considering that all the Pokeball toys later had holes in them.
No hate to that channel but I find it kind of funny how much he hated the poor minions so much😂
Love the videos btw
I was one of those kids whose parents didn't bring back the pokeball and I was 5 when I got my 10 or so. I used them things for Barbie item holders. I still can't believe I was even allowed to have them, since my mom was one of those Christians who thought Pokémon were demon spon.
EXACTLY...Re-Purpose Them!
In otherwords, a kids Karaoke CD contained the wrong version of a song with dirty lyrics. (7:38)
The Hello Kitty segment showcases Strider's 2 friends slowly becoming more like Epic Chan. This is what we call character development.
As a massive fan of the Heisei Godzilla series, I can confirm cadmium is not very good for your mouth. Seriously, watch Return of Godzilla, they make missiles out of the stuff.
@15:30 there have been countless stories like this involving many talking toys. Parents always claim the toys are saying something offensive but when you listen to it, it's either misunderstood or it's gibberish.
EXCEPT in The Case Of Barbie &
GI*JOE Voices Being Swapped OR
#TickleMeElmo Suprise... Yeah,
We Sold THOSE At #KayBee! Or
How About That Lifesize Vibrating
#Nimbus2000 Broom From:
#HarryPotter? Oh IT EXISTS!!
I still have a duffel bag full of those burger king pokeballs, I used them to make heads for custom Death Egg Robot toys
“Last rapper this plastic had a happy meal toy with it. I’m serving billions and I can’t be beat. You’re a bin of lettuce facing da feet.” Ronald McDonald
10.mc do als Shrek glasses (poison)
9.mc step it fitness tracker (skin iratation)
8.mc hello kitty lollipop (choking)
7.wendys dico cd (controversie)
6.disney happy meals (disfunctional)
5.burger king poke balls (suffucating)
4.minions happy meal toy (insult speaking toys)
3.mc scooter bugs (choking)
2.burger bratling bitter boat (metal pins in it {choking})
1.mc Dr DeLorean (choking)
hey josh! just coming on by to say that you're geniunely one of my favorite youtubers as of right now. your content is simply so wholesome and entertaining, i can't help but smile while watching your videos,,, i know that there's probably tons of people out there who write comments like this for you, but i really wanna remind you how great of a person you are. please keep up the good work mate, i hope that you get more recognition in the future! 🙏
With the Pokeball, I feel like the toy isnt at fault, its more so just the kids being kids and doing the dumbest things. Honestly any container shaped like that could've caused the same, if a kid covered their mouth with it. Just like plastic bags, they aren't banned
EXACTLY... Vast Ignorance
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The Fun Out Of Life is The Result.
I used to have the minions toys. One was the London toy.
I am always gobsmacked by how many parents give their under 4 children plastic toys and/or small toys or toys that can break in to parts.
With toddlers it’s basically only toys larger than their mouth that can not be broken and are not concave (smothering hazard). And even those toys are not supposed to be left with children unless supervised.
Almost any toy can become a danger to a curious child (some much more than others) so it’s so crazy to me when people let their kids just have toys out of sight.
I don't think any toys at Fast Food restaurants should be recommended for under 5's let alone under 3's. The moneymakers are 7 and over franchises so why make toys available for younger?
Also some common sense needs to be taken from parents. Check what you're giving children. The Shrek glasses is definitely knowledge the manufacturer should have not made them but when a toy can be played with parents need to make the call "Can my child play with this?“
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I don’t want to be bullied for this but. The minions’ language are multiple languages Frankensteined to make something unique.
As a designer and toy collector there is a lot of art in fast food toys, despite their cheapness in more recent years. Some fast food toys from the 80s/90s and even 2000s rival mass retail toys.
There is a lost art in fast food advertising, toys and junk food packaging. It’s a weird niche interest of mine that often gets overlooked, but it’s art non the less.
EXACTLY...Thank💖You!!
i totally agree! it's a fascinating art kinda overlooked but the appearance and design of things associated with food is a pretty big part of the eating experience-you dont really want to eat something that comes from off-putting packaging, do you? designers can be really creative