KFC is running an ARG right now

The ad, the site, and an article detailing everything known so far.

McDonald’s x Hello Kitty mahjong set

@angeystargirl limited edition McDonald’s x Hello Kitty mahjong set is SOO cute 🎀💗😻 Hello Kitty holding a mcflurry is my fav tile hehe @hellokitty #sanrio #sanriotiktok #hellokitty #hellokittylover #hellokittyandfriends #mcdonalds #mahjong #mahjonggame #麻将 #cute #collectibles #unboxingvideo #limitededition #unboxwithme #singapore #food #foodie #tiktoksg #sgtiktok #chinesenewyear #cny #cny2025 #fyp ♬ Some - ♡

Pics here.

I don't know anything about these characters, but Obelisk the Tormentor x Tuxedo Sam has a great ring to it

Yu-Gi-Oh! x Hello Kitty and Friends (2024)

Dark Magician 🔁 Hello Kitty
Blue-Eyes White Dragon 🔁 Cinnamoroll
Dark Magician 🔁 Girl My Melody
Obelisk the Tormentor 🔁 Tuxedosam
Slifer the Sky Dragon 🔁 Kuromi
The Winged Dragon of Ra 🔁 Chococat
Kuriboh 🔁 Keroppi
Time Wizard 🔁… pic.twitter.com/uFAsdtJqfr

— Modern Notoriety (@ModernNotoriety) March 10, 2024

Tuxedo Sam as Obelisk the Tormentor! pic.twitter.com/kfnkb23bCR

— ✨Alyse✨ (@washue_art) June 28, 2024

Obelisk the Tormentor pic.twitter.com/dCg8mxc1hn

— every Yu-Gi-Oh! card (@every_ygocard) May 29, 2024

Every time Starbucks pressures you to buy an olive oil-infused drink, think of this

Semafor:

Surrounded by centuries-old olive oil trees just outside the small Sicilian town of Partanna, Howard Schultz made a bold prediction: “People are going to add a tablespoon of Partanna extra-virgin olive oil into their drink,” the then-CEO of Starbucks said last year. “I’m sure of it.”

The drink, called an Oleato, isn’t just Schultz’s brainchild. It’s also a side investment.

Starbucks buys all of its olive oil from that plantation in Partanna, whose controlling family sold a 19% stake to Schultz in 2023, according to US and Italian corporate filings and people familiar with the matter. Starbucks paid the company, now named Partanna after its Sicilian hometown, $26.5 million between October 2022 and September 2023.

McDonald's Japan Happy Meals come with shinkansen combining transformers

「ポテトよし！」
「ハンバーガーよし！」
「ドリンクよし！」
シンカリオン出発前の点検完了！

5/17(金)からスタート！#ハッピーセット × #シンカリオンCW

詳しくは→ https://t.co/y2iVmOH3uS pic.twitter.com/BOFYFFlYWo

— マクドナルド (@McDonaldsJapan) May 15, 2024

始動まで、あと3日！#ハッピーセット × #シンカリオンCW

詳しくは動画をタップ！

— マクドナルド (@McDonaldsJapan) May 14, 2024

5/17(金)から販売のシンカリオン第1弾はビークル合体ができるよ！#チェンジシンカリオン をつけてリプライすると、抽選で3日合計50名様に1,000円分のマックカードが当たる！#ハッピーセット × #シンカリオンＣＷ

キャンペーン詳細は動画をタップ！

— マクドナルド (@McDonaldsJapan) May 15, 2024

Godzilla-themed Bearbicks for McDonald's Japan

ゴジラVSマクドナルド

限定ベアブリック、
本日12/20(水)より抽選販売応募受付スタート！

応募は動画をタップ！

— マクドナルド (@McDonaldsJapan) December 20, 2023

McDonald's Gundam figures

@adrianwidjy This is the coolest #mcdonaldstoy ever! With any ourchase this month of the Cheese Angus Burger you get this McDonald’s Gundam! So cool with a maccas shield and all! #PlacesInSydney #mcdonaldschina #mcdonaldsgundam #maccas #mekdi #mchappyday #happymeal #happymealtoy #gunpla ♬ Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn - Re:Mix0096 - Hiroyuki Sawano

Ebay has them. USA seems to consistently get worse Happy Meal toys than elsewhere.

Super-limited neon chase version of the Wendy's kids meal DC blind-boxed figures

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Concept art and a totally different idea for the pack-in toy below:

Chatbots are being tested at around 300 fast food restaurants to see if they can receive drive-thru orders

Bloomberg has a lot of great free daily newsletters. From yesterday's Tech Daily:

Even in its current form, the automated drive-thru can reduce a restaurant’s labor needs by as much as 40 hours a week, said [the CEO of Presto Automation Inc.]. The bot is also designed to be a model employee. It’s coded to politely upsell drinks or other meal add-ons, which helps drive sales. 

The AI will take your order now.@caelynpender headed to one of the 300 fast-food joints across the US whose drive-thru is staffed by an AI chatbot. More: https://t.co/nXJeACEQ3X pic.twitter.com/8faWRbOlUz

— Bloomberg Quicktake (@Quicktake) July 10, 2023

Today's funny posts

Love this realistic detail in my neighbor’s current 12-foot skeleton display pic.twitter.com/o9ezSTuMKa

— Dr Donna Bowman (@donnadb) July 2, 2022

Subway Sandwich cosplay; Homer Simpson in the Hedge costume; When you trick or treat at the Bulgarian Ambassadorial residence

Carter’s first Halloween costume 🎃 pic.twitter.com/fi33h8beLX

— JaylaMichal (@therealjaydior) October 31, 2021

An increasingly popular dish in China is flavored with snails and emits a foul smell so strong that "it can fill an entire restaurant and the surrounding streets"

SCMP: 

In November, 2019, a Chinese student in Italy was fined 40 euros (US$48) for cooking luosifen at home after his neighbour called the police suspecting there was a bioweapon in the house, the Beijing Evening News reported. 

 ... 

 Last year, the revenue from pre-packed luosifen made by factories in Liuzhou reached 11 billion yuan (US$1.7 billion), state media CCTV reports.

Popular enough that KFC offers a version.

Chicken McNugget body pillow

From the Travis Scott x McDonalds collection.

The special Burger King where every order includes a Star Wars spoiler

Hollywood Reporter:

In a new campaign for the German market, the fast food chain is offering customers a free Whopper — but only if they agree to read out a spoiler for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Disney's hotly anticipated addition to the sci-fi franchise, which is set to hit theaters Wednesday in Germany.

Burger King shot a commercial for the campaign in a specially designed “spoiler restaurant,” where revealing details of the new film were everywhere, from the names of menu items to writing on the straws in the soft drinks. Even the food packaging included sound chips that played spoilers out loud when opened.

Ten more funny tweets

Ah yes (in worst French accent possible) cock’d asses pic.twitter.com/Z7etNPv68F

— chris person (@Papapishu) October 30, 2019

Just wait. JUST WAIT for the gorgeous little chicken hoop jump at the end. Please share the joy! pic.twitter.com/CohNcC0KfR

— ChickenGuard™ (@ChickenGuards) October 29, 2019

What y’all wearing to the Popeyes chicken sandwich release?

— $ (@sydaIexis) October 29, 2019

this is where one might say “same” pic.twitter.com/AjhHwlsnvN

— Sarah Holder (@sarahsholder) October 29, 2019

Gotta give Eriksson-Ek 2 for flinching 😹 pic.twitter.com/feBV6XQ351

— CJ Fogler (@cjzero) October 30, 2019

Gotta name all those shades of paint somehow. pic.twitter.com/BRGlK2PUY7

— Jim Rossignol (@jimrossignol) October 30, 2019

Only Millennials could ruin "OK Boomer" in 24 hours, like a swarm of locusts, on to the next field. Gotta respect it.

— willy 💧♍ 🛵 (@willystaley) October 30, 2019

my life may be an absolute mess but at least i don’t have a nicotine addiction from a flash drive

— mo (@moprob1ems) October 30, 2019

If we’re not supposed to lean against the door then why show us a drawing of how cool it looks to do it pic.twitter.com/mD4uredfK5

— Hannah Sayle (@saylehan) October 30, 2019

Overestimates his height a little. pic.twitter.com/h9KxO22DKz

— jamie (@gnuman1979) October 30, 2019

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Using Popeye's chicken sandwiches as your side hustle

Popeyes Chicken sandwich was sold out again. This time it was because of these two guys. They tried selling them but nobody bought it from them. So now they're stuck with them. This is what I call do first & think later situations. Nobody buying cold ass chicken from ya'll! 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/7rMrOBp2Ss

— Mazer| LaLuna (@TheMoon112) August 25, 2019

Ten more funny tweets (I have an enormous backlog)

Every time something new comes out of this, it blows my mind a little more. The Atlanta Marriott will have carpet themed desserts for #DragonCon pic.twitter.com/M7pdjgme1p

— Volpin Props (@volpinprops) August 19, 2019

The kids did the Kimbrel! 🤣 pic.twitter.com/UgArpAIqjI

— Play Ball (@PlayBall) August 19, 2019

Craig Kimbrel had to pitch in a ballpark of Little Leaguers mocking him: https://t.co/iYFbwdjIkw pic.twitter.com/aRWOx9xzQD

— Deadspin (@Deadspin) August 19, 2019

definitely a stealth cannibal organization pic.twitter.com/FriuGLpt5Z

— RYAN RULZ OK (@ryanqnorth) August 20, 2019

I am so (clenches fist) fuckin ready to be the youngest person on a Viking River Cruise.

— Nicole Cliffe (@Nicole_Cliffe) August 20, 2019

my sister starting crying watching jurassic park because the old man put so much effort into making the park and it got destroyed

— tia hickson 🖤 (@tiannahicksonn) June 10, 2019

If I unfollow you it's nothing personal, I just hate all of your thoughts and opinions and think everything you say is annoying and awful

— KB (@kbnoswag) July 21, 2017

This can’t be a real name, even in Germany. https://t.co/1O10s6PmA5 pic.twitter.com/QJMXUs1aSg

— Josh Barro (@jbarro) August 20, 2019

From 1 September 2019 to 29 February 2020, every new vehicle registration in Great Britain will have a "69" in it https://t.co/fNwwz1VUyh

— quadrilateral ntm (@qntm) March 31, 2017

Sex is great but have you ever gone for a long walk with friends so that you could drop a ring into a volcano?

— Roxi Horror 💀🌸 (@roxiqt) August 20, 2019

Fantasy Novel Not Holding Back On Criticisms Of Dwarvish Culture https://t.co/gslc1XyyQn pic.twitter.com/rmoUwJIgCy

— The Onion (@TheOnion) August 20, 2019

MOVIE NIGHT FAIL: A movie night under the stars took a turn in Denver, Colorado on Saturday. Air mattresses laid out for ticket holders blew away in a strong wind. According to Robb Manes, who shot the video, the blow-up beds were on the loose for about 30 minutes. 😂 pic.twitter.com/MpQKa7yob6

— Nate Larsen (@NateLarsenKBOI) August 20, 2019

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"McDonald's has slashed its drive-thru service times"; when The Hamburglar was "The Long Jogger"

RBO:

In June, the company’s drive-thru service times were 15 seconds shorter on average than they were a year earlier in the U.S., a noticeable reduction the company believes will pay dividends over the long run.

...

Company executives believe culling precious seconds off those drive-thru service times will be key to get customers coming in more frequently. Traffic is down again this year, despite strong sales, continuing a frustrating, seven-year trend for the Chicago-based burger giant.

“We want to get incremental improvement week-to-week-to-week,” Easterbrook said. “So each time a customer comes back, they will notice a few seconds’ difference.”

Speaking of McDonald's, have you ever seen proto-Hamburglar's early identity as "The Lone Jogger?" Like something out of Syfy's Candle Cove:







*Previously: McDonalds and Heinz split up.

Ten funny tweets

Ruuxa, a cheetah, and Raina, a Rhodesian Ridgeback, have been together at San Diego Zoo since 2014.

When Ruuxa had surgery, Raina cried until she was allowed in to snuggle with her BFF.https://t.co/B0FYaMCs0U pic.twitter.com/hUU7uB8yZe

— Erin (@erinruberry) July 2, 2019

THERE ARE CLEARLY TWO pic.twitter.com/Gtbok0GJvp

— Katie Tiedrich (@katietiedrich) July 13, 2019

Ppl want to storm #Area51 but can't control the neighborhood kids with Roman candles attached to they drones pic.twitter.com/vU0f0HiYLH

— John (@_John_83) July 12, 2019

Update: A month and a half in this poster still makes me laugh every day. IT’S NOT ABOUT WHALES. pic.twitter.com/cL8J59mBaE

— alanna bennett (@AlannaBennett) July 12, 2019

My Maya timeline when I'm looking for that perfect idle pose pic.twitter.com/BwTm9GRYhw

— Darren R 😨😱😵💀👻 (@Doom_Squid) July 12, 2019

- “What The Pitta”.
- Sorry?
- “What The Pitta”.
- Okay. How does that work?
- Well, it’s a play on words.
- What’s it a play on?
- “What The Fuck”?
- I’m not sure that’s what a play on words is.
- Well, What would you call it?
- I don’t know. “I Pitta The Fool”?
- What? pic.twitter.com/9eR9Hs77zQ

— rufus jones (@rufusjones1) July 12, 2019

today is the anniversary that colonel sanders shot a guy to become the king of kentucky gas station chicken pic.twitter.com/5okeOMmhFr

— rudy mustang (@rudy_mustang) July 11, 2019

When you call in sick because you're not missing a Federer & Nadal semifinal pic.twitter.com/FtvmonfqTy

— Paid man gets bored (@cjzero) July 12, 2019

ESCAPE ARTIST: A shellfish caught by a Japanese fisherman wasn’t quite what they expected. https://t.co/471dDTB801 pic.twitter.com/X2dYYTb06e

— ABC News (@ABC) July 12, 2019

I've never been more invested in a random internet cat succeeding pic.twitter.com/hB1fxtzZOO

— Jen Gentleman 🌺 (@JenMsft) July 10, 2019

*More funny posts.

Ten funny tweets

4,000 years later and we’re basically back to the same language 😂 pic.twitter.com/uITvYXMEdq

— Dr. Cameron Sepah 🤴🏻 🧝🏻‍♂️ 🧙🏻‍♂️ 🤵🏻 (@DrSepah) April 21, 2019

Who says TikTok is all cringe. Some desi brilliance here 😂 pic.twitter.com/4o8NG2i4Sr

— Gabbbar (@GabbbarSingh) April 18, 2019

thinking about the time the lady in front of me at subway told the sandwich artist to “run it through the garden”

— ceeks (@70Ceeks) April 19, 2019

imagine baking fucked up bread ONCE when you’re in a huge rush and centuries later your descendants are still gathering once a year to discuss how fucked that bread was

— Sarah Lazarus (@sarahclazarus) April 20, 2019

we were bored so... 🤷🏽‍♂️🤣 pic.twitter.com/8umTWsNBlo

— c u r t i s 🎸 (@_justcurtis) April 20, 2019

편하게 드세요 pic.twitter.com/ok7rJ4blrX

— 🎗🍷ᶜʰᵃᵗᵉᵃᵘ ℳargaux🍷🎗 (@Chateau_Margaux) March 29, 2019

I’m crying LOL what is he doing

My boi is impersonating a Sphinx and optical illusion at the same time I’m so proud pic.twitter.com/jFk1qnmfrm

— Charleemanderz@Sakura-Con (@Charleemanderz) April 17, 2019

Maam, lower your voice. I'm doing everything I can. pic.twitter.com/MQHzlLEJ5E

— Emily McDonald 🍑 (@Emmymac1999) April 20, 2019

clementine wondering where the hell we’ve been all weekend pic.twitter.com/YKXB7tdc5E

— cruddy mae suggins (@meowshley) April 21, 2019

pic.twitter.com/k7Y5li8EtT

— CJ Fogler (@cjzer0) April 21, 2019

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