Signs of the fast food times
In the quiet little town of Marshfield, Missouri the fight started. One guy was teasing the other guy and the teasee had to strike back and pretty soon it was a melee all over town. You could not go down the main streets without being confronted with the arguments and everyone “had” to take sides. It all started quietly enough when a young McDonald’s employee said let’s make our promotion more exciting in the hometown. So McDonald’s decided to start a sign war. McDonald’s challenging the local Dairy Queen across the street using a friendly tone: “Hey DQ! Wanna have a sign war?” the first sign of many read. DQ had to defend their celebrity and went after the infamous unreliable McDonald’s ice cream machines. “We would, but were 2 busy making ice cream,” their sign read. And thus the war began.
McDonald’s came back with, “Wow. Salty like our world-famous fries.”
One of the local banks decided to join in on the fun with an entry of its own. “Don’t be salty on our account,” said Arvest
DQ got violent by telling McDonald’s to behave or “We’ll flip you like our blizzards.”
McDonald’s hit back with, “That’s cute. Our ice cream makes itself.”
DQ decided to reuse their ice cream machine insult with their response, “You mean it actually works? Shocker.”
Before the two restaurants knew it, more local businesses were joining in the fun. A place called the Melon Man told people to forget about ice cream entirely because they have watermelons. A Mexican restaurant Las Cazuelas pointed out on a sign that they had fried ice cream. Arvest Bank returned to the war by saying, “Ice cream machine broken? We have a loan for that.”
McDonald’s started telling jokes starting with, “What’s a milkman in pantyhose? A dairy queen.”
DQ refused to give up and kept fighting back. Their response this time was, “Why dine with a clown when you can dine with a queen?”
McDonald’s then started to go after another fast food restaurant: Sonic.
“Sonic makes you eat in your car,” their next sign read. “We invite you in.”
Which side’s whit would make you eat there?
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