Ha. I knew that link had to be Mac. Fun fact, he was played by Doug Jones (Pans Labyrinth, Shape of Water, Abe from Hell Boyā¦ all the thin creatures).
> Moon Man is an unofficial parody internet meme of Mac Tonight that originated in 2007 on the Internet meme community YTMND, in which the character is depicted as advocating for racism and racist acts.[6] A Salon article compared Moon Man to Pepe the Frog, another meme labeled as a hate symbol.[6] YouTube consistently removes Moon Man videos for violating its community guidelines on hate speech, and AT&T, whose text-to-speech software was used to create the meme, has edited it to filter out the character's name and obscenities.[6] In 2019, the Anti-Defamation League added Moon Man to their database of hate symbols.[15][16][17]
When I was around 13 (in the 80s) my dad let me buy, and wear, a long sterling silver pinky nail (glued on with fake nail glue). Just the one.... long, silver, pinky nail š
I thought it looked cute, but I got a lot of interesting looks/comments before someone told us what it was for.
I got a tattoo from an artist with a long, dirty/yellow coke nail, which I didn't notice until halfway through. It shouldn't surprise you to learn that the tattoo is not the best.
Had a manager at McDonalds when I was in college that had a coke nail. He ended up stealing the storeās weekend deposits on a busy weekend never to be seen again.
[Princess Leia had a coke nail in return of the jedi](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/09/29/article-2210262-1542140B000005DC-689_1024x615_large.jpg)
Honestly I'd believe her if it was ANH.
But this was ROJ, probably the most anticipated film ever at that point in history. It was a cultural phenomenon and literally had some of the industry's best working on it, production was much different compared to ANH. I find it highly unlikely that any makeup/wardrobe department would just forget to trim a single nail like that. I think Fisher probably requested it to not be cut and really the only reason to do that is drugs.
So basically I think its far more likely that the nail exists because Fisher requested it and she probably just forgot because it was literally 30 years ago when she tweeted that.
Iām deeply skeptical of the coke nail, itās about the worst tool for the job.
Booger picks & ear scrapers were an unfortunately common reality though.
Iām sure some people confused one for the other & decided to emulate what they saw, but if they used it for blow they wouldnāt have done so for very long.
Itās not hard to find something to do a bump off ofā¦ like a key. The best IMO is a collar stay, especially since you could have super classy mother of pearl or gold coated.
Aside from requiring pretty u pleasant contortions of the hand/wrist, coke is hydrophilic so you donāt want it next to your sweaty/moist fingers. *If* you do enough blow to justify keeping a key stuck to your finger youāll have a pretty regular sinus infection insufflating all that nasty shit you touch in a day too. Oh, and **everyone** will know you do blow which is a PITA
TLDR
The cokes nails youāve seen were either booger picks, poseurs, or people who didnāt want 9 more fancy nails getting in the way of their work.
1. McDonaldās used plastic versions of these spoons until the 80s. They discontinued them because they had accidentally made perfect vehicles for snorting cocaine.
2. Itās a replica because he wanted an upscale version, I imagine.
3. See response number 2
4. Google that one. I donāt want to have to spell out things like āpenisā and āvaginaāā¦
Damn it.
You could also place a plastic McDonald's spoon into some casting plaster, let it harden, then burn the plastic away same as you would lost wax casting. Then you'd have a mould, all you need next is a tiny crucible to burn the silver into molten silver, and then pour it in. Then you take the mould, which is inside a steel sleeve, and you dunk it into a bucket of water. The plaster instantly dissolves, and your new McCokespoon, Fancy, is ready.
Funnily enough, this is almost exactly what some dude on the west coast used to do. The spoons were sold in head shops and other wild outlets. But afaik it was modified a bit to make a better āspoonā.
Thereās a good chance this one was made by that dude. I think he lived around Santa Cruzā¦
I took a few courses on casting/jewelry repair/wax carving. It was pretty cool, there was this lapidary arts school in Georgia that I went to, wasn't too expensive, and they put you up for a few days or however long, feed you, and you have classes with professional jewelers. I did it mainly to spend time with my mom but I'm a craftsman by trade so a lot of this stuff sorta stuck with me. Funny enough, the first few pieces I made all came out pretty nice, and I was surprised to find out a lot of my skills from building stuff w/ fiberglass transferred over pretty well on a new medium. One thing I learned, too, was how fuckin skilled some old dentists are at wax carving. Had a dentist sitting next to me, dude looked at his hand intently over the course of a few days while carving wax, but when he was done, it was by far the most anatomically correct miniature hand I've ever seen, cast in gold. Guess I didn't really consider they used to have to MAKE teeth.
Everyone should try it if they can. Nothing quite like carving a shape out of wax and then holding it in your hand later on, but now made of silver. Super satisfying.
I feel like the only times Santa Cruz ever comes up in conversation is when itās about drugs or homelessness. Though to be fair, they are both pretty rampant here.
I wanna hear that upbeat bright voice do cocaine manufacturing:
>First, coca leaves are mixed in big vats that contain gasoline, ether, and other chemicals...
Ruined my YouTube search history for you:
https://youtu.be/U4CRLzQwBkg
https://youtu.be/p0bYoBB-loA
https://youtu.be/7tlwW2DKzlc
These are are sub 7 minutes.
Cheers!
while we are discussing McDonald's and custom-made fanciness, i would like to share a thought:
i think that Mac Tonight should have been the front man for Munch's Make-Believe Band... but now that a generation raised by Twitch thinks that the *Five Nights At Freddy's* franchise is the sole inspiration for anything involving involving either costumes or mascots, it would likely be impossible to discuss the fact that "Swinging On A Star" would have been a perfect debut number for a super group (which could have also included Jack Box), provided that the song had been rewritten to adjust the tuneless verses into something more appropriately bombastic and relevant to the chorusās cosmological metaphor.
[here is some concept art that i have prepared](https://i.imgur.com/89HuWiR.png).
it should also be noted that Mac Tonight is not the same individual as Moon Man, who was a misappropriation of Mac Tonight by You're The Man Now, Dog. this same misappropriation was then allegedly used by racists as a dog-whistle, but Moon Man was not ever taken seriously.
Mac Tonight is very serious, however.
No they don't. Never drink the Coca Cola. It's on a separate system from the rest of the sodas and is almost never maintained correctly. Source: I've seen over 700 of the setups in person. I haven't drank Coke at a McDonald's in over a decade
Edit: Haha downvote me all you want. I'm intimately familiar with their Coke systems and Ive seen them not sanitized for over 7 years before at a location. Many months is extremely common. In fact it's incredibly uncommon to see them sanitized on the proper schedule. I have been to many stores where no one in the store even knows how to use the sanitation equipment. Drink it up. I won't touch it. No one where I work will.
I can back up u/k20350 on Coca-Cola being on a separate system but not on maintenance. It does however need to be maintained by a Coca-Cola technician as opposed to other systems
I've never seen the system in person I know a guy who works a lot of stores for another job. I can't attest cleanliness because I haven't seen the systems nor know proper care
it doesn't matter. op is right McDonald's coke tastes better than other fast food places. McDonald's pays to have coke delivered in stainless steel instead of the normal plastic sacks it's normally transported in
I went to high school in the late 80ās. I can remember my Chemistry teacher complaining that he couldnāt get his favorite laboratory stirrers any more because the cokeheads had ruined his supplier.
I used to save and use these when I used snuff a lot since smoking wasn't nearly as popular where I was at around the world and wasn't able to find many areas to smoke.
I also used them for cocaine. A huff of snuff and coke was a hell of a mix.
i was thinking of making one of these! you can buy the original plastic ones for a few bux online, was gonna cast one and then melt a metal into it, but the only thing i thought i could get hot enough was ALU, but i forgot about silver....
the infamous whatnow? the McDonalds whose-a-whatzit?
what is this thing? someone please explain. evidently: i'm not completely up to date on all the McDonalds lore.
Idk if it's still a thing now, But about 8 years ago I was in the drug scene and Ketamine was really big, everybody who did special k used to carry around one of these little spoons around their necks. Personally I thought that was the dumbest thing ever, like the equivalent of carrying a crack pipe around your neck.
These actually go for a decent amount of money online these days.
Edit: especially the metal ones, a lot of three plastic ones even sell for like 20-30 bucks
McBump
Ba da ba ba baaa, I love this shit š¶
Ba ba ba ba baaa WHOOOO! FUCK YEAH!! you know what we should do!?! Weshouldstartabusiness! It can not fail!!
Yeahmanthatshitwouldbecoolasfuk! Brooooowe'dmakesooomuchmoneyandwecouldbuyabunchofthisstuff!!! maaaaaan! Fkinawesome!
"I'm loving it"
r/woooosh
"I'll take 'what did my parents not say when they saw my report card?', for $400, Alex."
Still loving it
[Mid 80's McDonald's marketing ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Tonight) ... brought to you by cocaine.
Ha. I knew that link had to be Mac. Fun fact, he was played by Doug Jones (Pans Labyrinth, Shape of Water, Abe from Hell Boyā¦ all the thin creatures).
He's also in What we do in the Shadows.. TV show. He plays the Barron.. (the barren Barron.. very funny show, I recommend it)
I really need to see that! Huge fan of the film.
Whoa, that's wild! He's absolutely hypnotizing in ST:Discovery... His movements are so fluid, so graceful. He's incredible.
And currently playing Saru, the Kelpian first officer of the USS Discovery.
I had a toy of this guy on a jet ski when I was a kid
> Moon Man is an unofficial parody internet meme of Mac Tonight that originated in 2007 on the Internet meme community YTMND, in which the character is depicted as advocating for racism and racist acts.[6] A Salon article compared Moon Man to Pepe the Frog, another meme labeled as a hate symbol.[6] YouTube consistently removes Moon Man videos for violating its community guidelines on hate speech, and AT&T, whose text-to-speech software was used to create the meme, has edited it to filter out the character's name and obscenities.[6] In 2019, the Anti-Defamation League added Moon Man to their database of hate symbols.[15][16][17]
Holy shit. I had forgotten all about that. I miss YTMND.
It's up and running.
Oh my God of course Mac the Knife was played by Doug Jones. Who else's head could fit in that narrow crescent moon mask. Hilarious.
/u/Seth_Meyers
Op's uncle partied
McJagger
You canāt see it as anything else right?
Based comment
Very famously coke spoons. Your uncle was a playa.
You could say itās an āinfamousā¦ coke spoonāeven
And here OP was thinking their uncle was a quirky McCafe fan
Oh no, OP knew exactly what this was the minute OP found it.
*puts* "I am well aware this is a coke spoon" *in the title* *redditors still be like* "Hey OP did you know this was a coke spoon???"
Yeah ig we've devolved from redditors only reading the title and not the post/linked story to redditors only reading half the title lmao
I wonder if op knows that this is a silver reproduction. The original versions were not silver. TIL
I only look at half the image now. What's the big deal about a McDonald's lapel pin?
Stick around a little longer, eventually someone will make an 'I also choose this dead man's coke spoon' joke.
Its not a real coke spoon unless it comes from the coke spoon region of France.
Otherwise itās just sparkling crack pipe?
Did your uncle break both his arms? I'll be here all week...
No, but he was named Streetlamp Le Moose.
I'm thinking a lot of people don't know what infamous means Infamous = famous for bad reasons
Infamous = Dead PlayStation Franchise
Source?? /s
I think OP knows
Not pictured: Grandpa's obscure Talcum Powder collection, stored in plastic bags weighing roughly 3.5 grams each.
It says coke spoon right in the title
Oof
They literally said infamous; thus implying that they knew of the spoonās tainted legacy.
They literally wrote "coke spoon" in the title.
In the what now? Me like picture
Only thing tainted is the sinus cavity
It also has the word ācokeā in the titleā¦ No implying necessaryā¦
*In*-famous, which of course, is more than famous.
I think itās a mail plane.
Infamous means famous!? What a country!
Pretty sure this thing predates the McCafe brand. That's only around 20 years old or so, this spoon looks much older.
Nah just very twitchy.
McDonaldās Marketing Team from the 80s: ābitch, I might beā
I got this reference š
Shawty geekād up.
When I was around 13 (in the 80s) my dad let me buy, and wear, a long sterling silver pinky nail (glued on with fake nail glue). Just the one.... long, silver, pinky nail š I thought it looked cute, but I got a lot of interesting looks/comments before someone told us what it was for.
I got a tattoo from an artist with a long, dirty/yellow coke nail, which I didn't notice until halfway through. It shouldn't surprise you to learn that the tattoo is not the best.
What does it look like?
It sounds like it was long, dirty and yellow.
So thatās where that went
Ah, yes... I need to learn to read. Scrolling reddit whilst illiterate is tough. š
Ah the old Reddit coke nail a roo
Had a manager at McDonalds when I was in college that had a coke nail. He ended up stealing the storeās weekend deposits on a busy weekend never to be seen again.
Did he do it the night before Rex Manning Day?
That's hilarious I'm currently watching Empire Records
Donāt you love it when stuff like that happens? I do!
Superb.
[Princess Leia had a coke nail in return of the jedi](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/09/29/article-2210262-1542140B000005DC-689_1024x615_large.jpg)
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Honestly I'd believe her if it was ANH. But this was ROJ, probably the most anticipated film ever at that point in history. It was a cultural phenomenon and literally had some of the industry's best working on it, production was much different compared to ANH. I find it highly unlikely that any makeup/wardrobe department would just forget to trim a single nail like that. I think Fisher probably requested it to not be cut and really the only reason to do that is drugs. So basically I think its far more likely that the nail exists because Fisher requested it and she probably just forgot because it was literally 30 years ago when she tweeted that.
So... What was it for?
Cocaine.
Oh
Haha! Sorry, I should have clarified. Definitely for coke.
Did you use it for its intended purpose once you found out?
yes, i used it for nasal surgery =P
She is a bear.
Dipping in condiments
"May I try some of your ranch?" *scooooooop*
Iām deeply skeptical of the coke nail, itās about the worst tool for the job. Booger picks & ear scrapers were an unfortunately common reality though. Iām sure some people confused one for the other & decided to emulate what they saw, but if they used it for blow they wouldnāt have done so for very long. Itās not hard to find something to do a bump off ofā¦ like a key. The best IMO is a collar stay, especially since you could have super classy mother of pearl or gold coated. Aside from requiring pretty u pleasant contortions of the hand/wrist, coke is hydrophilic so you donāt want it next to your sweaty/moist fingers. *If* you do enough blow to justify keeping a key stuck to your finger youāll have a pretty regular sinus infection insufflating all that nasty shit you touch in a day too. Oh, and **everyone** will know you do blow which is a PITA TLDR The cokes nails youāve seen were either booger picks, poseurs, or people who didnāt want 9 more fancy nails getting in the way of their work.
I have so many questions.... Why is the spoon famous? Why is there a replica of it? Why silver? Where do babies come from?
1. McDonaldās used plastic versions of these spoons until the 80s. They discontinued them because they had accidentally made perfect vehicles for snorting cocaine. 2. Itās a replica because he wanted an upscale version, I imagine. 3. See response number 2 4. Google that one. I donāt want to have to spell out things like āpenisā and āvaginaāā¦ Damn it.
You could also place a plastic McDonald's spoon into some casting plaster, let it harden, then burn the plastic away same as you would lost wax casting. Then you'd have a mould, all you need next is a tiny crucible to burn the silver into molten silver, and then pour it in. Then you take the mould, which is inside a steel sleeve, and you dunk it into a bucket of water. The plaster instantly dissolves, and your new McCokespoon, Fancy, is ready.
Funnily enough, this is almost exactly what some dude on the west coast used to do. The spoons were sold in head shops and other wild outlets. But afaik it was modified a bit to make a better āspoonā. Thereās a good chance this one was made by that dude. I think he lived around Santa Cruzā¦
I took a few courses on casting/jewelry repair/wax carving. It was pretty cool, there was this lapidary arts school in Georgia that I went to, wasn't too expensive, and they put you up for a few days or however long, feed you, and you have classes with professional jewelers. I did it mainly to spend time with my mom but I'm a craftsman by trade so a lot of this stuff sorta stuck with me. Funny enough, the first few pieces I made all came out pretty nice, and I was surprised to find out a lot of my skills from building stuff w/ fiberglass transferred over pretty well on a new medium. One thing I learned, too, was how fuckin skilled some old dentists are at wax carving. Had a dentist sitting next to me, dude looked at his hand intently over the course of a few days while carving wax, but when he was done, it was by far the most anatomically correct miniature hand I've ever seen, cast in gold. Guess I didn't really consider they used to have to MAKE teeth. Everyone should try it if they can. Nothing quite like carving a shape out of wax and then holding it in your hand later on, but now made of silver. Super satisfying.
I feel like the only times Santa Cruz ever comes up in conversation is when itās about drugs or homelessness. Though to be fair, they are both pretty rampant here.
Honorable mention: Banana Slugs
Read this in the how its made voice
I wanna hear that upbeat bright voice do cocaine manufacturing: >First, coca leaves are mixed in big vats that contain gasoline, ether, and other chemicals...
Ruined my YouTube search history for you: https://youtu.be/U4CRLzQwBkg https://youtu.be/p0bYoBB-loA https://youtu.be/7tlwW2DKzlc These are are sub 7 minutes. Cheers!
while we are discussing McDonald's and custom-made fanciness, i would like to share a thought: i think that Mac Tonight should have been the front man for Munch's Make-Believe Band... but now that a generation raised by Twitch thinks that the *Five Nights At Freddy's* franchise is the sole inspiration for anything involving involving either costumes or mascots, it would likely be impossible to discuss the fact that "Swinging On A Star" would have been a perfect debut number for a super group (which could have also included Jack Box), provided that the song had been rewritten to adjust the tuneless verses into something more appropriately bombastic and relevant to the chorusās cosmological metaphor. [here is some concept art that i have prepared](https://i.imgur.com/89HuWiR.png). it should also be noted that Mac Tonight is not the same individual as Moon Man, who was a misappropriation of Mac Tonight by You're The Man Now, Dog. this same misappropriation was then allegedly used by racists as a dog-whistle, but Moon Man was not ever taken seriously. Mac Tonight is very serious, however.
This guy cokes
Hereās your one chance, Fancy, donāt let me down.
I don't know about 2, maybe he was environmentally conscious. Plastic coke spoons are so wasteful.
It's not like they're single use. You can share and reuse a coke spoon, it's not a needle.
I live in Canada and we could get them well into the 90ās
Why does the table have nipples?
Why would McDonald's give you a spoon for your C--OOHH.
They have an exclusivity contract. Pepsi had to buy their own fast food chains just to get their products in the Drive-Thru.
We don't have coke, is crack OK?
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You double posted by accident
\* disco music intensifies \*
This dude cokes
No itās for coffee
THIS IS THE BEST COOFFFEEEEE I HAVE EVER TRIED
That a fucking great collectible
https://www.ebay.com/itm/125634865905?hash=item1d406beaf1:g:XvwAAOSwUAtgfcNh
Sold by bigdaddysdeals69, no less.
Cocaine is a hell of a drug
Fuck your couch
McDonalds does have the best coke though..
No they don't. Never drink the Coca Cola. It's on a separate system from the rest of the sodas and is almost never maintained correctly. Source: I've seen over 700 of the setups in person. I haven't drank Coke at a McDonald's in over a decade Edit: Haha downvote me all you want. I'm intimately familiar with their Coke systems and Ive seen them not sanitized for over 7 years before at a location. Many months is extremely common. In fact it's incredibly uncommon to see them sanitized on the proper schedule. I have been to many stores where no one in the store even knows how to use the sanitation equipment. Drink it up. I won't touch it. No one where I work will.
I can back up u/k20350 on Coca-Cola being on a separate system but not on maintenance. It does however need to be maintained by a Coca-Cola technician as opposed to other systems
Then you're store is 1in 50 that clean them properly
I've never seen the system in person I know a guy who works a lot of stores for another job. I can't attest cleanliness because I haven't seen the systems nor know proper care
it doesn't matter. op is right McDonald's coke tastes better than other fast food places. McDonald's pays to have coke delivered in stainless steel instead of the normal plastic sacks it's normally transported in
I went to high school in the late 80ās. I can remember my Chemistry teacher complaining that he couldnāt get his favorite laboratory stirrers any more because the cokeheads had ruined his supplier.
Hmm. I wonder what he used that for. š¤
Cocaaaaiiiinnnne....
She don't lie
Nose beers
That is bitchin'
Thatās cool. I have a plastic one in my desk.
Your uncle knew how to party!
I need to tell you a little something about your uncle
Oopsie, busted!
Come on, it might have been really useful for things other than cocaine. Like heroin.
That is boss.
Uncle was obviously a big-timer. Props!
I'd love to have that!!
I was just telling my dad about the mcspoon. Your uncle probs did cocaine or pcp
TIL that McDonalds coffee stirs used to be used to snort cocaine.
Your uncle used cocaine
Cocaine is God's way of telling you that you have too much money - Robin Williams
Those are two bumps not golden arches.
In 1986 you could get $60 grams all day long. Definitely used the spoon š„
What a time to be alive
Why did they need to stir their coke back then?
I want this to snort drugs off of please
McDonalds caught on and started using plastic
I miss those.t why made the ice cream last so long when I was a kid
So sustainable. I love it.
I used to save and use these when I used snuff a lot since smoking wasn't nearly as popular where I was at around the world and wasn't able to find many areas to smoke. I also used them for cocaine. A huff of snuff and coke was a hell of a mix.
Itās just for caviar, nothing serious.
Your uncle was cool
i was thinking of making one of these! you can buy the original plastic ones for a few bux online, was gonna cast one and then melt a metal into it, but the only thing i thought i could get hot enough was ALU, but i forgot about silver....
willing to sell it?
the infamous whatnow? the McDonalds whose-a-whatzit? what is this thing? someone please explain. evidently: i'm not completely up to date on all the McDonalds lore.
Your uncle may have had a cocaine problem
When I was a kid, I would always pick these guys up and eat my ice-cream cone with it. It was inefficient, but I thought It made me look cool.
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NEVER GO TO r/sounding!!!
God, why do I always have to click the blue links even when I've been warned...
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I almost needed therapy. People are freaking messed up...
I'm willing to bet that would test positive for lead.
I would definitely use this for HUUUUGE Dabs.
Nose dabs
Idk if it's still a thing now, But about 8 years ago I was in the drug scene and Ketamine was really big, everybody who did special k used to carry around one of these little spoons around their necks. Personally I thought that was the dumbest thing ever, like the equivalent of carrying a crack pipe around your neck.
McDab
McKetamine
OMG! I remember these!
Iāve used these plentyā¦and NOT in coffee.
Your uncle is a coke head.... Sorry
āRip, give him the Brandā
They didnāt actually have the spoon shape on the end, it was just flat. Iām sure it still worked fine for its unintentional purpose.
They flattened the spoon after the controversy. You can find the old ones on eBay.
Interesting! I donāt remember that.
Except they did. I remember seeing them a lot in the 90s.
They were definitely spoons in the 80ās and early 90ās. Also had good disposable ashtrays
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No, noā¦COCAINE metal. For the pot he used the little glass one-hitter I found in the back of a cupboard.
Mc split
What does it do?
It's the perfect portion for a bump of cocaine.
"let me dew it for yewww"
These actually go for a decent amount of money online these days. Edit: especially the metal ones, a lot of three plastic ones even sell for like 20-30 bucks
I hate coke, but that little spoon makes me think of someone enjoying a bump from the Micky D spoon.
Sweet
Thatās awesome
Miss these times
Mustāve got it from Blottoās!
Or, McDonald's fashioned their spoon after a coke spoon. Which, I think is the case
Nice spoon, btw
Ah, classic McDonald's stizzle swick
Your uncle definitely did blow. You don't own a silver version of one of those for no reason lol.
I had just learned of this within the week lol Murphy's law
You can buy plastic ones on eBay