I'm probably showing my age a bit here, but I remember a time when fast food meant a little place called Burger Chef. It was great if you were a kid. In fact, it's one of the first fast food places I remember eating at as a kid. They had special meals just for kids called Funmeals — they came in their own little box with games on them, and sometimes if you were lucky, there was a plastic flexible record you could play on a turntable. You'd have to put a coin near the center of it to weigh it down, though — otherwise the pressure from the turntable's needle would just hold it in place. Good times indeed. McDonald's Happy Meals, introduced later, sucked by comparison — as did the McDonaldland characters.

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