Chicken Shanghai Mcnuggets commercial

[AtorTheFlyingEagle]

"Taste the Orient". How dated is this.

[Clay3613]

Sweet Chilli is the best sauce ever

[magnacore11]

Hahahahaha! Look at all the white people struggling to use chopsticks! Um, not all of us white folk are uncultured uncouth slobs, you corporate whores!

Thanks a bunch! Muah!

[crookcountysellouts]

There was a Burger King response to this that I want to see. It said "McDonald's is doing something foreign."

[Smartboy8877]

@crookcountysellouts

I remember the Burger King response!

[Supertron5000]

The only thing new about the concept (besides the chopsticks no one used, and the fortune cookie) was the Teriyaki dipping sauce. As far as i know; Sweet & Sour and Hot Mustard had been on the menu about as long as McNuggetsd themselves had. And still are. I've never seen the Teriyaki anywhere i've been to.

[maryfay53]

This is my dead husband, and after he died jmfrgsn's wife totally screwed me when I tried to hire a nanny from her screwed up nanny service. Jim turned in his grave a few times over that, I'm sure,.

[DickBigs]

they probably made the nuggets out cat and dog for the promotion haha

[jmfrgsn]

I wrote this commercial while working at Leo Burnett in Chicago. The first actor's name was Jimmy Fay. He was a very funny man who we found at Second City. He tragically passed away soon after the commercial was filmed. You are right about the kid... He was Alf. This was the first year of the promotion . It was extremely successful.

[elithecat]

@jmfrgsn Really great info and fantastic commercial. If you give me your name I will add it to the keywords

[countyroad239]

@elithecat The spot was produced in 1987, along with another one that featured actress Corrine Bohrer. From what I remember, Jimmy was in the same Second City group as Richard Kind, Mike Hagerty and Dan Castellaneta. We had originally wanted Dan, but the client didn't want to use him. JLooking back, it was a very silly promotion, but McDonald's did bring it back the following year....Jim Ferguson

[countyroad239]

@elithecat Jim Ferguson

[yungkidnf]

how long did this last?

[RamenDoodles]

Nobody ever believes me when I tell them I remember McDonald's giving chopsticks with their nuggets in the 80's... NOW I HAVE PROOF!! XD Thanks!

[1ring2rule3pigs]

The good news is you can STILL get those same great Shanghai McNuggets at EVERY McDonald's all over the world, only now they're called Chicken McNuggets without the sauce.

[smartguest]

the kid is a dummy by using the chopsticks in the wrong way (its a little bit tricky)

[unkajimmy858]

i miss the days when i could call myself "Oriental"... apparently the white man says i'm "Asian" now. Screw that.

[chobitfan48]

the people in the comerical are noobs at useing chopsticks

[veggiet2009]

They should have a least put a little bit more creativity and say serve small pieces of chicken in a different more oriental batter... which is SOO hard to think of / do.

[LokianGOP]

OMG I remember these, and this commercial I had taped with the glow worms Christmas special I do believe. I remember these being awesome too. Didn't they come in those little Asian take out containers, or was that for mulan?

It seems like McDonalds had a lot more specials in the 80's. =/

[zestyfresh]

I can taste that special McD's Hot Mustard Sauce right now.  Spent many a Friday night watching Night Tracks on TBS while eating those Shanghai Nuggets.

[krysg86]

what year was this? looks like an epic fail and by the way racist

[frankbooth64]

"Chop-chop"? "Oriental"? Jesus. Even in the Eighties, this was outdated and clueless.

[MrGrevy]

@frankbooth64 Let me guess - you're a bedwetting liberal wuss who somehow finds this (and everything else) 'racist'. Please, grow a pair, grow the hell up and stop ruining society with your effeminate idiocy.

[Gregsreviews]

Ugh. Chopsticks. What a lame gimmick.

Also, Hot Mustard = British, not Chinese. In fact, not Asian in the slightest.

[bchan79]

@Gregsreviews. To be fair, hot mustard is a staple of Hong Kong dim sum, British or not.

Teriyaki sauce on the other hand...

[seanvan331]

@Gregsreviews actually the hot mustard used is called "chinese mustard." you can get it at any supermarket. i know this is old, but im just sayin'.

[fixit22152]

@Gregsreviews ...not really true. its actually a pretty popular condiment. especially for chinese food.

[fmarcum01]

Too bad I never tried any because I was born in 1996!!!

[newbie8000]

Get a time machine scrub.

[markscity]

WHY NOT BRING THEESE BACK!

[Sheedtastic1]

Aw I remember this gimic. Geez I actually miss the 80s,

[paintballcraka]

a mcfortune cookie?

jesus christ i wish i was alive for this

[tracys1975]

The little boy in this commercial is Benji Gregory, who starred on ALF.

[amyv92]

I remember eating those around 1985 or 1986? They were good!

[wynnschr]

I used to love Shanghai nuggets at McDonald's when I was a kid. They would come seasonally, and then they stopped making them. But man they were soooooo good!!!!

[AngryKid2008]

Weren't they just Chicken McNuggets with limited-edition sauces, fortune cookies and chopsticks?

[GameFelon]

It would seem that way, but I swear the Shanghai nuggets had a different flavor to them.

Hey does anyone remember the McDlt, hot on one side and cold on the other! :)

[yellofury]

i loved the mcdlt and the mcrib booyeah

[sharpasaneraser]

wow, you figured that out all by yourself? good for you, short-bus!

[Imyoursuperior]

WTF, when was this!? Why was this?!