hello everyone this is running on empty Food review well hello ladies gentlemen
and everyone watching welcome one and all to this newest edition of The Running on
Empty Food review series I'm your host the report of the week thanks for checking in
so first and foremost just a real quick update a lot of people have been wondering how I fared with
the hurricane uh thankfully everything's all right on my end I kind of dodged a bullet but everything
I could give a thumbs up in that regard and I'm back here at the camera and getting back into the
groove so to speak so some people were wondering just wanted to give that update real quick
you don't know how long I've been waiting for this item when you think about life itself let's get
philosophical for a moment because we also know that McDonald's it's a very philosophical subject
think about life right think about your goals what do you right what do you work for in life what is
it that right is there something that maybe you're waiting for right are there are there aspirations
me all I've been thinking about for probably years when are they going to release this
when are they going to finally release the cactus plant flea market meal deal
and they finally did they finally did it the Mad Lads actually did it I mean can you believe it
I kind of gave that as a minute because I know you can't I certainly can't I I
feel like I'm in a dream right now the cactus plant flea market boxes here it's right here
aka the adult Happy Meal they call it so McDonald's this is the next big collaboration
and this actually because a lot of places like they they team up right with pop stars a lot of
the time you see a lot of famous rappers that get teamed up with well this time McDonald's
said this isn't going to be music related this is for all those of you who love all
things fashion now obviously you could see I mean you know I really dig the sick fits as they say
so when I saw that they teamed up with my favorite clothing line I couldn't believe it
so cactus plant flea market is a designer fashion line so they have they do a lot of street wear and
as you could obviously see that's all that I wear as a matter of fact you could actually take a look
the tie that I'm wearing I'll show you right now is actually from cactus plant flea market
so I wear them I mean constantly and McDonald's is finally teaming up with them
all right that's a bit sarcastic admittedly but I could I couldn't
resist let's get down to uh to brass tacks as they say let's talk about what this is so
this is a collaboration though between uh this designer streetwear fashion line and McDonald's
and they said we are going to release a meal deal it's going to feature the signature designs
of cactus plant flea market so it's going to be designed in their signature style it's going to be
a Happy Meal for adults so it can come with either a Big Mac 10 piece chicken nuggets it's going to
be in a special box you're going to get fries a drink and most importantly you're gonna get a toy
with this that's right you're going to get most importantly a special cactus plant flea market toy
with your adult happy meal wow it's for the price of eleven dollars and fifty cents so you can get a
Big Mac or again 10 piece chicken nuggets a medium fries a medium drink and a toy in a special box
for just eleven dollars and fifty cents and there are four toys to choose from they say that they're
going to give you a toy at random and then you know so you never know which one you're going
to be able to play around with so you can get Grimace you can get the Hamburglar you can get
what I think birdie or you can get the special limited edition Cactus buddy 11.50 all right
here's the box now I'll give credit where credit is due you know sometimes I think that these ideas
can be a bit silly but at least they did I think they did a good job with The Branding uh you could
see they're kind of going with a limited edition cactus plant flea market I like that they're going
with the more retro looking McDonald's kind of like a 90s McDonald's I like that all the places
these days are these these cubes so that's nice actually kind of looks a little bit like a Pizza
Hut doesn't it but it's McDonald's there's the whole gang right there there they are wow and
we are going with the uh emojis
ball boot bone and Bell so now you know it's what they wanted you to know
all right so I'm just going to take a look we're just going to assess it I mean obviously I have
a feeling that I went with the Big Mac meal this time around so really I just want to assess very
very briefly the food quality I just want to show you what you would get if you ordered this meal
we're really going to check out the toy we're gonna see how that is I got a medium Coca-Cola
like I said so far so good with The Branding give credit where credit is due
the meal has had mixed reactions so far that's what the inside looks like
uh so really there's no prevailing consensus here there has been some harsh
excoriation about this with some people kind of calling the concept of an adult happy meal
infantile but other people have crazed the meal or it's really for its creativity
and I'm just gonna see what it's all about there's the fries got the Big Mac there
and the toy and just gonna try it out see how it is so the toy comes in here cactus plant
flea market again it's for the price of 11.50 so real quick just going to sample the food just
make sure it tastes like what it's supposed to taste like uh let's check out the Big Mac first
pretty standard as far as Big Macs though
I'm just going to take a bite or two again real quick really I just want you to see what's in the
meal so let's try it out the Big Mac from the cactus plant flea market box going in
foreign
thank you
the Big Mac is totally fine
tastes fine you know a messy a little bit messy to eat the sauce kinda
gets on your fingers but all in all pretty good very salty but you have the nice tanginess of
the the secret sauce nice tanginess of the pickles as well yeah it's fine it's a fine
Big Mac exactly what you would expect it to taste like can taste that American cheese a little bit
of the onion there again very salty but this this the special sauce on the Big Mac is nice
no problem there totally standard Big Mac not something that's necessarily uh blowing you away
it's not necessarily going to be like this is a special thing it's just you know the Big Mac
is the most iconic McDonald's item pretty much maybe aside from the fries so it's exactly what
you would expect it to be standard Big Mac nothing different about it the fries let's try those out
yeah fine little oily nice crisp to them you can see there they're very firm
well sorted nice crunch fries are fine too so everything so far in the meal is standard
there's no special customizations to the food it's really they're repackaging a
very well-known standards on their their menu so to speak
putting them in a special box and then you get the toy along with them the drink I got Coca-Cola
not bad sweet carbonated has that little you know acidic bite to it but it actually
kind of helps offset the saltiness and the greasiness of the Big Mac and the fries so
food wise standard fast food McDonald's meal it's exactly what you would expect from McDonald's no
thrills necessarily but no surprises either good or bad in terms of the food itself
it now comes the moment of truth we saw the box but a lot of people want to know
what toy do you get with it so let's see again I have no idea I haven't opened this
we can get cactus buddy we can get Grimace we can get Hamburglar or we can get birdie
so what did we get
looks like I got pretty sure that's birdie that I got let me let me make sure I don't
want to be spewing out the wrong thing yep we got birdie so there's birdie
wow there it is so this is the toy
has two sets of eyes
and two sets of goggles right up there presumably those could be like the cups
that you see on an octopus but I presume those are goggles for the eyes red hair it
looks like the little the little flippers it's kind of waving around and it's got the Big M
for McDonald's
now you have to understand something about the anatomy of Birdie because you can see it's very
rigid right very very stiff so it actually the reason why it has that degree of of stiffness
is because it has two spinal cords that's why and you can see again anatomically speaking the
spinal cords shoot up through the foot and go up that's how it has that that support so now you
know a little lesson about the anatomy of Birdie there's the size comparison between birdie and me
kind of checking around for any moving parts I don't I don't feel any moving Parts I think
it's just a plastic figurine so there is size comparison again tie knot to early size comparison
let's see if we could set birdie up does it does it stand on its own yes it does
so there's the toy
so this is what this is what we've been waiting for and it's dirty all right I'm birdie
Birdie's walking around
I guess birdie has wings right is it or is it a flightless bird
I have no idea we could we could pretend birdy can fly maybe these are like wings maybe it's like
maybe it's like a jet right it goes
and and you could play with your toy which I'm in the process of doing right now
so there you have it there's your toy I really just wanted to show you what you can get with
this meal um an adult Happy Meal again in the cactus plant flea market Style so all things
considered I kind of had some fun with this review admittedly uh if you could tell I was kind of very
sarcastic all right not me personally I see this two ways number one the meal is everything that
they said that it is so if you're a fan of cactus plant flea market if you like their design if you
like the aesthetic if you really want the toy right because some people do like the
Collectibles then I think you'll be satisfied with this know that the food is standard no surprises
there but again they go all out with The Branding which is nice half the time you get these meals
where they don't and you just got a plain box so I like that they went all out with The Branding I
like that the toy you know it's exactly what they said that it is so my formal assessment is going
to take all of these things into account now my personal opinion on this I think it's a bit silly
um I mean it is what it is in the end granted this is a lightweight light lightweight pretty
cheap piece of plastic it probably made probably cost like five cents to make this so to charge
11.50 for just your standard fast food a cardboard box and a five cent uh plastic toy with no moving
Parts just a stiff figurine and that said yeah I mean you could see what they're doing with this
very low costs I would wager to produce they could have they could up charge it a bit and
make a pretty big profit off of that that's the whole name of the game here that's what this is
all about repackaging standard items just again print out some new boxes cheap plastic toy charge
11.50 for it and there you have it a big seller that's the name of the game right there but again
yeah I think it's silly I mean I can't really say I'm personally very enthused but nonetheless I
know that people are so taking that into account if you're a fan of this it's everything that you
hoped for it so therefore out of 10 maybe slightly overpriced but it's exactly what
they say that it is as a result I'm going to give the cactus plant flea market box a 7 out of ten
slightly overpriced but you're gonna get exactly what they tell you that you're going to get and
that's important so that's all that I have for you today all right on one real quick final note
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