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McDonald's Ice Cream Machine

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McDonald's Ice Cream Machine refers to jokes about how the ice cream machines in McDonald's restaurants are frequently broken and unable to serve customers any ice cream products. Over the latter half of the 2010s, broken McDonald's ice cream machines were regularly referenced in multiple meme templates, leading to several YouTube videos where people investigated why they seemed to be broken so frequently.

Origin

McDonald's introduced ice cream to its menu in 1997 with the advent of the McFlurry. Jokes about how the machine was often out of order started in late 2016 with the Whoppy Machine Broke and Understandable, Have a Nice Day memes (example shown below).



Spread

Over the following years, jokes about McDonald's Ice Cream Machine were fit into several meme templates (examples shown below).


2 The McDonald's employee waiting tel you the ice cream machine is broken The new McDonalds ice cream machine after its first ice cream -I cant. Not again I'm nol. strong encugh

The popularity of the meme led to several videos investigating why McDonald's ice cream machines were so commonly out of order. On June 8th, 2020, YouTuber Vlog Creations uploaded a video where he enters various McDonald's restaurants under the guise of being a technician for the ice cream machine. On April 23rd, 2021, YouTuber Johnny Harris uploaded a 30 minute-video exploring the phenomenon and its history. He came to the conclusion that the machines' manufacturer designs them to intentionally break during cleaning, in order to increase the number of paid visits from service technicians.



McBroken.com

On October 22nd, 2020, Twitter user @rashiqfn opened a website called McBroken.com that displays a map of all McDonald's restaurants in the U.S. and whether or not its ice cream machine is currently operational. It attracted attention from news websites The Verge[1] and Delish.[2]

Welcome To McDonald’s Whatchu Order Bruh? Can I Get An Oreo McFlurry Yuh

Welcome To McDonald’s Whatchu Order Bruh? Can I Get An Oreo McFlurry Yuh was posted on March 24th, 2021, TikTok user @damedamian posted a video imagining a conversation between a McDonald's worker and a customer about the broken ice cream machine. The video was set to music and gained over 7 million views (shown below).


https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6943129116749122821

The video turned into a popular sound on TikTok, with over 34,000 videos made using the sound.[3] Some popular examples of the sound include a video by @official_azz that gained over 1.6 million likes (shown below, left) and a video by @itsjibb that gained over 1.4 million likes (shown below, right).


https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6950694428751269125
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6946720894882417925

Various Examples


Me leaving Area 51 with a working McDonald's ice cream machine ifunny.co McDonald's employees when you try to order anything that involves the ice cream machine 80 Roses are red, Obama is well spoken, I'm sorry sir, When you order a shake at McDonald's and they ask what flavor instead of saying the machines broke. I don't know. I didn't think I'd get this far. Our ice cream machine broke Every ice cream machine at McDonalds 117 I'm broke as s--- me waiting on line at McDonalds and cashier says ice cream machine isnt working. made with mematic




Search interest

External References

[1] The Verge – Meet the 24-year-old who’s tracking every broken McDonald’s ice-cream machine in the US

[2] delish – A New Site Tracks When McDonald's Ice Cream Machines Across The U.S. Are Broken

[3] TikTok – Mcdonalds Ice Cream Machine Dame

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Autumn Able
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The notorious ice cream machines tend to be Taylor C602 or C606 (also mentioned in the Taylor Harris video), as they can do both soft serve ice cream and milkshakes from the same machine. There's also been some recent controversy between Taylor, McDonalds, and Kytch. Kytch made a device that really helped a lot of the issues people had with the machines and really helped out the franchisees, but the practice was frowned upon by Taylor and McDonald's corporate. It got to the point that McDonald's corporate sent some of the Kytch machines to Taylor to be reverse-engineered into something Taylor could sell….for a much higher markup.

https://www.eatthis.com/news-mcdonalds-soft-serve-machines/

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So in the long ago time of the ancient elders, before the internet as we know it (the tail end of the aughts) I worked closing at a McDonalds.

When stoners wanted ice cream and the machine was broken it was because overnights has the job of cleaning it, which takes all night. So the pro tip is if you want a McFlurry or cone to come in during normal non-stoner hours where the only excuse is "I'm 50 orders behind and can't spend the time hauling out a 20lb bag of cum"

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