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Thread started 05/09/17 2:04pm

dancerella

Wait...Prince ate at McDonalds? Wtf?

I know this seems like a silly topic but last night I was watching Purple Reign, a little documentary on Prince and someone said you would always see him at McDonald's and that he loved it there. Ok, I'm perplexed. I can't imagine Prince eating at McDonald's. Can someone shed some light on this topic so I can sleep at night lol.
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Reply #1 posted 05/09/17 2:25pm

122884

lol When I first got into Prince I was a teenager in the 80s, and of course there were copious articles and interviews about him not to mention all the other media sources that did stories about him, and all of these I read and followed religiously at the time and I distinctly remember the reports that he really liked McDonald's fries. I don't remember if he ate other stuff from McDs as well but I know I remember about his liking their french fries.

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Reply #2 posted 05/09/17 2:26pm

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...when he was a kid/teen...

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Reply #3 posted 05/09/17 2:32pm

HerecomethePur
pleYoda

Prince was a French Fry Gobblin!
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Reply #4 posted 05/09/17 2:38pm

HerecomethePur
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Or the French Fry 'Kid'
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Reply #5 posted 05/09/17 2:38pm

NorthC

He lost his job at Micky D's 4 giving away 2 much food 4 free...
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Reply #6 posted 05/09/17 2:45pm

122884

eyewishuheaven said:

...when he was a kid/teen...

Probably liked them then too but the articles I read in the 80s were refering to him during the 1999/PR timeframe!

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Reply #7 posted 05/09/17 3:12pm

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Sorry, no source on this, but I recall reading an interview with a fan who met him in '87/'88 and chatted to him over a McDonalds -- on his tour bus, i think -- and he told her how much he loved it.

So he was certainly still eating that stuff in the late eighties.

In '91 he was rolling his eyes at Michael B ordering the massive chicken bucket in one of the interludes on the D&P video -- so perhaps his love of junk food was starting to wane at that point.

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Reply #8 posted 05/09/17 3:19pm

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dancerella said:

I know this seems like a silly topic but last night I was watching Purple Reign, a little documentary on Prince and someone said you would always see him at McDonald's and that he loved it there. Ok, I'm perplexed. I can't imagine Prince eating at McDonald's. Can someone shed some light on this topic so I can sleep at night lol.

Well, there is the often told story about how he used to stand outside Mickey D's just to smell the food because he couldn't afford to buy it--I guess when he was a kid. I would imagine that when he could finally afford it, he eventually ate there.

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Reply #9 posted 05/09/17 3:54pm

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NorthC said:

He lost his job at Micky D's 4 giving away 2 much food 4 free...

Couldnt stand to see a child with no food to eat...

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Reply #10 posted 05/09/17 4:01pm

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Iirc, isn't it the 1985 Rolling Stone interview by Neal Karlen that Prince discusses going by the McDonald's just to smell the food as a teen because he didn't have enough money to purchase anything? It could have been another restaurant, but I think it was McDonalds.

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Reply #11 posted 05/09/17 7:27pm

luvsexy4all

wasnt there a story that he went into a mCD in london.in 88......got a burger ..looked at it ..and threw it in the garbage

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Reply #12 posted 05/09/17 8:08pm

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This could 'possibly' ????

be the Mcdonalds where Prince says he used to stand outside (broke) and smell food.

2400 Nicollet Ave
Minneapolis, MN 55404

From 1970 through 1972, Prince’s father was living at 1707 Glenwood Ave., Apt. 105.

*google says this is the closest Mcdonalds to his dads place.

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[Edited 5/9/17 20:11pm]

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Reply #13 posted 05/09/17 9:05pm

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Prince landed in London for the Lovesexy tour and reportedly took some fans to McDonalds. Or so I remember reading. Someone google it!

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Reply #14 posted 05/10/17 12:05am

dancerella

Wow! I'm stunned but it seems it was mostly in the early days. I would probably faint if I find out he was eating there within the last 10 years of his life.
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Reply #15 posted 05/10/17 2:48am

monkeytennis

ufoclub said:

Prince landed in London for the Lovesexy tour and reportedly took some fans to McDonalds. Or so I remember reading. Someone google it!



I remember reading this, I'm sure the article said something about Prince flying into Heathrow and taking some Jackson fans to Mc D's.
I remember that it said that apparently he didn't have any money to pay the bill. So the fans ended up making a collection and paying the bill.
I'm sure there was even a picture of him standing in line wearing a long white(ish) coat with '88 on the sleeve.

But this also could've been one of the made up newspaper stories that seemed to go around back then.

I'd love to know if it really happened.
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Reply #16 posted 05/10/17 5:07am

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He mentions a, "Mc D's" shake in one of his songs. I can't remember what song, though. Was it Silicon?
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Reply #17 posted 05/10/17 9:36am

Raajput

monkeytennis said:

ufoclub said:

Prince landed in London for the Lovesexy tour and reportedly took some fans to McDonalds. Or so I remember reading. Someone google it!

I remember reading this, I'm sure the article said something about Prince flying into Heathrow and taking some Jackson fans to Mc D's. I remember that it said that apparently he didn't have any money to pay the bill. So the fans ended up making a collection and paying the bill. I'm sure there was even a picture of him standing in line wearing a long white(ish) coat with '88 on the sleeve. But this also could've been one of the made up newspaper stories that seemed to go around back then. I'd love to know if it really happened.

This made me laugh a lot...

Some of the shit you could get away with back before the advent of the internet...i guess its worse now. But in the UK you would often get crazy stories in the papers (The Sun) and the sheep picking up the paper would be led to believe that Prince lived in a torture dungeon lit by candles (oh and he put the odd record out too!)

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Reply #18 posted 05/10/17 9:56am

purpleemotions

klick2me said:

He mentions a, "Mc D's" shake in one of his songs. I can't remember what song, though. Was it Silicon?

Yes! He also mentioned a filet mignon.

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Reply #19 posted 05/10/17 10:49am

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Even Julia Child liked McDonald's french fries.

Of course, she liked them more back when they were actually fried in beef tallow. drool

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Reply #20 posted 05/10/17 1:47pm

dancerella

Genesia said:

Even Julia Child liked McDonald's french fries.

Of course, she liked them more back when they were actually fried in beef tallow. drool



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Reply #21 posted 05/10/17 3:27pm

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I remember an interview in where he said he use to stand outside and smell the food once when he didn't have any money. This was on HOUSEQUAKE.

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Reply #22 posted 05/11/17 8:42am

dancerella

Raajput said:



monkeytennis said:


ufoclub said:

Prince landed in London for the Lovesexy tour and reportedly took some fans to McDonalds. Or so I remember reading. Someone google it!



I remember reading this, I'm sure the article said something about Prince flying into Heathrow and taking some Jackson fans to Mc D's. I remember that it said that apparently he didn't have any money to pay the bill. So the fans ended up making a collection and paying the bill. I'm sure there was even a picture of him standing in line wearing a long white(ish) coat with '88 on the sleeve. But this also could've been one of the made up newspaper stories that seemed to go around back then. I'd love to know if it really happened.

This made me laugh a lot...



Some of the shit you could get away with back before the advent of the internet...i guess its worse now. But in the UK you would often get crazy stories in the papers (The Sun) and the sheep picking up the paper would be led to believe that Prince lived in a torture dungeon lit by candles (oh and he put the odd record out too!)




The Sun is the lowest piece of journalism ever. It makes the Enquirer look like the New York Times.
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Reply #23 posted 05/11/17 9:58am

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monkeytennis said:

ufoclub said:

Prince landed in London for the Lovesexy tour and reportedly took some fans to McDonalds. Or so I remember reading. Someone google it!

I remember reading this, I'm sure the article said something about Prince flying into Heathrow and taking some Jackson fans to Mc D's. I remember that it said that apparently he didn't have any money to pay the bill. So the fans ended up making a collection and paying the bill. I'm sure there was even a picture of him standing in line wearing a long white(ish) coat with '88 on the sleeve. But this also could've been one of the made up newspaper stories that seemed to go around back then. I'd love to know if it really happened.

I can't post the link but if you search the .org for Cool Collage you'll find a relevant thread.

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Reply #24 posted 05/11/17 10:19am

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He also ate ribs at Rudolph's and many other places that the later-day Prince wouldn't go to.

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