If you’re old enough, you remember when McDonald’s served its larger sandwiches in styrofoam clamshell containers. I believe they also used styrofoam cups for drinks. They switched to paper packaging for sandwiches, and solid plastic for drink cups, when there was public concern about CFCs and the ozone layer. (Tangent: the entire world came together to ban CFCs, which fixed the ozone hole.) CFCs were a common substance used to “blow” plastic into styrofoam.
But McDonald’s clamshell packaging never used CFCs.
Makes a lot of sense. I don’t know a lot about packaging over the years. But, a lot of it seemed more neutral in flavor, from what I can remember. Hard to tell how accurate memory is though.
Speaking of packaging –
If you’re old enough, you remember when McDonald’s served its larger sandwiches in styrofoam clamshell containers. I believe they also used styrofoam cups for drinks. They switched to paper packaging for sandwiches, and solid plastic for drink cups, when there was public concern about CFCs and the ozone layer. (Tangent: the entire world came together to ban CFCs, which fixed the ozone hole.) CFCs were a common substance used to “blow” plastic into styrofoam.
But McDonald’s clamshell packaging never used CFCs.
Makes a lot of sense. I don’t know a lot about packaging over the years. But, a lot of it seemed more neutral in flavor, from what I can remember. Hard to tell how accurate memory is though.
Honestly, I didn’t even really recognize it until they brought out the Grand Mac and I tried one. “Ohhh that’s the Big Mac I remember!”