{"id":4377,"date":"2015-12-10T01:51:04","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T07:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=4377"},"modified":"2015-12-10T01:51:04","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T07:51:04","slug":"mcdonalds-added-monster-energy-drinks-to-their-menu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=4377","title":{"rendered":"McDonald&#8217;s added Monster energy drinks to their menu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While going through my magazine pile this week, I saw an article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodbusinessnews.net\/articles\/news_home\/Food-Service-Retail\/2015\/10\/Monster_opportunity_McDonalds.aspx?ID={012198CF-DD44-4629-B28E-73A667BAA7A6}\">Food Business News that McDonald&#8217;s is adding energy drinks to their menu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I was hoping Food Business News accidentally posted an early April Fool&#8217;s article, but nope. <a href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/2015\/10\/21\/mcdonalds-menu-monster\/\">Fortune<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2015-10-20\/mcdonald-s-says-it-s-testing-monster-drinks-in-about-20-stores-ifzqpgt7\">Bloomberg<\/a> confirmed it.<\/p>\n<p>How on earth do you decide to add energy drinks to an already over-the-top menu? Seriously? <a href=\"http:\/\/secretmenus.com\/mcdonalds\/nutrition-info\/\">Here&#8217;s your 600 calorie burger and 400 calorie fries<\/a>&#8230; oh, hey, how about something to kick your heart up a notch to go with it?<\/p>\n<p>I imagine the meeting went something like this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/royceeddington\/23539082212\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"McDonalds is seriously selling energy drinks now\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/583\/23539082212_2e86d864d2_h.jpg?resize=379%2C1600&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"379\" height=\"1600\" alt=\"McDonalds is seriously selling energy drinks now\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While going through my magazine pile this week, I saw an article on Food Business News that McDonald&#8217;s is adding energy drinks to their menu. I was hoping Food Business News accidentally posted an early April Fool&#8217;s article, but nope. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=4377\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pfyw-18B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4377"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4380,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4377\/revisions\/4380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}