Fast Food Premiums: Wendy’s

Wendy’s was somewhat of a treat for me when I was young.  There was only one of them near my house and I didn’t go there very often, but I remember that going there was extra special.  We would always bring home a large chocolate Frosty and stick it in the freezer all day so that by dinnertime I could have it nice and frozen.  I still find it hard to have Frostys any other way to this day.

While their fries aren’t anything to write home about, I remember that their hamburger buns tasted better than the ones on the ones on the Happy Meal hamburgers and this was something I took notice of.  I also liked how their toy premiums were usually abstract things that weren’t from the latest movie or cartoon show.  While I loved those kinds of toys as well, Wendy’s toys worked great for imaginative play and that’s where these aliens came in handy.

If you notice their waists, you might see a joint.  The aliens were made of a soft plastic and could be popped apart at the torso and you could mix-and-match the aliens.  I thought this was a fun concept as a kid and had made numerous flip-type books where I would mix-and-match various monsters to make vampire werewolf mummies.

The purple alien was my favorite because he seemed to fit in better with my other toys and seemed like a nice guy.  The orange guy was usually his jerky friend and the yellow guy was silly.

I would build space ships out of Duplo Legos for these aliens and go on adventures around the house galaxy.  Good times.

The moral of the story: fast food isn’t all that bad.  Sure got me up and running around.