Big Mac Museum
5.22.2008
NORTH HUNTINGDON, PENNSYLVANIA - This weekend I’m heading out to Philly. This means I’m spending my time visiting friends rather than the odd homes of roadside attractions. I would be happy to share many of the fantastic places to stop in Philly, most of them bars.
That being said, when I left Pittsburgh yesterday at 3:00 I wanted to go around the city instead of through it. I have a deadly fear of gridlock when I know I’ll be in the car for 5+ hours. So I took a trip down 70 and hit the turnpike a mere 20 minutes from the Big Mac Museum. So I turned the car back in the direction I came and went to visit, what the website insists, is:
The most tasteful museum in the world
Ummm…
Honestly, the Big Mac Museum is more restaurant than museum. Well not quite “restaurant” per say, but place to eat fast food. There are knick-knacks in glass cases among the “tables” (or surfaces to place your fast food on). And they do sell Big Mac Museum souvenirs, though no postcards.
Considering I was not stopping for the cuisine, I just wandered about the well known fast food giant and took pictures of various displays. The most impressive item on display was the 14′ Big Mac. It’s giant, in the children’s playground area and behind velvet rope. I have to wonder why, why, WHY! McDonalds thought it was a good idea to put something so tempting to climb on in the play area and then not let children play on it. In fact, I’m highly disappointed that they didn’t make the play area a giant Big Mac that kids could crawl though, on top of, suck on. You know, do the things kids like to do.
So all in all the Big Mac museum is NOT worth a special trip, and I really should have taken that hour I waisted at the Big Mac museum and visited Gravity Hill instead.
