Erica Shadoin

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

Making America Great Again for real. 👀

[Linda Yaccarino @lindayaX]

First the Snack Wraps and now the Fried Apple Pie! Thank You @McDonalds 🇺🇸

[Erica Shadoin @EricaShadoin]

Yaaasss

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

These tasty fuckers better be served at 898 degrees Fahrenheit so that every Millennial and Gen Z person burns their lips, tongue, and mouth roof so bad they can understand what the 70s and 80s were like.

[ABC News @ABC]

McDonald’s is bringing back fried apple pies for the first time in more than three decades to honor America’s 250th birthday. https://t.co/htajMCvqpW

[Andrew Whitworth @AndrewWhitworth]

As for the “ did he say we?” crowd -
1. I played 168 games as a bengal.
2. 3 division titles
3. 5 straight playoff appearances- 6 total
4. Had all four of my kids in the Nati
5. Been to jeff Rubys a 1000 times
6. Pretended to like skyline chili when sober
7. Stumbled drunk around Mt Adams eating pizza
8. Montgomery Inn bbq in my fridge right now
9. Spent many a night in the Courtyard Covington.
10. Sat in a reds suite with Neil Armstrong
11. Watched Amy Grant with the CPO at Cincinnati Music Hall
12. Partied with Nick Lachey in “Club Bang”on 4th street
13. Ate the “Beluga” sushi boat on the reg in Hyde park Square
14. Sat w/charlie sheen as he smoked a cig in the Queen City club.
And the List goes on..

So I’ll use “We” respectfully any damn time I want. 🤣

Who dey! 💪🏼

[Erica Shadoin @EricaShadoin]

@McFranchisee Love the Wolfe family!

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

All these teams out here posting their new fancy food items at the ballpark and Cincinnati be like we’re just gonna do us 😂

[Erica Shadoin @EricaShadoin]

This happened to me with my 2 yr old a few years ago. Family party - probably 15 people in the back yard. Kid went in to use the bathroom and took his swimmies off. Came out and hopped right back in the deep end without anyone paying attention. Thank god in about 30 seconds I saw him at the bottom of the pool. I jumped in fully clothed and pulled him out. There was no splashing. No yelling. Plenty of adults present.

This is the most dangerous time for kids around the water. Important PSA!!!

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

This is rip tide and drowning awareness month. (I made that up.) Drowning doesn’t look like anything, the kid plops in and sinks. Hire a lifeguard if you’re having a party. Most drownings are when a parent is present. Everyone assumes someone is keeping an eye out. No one is.

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

This is rip tide and drowning awareness month. (I made that up.) Drowning doesn’t look like anything, the kid plops in and sinks. Hire a lifeguard if you’re having a party. Most drownings are when a parent is present. Everyone assumes someone is keeping an eye out. No one is.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

My big conclusion from this week:

Introspection causes emotional disorders.

[ArchaeoHistories @histories_arch]

In 1962, a struggling McDonald's franchise owner in Cincinnati walked into Ray Kroc's office with an idea for a fish sandwich, and Kroc told him: "You're always coming up here with a bunch of crap. I don't want my stores stunk up with the smell of fish."

That franchise owner was Lou Groen, the neighborhood around his restaurant at 5425 West North Bend Road in Cincinnati was 87 percent Catholic, and on Fridays during Lent his daily sales had dropped to 75 dollars. He had a wife, twins at home, and a McDonald's that was bleeding money one meatless Friday at a time. He had watched the Frisch's Big Boy across the street doing full business every Friday because they served a fish sandwich, and he had gone to Chicago to tell Ray Kroc that McDonald's needed one too. Kroc was not interested.

The reason Kroc was not interested turned out to be that he was already working on his own meatless Friday sandwich. It was called the Hula Burger and it was a slice of grilled pineapple with a piece of cheese on a bun. Kroc believed in it enough to propose a competition. On Good Friday 1962 both sandwiches would be sold at select locations and whichever one sold more units would earn a permanent place on the McDonald's menu. Groen's granddaughter Erica Shadoin, who still owns and operates that same Cincinnati franchise today, later recalled what her grandfather said the moment he heard Kroc's idea: he knew immediately that his fish sandwich was going to win. The final score on Good Friday 1962 was Filet-O-Fish 350, Hula Burger 6. Kroc bought Groen a new suit as his prize.

What Groen had understood and Kroc had missed was something almost embarrassingly simple. The Catholic population of Cincinnati was not avoiding meat on Fridays because they wanted pineapple. They were avoiding meat because their faith required it, and what they wanted in its place was something that actually tasted like a meal. A breaded halibut fillet with tartar sauce on a steamed bun tasted like a meal. A grilled pineapple ring with cheese on a hamburger bun tasted like someone had run out of ideas on a Thursday night. Groen had spent months perfecting his recipe before he ever went to Chicago. He had even noticed one of his employees putting a slice of cheese on a fish sandwich he was making for himself one afternoon and decided it was a good enough idea to steal. That half slice of cheese has been on every Filet-O-Fish ever since.

By 1963 the sandwich was rolling out across the entire McDonald's system. By 1965 it became the first new item ever added to the permanent McDonald's national menu since Kroc had taken over the chain. Ray Kroc acknowledged the Hula Burger's failure in his autobiography Grinding it Out, writing: "It was a giant flop when we tried it in our stores. One customer said, I like the hula, but where's the burger?"

Today McDonald's sells 300 million Filet-O-Fish sandwiches every year. Twenty-three percent of those are sold during Lent. Lou Groen retired in 1985 owning 43 McDonald's franchises. He passed away in 2011. His granddaughter Erica still runs the restaurant at 5425 West North Bend Road in Cincinnati where the whole thing started, the 66th McDonald's franchise ever opened, the place where a desperate man with 75 dollars in daily Friday sales invented one of the most enduring items in the history of fast food because a pineapple slice on a bun was never going to be the answer.

© Eats History

#archaeohistories

[McFranchisee @McFranchisee]

@BarbarianCap Ya - BK really hit us hard…said no Mcd person in the last 3 decades

[Jason DeRusha @DeRushaJ]

The dunks on the McDonald’s CEO remind me how many people have had their brains fried by consuming too many videos of influencers orgasming while they bite into food, and so they think a normal / leaning awkward CEO is some sort of a phony freak.

[Erica Shadoin @EricaShadoin]

@jonathanmaze Had one for lunch. Dooooo it!!! 😋

[Erica Shadoin @EricaShadoin]

@MikeDardisWLWT @WLWT YES! I cringe when I see this. Can we stop wearing pajamas in public please?!

[Erica Shadoin @EricaShadoin]

@McFranchisee @schmacznyk @McDonalds Close, but it’s actually MSC certified Alaskan Pollock. I toured Gorton’s (our supplier) a couple years ago and got the full education 😀

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

If you’re in Korea and want to work on chip design, fabrication or AI software, join Tesla!

[Erica Shadoin @EricaShadoin]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

[McDonald's @McDonalds]

10 piece McNuggets at 11:59pm = 
last meal of the year and first meal of the next