13-year-old finds a flexi disc inside a newspaper whose contents make him famous overnight

Fast Food Flexi

Its popularity reached a peak in the 1980s. Flexi-discs had become a new favorite of fast-food industries. They began placing them inside a child’s meal. The flex-disc by Burger King featured Alf and then McDonald too jumped into the bandwagon. And this flex-disc proved to be a great advantage for the company. They left their competitor behind.      

How Many?

McDonald’s soon became the leading company to produce the maximum number of Flexi-disc in one day, 80 million flexis of “Menu Song,” to be precise. It equals the 80-times-platinum record, which leaves behind Michael Jackson’s Thriller that happens to be the best-selling album of all time.  

“Menu Song”

The McDonald’s “Menu Song” was on everyone’s lips at that time. It was a hot cake. Due to its popularity, the song was used in all the huge ad campaigns featuring on national television. In fact, still, the song is remembered by many people in their 30s. Do ask one…..

Lyrics Of The Song

The “Menu song” is replete with all the food items that were there in the McDonald’s menu. You might have heard on the flexis that a “class” is endeavoring to learn the song but fails every time. But there is just one record in which the song is recited correctly without any mistake. And whoever gets their hand on that record happens to be the winner.

Couldn’t Afford

Ironically, Scotty and his family had never eaten in McDonald’s. Though he never got the opportunity to taste its food, he called it his favorite restaurant. Eating out anywhere was a privilege to the family as managing a square meal was a difficult task for them. 

How Much?

It was the real version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with Scotty in the lead. This is amazing that he accidentally got his hand on that song record that offered a prize worth $1 million. Just so you know, there were 80 million songs records. Now the winner was found. It was Scotty Landreth!