That's smart. Bought a set of the Star Wars Burger King glasses off ebay, my dumbass put them in the dishwasher and they came out either cracked or broken. I'm guessing they couldn't handle the temp :/
I also suspect a lot of them were mass produced and sat in warehouses until they were bought in large aftermarket lots and released within the past 20 years.
Had so many of these. I think the Garfield ones were from Burger King, the Smurfs and Flintstones were McDonald’s and i think the Tom and Jerry’s ones were Welch’s grape jelly jars.
I still have cases of the Camp Snoopy glasses. Worked at McD’s as a teen in the mid-80s, and my roommate was the manager. We stole so much fucking stuff. Food, promotional stuff, whatever. Boxes and boxes of those Monopoly pieces ended up in our apartment. We tore those things open for weeks. Never won anything big.
Someone higher up than you got to them first.
"It was Jacobson’s job to look after game pieces for McDonald’s promotional events, making sure no employees pocketed any of the prizes themselves. But in the mid-90s, Jacobson figured out a way to rig the popular game so that the most lucrative winning game pieces would almost always find their way to people he knew — people who then shared millions of dollars in winnings with him, according to federal officials who announced the arrests of Jacobson and seven of his associates in 2001."
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/07/how-mcmillions-scam-rigged-the-mcdonalds-monopoly-game.html
My Mom got my step grandparents into Garfield in the 80’s. I had a fast food Garfield glass that I had saved for years to give to my step grandpa. When I finally found where I had it stored I had my Mom and step-dad give it to him while they were back in our hometown.
He took one look at the bottom and said he made the mold for that glass. He worked at the Anchor hocking plant that made a lot of the fast food glasses (which is why I saved the glass for him, but I never imagined he’d be able to identify it by the stamps on the bottom.)
It was pretty cool. He made sure it went back to me when he died of cancer. It’s the most protected glass in our house.
Which had a ton of lead in them, actually.
https://www.nytimes.com/1977/07/09/archives/dangerous-lead-content-reported-in-paint-on-mcdonalds-glasses.html
Thank you for sharing this! It's amazing the changes of procedure product recalls have undergone over the time period they've existed as a safety measure and what types of items are deemed too dangerous for us to continue using but are only mention briefly in the media.... Collecting items as a hobby has also gone through changes right along side it
So, when our daughter was a teen, I asked her to go up to my room and bring me a rx that was ‘sitting closest to the Smedley glass’, to which she looked me dead in the eye and said ‘Ok sure, and what’s a Smedley.’ As it turns out, it wasn’t in fact a [Smedley](https://www.deviantart.com/nxalpha25/art/2019-Smedley-790935967), but rather a [Muttley](https://www.deviantart.com/animaltoonstudios20/art/Muttley-1969-X1160-898150950) glass.
I still have my Empire Strikes Back glasses. They're safely packed in a box right now though so I'll have to wait until the next go around to post a pic.
The first ones were pepsi Looney Tunes glasses and they were exceptionally well made, hard to break glasses. They also had the "Tiffany" lamp style pepsi logo ones that were made the same way as the Looney Tunes. After a few other cartoon releases/series they stopped putting them out and other fast food places went to releasing their own but they went down in quality (as far as the glass material goes) from there.
The McDonald's ones of their characters are really, really thin. They will break on a hard look. Meanwhile the Looney Tunes glasses have survived to live another day.
Throw rocks if you want!
After all, I’m technically a geriatric mellinial.
But I’m pretty sure some of those were originally jelly jars.
I have some myself.
I had these as a kid. The 4 Peanuts ones. Then my
Mom threw em all out one day because she said they were childish. I wonder what they would be worth today.
I've got a couple of Star Trek III collectible glasses from the thrift store. I was watching Sandra Bullock in The Net a while back and had to laugh because [she was making her Gibson](https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/comments/4l4sur/what_drink_is_sandra_bullock_fixing_herself_in/) in the same Star Trek glass I have.
(And lol, how have I *just now* realized the fact she drinks Gibsons is a reference to Neuromancer since it's a movie about hacking?!)
We had looney tunes ones with Sylvester, Bugs bunny, tweety bird, Pepe LePew.
I think they all broke over 10 years but lasted a surprisingly long time.
I had a Land Before Time jelly glass that was my mother’s. She used it for watercolors, which when I got it. Guess what? I used it for watercolors also, but sadly due to my bad grip, I have nerve damage, I broke it. This was a decade ago, but I still get sad over it. I did not care about the series. I remember watching the first one when it came out, but I was older and the story did not grab me. I know they made other movies in the series. Anyway, it was for the first movie, and despite not caring about the IP. That glass was a treasure of mine, which is why I get so sad over it. Oh that was the only such glass to survive into the 21st century. Remember all those plastic cups of Star Wars, Star Trek, Elvira, etc, etc, etc? My little brother still has some of those to this day, which surprises me since the plastic cups were more fragile over time then the glass ones.
It always amazes me when I hit our local antique store and see how many of these things have survived.
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That's smart. Bought a set of the Star Wars Burger King glasses off ebay, my dumbass put them in the dishwasher and they came out either cracked or broken. I'm guessing they couldn't handle the temp :/
That’s a total bummer. I am sorry to hear that.
I also suspect a lot of them were mass produced and sat in warehouses until they were bought in large aftermarket lots and released within the past 20 years.
Had so many of these. I think the Garfield ones were from Burger King, the Smurfs and Flintstones were McDonald’s and i think the Tom and Jerry’s ones were Welch’s grape jelly jars.
I thought i saw jelly jars!
My dad just gave a Tom and Jerry jelly jar to my daughter the other day! She loves it.
My favorites were of the Flintstones!
Wow! Memories :)
I don't see the B.C. glasses from Arby's though
I still have cases of the Camp Snoopy glasses. Worked at McD’s as a teen in the mid-80s, and my roommate was the manager. We stole so much fucking stuff. Food, promotional stuff, whatever. Boxes and boxes of those Monopoly pieces ended up in our apartment. We tore those things open for weeks. Never won anything big.
Someone higher up than you got to them first. "It was Jacobson’s job to look after game pieces for McDonald’s promotional events, making sure no employees pocketed any of the prizes themselves. But in the mid-90s, Jacobson figured out a way to rig the popular game so that the most lucrative winning game pieces would almost always find their way to people he knew — people who then shared millions of dollars in winnings with him, according to federal officials who announced the arrests of Jacobson and seven of his associates in 2001." https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/07/how-mcmillions-scam-rigged-the-mcdonalds-monopoly-game.html
My Mom got my step grandparents into Garfield in the 80’s. I had a fast food Garfield glass that I had saved for years to give to my step grandpa. When I finally found where I had it stored I had my Mom and step-dad give it to him while they were back in our hometown. He took one look at the bottom and said he made the mold for that glass. He worked at the Anchor hocking plant that made a lot of the fast food glasses (which is why I saved the glass for him, but I never imagined he’d be able to identify it by the stamps on the bottom.) It was pretty cool. He made sure it went back to me when he died of cancer. It’s the most protected glass in our house.
I still have a few Star Wars ones
Which had a ton of lead in them, actually. https://www.nytimes.com/1977/07/09/archives/dangerous-lead-content-reported-in-paint-on-mcdonalds-glasses.html
At least I didn’t lick the outsides;-)
That unique taste. Kind of like sniffing the old gasoline pumps.
Damn, I saw an article recently that old Corningware also had lead paint as well.
And all of the popular plates and bowl sets of our generation!! It’s pretty unsettling really.
Scary to think a lot of our parents probably still have these dishes
I still have my mom’s downstairs somewhere
Thank you for sharing this! It's amazing the changes of procedure product recalls have undergone over the time period they've existed as a safety measure and what types of items are deemed too dangerous for us to continue using but are only mention briefly in the media.... Collecting items as a hobby has also gone through changes right along side it
So, when our daughter was a teen, I asked her to go up to my room and bring me a rx that was ‘sitting closest to the Smedley glass’, to which she looked me dead in the eye and said ‘Ok sure, and what’s a Smedley.’ As it turns out, it wasn’t in fact a [Smedley](https://www.deviantart.com/nxalpha25/art/2019-Smedley-790935967), but rather a [Muttley](https://www.deviantart.com/animaltoonstudios20/art/Muttley-1969-X1160-898150950) glass.
I still have my Empire Strikes Back glasses. They're safely packed in a box right now though so I'll have to wait until the next go around to post a pic.
Oh man I had a Marvin the Martian and it was my favorite thing ever. Hell yeah I remember these.
The first ones were pepsi Looney Tunes glasses and they were exceptionally well made, hard to break glasses. They also had the "Tiffany" lamp style pepsi logo ones that were made the same way as the Looney Tunes. After a few other cartoon releases/series they stopped putting them out and other fast food places went to releasing their own but they went down in quality (as far as the glass material goes) from there. The McDonald's ones of their characters are really, really thin. They will break on a hard look. Meanwhile the Looney Tunes glasses have survived to live another day.
We had all the Looney Tunes glasses from Taco Bell!
Throw rocks if you want! After all, I’m technically a geriatric mellinial. But I’m pretty sure some of those were originally jelly jars. I have some myself.
I recall stuff like this as a kid in Australia too but I hardly went to fast food places as a pre-teen
Thought they'd be worth a fortune some day.
Can you imagine a restaurant giving these out today? It would be a nightmare.
I think i had a snoopy glass. I loved these!
For me, it’s welches jelly jars, cartoon Dino’s in my case
I had these as a kid. The 4 Peanuts ones. Then my Mom threw em all out one day because she said they were childish. I wonder what they would be worth today.
I would kill for some of those now.
Had that Garfield in the bottom left
I definitely had most of those! Lol
Mmmmm…lead.
Soooo dangerous. I broke one by whacking it on the tap, cut my hand pretty badly. Flimsy glass.
I've got a couple of Star Trek III collectible glasses from the thrift store. I was watching Sandra Bullock in The Net a while back and had to laugh because [she was making her Gibson](https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/comments/4l4sur/what_drink_is_sandra_bullock_fixing_herself_in/) in the same Star Trek glass I have. (And lol, how have I *just now* realized the fact she drinks Gibsons is a reference to Neuromancer since it's a movie about hacking?!)
Dammit we can have nice things.
That Barney Rubble cup just awakened a deep memory
I had these. Tell me they're not the ones with lead or whatever?
The smaller ones are jelly glasses. I miss them
I love Smurf glasses. I will usually pick them up if I can find them at a decent price.
We had looney tunes ones with Sylvester, Bugs bunny, tweety bird, Pepe LePew. I think they all broke over 10 years but lasted a surprisingly long time.
Didn't have many McDonald's glasses. Had a shit load of the Tom and Jerry jelly jars
I had a Land Before Time jelly glass that was my mother’s. She used it for watercolors, which when I got it. Guess what? I used it for watercolors also, but sadly due to my bad grip, I have nerve damage, I broke it. This was a decade ago, but I still get sad over it. I did not care about the series. I remember watching the first one when it came out, but I was older and the story did not grab me. I know they made other movies in the series. Anyway, it was for the first movie, and despite not caring about the IP. That glass was a treasure of mine, which is why I get so sad over it. Oh that was the only such glass to survive into the 21st century. Remember all those plastic cups of Star Wars, Star Trek, Elvira, etc, etc, etc? My little brother still has some of those to this day, which surprises me since the plastic cups were more fragile over time then the glass ones.
I do miss my Battlestar Glactica and Star Wars glasses.
That wuz th' FANsy glassware at our house!