Mac Donald's... Your first how old were you... Do you remember it? Was it a right of passage?

I honestly can't remember. We used to go to AW when we were kids because it was close. There were no McDonalds anywhere around. I know I had taken our children to Burger King and none of us liked it. We detested it. The next eatery we tried was Mcdonalds. The kids loved it and I found it not bad. Now we have one across the street and it is open 24 hrs. Nice place to go for a coffee and a meeting or a treat after a meeting.

I remember hearing about them in the 60s from friends who had been to the US on holiday and were struck by the ubiquity of the 'golden arches'. I can't remember exactly when I actually ate anything from them, but I must have been in my mid-20s. Never a favourite place, but I found on mainland Europe they had salads so were acceptable on hot days when I didn't want to eat a full meal. I do like their milkshakes. The burgers are to be avoided.

The first McDonalds in the UK opened in South London in 1974 when I was at University. I don't remember how long it was before I tried one - it was about the same time as the first doner kebab takeaway opened in Central London... and I lived on those lol 🤗

In my forties I think, so around thirty years ago.

I had a lengthy late-evening wait for a train and a MacDonalds was the only place open close to the station.

I had something described as a burger, and a cup of hot coffee-flavoured liquid...

On subsequent evenings (I was on an evening-class course in that town) I bought the coffee but certainly not the food. I have refused to use a McD. since.

I cannot imagine how anyone would consider a junk-food snack, a rite of passage!

I lived within a few minutes from the first one. Not the California original, but Ray Croc's first. We used to get McDonalds as a treat in Catholic school once a month for lunch because a franchisee had a kid in our school. It was a brilliant marketing scheme.

I remember a burger place called Scotty's that was similar. They served 10 cent burgers. I was probably 11 years old. That was my very first experience with a fast food hamburger!

I really don't remember the first time I ever went to McDonalds. I assume it was sometime in the sixties...and the burgers were 15 cents each.

Mine was a happy meal i had to be about 7 years old. Anybody remember a record being in the happy meal that you can play on a record player? No one in my circle remembers this they act like I'm crazy. I remember record players were popular growing up you could buy them in a case like a little suitcase and everyone was buying them for Christmas. I remember this little blue record i played it and it was the McDonald's song on it. 2 all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun 🎶🎶🎶🎶

I don't remember them in the UK until sometime in my early adult life so they didn't have a role as a 'right of passage'. We had a chain called Wimpy, which still exists but which is nothing like as widespread as McD or BK.

We had Big Boy’s Shoney and Burger Chef (before Jeff) in Indiana and I didn’t see a MickyDee until High School in Cincinnati!

It would have likely been the mid 1960s. Simple hamburgers and fries small walk up place with the Golden Arches as part of the art deco style architecture. I think it would have been much better than later, I quit eating fast food in the late 1970s.

I can't remember my first time, I was probably like 4 or 5. My grandma loved mcdonalds, she used to say that you're never disappointed when you go to the mcdonalds. 👵

wehad one of the originals with the walk up outdoor counter. I might have been 5 or 6 the first time I remember. The sign said how many thousands sold!

I was younger than that, and I'm older than you...

It was just a different place to eat. The commercials were more interesting than the place.

i was baby, not sure exactly how old i was but i liked it.
apparently i would reach out of the push chair and say "bee-bur, bee-bur" (beef burger basically)

We got a McDonalds in our town when I was 10 we thought it was the greatest place ever!

I was in college. Our town didn't have a McDonald's. In fact, the only fast food place was Dairy Queen.

I was 16 when the first McDonald's opened in my city. I had a cheeseburger and a root beer. Never had a root beer since.

I was probably around 4 or 5 yesrs old. We didn't have a lot of money growing up, so it was on rare occasion.

I was 20 and thought it was vile, I miss Wimpy's....

My first how old were when I broke my virginity with not-a-water-faucet and with a real boy, was when I was 29. 24 when real consensual first kiss. 😘

Too young to remember, honestly.

I have no recollection my first time at McDonalds.

We went for their hot apple and cherry pies with soft serve for as long as I could remember, I remember getting a hot cherry pie with soft serve after I got my tracheostomy tube removed a month before my third birthday in 1973. However as we had A&W, Arctic Circle, Humdinger, and Burgerville USA in the Portland area, I don't think I had a McD chesseburger and fries until I was 8 in 1978, we went to one after my grandfather's funeral in iowa, and I remember telling my Dad that Humdinger had tater tots and that the cheeseburgers tasted better, he almost snorted his vanilla shake through his nose, and my farmer uncle's wife just glared at me. When they visited us in Oregon during xmas 1979 we took them to our local Humdinger, and the wife said under her breath, "They are better than McDonald's." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

12 or 13 yrs 1962-63.

All I know for sure is I was under 4. We lived in Alexandria Virginia and my mom took me. She likes McDonald's. At 5 we moved so I had to be 4 or under.