The restaurant's solution is apparently still plastic, but just less plastic with the spoon being swapped out for a smaller option and a reusable mixer.
When the McDonalds ice cream machine is not perpetually broken, there’s nothing quite like a McFlurry to bring you joy. While you’ll still be able to enjoy the tasty treat, you’ll no longer be able to eat it with its iconic, chunky plastic spoon. After almost three decades, the fast food chain is swapping out the spoon in order to try and save plastic. That solution is apparently still plastic, but just less plastic.
A McDonald’s supplier employee invented the spoon in 1995 according to a quote from a restaurant spokesperson in Food and Wine in 2021. Since then the spoons have doubled as both a dessert transportation device and a mixer on the McFlurry machine—and definitely not a straw—but will soon be phased out completely as the company continues to pivot toward more sustainable solutions.
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