It's that time, lock and load.

The Michael Berry Show is on the air.

Today's Michael Berry Show is sponsored by Burger Chef.

Burger Chef was an American fast food restaurant chain.

It began operating in 1954 in Indianapolis, Indiana.

It expanded throughout the United States and in its peak in 1973 had over 1,000 locations,

including some of those locations being located in Canada.

In 1972, the chain introduced the Fun Burger.

It was a hamburger with packaging that included puzzles in a small toy.

The following year, though, the chain introduced the Fun Meal.

The world's very first kids meal that included a burger, French fries, a drink, a cookie,

and a small toy.

With expanded packaging that included stories about the adventures of the chains to mascots,

Burger Chef and the chef's juvenile sidekick Jeff.

But it didn't just stop with stories about the mascots, no sir, it also told stories

about the friends like the magician Burgerine, a vampire, Count Fang Burger, a talking ape,

burger rilla, and cackle burger.

Yep, you guessed it, that was a witch.

That just seems wild, though, right?

I mean, no one thought it was odd that a grown man would call himself Burger Chef, and his

best friend in the entire world was just a kid named Jeff.

The two of them just hung out with a talking monkey, a vampire, a witch in a magician, and

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