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Extra value meals are back.

That means 10 tender juicy McNuggets and medium fries and a drink are just $8.

Only at McDonald's. For limited time only,

prices and participation may vary. Prices may be higher in Hawaii, Alaska, and California,

and for delivery.

In 1940, the McDonald Brothers, Dick and Mack, opened their eponymous burger restaurant in the

SoCal City of San Bernardino. While these days

they're best remembered for having their creation Zuckerberged away from them by franchising

kingpin Ray Crock, their chain and their name endures. But a decade and change later, over

in the Hoosier State, a different set of enterprising brothers, Frank and Donald Thomas, along with

Robert Wildman,

founded their own hamburger joint called Burger Chef.

McDonald's and Burger Chef would spend the 50s through the 70s competing for superiority.

In 1971, Burger Chef was amazingly the nation's second largest chain restaurant overall.

And in 1977, Burger Chef and current Beef Number 2 Burger King would co-pioner a new frontier in the fast food wars, movie tie-ins. With no one yet willing

to pay up for exclusivity, the chains embarked on a duel of the fates with their own Star Wars promotions,

Burger Chef offering pretty badass-looking illustrated posters, and Burger King offering its better-remembered

commemorative drinking glasses. Though as film crushes Matt Singer pointed out, those did contain lead paint.

A vintage Burger Chef commercial from the era even features C-3PO and R2D2 requesting the posters from a cashier.

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