The McDonalds Coke Spoon (GT Mini)
Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal
Jason Horton & Rebecca Leib
3.7 • 928 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
A fast food utensil gets banned in 1979.
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| 0:00.0 | Ever wondered why people go on killing sprees? |
| 0:05.0 | Are you interested in exploring the paranormal? |
| 0:07.0 | Faffled by stories of previous lives. |
| 0:10.0 | Well so are we. |
| 0:11.0 | In each episode we'll be discussing the weird and wonderful stories of some truly confusing phenomena |
| 0:17.0 | and some horrific true crime cases. |
| 0:19.0 | Find us on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok |
| 0:22.5 | and join us every Tuesday, |
| 0:24.6 | wherever you listen to your podcasts. |
| 0:26.9 | And be prepared to be totally and utterly, |
| 0:29.7 | perplexed. A mix. |
| 0:48.3 | I'm McSandal. |
| 0:49.6 | I'm Rebecca Lebe. |
| 0:52.2 | And this is Ghost Town. |
| 0:53.6 | Music I'm Jason Horton. I'm Rebecca Leeb. And this is Ghost Town. |
| 1:16.5 | The 70s had its fair share of controversies. Watergate, Vietnam, heavy metal, |
| 1:26.0 | and a small plastic spoon given out with coffee at McDonald's. Yes, you heard me right. A delicate coffee spoon that circulated widely throughout the vast |
| 1:29.1 | array of food chains was making politicians and advocates speak out in horror. Why? Because the |
| 1:36.5 | spoon, while being used for coffee, was also a favorite tool for drug use, more specifically, |
| 1:42.6 | cocaine and PCP. This episode is a bit of an ode to fast food's |
| 1:47.7 | favorite drug receptacle, a scapegoat for the war on drugs, and an icon of 1970s rebellion. Today on |
| 1:55.3 | Ghost Town, the rise and fall of the McSpoon. It all began so innocently. In the 70s, McDonald's gave away a small, |
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