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No. 0093Odds and ends

c. 1998

McDonald's Hercules plate

McDonald's

Running about 28 years

Twenty years of dinners off a Hercules plate

A McDonald's promotional plate with Hercules on it, eaten off nearly every day for more than 20 years. Its owner figures it sits unused maybe two weeks a year, for vacations and eating out. Growing up, the dishwasher was only ever a drying rack, so everything got washed by hand and went straight back into service.

An older brother has the Zeus plate from the same set and uses it too.

Retold from a post on r/Wellworn. Read the original

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