The FunBurger
"The Hamburger with a Surprise of a Prize!"
This is the Funmeal that started them all... and not just at Burger Chef either. This little box sparked a revolution industry-wide. Sold in 1972, the FunBurger predates even the McDonald's Happy Meal. Each would come with a small toy wrapped in a white plastic package.
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These two pictures just made my day -- it's 1973 again and I'm with grandparents. Cheers.
Posted by: Jordan Owen | January 18, 2007 at 02:42 PM
I used to eat this burger about 3 times a week. My mother was too lazy to cook. I collected the Fun Village Playland. Houses were on the Fun Burger boxes. A new house each week. The last house in the Series was the actual Burger Chef Bldg. It had a mat you purchased to put the houses on.
Posted by: Margaret Duhon | January 22, 2007 at 10:09 AM
I used to have a Burger Chef and Jeff Frisbee. It was neon green and I lost it at a ZZ Top concert in 1979 at the Riverside Centroplex in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Posted by: Margaret Duhon | January 22, 2007 at 11:56 AM
I remember when BC first started selling these. I was working at the Dumfries, Va. store at the time, and we sold tons of these. We had to fold some of the boxes ahead, because we sold so many during rush hours. The Funmeal came shortly after.
Posted by: Bill Ore | January 22, 2007 at 04:09 PM
Some of us were just talking about the Funmeal box town on Flickr. Can't seem to find any pix of those boxes on the internet though.
Posted by: Adam | February 18, 2007 at 01:15 PM