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The Hamburglar was just a mascot, but Jerome Jacobson was the real deal, a McDonald's security chief who almost pulled off the ultimate inside job. On Wondery's podcast, The Big Flop, comedians join host Misha Brown to chronicle pop culture's biggest fails and try to answer the age-old question, who thought this was a good idea? At the time, the McDonald's collab with Monopoly was a genius idea.

Come get a Big Mac and you could go home with a million-dollar prize piece. The only problem? When they picked their head of security, the one guy in charge of protecting those million-dollar pieces, McDonald's drew the wrong card. Comedians Ify Wadiwe and Beth Stelling join Misha to break down what really happened with the McDonald's-Monopoly scandal.

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Something that appears to look like a sort of a big duck or a swan or a gull. But is that an actual bird, or are you supposed to form whatever you're cooking into a bird shape? And then something else, which looks like a roast turkey, but also a galleon. Yeah. With little birds going all the way around it. I mean, yeah, that's a nightmare to me.

If I turned up somewhere and someone had done me that, I'm like, what a total waste of time.

Man muss immer an die Mädchen denken.

It's when you fart and then push someone's head underneath the door.

Well, there's two classic chef looks that I'm thinking of. Chefs from history. Big fat red man or little weasley rat boy.

Those are the two.

No, no, I was looking at you anyway, because I'm talking to you, Greg. I'm not thinking big fat red man. Okay. I feel like he's got so much stuff going on, he doesn't really have time to indulge all of the time. So I'm thinking more weaselly little rat boy.

Okay.

It's a rat boy summer. It is a rat boy summer.

So he's going outside of England? Outside of England. Is he going back to France to do charity work?

Ich konnte nicht antworten. Alle meine Antworte sind so weit kaputt.

Well, I'm ashamed that I didn't know more about him, to be honest, because it seems like he's sort of the absolute proto-celebrity chef.

But even the marketing of the products and bottling his sauces and doing all of this stuff, just, yeah, it's incredible. He packed a lot into a relatively short life.

It's certainly an avenue that I've pursued, I would say. You know, once you get a thing, you've really got to lock in. I'm just out there mopping up every single food-themed job possible. And you don't even like food. You've just found a niche.

I mean, I can't promise to offer much historically in terms of food history. I can barely remember what I ate last week.

Vielen Dank.

You would have thought, if you're born in Brie, you're going to be... A cow. You may be a cow. Maybe you work within dairy or cheese, etc. Or mustard. We mustn't forget the mustard. So yeah, maybe he's a spicy cow.

The other priests would have been like, man, this is such a bad boy. Yeah.

Well, it depends. I mean, obviously it depends what the crowd are for, right? Because I'm happy to capitulate to any mob. I just want to save my own skin. I've got absolutely no ethics whatsoever.

Was wirst du tun? Ich glaube, ich singe die Radio 4 Pips, um ihnen zu wissen, dass ich ein Traditionler bin, wenn es um Broadcasting geht. Du machst den Schiffen-Vorgang. Ja, ich mache den Schiffen-Vorgang. Ich mag Live-Radio, das ist das, was ich mag.

In Bezug auf das Rennen der Küche?

Okay, also das Equipment auch.

Ich glaube, was ich von diesem Mann gelernt habe, ist, dass wir nicht unbedingt vertrauen, was er sagt.

Huge news if he really did invent the cafeteria.

Comes later, later in the century. Thinking about it, the plug strainer is almost the sink cafeteria, isn't it?

Hey, look, if I could invent a kitchen utensil that we desperately need in kitchens, I wouldn't be here.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. In Back to the Future 2... They have that sort of rehydrating oven thing where they get a tiny pizza delivered and they put it in the oven and hit it. And then five seconds later, it's a full size pizza. Yes, yes, I'd like that. Yes, yes, please. And I know there are like, you know, dehydrators and whatever and all of that. But I just want something that makes food massive.

Ich denke, es ist besser, nur auf der Zeit zu sein.

That sounds lovely and romantic, but it's a pain, isn't it?

And it sounds like a Victorian novel, doesn't it?

The way that all builds.