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Remember these? KSAT’s Sarah Acosta, Sarah Spivey recall former McDonald’s collector’s items

A story about McDonald’s plan to bring back collector’s items took the GMSA anchors back to their childhoods

SAN ANTONIO – McDonald’s is helping adults embrace their inner child by selling Happy Meals for adults, complete with collector’s edition cups.

The cups feature designs from the 1990s and the 2000s such as Hello Kitty, Beanie Babies and Hot Wheels, among several others.

The walk down memory lane spurred KSAT Meteorologist Sarah Spivey to recall a specific McDonald’s collector’s item from the 1990s: plates with pictures of characters from the 1997 animated film Hercules.

Spivey said she was a fan of the Megara collector’s plate.

When she was a kid, KSAT Anchor Sarah Acosta said she and her brothers wanted to eat from the Hercules collector’s plate for one important reason.

“It was just a plastic plate that always smelled like french fries, no matter how much you washed it,” Acosta said Sunday on GMSA. “I don’t know what it was. It just always smelled like french fries.”


About the Authors

Nate Kotisso joined KSAT as a digital journalist in 2024. He previously worked as a newspaper reporter in the Rio Grande Valley for more than two years and spent nearly three years as a digital producer at the CBS station in Oklahoma City.

Sarah Spivey headshot

Sarah Spivey is a San Antonio native who grew up watching KSAT. She has been a proud member of the KSAT Weather Authority Team since 2017. Sarah is a Clark High School and Texas A&M University graduate. She previously worked at KTEN News. When Sarah is not busy forecasting, she enjoys hanging out with her husband and cat, and playing music.

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