Spend some of that leftover foreign currency at McDonald's this week

Very cool! My Dad loves McDonald's, and I'll freely admit that I'll go there with him and have a guilt-ridden burger and fries. I'm traveling (visiting Mom and Dad) so I can't dig up any of my own foreign residuals; hopefully he has some!

Kind of a cool promotion.

But, just to be clear, the value of the foreign currency you hand over has zero impact on the value of the item you receive. It is a one for one exchange. So if you hand them a 100 Euro note, you still only get the $2 stroopwaffel. No refund of the excess. So I guess if you pay with a 1 Euro cent coin, that works too?

Hey, they got a Canada burger but don't offer the deal in Canada? I'm miffed.Eh?
That being said, if location or timing doesn't apply, more and more airlines and airports are accepting your foreign spare change for charity purposes.

Only recognized international currency accepted.

What does that mean? What do they recognise? And what is an "international currency", the only one I know is the Euro, most other countries have a national currency.
No info about exchange rates.
According to Mark "the value of the foreign currency you hand over has zero impact on the value of the item you receive.". Anybody want to try with some old Italian 500 Lire notes?

And, no McDonald's monopoly game cards accepted!

And what is an "international currency", the only one I know is the Euro, most other countries have a national currency.

I assume they mean any other currency other than US currency.

I think by "recognized international currency," they're trying to prevent Monopoly money, or Disney Dollars, or some of the other "currency equivalents" that are in use.

I don't really want anything from McDonald's, but I do have some odd coins left over that I can't easily use any other way, so it's tempting to check out.

Might be a good place to spend my Croatian kuna!

I'm I understanding that you can purchase an item with say a Hungarian coin worth about a nickel and get a menu item? Do all McDonalds have "international menu iteims"?

Do you think one could get away with trying to exchange one single US penny for a stroopwafel McFlurry? It is, after all, official currency in Ecuador, El Salvador, and Zimbabwe. :)

I'm I understanding that you can purchase an item with say a Hungarian
coin worth about a nickel and get a menu item? Do all McDonalds have
"international menu iteims"?

That's how I'm reading it, yes. They'll have certain international menu items available for a limited time this summer, and for a few hours this week are promoting the launch of this limited-time menu feature by letting you exchange any amount of foreign currency for one of the international menu items at [participating] US locations.