I tried the McDonalds adult Happy Meal so you dont have to. Heres my review.

There are few greater feelings in childhood than begging your parents to take you to McDonalds, and them finally relenting. Nothing made you happier than a Happy Meal, the colorful cardboard box filled with either a burger or McNuggets, French fries, and of course … a toy.

While a trip to McDonalds as grown-up may be just as delicious, the joy is often replaced with a sense of shame and desperation. You dont fit in the PlayPlace, you can feel the grease from the burgers clogging your arteries. And no toy.

Until now. Mickey Ds is trying to recapture that unbridled joy of the Happy Meal for adults with Happy Meals for adults.

The Cactus Plant Flea Market Meal Box is available until Oct. 30 a collaboration with the popular streetwear company of the same name. The meal features a Big Mac or 10 Chicken McNuggets, fries and a drink in a Cactus Plant Flea Market-themed cardboard box thats bigger than your typical Happy Meal container. And of course, it comes with a toy. A Cactus Plant Flea Market-themed toy figurines of Grimace, Hamburglar and Birdie, classic McDonalds characters, as well as Cactus Buddy, the fashion companys mascot. In an oddly creepy twist, all four toys feature two sets of eyes.

This was the toy I got in my adult Happy Meal and I am still creeped out. (Jeremy Schneider | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com)

The combo will run you $12.29 for a medium fries and drink and $12.89 for large (a large Big Mac combo meal is usually $9.79).

Theres nothing special about the food that comes in the adult Happy Meal, and there doesnt need to be. We can debate Shake Shack versus Five Guys all we want, but the Big Mac is still old reliable. Its not the best fast food burger, but its the most iconic and for good reason it hits the spot every time. If you want to get McNuggets instead, knock yourself out, but youre making a mistake. Theyre just fine. McDonalds fries, on the other hand? Ten out of 10, no notes. Maybe the best single item to ever come out of a drive-thru window.

Theres nothing special about the toy, either, but in a bad way. If youre going for true nostalgia, maybe dont make the toy a bland, lifeless partnership with a hypebeast fashion company and a creepy one at that. There were so many directions McDonalds could have gone with the toys that would have felt special. Comic book toys. Nickelodeon toys. Ninja Turtle toys. These would have turned the Millennial nostalgia up to 11. But instead they decided to try to do something with … fashion, complete with limited edition sweatshirts that cost $150. No one thinks about fashion and McDonalds. They think fries.

Its silly to be surprised that McDonalds, one of the most blatantly capitalist enterprises in American society, would try to turn nostalgia into a commodity. Its even less of a surprise that it will work. People are gonna buy these, even if the whole thing is a blatant cash grab.

But if youre able to look past that and get some earnest joy from getting a Happy Meal as an adult, good for you. Enjoy your Happy Meal. And save me some fries.

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Jeremy Schneider may be reached at jschneider@njadvancemedia.com and followed on Twitter at @J_Schneider and on Instagram at @JeremyIsHungryAgain.