I’m not sure what happened to fast food restaurants. Yeah, sure, they were unhealthy for us but they used to taste good. Now, the portions are smaller, they cost a lot more, they have the texture of wet cardboard with sauce, and it doesn’t taste good. I guess if all you have ever known is the fast food restaurants of the last 20 years then you probably never experienced a real Big Mac or Whopper from the 70s and even to the 80s. Somewhere around the 90s shit just started falling apart. Greed right, it’s always greed.
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Oh boy, guy is over here outing himself in broad daylight...
lol
Still fapping strong at least. Forever young.
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I had a similar moment yesterday when I realized Anchorman came out 19 years ago.
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I'm not a huge McDonalds fan, but I used to get lunch there occasionally because it was fast, convenient, and inexpensive. Now it's none of those things. I think the self-serve kiosks somehow made things worse.
Gotta love touching something god knows how many other people touched before you right before you get some food.
It's not like your phone or wallet are exactly clean either. Or the restaurant door, for that matter. Or the human cashier you'd be passing money to.
If something like this is a concern, just wash your hands or use some sanitizer before you eat. I struggle to imagine that kiosks caused a demonstrable increase in disease, but hey, maybe there's some data out there.
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Yeah, McDs was a no-brainer back in the day.
The cost is absurd for value now. I'd rather go elsewhere.
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A quarter pounder meal is around ten bucks, so is a cheeseburger and fries from a local restaurant or diner. The attractiveness was cheapness and now it's not even that
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Same thing that's happening in every industry. When the objective of the company is profit, not the product, the product suffers.
I miss Welfare Wednesday. $.59 hamburgers and $.69 cheeseburgers.
29c and 39c here back in the early 90s, but couldn't even compete at that with their next-door competitor (hardee's) doing 25c and 35c
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You were a child back then, which skews your memory.
I dunno, I feel like McDonald's fries being fried in beef fat made them the big hit back in the day.
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No, the food really did taste better, due to the cooking process and the different ingredients that were involved.
For example, the fries were cooked in beef tallow; the meat they used was of better quality, and more nutritious. The bread was different as well—McDonald’s changed it again only a few years ago.
Edit—Well, they’re changing their burgers again: wsj.com/business/hospitality/mcdonalds-burger-new-menu-2400d22b
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Nah, I know for a fact that the Whopper has been enshittified since at least the 90s. It used to be one of my favorites but now tastes like shit and costs 3x the price.
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Capitalism. They need to increase profits year over year. They continuously sell less for more.
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So they'll reintroduce the old size with a larger price tag now that they shrank the others while keeping them priced the same. More of a reason to stay away
McDonald's prices are actually lower today than they were in the 1980s when adjusted for inflation.
I was totally ready to call your BS, but you're right.
Cost of big Mac combo in 1980: 2.59, 10.24 after adjusted for 2023
Cost of big Mac combo in the app today: 9.20 (For my area anyway)
I had looked it up in the past. Now size wise it is probably smaller.
Really that renders the "defense" of their prices pretty meaningless.
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The ⅓-pounder? A&W already tried that, and it flopped, because people don't understand fractions.
*Americans.
The rest of the world doesn't bother with fractions of "pounds" in the first place.
Fractions work with metric too you know.
Metric weights for things like meat is basically always expressed in grams here in the EU. Using fractions is pretty pointless.
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More likely a half-pounder. They already sell a double quarter pounder. And all Americans know that halfbacks are larger than quarterbacks, from watching Real Football every week.
The 33 and 1/3 e10-3 pounder.
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The bun will be twice as thick or something.
The first six paragraphs (plus the headline) of this "news article" are the same thing with slightly different wording...
I’ve noticed that on many articles now. By the time I get to the actual article I’ve read the headline and the opening paragraph at least three times. I don’t know why but it bothers me.
SEO as "news"
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Well, they only shrank due to shrinkflation. In addition, they cost more than the bigger ones they used to make. So, really, they're just planning on gouging us even more
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"...having a larger burger is an opportunity,"
...customers want "larger, high-quality burgers that fill you up."customers want "larger, high-quality burgers that fill you up."
Bigger burgers. High-quality burgers. Not more meat. More meat is easy, just add more meat. This is going to be some kind of filler, or a mix of "beef" and ground beans.
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