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McDonald's plans to start selling bigger burgers
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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.
Oh boy, guy is over here outing himself in broad daylight...
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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.
FfffffUCK that hurts
Well that escalated slowly.
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.
You probably don't want to see how the food is prepared, then.
They are mandated to wash their hands. Unlike the customers.
If you think that’s bad you should see inside the soda machines.
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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You mean something McDonalds doesn't have?
I hadn't considered that before. Now I won't be able to stop.
Yeah, McDs was a no-brainer back in the day.
The cost is absurd for value now. I'd rather go elsewhere.
Yeah the dollar menu to value menu pipeline has been nothing but disappointment.
One thing mcds does have that’s good and cheap still is their breakfast. I use their app and it always has the $1.5 breakfast sandwich. I’ll get one and a hash brown and it’s $3 something. Compared to other places that’s super cheap.
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
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
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.
all veggie oil definitely messed up french fries.. everywhere.
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
None of the changes matter if the restaurant employees don’t give a fuck.
Ingredient quality does. The employee gives no fucks but if better beef is getting slapped on the grill the food will be better.
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.
No, McD's has publicly changed various formulations over the years. Never for the better. Even just a couple years ago when they went to "never frozen" beef for some of their sandwiches - they tasted worse IMO, but I'm sure somehow it saved McD's money.
We've got a pub near us that costs about only 10 bucks more in total to carryout from there and feed my family on burgers and fries than if we go to McDs. But we get a large hand shaped patty cooked to our individual preferences, on a bun from a local bakery, generous portion of thick cut fries, and a better experience all around.
It's insane that McD's prices are within spitting distance of the place. The drive-thru (and its related convenience) is the one and only benefit to McDs. I have reluctantly loved McD's for most of my life, but there's no doubt it's gone downhill a few times, and for sure in the past few years. If they hadn't also jacked up their prices it wouldn't be so bad, but it's really hard to justify eating there now.
They've become as infested with corporate greed as every other company of any significant size.
Capitalism. They need to increase profits year over year. They continuously sell less for more.
I miss McDonald fries from the 80’s. Y’all just don’t know. They should bring it back for a limited time like the McRib, or offer both fries and label it as Classic fries.
Basically. When companies are allowed to pick two from
or
They usually pick faster or cheaper unless competition forces them to improve quality in order to survive.