What the… I use the 30% coupon and buy the big Mac bundle box which has 2 big macs, 2 cheeseburgers, 2 large fries, and a 10 pc nugget in it. Always too much food but super cheap at $16.
For 4 people, right?
1 person, 4 times.
McDonald’s keeps surprising well in a car over winter. Just grab a quick burger or some nuggies from the glovebox the next 3 days.
2 humans and 2 doggos
I want to say that dogs probably shouldn’t be eating that stuff, but I guess humans shouldn’t, either…
… Yes.
“Food”
In-N-Out is what McDonalds was 40 years ago.
Dick’s is where it’s at.
So a second-rate burger joint instead of a third-rate joint?
They would be if their fries stayed hot and crispy for more than 35 seconds.
I’m not familiar with in n out. Most chain burger places cost their fries in chemicals to make them crunchy longer. A natural cut fry becomes unappetizing like 10 minutes after it’s out if the fryer.
There are trade offs with each way.
One is “cleaner” or maybe purer One has a better customer experience
In-n-Out has famously “bad” fries for 2 reasons:
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they single fry, not double fry. This is the classic way fries are fried and actually the big innovation that made McDonalds fries so famously good. Double frying results in a crispier and better tasting fry at the cost it being worse for you. Also let’s them transport them easier en masse
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they go light as fuck on the salt (some locations I’ve been to didn’t salt at ALL though that may have been a mistake during a rush), to the point they provide salt packets to salt your own fries, which many people don’t do.
I think they might also fry theirs in peanut oil like 5GBAF do, but I’m uncertain on that front.
Personally I think their fries are some of the better ones but you gotta salt em
double fry
I worked McDonald’s when I was 16 (37-years ago 😢) and we didn’t do that.
Worked a famous bar-and-grill in college and they taught us that, but we called it “blanching”. You could damn near serve hour-old fries, still crispy.
Is blanching the wrong term?
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They soak them in sugar water to keep them crunchy when deepfried It’s an old practice.
Who the fuck pays $18 to eat at McDonalds?
For real. Most of the best burgers I’ve had were cheaper than that… In Copenhagen of all expensive-ass places.
The only way I can justify eating at McDonald’s is by using their app to get free fries n such. Usually I can get out of there with lunch for between 5 and 10 bucks.
Even so, the value of Wendy’s Biggie Bag blows McDonald’s pricing out of the water, if I’m choosing to have fast food, I might as well have that.
I really like a sausage muffin with cheese, but fortunately for my health, I can never make it there early enough to get breakfast.
I just ate the big Mac meal like 30 minutes ago. And in one of the most expensive states, it was $11.93 large.
You’re an idiot if you’re still eating fast food voluntarily. Might as well just take up smoking
Must be nice to be flawless.
This isn’t the case for me (I’m just lazy sometimes), but some people genuinely don’t have the time. Think single parents with children and two+ jobs. It probably hurts to be unfairly lumped into a generalization like that when you’re doing everything you can for your family.
I’m sure that wasn’t your intention; just wanted to offer my perspective.
Ironically, a lifetime of “there’s no time to prepare nourishing meals for my family!” will result in decades of health care that would have been preventable if people just made their family regular food. Not to mention the price of all that fast food could be used to save for something worthwhile. The whole “healthy food is too expensive” myth has been debunked time and again, and simply not having “time” is bull. There’s time to prepare meals instead of binging a crappy netflix show or whatever super important thing is preventing families from eating properly.
You clearly are not in a two-person working family with kids (let alone a single parent situation) if you think there is enough time in the day to make sure your kids are getting their massive amounts of homework they are given every day finished after doing your “non-mandatory” overtime, keep the house clean, get the laundry done, get the bills paid and have time to cook dinner every night.
It’s not a myth, modern society keeps everyone intentionally so busy that families do not have the time to do what you think is simple.
When my daughter was in elementary school, you know how much time I had to binge crappy Netflix shows? Between zero and half of zero.
So yeah, we go out and get a burger from Wendy’s sometimes. Call CPS on us.
Yeah those 2 really seem like they’re unburdened. Hell, 1 of then wants to live longer! How insane is that?
I’d like to live longer too. You know what doesn’t help you live longer? Stress. You know what causes stress? Not having enough time in the day to get everything done.
Oh I get it. I’m on your side.
Sucks to be you, I guess. I’d rather live a long life without the bowel cancer and gout.
Next month they’re releasing the Smellinator. For $6.99 you get a napkin that smells like a Burger… Enjoy!
burgers are made out of napkins anyway.
I can live with 100 burgers = rent, if burger=$10, but not $18.
Another challenge that McDonald’s bottom line has had to face is war in the Middle East.
From the McDouble to the Sweet Tea,
And cold fries cooked tallow freeI can get a bison burger at a halfway respectable restaurant that actually tastes like food a person would eat for that price. What a scam, but then again, I haven’t seen anything close to that in any McDs near me.
I got food poisoning there the day after Christmas.
Note to self: never go to a fast food restaurant the day after it was closed for a holiday.
In what hell is a big Mac meal $18.
I bought a triple quarter pounder meal + happy meal for $17 2 days ago.
How much profit is McDonald’s Corp making in the US? In Germany (Munich in particular, which usuay is the most expensive city for everything) a big Mac meal is around 9,79€ (although there’s always a coupon in the app for some free nuggets or something). The workers are paid decently, they have full health insurance (including dental, eyes, etc, because everybody gets those), unlimited sick days and a minimum of 24 vacation days.
The fuck you guys are doing over there?
We live to serve our corporate overlords.
McDonald’s didn’t make profit on the food. They make money on the land value and franchise fees. I’m more saying I completely disagree with you but I think there is a more accurate way to frame where money is going. McDonald’s healthcare is far better than what you’ll get working at smaller food service business.
For what’s it worth, my big ac meal is only 10.6€.
Funneling all our money into the hands of the already rich.
It’s a privilege to provide all that freedom to the hard-working innovators that make this country great! (Heavy sarcasm)
Exploiting the poor people.
Dolla dolla bill
Not that much, that’s for sure.
You say that like $17 is a reasonable price to pay for 2 preprocessed garbage burgers, 2 little cardboard cups of fries, and 2 cups of sugar water.
Yes. But I completely disagree with your description of the food. You people have been programmed to believe the food is much worse than it is. Almost all of my burgers come out fresh. I’m not sure what you mean preprocessed. It’s pure old regular ground beef salt and pepper. The fries are certainly a step down from beef tallow days but magnitudes better than the frozen oven fries or doing a double fry at home.
I’m more than happy to trade on occasion. It’s a lovely little treat filled with nostalgia.
I’ve never seen such a distinct projection as your comment which starts off as “you people have been programmed (against)” and you ending with you own “nostalgia” towards the same product.
You admit you’ve been programmed to have a pleasant feeling when consuming this product and yet cannot rather than accept that others do not have this programming, jump past this obvious state and accuse others of having been programmed against your beloved product experience.
Very intriguing and illustrative example on the effects of marketing to mould the human mind and trigger its defenses.
It can absolutely be both. You can enjoy the nostalgia while making objective observations. I already posted my observation of lower quality fries, but you have seemed to ignore it and tried to make it a binary thing.
Because you are programmed to hate them and can’t make an objective decision.
Have you considered you’re programmed to think everyone but you is programmed?
You seem to have no problem expressing your knowledge on the exact motivations behind other’s decisions. This is a signal that does not favor you having high emotional intelligence.
That you cannot tell the difference between my theory and your certainty is another such signal.
I remember when what you ordered would have been around $7 total. Wasn’t that long ago either.
Quite funny to pay 18 dollars for a piece of garbage like McDonalds…
Introducing the new McCardboard, made out of 100% recycled cardboard!
Growth is slowing. So their sales are still going up, just not as fast as the CEO would like so he could get his 5th yacht by Friday.
This is happening outside the US as well.
Fast food places aren’t fast or cheap anymore. Big Mac and Whopper meals are about 10€
For 2€ more I can get a real burger at an actual restaurant.
As if they weren’t the ones setting the price so high. They’re actually paying attention because people are finally starting to not pay them.
If they‘re already losing costumers (we‘re talking about McD costumers here. People who have been loyally buying their junk for their entire life) then it‘s already too late. People who already turned their back on a product that‘s mainly driven by brand power will not return if you just reduce prices a little again. That‘s because it took a lot more crap for them to leave than they‘re willing to come back for once they‘re gone. If McD is really openly considering to lower prices, they‘re in deep trouble.
But the hedge fund managers sent them letters saying their job is to gouge customers explicitly looking for inexpensive meals because wE NeEd MOAAAAAAR!
This kind of thing always seems to have a huge delay. Eventually enough people figure it out to make a dent, but it’s going to take 18 months to hit that point.
Oh, and every fast food place expects you to use their app, or they’ll charge you 50% more. And you have to do their dance of what to order and which deal applies this week.
