Falsified and homosexual. No Yuroopeens allowed
Twelve dallers? That’s a steal post-inflation.
I just fed myself and three kids on <$20, which was pretty cool.
When is the “post-inflation” going to happen? Haven’t seen any indication of inflation coming to an end in my lifetime.
Fuck yeah… Not really implying it’s over but there’s a huge spike from 2020 to 2022 but much less so from 2023 to (now) 2025.
Prices spiked from pre pandemic to post pandemic. Burgers from 8-10 dollars to 15 ish dollars. So like 50 percent. From two years ago to now… Idk. Burger spoked from 14 ish dollars tobamube 15-16. Ridiculous. But predictable/ reasonable (but actually inreasonabel).
That’s where I come from. Chime in from other countries other than my current state of mother fucking Georgia, USA…
Edit: happy to double check my math with sources when I’m sober again. Happy new year’s!
It’s always a good time to start Internet arguments when you’re drunk haha. Have a good new year’s eve!
Oh yes you, too!
Also, I googled when sober again.
So I guess I was referring to the “mountain” of inflation around 2022 that really made everything so expensive. And I notice now as well that inflation has stabilized at a higher rate then before. So to circle back… Yeah… Maybe calling it “post inflation” wasn’t quite spot on.
Anyway. Toodledoo!
Big food is kind of a marketing thing in America. Restaurants want to give their customers more " bang for their buck" (or at least appear to), but they don’t want to lower prices. Instead, they increase portions. This has lead to a size arms race where every restaurant wants to claim they have the biggest food in town. This is especially the case for burger joints. It doesn’t matter to the restaurant if customers eat all their food, since they pay for all of it either way. I’m guessing Americans are more culturally susceptible to this marketing tactic, since bigger-is-better is common here, and hence things have been taken further than in other countries.
This seems to be another case of someone throwing reason out the door for the sake of insulting Americans. There is no way you would be getting “shit eating grins” for ordering a kids meal. And if your large burgers are smaller than a kids meal, you either have very little size variation, or the small would be like a single bite.
Yeah, that worker is one of two in the entire restaurant. She has to take your order plus the five behind you, the drive-thru orders, make fries, bag it all up, take your monkey, clean tables, make coffee, refill the ketchup/soda/milkshake/yogurt contraptions with their various bags of sugary goo, restock counters/tables with all the varied plastic and paper geegaws, take out the trash, stock the walk-in, clean the bathrooms somebody sprayed with liquid shit, then count out and get to her other job by 3pm so she can then do it all again tomorrow. She doesn’t give a fuck what anyone orders, it’s just a blur of colors and lower back pain.
If she makes a face it’s probably the best she can do to fake a smile because you might be a secret shopper who is going to ding her points for not saying, “Welcome to McDonald’s Home of the McFlurry™ now with DoubleStuff™ Oreo™, what can I get started for you today because It Just Tastes Better!!℠” with the proper amount of obsequiousness.
There’s plenty of reasons to hate the hellscape, no reason for anon to invent some.
She can’t have my monkey!
visit America
get shot
bystanders start clappingDon’t forget to tip the shooter.
Erhm well back in the day fat people were the peak of social hierarchy because they had enough money to buy enough food to be fat, therefore spending $12 on a burger to get fat makes me mega rich
Make this into a greentext, you will earn so many likes
It’s the other way around now, normal people can only afford the ultra-processed slop and nutrient-defficient fruits & veg.
Wait until anon discovers a hamburger with a glazed donut for a bun and the entire thing is deepfried.
I haven’t discovered this yet, praying 2025 won’t be my year 🙏🏼
Where do I find this?
Comes with a side of insulin I hope. $800 combo
Wait till Americans discover deep-fried candy bars, the one area where the Europeans (well, Scots in particular) area ahead of Americans in deep-fried tech.
We’ve had that for nearly a century, it’s just state fair food because even Americans have standards.
Forcing Presidents to eat Iowa Goy Slop on national television like it’s a TLC reality TV show called “My 1000 lb Family” is a rite of passage in this country.
Haha that’s cute! That’s where deep frying starts here. We even deep fry butter.
served with a side drink of milkshake with double cream on it
I think you think you are joking but that is a real beverage option for said burger. They even add a stick of butter for extra fat content.
No I don’t, I have encountered many americans trying to convince me that this is a reasonable combo…
Is it a five dollar shake?
Only with coupons
Haha. At this point a fast food shake probably costs $5.
I think the most sacred, fundamental, and important “right” my fellow Americans care about is the right to self destructive behavior.
As someone who usually eats just once a day (with some supplemental shakes on work days) I love American potions. One of the good things about this country.
The lack of veg is concerning though. It sucks that the alternative to fried potatoes is usually just a handful of leaves.
Even if you do get vegetables they’re typically flavorless compared to what you can grow at home.
Yeah, because everyone has a yard and free time for gardening…
I just got a Carl’s Jr Star burger for $3 and it had tons of lettuce and tomato. Pretty fantastic and almost healthy (not really). Like a good American, I ate 2, so something like 1k calories.
A burger with high quality ingredients is not the worst thing you can eat. The worst part about it will be the saturated fat from the red meat.
This is after supersize was deemed too super sized
Does OP even Taco Town?
They didn’t give you a pack of cigarettes with your meal? How un-yurapeein!
that’s france and finland specifically not all of europe
Germany is pretty smokey in some cities
I’ll have two number 9s, a number 9 large, a number 6 with extra dip, a number 7, two number 45s, one with cheese, and a large soda.
I’ll take a Double Triple Bossy Deluxe on a raft, 4x4 animal style, extra shingles with a shimmy and a squeeze, light axle grease; make it cry, burn it, and let it swim.
And I’m guessing a Florida small ball on the side?
We serve food here, sir.
All you have to do is follow the damn train…
If you think about it, that mission was a red flag about Smoke being a fucking traitor. Fatass couldn’t shoot dudes 2 meters away
Wouldn’t that just make him a busta?
Aw shit, here we go again…
This hurts me
He can’t hurt you if you shoot him first! In fact, that’s how you get his indestructible Sanchez motorcycle…
*diet coke
I’m up in Canada and since the start of the pandemic I’ve stopped going to fast food places. But after things got back to normal, I thought why should I go back to ordering food at McD’s … as I thought of it more, I realized it didn’t make any sense.
Fast food is basically unnutritious food made by underpaid workers who don’t like their work … the food doesn’t do me any good and its too expensive … I have to trust the underpaid employee didn’t mess up my order … I waste money by degrading my health only to spend more money to try to get back some good health
I realized it was cheaper in the long run of my life to not eat at these damned places.
I made a similar decision around 20 years ago.
Yeah, McDs sucks and I haven’t been in years, but I do go to fast good restaurants that have decent quality and pay workers reasonably, like In-N-Out, Five Guys, etc. We don’t go very often, maybe once or twice per month, so we’re happy paying a little more for better quality.
How’s the worker pay on Culver’s?
It’s bad. They’re also famous for using child labor. They actively recruit as young of children as legally allowed.
Ah. Damn.
Love Hank Green. :)
And yeah, as someone who tends to look at calories before ordering to get the best value per dollar (more calories per dollar), this makes complete sense to me. Also, I tend to eat out with my whole family (5 of us), so I think more in terms of the total bill than individual orders since we can share fries or whatever. But given Hank’s reaction, this apparently isn’t how most people approach it.
Last year, I got to march, and realised I hadn’t had a McDonald’s in over 3 months.
So I decided to just stop going there.
I think it was all the price hikes: When it’s £7 for any half decent burger and fries, I might as well be spending a bit more and going to a local place.
Or getting something better than a burger!Or spending the same, and getting slightly better at Wendy’s.
mcdonalds is the literal worst burger option though
If you’re vegan this applies even more. From what I heard McD only has like 3 vegan options while, in comparison, Burger King had the whole menu available in a vegan form.
Oddly enough, asides from apple wedges and I think the side salad, the hot apple pie is technically vegan, not that I’d eat anything that came out of one of those kitchens.
The fries aren’t even vegan at McDonald’s, they use beef products as part of their flavoring
Yup, some Indians got pretty miffed about that: Maybe even angry.
Depends on the country to be clear, although it’s true in the US still for whatever reason.
Yeah and a combo at Five Guys is $25 bucks so it’s not like a good cheeseburger is even accessible to most people anymore.
So anon blames an entire country for their shitty life choices?
I don’t remember the last time I ate fast food. I’m sure when I did, it was nothing like this - oh, it still sucked - but all I got was a burger and iced tea.
Though I completely agree restaurant portion sizes are insane anywhere. I akways get 2 meals out of a “serving”, often 3.
It’s not life choices, it’s getting to know a new culture
The fact that you are calling this a life choice and not a societal problem also reveals a lot about American culture. A public health policy that relies on personal responsibility has never worked and will never work.
the “tiny” burgers like the $5 biggie bag at Wendy’s is the perfect amount of food. jr bacon cheeseburger, small fries, 4 piece nugget, drink.
THATS normal portion, even if it’s not healthy, not a 1/2 lb double cheeseburger 6 inches in diameter, 3 inches thick and a 32oz bucket of cola.
Where the hell are yall getting burgers at? Every fastfood place near me serves anemic, poorly prepared burgers that are not worth the cost for taste and only rarely worth the time investment when it’s near midnight and I need to absorb the alcohol in my stomach
You think the Baconator is anemic? I think you mean sclerotic.
$5 is worth for a quick lunch to me.
Where are you getting any kind of fast food for $5 these days?
Wendy’s. some places it’s $6
Isn’t that still over half your daily calories needed in your “normal portion”?
probably, but it’s the right size, never said it was healthy lol
I was curious so i just checked. Assuming the drink is water and there’s no dipping sauce or sauces added to the burger, it comes to 760 calories (macros are 44g fat, 63g carbs, 31g protein). That’s definitely more than half of my daily calories, but I’m a middle-aged 5’0" lady. Still, that’s a huge amount of fat, and surprisingly little protein!
Yes, the fat macro is way out of balance there at over half the caloric intake. It explains why Americans are known for being sedentary. That much of your calories coming from fat has got to make you lethargic. And then the carbs are all refined and high glycemic index, so you are mixing that with insulin spikes and crashes. Not enough protein so their muscles are underfed and fatigued. It all makes sense.
They call the tiny one a “biggie bag”?
They really don’t want to let on that small burgers are available, do they?
It’s because fastfood places need to compete on either value or quality. They can also try to do both by primarily aiming to convey quality and having a special menu or set of offerings that promise the same quality but at a better price.
Wendy’s mostly brands themselves as quality focused as compared to other fast food places. So their “good deal” offering has to promise to offer the same quality at a lower price, which means smaller. So they call it big to camouflage that it’s actually smaller.
I’m not asking for an explanation, I’m criticizing.
I already know very well that you people like to explain why it makes sense that things are screwed and backwards.
What do you mean “you people?” Racism.
After the 2024 election I’m 100% “racist” against Americans. Enjoy 2025.
I need to investigate this “biggie bag”
it’s my go to, good value for what you get. those $15 baconator bullshits are WAY overrated.
