I still go becuase im lazy and its still like 2$ cheaper than alternatives, the app deals get worse every year and I used to go every other day now its 1-2 times a week, cooking does not hit the same I cook all the time, sometimes you want a specific flavor, texure, taste, etc. they know they ingrained themselves in my brain and they abuse it, ill never be free
Dude, your brain will be fine and your body will thank you. Just learn how to make a good poutine at home for the times you really need a rush of salty fat.
Pour E621 on your food, put your fries into beef fat, and then put even more salt on it.
I already use msg, mcdonalds cheese does not equal any store bought cheese and I dont trust anyones tastebuds if they say it does, and its just the whole combination, I dont even like anything ar mcdonalds individually like their sauces suck unless its paired with mcdonalds
I’ve heard a claim going around that McDonald’s cheese is formulated to have a distinctive flavor so people will crave McDonald’s cheese specifically. I don’t have any source, so I’d say that’s more of an urban legend than an established fact, but you can find articles like this one that give less sinister sounding reasons for why their cheese has such a distinctive flavor:
https://www.marketingscoop.com/consumer/what-kind-of-cheese-does-mcdonalds-use/
Yeah the blend they used is used by them alone since they own the means of production
They dont use beef fat and havent for like 25 years?
I was guessing that E621 was MSG, and I was correct. Monosodium glutamate is great, I keep a shaker of it on my spice rack.
Could have something to do with it costing as much as a sit down restaurant used to while tasting like it came from back water gas stations.
As on old fart living down under, I am not anti American. I am anti current American government and toxic big corporation. Hating McDonald’s does not equal broadly hating the American people.
Thanks friend! I promise there are still some good ones left here 🥲
*Maccas
Don’t worry, they’ll increase prices and cut quality even more to make up for the difference in lost profit.
They are seeing “what the market will support.”
Have you seen the price of McDonalds recently? I’d rather miss a meal than get scammed like that. Fuck them.
Ain’t worth the squeeze. The food is real cheap and real expensive. Like, just get some ready-made meal at the grocery store it’s a better value and better for you.
There’s anti-American sentiment at home too
Nah, that’s anti-fascism sentiment.
It’s the fact we love what America was and can be again that sets us apart from them.
My state is a traditional American state, where we uphold the values of the past from 1776 - 2015.
Yes but I think it’s that cost of goods increase and income doesn’t. It takes over an hour of work to feed one person with these prices.
I don’t know I’m a pretty anti-American American. Though that’s the least of my problems with Mackers
Maccas with a hard r? Where are you from?
America, unfortunately
I don’t know how we call ourselves free when we still have a Burger King
The reach of the Burger King extends the globe, but it is far from absolute rule. Most have democratic burger parliaments.
When I first started working at minimum wage, you could buy 3 packs of decent cigarettes for an hour’s worth of labor
For the last few years the places I have lived, one pack of cigarettes is about $17. So over 2 hours worth of work at the minimum wage just for one pack of smokes
Now, this may sound like an old fogey story, but perhaps the point is that I entered the workforce when minimum wage was like $7.35 an hour less than 15 years ago, and I already have old fogey economic stories
Fast food is a similar story. It’s something bad for our health but was more excusable back when it was cheaper relative to wages. The fuck would I work myself to death just to be able to smoke a dart or eat a garbage hamburger?
You can bet McDonald’s is doing horribly whenever they bring out a limited product or do a celebrity deal.
They’ve done mcrib, celeb deal, Minecraft movie promo, and now chicken strips are back.
Yeah. Red flags. They’re desperate.
Their current ‘2nd item for $1’ is an ok deal right now. But this makes me think that won’t last.
2 sausage muffins and 2 hash browns for like $7. Throw some hot picante salsa on there and you have deal. Without that deal? It’s like $13.
I think the McRib is just dependent on pork prices.
Nope.
You can bet McDonald’s is doing horribly whenever they bring out a limited product or do a celebrity deal.
Is this an American thing? In Japan and Singapore, they have seasonal limited specials every month or so. It’s not really a “when they’re doing badly” kinda thing.
They even stopped selling McHash in Sweden like over a year ago. The only thing that I’d have any desire to eat from their breakfast menu, and they kill it. I even asked their support why they killed it, and I got no real explanation.
I thought that it’s maybe to be able to clean out their deep fryer? Nah, as they still sell normal french fries during breakfast!
Yeah but how many years ago was it that an order of hash browns used to have two?? They’re just “giving a deal” on what used to be the baseline.
Oh I’m not disagreeing. It’s shit.
But even without the has browns, two sausage muffins for ~$3.50 is solid. It’s what I expect.
Sadly it’s the bottom barrel best deal going.
That actually is solid, I might even consider it as that was my go to breakfast item back in the day!
Yep! Adding a hashbriwn to each for ~$2.50 + $1.00 more is what makes it ~$7.
And for two sausage, hash brown, spicy salsa and cheese muffins? I mean damn.
But yeahz seeing all these promos makes me know this is in the cutting block.
Also they eagerly price gouged people for their crap food, so no one is really hankering to go there anymore
A little over a decade ago I was a pizza dude. I remember getting off work at about 11pm and craving pretty much anything but pizza, so every so often I’d stop through McDonald’s on my way home since they were pretty much the only place open, fork over about 5 bucks from my night’s tips, and get a couple McChicken and/or mcdoubles, fries, and a drink, and get change back.
That same order now costs over $10.
I think I remember back then that I averaged out to a bit over $10/hour after figuring in tips. I’m no longer a pizza dude and I’m making a bit over $30, so I’ve beaten the McDonald’s inflation rate by a bit and can afford to spring for it if I find myself really craving it, but everything else has also gotten more expensive and $10 isn’t as easy to justify for some junk food.
But your average pizza dude today probably hasn’t beaten that rate. They’re tipped employees so all the bullshit that comes with that means they’re probably still only making around $10/hour. I think there’s been a bit of a delivery boom since then so maybe they’re doing a little better than that but I doubt many are making the over $20/hour they’d need to be able to afford a late night McDonald’s snack with the same ease I used to be able to.
Also, at least around me, they’re not even open late anymore since COVID. I still work a weird night shift so that’s something else I’m up against. My only options when I get off work if I want a snack is gas station/convenience store food.
I did food delivery as a second job for about 20 years. In the late 90s and early 00s I averaged $20 an hour thanks to tips. I finally quit in the mid 10s because the tips had been steadily dropping, and I was only averaging $12 an hour. Given your experience, I would guess that delivery drivers are making less than $10 an hour these days.
I can only speak for myself, but the reason I don’t eat at McDonald’s is because their food is just very low quality. Their coffee is good, but everything else is just crap.
If I have a good session in the gym, I’ll hit McDonald’s for a couple mcdoubles and a coke. Shit hits so hard post-workout
Finally when we cut quality so much it hurts the amount of quantity you can sell. This is what people talk about when they say balance too bad piece of shit greedy pigs cant comprehend this humanity.
‘Anti-American sentiment’…
You stupid fuckers, the bigger problem is the Anti-McDonalds sentiment that’s everywhere, because your food is shit, your prices are outrageous, your restaurants are fake and ugly, and you don’t give a flying fuck about your customers or your employees!
I like to get my burgers and milkshakes from the small, locally-owned, independent, place near where I live. It is real food, cheaper than mcdonalds, a much wider selection, and just as fast. It is also a cozy, relaxed, and welcoming environment; rather than sterile, corporate, hostile, and rushed.
Love the way the local places tend not to have employees that have been so abused they lost all the light behind their eyes.
This is an interesting topic, I’ve just started learning more about this myself.
Boo-fuckin-hoo. You vote and support like a fucking idiot then you should suffer the consequences.
Shouldn’t have supported nazis
Wait, nobody ever told me about the ‘find out’ phase.
If this had been made clear I would never have fucked around!?!
Maybe we should look at their corporate donations and tell them to go fuck themselves when we see who they donated to.
Yup. Am canukian, avoiding American however and wherever possible. Including McDonald’s
Shocking idea it may perhaps be because
- McDonalds “food” tastes like shit
- McDonalds “food” costs a ton of money
- There are burger spots (especially local ones) that can match or beat McDonalds pricing for significantly better burgers
- People can not afford to spend obscene amounts of money of food
In Canada, teen burgers are 5$ right now where I’m at. I’ll take a Canadian teen burger for 5$ over the more expensive shit burgers from McDonalds.
What is a teen burger? Is it made from the meat of teens? Sounds exotic lol
Burger from A&W, though not the same A&W in the States.
