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  • I see a lot of people dancing around 2 different points... 1. Fast food costs too much, and 2. The price to value equation sucks now. I absolutely agree with #1, at some point these corporations have to accept that their increased cost of operations (fair wage movements, ingredient costs) do not increase the value of their product. I'm sure they're doing the math... how much can we raise prices before our sales drop off enough to matter. Sounds like they may have finally hit the break point.

    #2, I'd argue, has been true for a very long time. Maybe 20 years ago in the days of value menus, fast food was worth it. It was crap, but it was cheap. But food was way cheaper in general, so cooking for yourself was, and still is, a huge cost advantage. if you're careful with your shopping and plan meals, you will eat better, healthier, and cheaper than anything else.

    I'm not immune to the occasional fast food stop, but I'm always disappointed. I think it is something that's time has passed and needs to die off.

    • A two cheeseburger meal costs about eight US dollars where I am. For two dollars more, I can get this humongous burrito from a Mexican restaurant across the street loaded with potatoes, beans, and shredded chicken. For two dollars less, I can get two pieces of fried chicken, macaroni and cheese, and potato salad from the deli counter at the grocery store literally in the same car park.

  • I stopped going to McDonalds around 2004 after seeing Super-Size Me (which didn't really convince me of anything other than what I already knew; Fast food in general is gross).

    A few years later, I was hanging out with some friends and someone wanted a drink or something, so we walked in, and the smell was overwhelming, and disgusting. It wasn't different, it was the exact same McDonalds smell, it was just gross as fuck.

    About a decade after that, I was dating someone who wanted some of their fries (they were having a bad day and wanted comfort food). So I drive over there, just order the fries (everything else she wanted was already at home), and head home. The entire time, my car was filling with this gross, oily, I-don't-know-what smell of those fries. It occurs to me that I could only define it as "smelling like McDonalds".

    Mind you, I've gotten fries at Wendy's, Jack in the Box, Arby's, etc. None of them smell gross. They smell like salty potatoes (except any place that has curly fries; they all seem to be from the same supplier, and they're gross).

    I haven't been back to McDonalds in probably another 10 years, but I can only imagine that my first reaction would be to wretch, and my second reaction would be to leave. I have no idea how they fucked things up so bad, I had them all the time as a kid. I still eat Wendy's spicy chicken sandwiches, they're fine. wtf.

  • I went to one for the first time in years because I was starving and a shitty hash brown, breakfast sandwich and coffee sounded good. coffee half full, no hash brown and the sandwich gave me a three day bout of food poisoning. never again, I would rather not eat.

  • I haven't eaten there in nearly 15 years after a period where every time I ate food at a McDingle's location I got massive food poisoning.

    Sounds like I haven't been missing much.

  • McDonald’s is just a joke at this point. Pretty much stopped getting food from them except for breakfast once in a while, but even stopped that. My usual is a Sausage and Egg McMuffin with extra cheese. It costs a whopping $6.08 in my area. 

    I said🖕you greedy McCunts, I’m making my own and found a copycat recipe that is really, really good and I honestly can’t tell the difference. I bought ingredients to make 12 sandwiches at $1.73 each and even had two extra patties leftover. A savings of $4.35 per!

    Of course we are not including my labor costs, yada yada, but it proves the point. Not to mention McDonald’s pays pennies on the dollar buying in bulk, so even with labor, they are making a killing.

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