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Just a paper bag now. At this point they’re gonna bring back the supersize but it’ll just be a large lol
Wtf, that's a medium from like pre-covid.
Oh well, restaurants were neat, time to learn how to coom.
EDIT:
... cook.
.... ... .. god, damnit.
9 yo me could've helped a lot
... sigh ...
Of all the degenerate things I've done as a horny kid, fucking my McDonalds meal is not one of them.
... but, its a fucking hilarious typo, so it stays, lol
Picturing that makes me grimace.
god damnit i had to read this a second time, 2 hrs later, to realize what you did there.
Give money to shitty company, get a shitty product.
Yeah, last time I went there was over a year ago and had a similar experience to op, now I go to my local shop. Same price now as mcds, but I get almost 2x the food and it's better quality.
You can get a burger and fries (or a bunch of other things) at many of bar and grill type places around here for less than mcdonalds. Several of the ones near me will do carry out if you want to call ahead and put an order in too. Hell, I got a steak dinner for like 15$ a few weeks ago.
I'm so glad that so many fast food chains are disappearing in my city. There's so much local cuisine here.
Compared to when I was in the Midwest, where there was a dozen of each franchise.
A large fry is almost $5 now where I live. It is probably .10 of potatoes .15 of oil and .30 of labor. The mark up is incredible.
Soon:
Is this a miniature or one of those things where they make actual tiny food?
In Belgium, when you go to a 'frituur' and you order 2 small fries you get this amount of fries:
As it bloody well should be. More than one order of fries of any size should be a life-altering amount of potato
Thats like five guys
Good. Smaller portions are what many need these days. And the high price of fast food is a great incentive to eat at home.
I ORDERED ONE LARGE FRY AND YOU GAVE ME A BUNCH OF FUCKIN LITTLE ONES
I don't get the point of fast food chains anymore. Never really ate there, but I always had the idea it was a cheap place where to eat.
This past year I've been once in burger king, where I spent about 10€, and I tried KFC for the first time, where I spent some 15€. I did not eat enough even at such a high price.
With 15€ i can go to an actual restaurant, why would I go to a fast food place?
I don’t get the point of fast food chains anymore.
It's all in the name. You can get through a fast-food drive through in about 5-10 minutes. Dining in and cooking tends to take thirty min to an hour.
With 15€ i can go to an actual restaurant, why would I go to a fast food place?
Because you're fighting traffic on your way home to feed your spouse and kids.
They are so understaffed these days that they are no longer fast anymore.
I think the real reason they exist is because of addiction. They've got people addicted to 7,000 times the amount of recommended daily sugar, fat, and salt content.
They're still trying to rake in that high despite it now costing 5x the price, at 1/3 the quickness and 1/2 the quality.
If they started from scratch today - I don't think they would go far.
One of the odd effects I've noticed with the last round of inflation is that prices are converging. Cheaper places raised prices more than more expensive places. I never liked McDonald's - the french fries are good but I've never chosen to go there, only had them incidentally. But it was cheap. Not now, it's more like going anywhere, so why would you go there? As someone else said, I can get tacos down the street, closer than any fast food place and they are pretty fast, or we go to the cafe up the street, they did have inflation but at least the money stays local.
I guess ‘Large’ now stands for ‘Large Disappointment.’ Shrinkflation is getting out of hand.
McDonalds here in London is comical. I'm not even near the inner city (Greater London) and I'm surprised they get business these days.
The last time I wanted a burger I checked, and a meal was going for around £11+
I walked for five minutes and found a local place, paid about £7-8 for a proper good burger meal with better quality ingredients... They even asked me what kind of bun I wanted (went with brioche).
The meat wasn't as thin as a pencil either.
Fuck Ray Kroc, that whole company is rotten to it core. Stop supporting these giant shitty companies.
I acknowledge there are lots of regional differences, but that is absolutely not a large fries here in the southern US. Here, a medium(regular) fries comes in a cardboard envelope style container and they overfill it so there are fries all over the bag.
They do it to make us feel like we are getting our money's worth, but in reality, potatoes are cheap as shit for them. Here, a large McDonald's fries is almost a meal in itself. Eating a supersized McD's meal here is almost enough to make you throw up.
Guessing OP's picture is from Europe or a Micky D's inside of a theme park.
Mcdonalds these days suck ass.
The 2010s were great. Very nostalgic and McDonalds was one of my first and my best memories of America. Glad I got to enjoy them before they went to shit, cuz otherwise kid-me would've have the impression that "all western foods suck". (I mean it's hard to even know how to look for local non-chain "western" restaurants... since the reason I know what a McDonalds is because back in China, we also had them, but I think it tasted different... don't remember)
I mean seriously, is it just me or does like Papa Johns and Dominos and even Pizza Hut all went to shit?
P.S. I remember my mom telling about the Pizza we had in Pizza Hut in China... like she said it was expensive and it was only a very small pizza (like individual-size). I don't even remember having it in China
Glad I got to enjoy them before they went to shit, cuz otherwise kid-me would’ve have the impression that “all western foods suck”.
... This is like someone saying "Guys I thought American chocolate was awful, but have you tried this Hershey's stuff?!? It's so good!" Like I'm glad you had a good experience but... but I'm sorry that was your good experience.
For real. It's like when people think Kraft Singles are representative of American cheese
“Large” is a state of mind now 😅 If you’ve got the receipt, it’s worth a quick feedback ticket—sometimes they’ll toss you a replacement or coupon.
Are the contents less by weight? I don’t doubt your frustration. But when I was a kid, the happy meals came in a cardboard box, but now they come in a paper bag (at least in Japan). Obviously to save money. Maybe they just cut the cardboard box to save money? FWIW I actually ate a large fries yesterday and they came in the traditional packaging, so this was surprising for me.
I work at a McD's, our large fries come in 6oz tall cardboard boxes, not whatever the fuck that is. My only guess is that the area you're in has extra taxes on cardboard waste or a supply chain issue.