Just a paper bag now. At this point they’re gonna bring back the supersize but it’ll just be a large lol
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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 guess ‘Large’ now stands for ‘Large Disappointment.’ Shrinkflation is getting out of hand.
“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.
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
9 yo
Damn, kids really be starting young these days
… 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.
That sloppy bun with the mayo spilling over the sides
His tramp stamps were between the rolls, so I aimed.
“Oh, Hamburgler!”, he cried
A large fry is almost $5 now where I live. It is probably .10 of potatoes .15 of oil and .30 of labor. The mark up is incredible.
Give money to shitty company, get a shitty product.
I’m so glad that so many fast food chains are disappearing in my city. There’s so much local cuisine here.
Compared to when I was in the Midwest, where there was a dozen of each franchise.
Yeah, last time I went there was over a year ago and had a similar experience to op, now I go to my local shop. Same price now as mcds, but I get almost 2x the food and it’s better quality.
You can get a burger and fries (or a bunch of other things) at many of bar and grill type places around here for less than mcdonalds. Several of the ones near me will do carry out if you want to call ahead and put an order in too. Hell, I got a steak dinner for like 15$ a few weeks ago.
I’ve eaten there three times in five years. Each time was due to a social situation. Overpriced and nasty is how I rate them.
I actually miss mcdonalds here in Japan because it’s actually pretty tasty and did pretty fun collabs with IPs my kids and I like (except the pokemon and chiikawa ones, those were just stupid and irresponsible). Haven’t had it in a year or so to keep my elbows up and support my Canadian brothers and sisters.
Now, I just go to MOS burger or just make my own. Unfortunately, the independent ones are a bit too pricey for my food budget.
Other countries with standards held out a lot longer. Still, it’s a megacorp that prioritizes profit above all else.
Exactly. I shouldn’t get too attached to any megacorp, even if I enjoy their products or services.
Did McDonalds leave Japan in the last few months? I was there last year and McDonalds was nice because free wifi and some locations are open 24/7, not the worst place to get work done during US business hours.
Oh no, sorry, they’re still around. I meant I avoid it because I’m avoiding as many American products as I can.
Wife doesn’t like burgers, had never been to Steak n Shake. (Must be a Filipino thing because she cant’ cook 'em either.)
First bite, “This is the burger I have been looking for!” She loved the seasoning so much she bought 2 bottles, $5 each.
Forget what we paid, but it was on par with McDonalds, including the $5 tip. The restaurant itself and waitress kinda sucked, “Do you have coffee?” “We’re out.” So make some? This is a restaurant. Something else basic was out, I forget. But the point stands, a proper sit-down meal was the same cost as McDonalds, except delicious.
And don’t start me on local Mexican dives and trucks. I can get 3 deluxe street tacos for $10, less than some of the gross combos at McDonalds. And that place is a little high!
…is Steak n Shake considered a proper sit-down meal? Thats still fast food. Most of them have drive-thru’s.
Yeah, weird in-between dining model. Still beats McDonald’s inside where they have purposefully run off dining customers in favor of drive thru.
Still, way better food, brought to you and cleaned up, same price.
Fuck Ray Kroc, that whole company is rotten to it core. Stop supporting these giant shitty companies.
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 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?
Yeah Taco Bell is the only fast food that I’ll still get every now and then, but that’s only because I consider it to be it’s on genre of food that’s separate from actual Mexican or Tex-Mex food. Even the prices there have gotten ridiculous
Cheapest burger and fries will send you 7 euros back. One can buy Doner for that price which will include potatoes, tons of salad and meat, sauce (sometimes even 3 of it) and a piece of bread. Kebap is the new fast food and it is all round better than any fast food chains of today.
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.
Just spend like $3 more, go to Cava, and end up with enough leftover for another 2 meals
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.
They are so understaffed these days that they are no longer fast anymore.
The food itself is pre-prepared and re-heated on the spot. Go when there’s not a rush on and you can get your food in minutes. Go during rush hour and you’ll still be in and out much faster than at a sit-down establishment (that’s also inevitably understaffed).
They’ve got people addicted to 7,000 times the amount of recommended daily sugar, fat, and salt content.
I’ve heard this line and I think there’s an element of truth to it. Food really does taste differently if you’ve been eating the high salt/sugar junk for an extended period.
But you can get junk food anywhere. You don’t need McD’s to make it for you. Gas stations have soda fountains. Grocery stores have microwaved meals full of preservatives and sweeteners. You can just make yourself a hamburger at home, it doesn’t have to come from a store.
It just takes time, a certain degree of skill, and a kitchen with functional appliances that you’re going to need to clean up after you’re done. McD’s just goes in the trash afterwards. Far faster to buy a burger than cook one.
It’s all in the name. You can get through a fast-food drive through in about 5-10 minutes.
Because you’re fighting traffic on your way home to feed your spouse and kids.
Go when there’s not a rush on and you can get your food in minutes.
Sorry but this is circular reasoning.
If you don’t have much time then you go when you’re able to. Which is lunchtime or after work. Which is the same for everyone else. Which is why you have to wait in line for half an hour. Which is why the “saving time” aspect doesn’t make any sense. It doesn’t matter if the food is ready made if you have to wait behind 30 other cars ahead of you.
A takeout order anywhere else will be ready when you get there if you call ahead of time and you can just go in and get it. No need to wait a single minute.
The truth is that fast food is made to be addictive, not convenient.
Not where I live, no. And wouldn’t I rather take them to an actual restaurant? I mean, if we leave the house to go eat somewhere I’d rather take the family to a nice place and eat something good.
Dining in and cooking tends to take thirty min to an hour.
Don’t know how much faster the fast food is, when I’ve been to that burger king I tell you I have been fighting with that automatic ordering machine for 10 good minutes before I actually succeeded.
If I have to go to the shop, order, get the food and take it back home I’m better off cooking at home.
I never used them, but I guess at this point if you really don’t want to cook nor to go out you’re better off with those applications which allow you to order food at your place from any restaurant.
I can understand eating out when you have no time to get back home, but then I have much better options where to eat at the same price or even cheaper.
10-15 euros is a large amount of money where I live at, it would feed a family of five for a day.
You’re living in a country where nearly everything is accessible in 15 minutes of walking or less, and besides you cook your food, I guess your local resto serves cheaper food. However, I also guess there’s some inflation going on and/or higher cost of living, that’s why you see fast food restos as being more expensive, although they do exist partly because of convenience, especially if in a car and a drive-thru makes it faster to grab whatever lunch or dinner off from the order window.
At least around me, I feel like the drive-thru is often noticeably slower than parking and going inside. The last time I got McDonald’s at the drive-thru, I was waiting for over a half hour to get my order. To make it worse, I was stuck in the inner lane, so I couldn’t even say “fuck it” and drive off until I was third in line. At that point, I had spent a good 25 minutes waiting, so the sunk cost fallacy kicked in and I waited some more. When I got to the window to pick up my order, it wasn’t even warm.
I don’t get fast food as much anymore, but when I do, I order through the app and go inside to pick it up. At least then it doesn’t feel like I’m stuck in gridlocked traffic.
I ORDERED ONE LARGE FRY AND YOU GAVE ME A BUNCH OF FUCKIN LITTLE ONES
In Belgium, when you go to a ‘frituur’ and you order 2 small fries you get this amount of fries:
Lots of them, but man they’re all little nubs. That would annoy me.
If you’ve never eaten Belgian fries, they’re really good
As it bloody well should be. More than one order of fries of any size should be a life-altering amount of potato
That’s like 5 Guys burgers in the US
Calm down with the inaults
its called that because you need 5 guys to finish 1 meal!
Thats like five guys
Similarly, any chip shop in the UK outside of greater London. I’ve taken to ordering a medium chips for my wife and I, because a large is just Too Many Chips.
In London, however, they serve a tragically small amount of chips in many chippies. Fuck London.
a large is just Too Many Chips.
I’ve yet to encounter such a phenomenon.
I think I’ve gotten too old for a large. The spud, coupled with a beers leaves me feeling uncomfortably bloated.
Sounds like a classic australian fish & chip shop. “Minimum fries” gets you a bag the size of your head.
Except they will give you a parcel of chips instead of fries
Who the fuck goes to a chippy and orders a “Minimum fries” lol???
Yeah I was in Belgium last year and them OG fries were the best. Really good quality mayo too.
They really go overboard.
Like even the smallest portion, you can eat with 4 persons and all be full.
Wasn’t even in Belgium but in France near the border and there was one of these shops setup in a kinda temporary thing on the highway. Still felt a bit peckish after the tiny triangle sandwich so ordered a small fry, was greeted with not much less than pictured here haha. Had to share them to get through it.
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
We did slip up a tiny bit by literally calling it “American cheese”. Slight strategic error on that one.
I mean, for context, I was like 8 years old when I first got here. I didn’t really know the difference between fastfood vs “real” restaurants so I just categorically grouped them all together.
Honestly, I still don’t really know what “real” western food is.
I remember going along with family to a cousin’s sweet 16 birthday party and I think its was western cuisine or something… like I heard they spend a lot of money on it (the cousin’s parents were kinda middle class rich) and I disliked most of the food they served, didn’t eat much, don’t even remember what they served. Ended up going home kinda hungry lol.
I think I just go so used to Chinese food, I didn’t feel confident exploring other types of “western” food… other than like burgers, pizzas, cheesesteaks, subway sandwiches / hoagies. Which I know, living here for like over a decade, I still don’t feel quite “American” because of my picky eating habits.
Honestly, I still don’t really know what “real” western food is.
French cuisine is the most classically famous example, but pretty much every western country has hundreds of years of it’s own extremely distinct culinary identity (ex: Germany, Spain, Italy, even the UK (despite the jokes)).
If you just mean the US though, it doesn’t exactly have it’s own unified thing going on beyond what you’ve listed (burgers, pizzas, etc) but there are plenty of foods, and even a few entire genres of food, that are very closely tied to the american identity (Texmex is the best one I can think of). The most “american” american food I can think of is probably hotdish which… I don’t actually recommend seeking out (please don’t hurt me, I just don’t think the majority of casseroles are all that great)
Don’t forget barbecue
Isn’t that primarily a spanish invention? US has a culture built around it absolutely, but most places also incorporate it somehow, especially oceania and any former spanish colonies. It’s not really an “american” food per se as far as I’m aware.
I’m specifically referring to American barbecue, which is absolutely it’s own unique thing (or several things since it varies by region)
Ah, I was indeed specifically talking about the meats - I did forget there were all the other traditional accouterments that go along with American barbecue.
Well the West is know for their baked goods and pastries. Like croissants, donuts, churros, etc. Like in East Asia and South East Asia a lot of the pastry that is for sale is based on Western recipes and they are different from the local pastry recipes.
its mostly meat, and maybe some kind of bread, very high incidence of type 2 amongst western countries, after asians started incorporating alot of sugar in thier diet, type 2 was in the rise in them too. vegatables are lacking in thier cousins, much like with European ones.
they changed after renovating thier stores in '19 to have those kiosks, it was never the same.
Soon:
“That’ll be $39.99 with our special in-app-only deal.”
$59.99 without the app
plus tip
Plus value added tax, city tax, and over the counter delivery fee.
“You want a tip? Here’s your tip: ‘Fuck You, Clanker, I’m eating!’”
Plus $20 handling fee
wait until they can feed you paste but make you think it tastes good.
This is how I feel about certain expensive meal replacement supplements.
soylent mignon is made out of rocks!
Is this a miniature or one of those things where they make actual tiny food?
Nah, it is just a really big hand
This is the original. Polymer clay.
Anything is edible if you believe it.
OK, Art Vandelay.
Ai generated?
It sucks how ai cheapest ALL art like this. There has to be a word for when something is mistaken for AI.
“Slop rot”
Thought of it when listening to npr mentioning the last two year’s Webster dictionary words of the year. Brainrot (2024) and Slop (2025).
I like it
yeah sorry… I also don’t know it anymore… I just didn’t know it was AI or real anymore… its horrible.
This is the original, 2011.
I found this image dating back to 2014, it’s probably even older, so not AI generated.
I went to the website and apparently it’s a miniature, the artist has been doing this way before the A’I’ craze: https://www.aiclay.com/philosophy
“What is this? Fast food for ants? It needs to be at least…three times bigger.”
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.
Their competition is other expensive British food, so I could see the logic there.
Theres mcds in vietnam, selling their crap at american prices, where you can walk 200 feet in any direction and get amazing food for like 60 cents.
That’s crazy! I hope the sales from the McDonalds branches, in Vietnam, are at least contributing to the country in a meaningful way through taxes etc.
(I don’t know about that sort of thing, I just hope the huge difference in price at least has some benefit to locals).
Same thing where I am, I could go to Wendy’s and get a meal for 15 dollars that won’t fill me up or I can go down the street and get a breakfast burrito the size of my forearm and a large drink that’ll last me until noon for 15 dollars. While I may be rather lanky in my arms that’s still a fucken forearm worth of food thatll hold me over till dinner.
