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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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.
That sloppy bun with the mayo spilling over the sides
His tramp stamps were between the rolls, so I aimed.
“Oh, Hamburgler!”, he cried
9 yo
Damn, kids really be starting young these days
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’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.
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.
Good. Smaller portions are what many need these days. And the high price of fast food is a great incentive to eat at home.
Soon:
“That’ll be $39.99 with our special in-app-only deal.”
$59.99 without the app
plus tip
“You want a tip? Here’s your tip: ‘Fuck You, Clanker, I’m eating!’”
Plus value added tax, city tax, and over the counter delivery fee.
Plus $20 handling fee
Is this a miniature or one of those things where they make actual tiny food?
This is the original. Polymer clay.
Nah, it is just a really big hand
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
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!
“What is this? Fast food for ants? It needs to be at least…three times bigger.”
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
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.
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
They really go overboard.
Like even the smallest portion, you can eat with 4 persons and all be full.
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.
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.
I guess ‘Large’ now stands for ‘Large Disappointment.’ Shrinkflation is getting out of hand.
I ORDERED ONE LARGE FRY AND YOU GAVE ME A BUNCH OF FUCKIN LITTLE ONES
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?
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.
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.
Just spend like $3 more, go to Cava, and end up with enough leftover for another 2 meals
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.
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.
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
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.
Fuck Ray Kroc, that whole company is rotten to it core. Stop supporting these giant shitty companies.
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.
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.
I’m in the US and my fries come as pictures. San Francisco Bay Area
I ate at a McD last week in NV and the fries were in the expected cardboard carton and not as pictured.
Yeah. These are from the San Francisco Bay Area as the other commenter said lol
That’s wild to me, but good info to know.
I keep wondering when the Reddit fad of bitching about McDonalds will end.
The food is shit. It has always been shit. There was never a time when the food from McDonadls did not suck. There was never a time when eating there was not a waste of money. There have always been better options including better burger fast food chains….
There has never been a time when it was a good idea to eat at McDonalds for a variety of reasons.
So like the idiot who keeps smoking it is entirely that idiots fault.
If you buy food from McDonalds it is entirely your fault.
STFU about it.
I think its people being bitten for the first time. I hadn’t been there in years because theres not one near me. When I went a few months back I did do a double take checking the receipt with what I actually received.
I was expecting a low-end shitty budget option. The game changed and I didnt expect it.
Uh-huh…
If this place was Reddit it would be called Karma farming.
The bitching about McDonalds is the shit as the bitching about Pick Up Trucks.
If you don’t like the content you can simply not engage with it.
Right back at ya…
Tell me you weren’t alive in the early '70s, without telling me you weren’t alive in the early '70s.
Oh I was alive in 70s. I saw Star Wars and Jaws in their openning run.
WTF does that have to do with what I posted?
Because McD’s has gotten worse.
It’s still always been shit, but it has also gotten worse. I assume they’re trying to say McD’s wasn’t garbage at some point in the past simply because they have gotten worse, but… a burger has always been a cheap shitty meal. They just charge a normal meal’s price for them these days, because Americans are used to eating expensive shit.
They’ve cut corners somewhere this century and the meat turned to cardboard. Their burgers were tastier when I was a smoker.
In the early '70s a Big Mac was the size of The Whopper at the time, so it was huge. It was also decent value back then, IIRC the Big Mac Meal was like $1.50 back then.
You can still get a version of the original Big Mac at Plant Power these days, but it is completely vegan.
No, the big mac was never the size of a whopper. I don’t think it has changed much at all. Look it up.
What did change was when McDonalds was well worth it: 5 cheeseburgers for a buck. But that was the 50’s.
I don’t remember how much McDonalds cost in the 70s. kids tend to not retain that information.
Thing is do remember this. In 1978 I could get a burger from a place called The Duck Inn for 75 cents. It was huge and delicious. At that same place a chicken dinner was $1.50.
Here is a picture of the place https://www.shorpy.com/node/20743
Amazingly The Duck Inn is the only restaurant costs I remember from my childhood, because the place was two doors down from where my family and I lived.
I went to college in the 80s and started to learn about nutrition and the environment and found out how shitty fast food was/is.
McDonald’s didn’t turn to shit in the 80s. It always was shit.
it is funny seeing americans complain about not being able to eat like disgusting slobs though
I’m not defending Mcds , but everyone can choose to eat whatever they want. Everyone has fast food of any kind everywhere,. It’s not my place to judge whether they eat it or not. You never hung out with your friends at a fast food joint because that’s what you could all afford at the time ?
I think the spirit of the post is that all fast food horribly shifted to being terrible in the last decade. Mcds happens to be one of the most prominent ones. KFC is cardboard now, Chinese food containers are now half of what they used to be. A Korean fried chicken place cut the wings in two and called them separate pieces, so you have two buy two now to get the same amount of chicken as before. With the smaller portion , the price has gone up 50% across the board.
Maybe some countries have not seen their food quality and price shift so quickly, but in Corporate America, consumers are getting squeezed like never before. The dollar has lost 50% spending power everywhere in America.
One of my favorite local takeout lobster sandwiches used to be $17 less than 10 years ago, now it’s $40, and it’s the same size as before.
HEHE Truth.
I ordered 4 cheeseburgers and devoured them all in a single sitting. I need bigger burger so I’m full!!
Bullshit! Mcnuggets were amazing back in the 80’s.
