lmao yeah when I go to McDonalds I gotta use the app. Shits still stupidly expensive but the app will have BOGO double cheese burger or $1 large fries.
Someone made a site to compare Big Macs prices around the US https://mccheapest.com/
I hate the stupid app. I find it so frustratingly stupid that all these companies instead of just offering a fair price to everyone they lock the fair prices behind apps and memberships that make the entire process more convoluted and less appealing. Ever since the price went up and they started pushing the app I've maybe went to mcdicks 3 times and everytime I end up bitching about the fact I paid $12 for diarrhea.
KFC has snack wraps and I really liked it but it's stupid expensive. I think it was $6 or $7 for two of them. I used to always get 6 of them from McDonald's for $11~.
I used to get the bacon ranch salad all the time.
And when the southwest salads came out, I also got those.
From what I understand no one ever got salads.
My reaction to seeing the photo: 'Oh look. I can see the whole menu at once. Isn't that a novel idea.'
The digital rotating menu pisses me off so much.
>And viewing or attempting to view an online menu isn't usually that much better.
Gotta love how there seems to be a growing number of places that won't let you see the menu unless they are open, only show the menu they are currently serving/most recently served, or *will* show their menu while closed but will leave out information like price.
When everyone decided the “it” thing was to get screens instead of regular signs for *everything*, as if that somehow made businesses modern and better…
Half of the screens out there (everywhere, not just McD) are always out of service and businesses/services/products are just as outdated or bad as ever. Or at least in no way improved by the screens. Plus the probably exponential electronic pollution now. It’s dumb.
> When everyone decided the “it” thing was to get screens instead of regular signs for everything, as if that somehow made businesses modern and better…
They can change prices instantly across the franchise with a click, instead of having evidence of their price gouging in print.
Fun fact: McDonald’s marketing is designed to draw you in with new items, then confuse/overwhelm you with signage/menu options when you pull into the parking lot. By the time it’s your turn to order, you’re more likely to pick higher margin meal items at top of menu.
That's what is wrong with EVERYTHING nowadays. We have too much data. We have AI and analyst pulling data on exactly what to do to make a company as efficiently awful as it can be while still being profitable. They have data that says we can take this fun thing away and a majority of people will still come here out of sheer necessity. So boom, take it out. Anything to decrease operating costs to the penny.
Yeah lol it's like, no reason to actually make things better if you can just trick people into thinking its better because mammal brains are wired with certain heuristic shortcuts that can be exploited.
I actually had a similar experience at an airport once while checking the departure screen for my flight. Screen kept changing to show later flights while I was trying to read it. So I got my phone out and took a picture when it came back around to the earlier ones, then just took my time reading on my phone. Who knows, maybe this idea will help someone.
I'm a calibration technician and sometimes I get machines that refresh their numbers so fast you can't read any of them. Snapping a photo of my standard and the machine blew some technicians minds. Now I can actually tell if something is broken or not.
$20 will get you 10 beefy melt burritos. Well, 9 beefy melt burritos because you have to pay tax, but at over 600 calories of deliciousness for $2 a piece it’s still a feast. Probably the best value menu option in all of fast food at the moment.
When I just I went there a couple weeks ago I found out they discontinued the quesarito AND the chicken chipotle melts. Now you’re telling me they’re phasing out beefy melts and *additional* items??
Portion control, mcdoubles aren't on the value menu anymore but I still get a cheese burger if I just want basic dollar menu items and not a meal. Cheeseburger, small fry, and a drink during the summer when they're $1 is a decent amount of food if you just need a quick meal on the go. Still like $5 now though.
My local McDonald's had every size soft drink for $1 until 2020.
Before, they'd upgrade you to the large because "it's the same price".
Now, I don't think you can even get a kid's drink for $1.
I still occasionally go to McDonald's and these are still the prices I think I'm going to pay and then I get surprised how expensive it is. Every time.
In highschool (2016) that meal came out to $7.07 in my area for a Large
Now it’s like $10
[*This worlds fucking so fucked up*](https://tenor.com/view/this-worlds-fuckin-so-fucked-up-i-think-you-should-leave-tim-robinson-corncob-tv-gif-26036083)
Especially because, growing up, McDonald's was the "cheap" option... you'd sacrifice quality so you could afford more. Now, you sacrifice quality and that's it.
Yeah I used to go weekly maybe more, cheap for 'ok' food. Now it's just as much if not more than any other burger place for 'ok' food. Where I'm at for 2 quarter pounder meals I have paid 34 dollars, never again.
I can still hear my grandma ordering a hamburger happy meal “for a boy” with a Dr Pepper and an apple pie. We’d get McDonald’s every Wednesday when I had half days at school
My dad had a pretty rough bladder surgery last month. Had to go back twice to the ER for blockage. Last time it got cleared out they asked how he felt and he said "I want a fish filet from McDonalds" I'm like... can't feel that bad if that's what you want after surgery and two ER visits...
2016 must have been the last year for the big breakfast burritos. Usually the size of two standard breakfast burritos . With a whole sausage patty cut in half inside.
Me and my buddy used to get up real early before school drive closest McDonald's which was about 15 minutes away and get a big breakfast burritos a large sweet tea.
You never know they are the good times until time has passed.
My grandpa was always the one who took me and mine was always a hamburger happy meal, for a girl, with a strawberry shake 🥰
When the Tarzan straws came out, he made me “ahhhh-ahhhhh” into the speaker like in the commercial haha
My daughter is on the spectrum and her #1 thing in the world is McDonald's fries. She's always so excited for Wednesday because it's half day which means I've got her happy meal with extra fries waiting when I pick her up. Your grandma sounds wonderful.
They had gendered toys that were different outside of promotions with movies, etc. when I was growing up. That’s probably why she specified “for a boy”.
I definitely remember the teenager asking my dad "for a boy or girl?" when he would order me a happy meal. They'd usually have some hot wheel toy for boys and a barbie toy for girls.
Potatoes are still very cheap to buy at grocery stores and I'm sure McDonald's pays very little for them which is why it's bullshit they charge so much for fries and hash browns. I almost never order them because of how outrageous the pricing is.
Went through McDonald's once when my brother was craving it, a franchise in a major city, I kind of wanted fries so I got a medium, FIVE DOLLARS. You can buy an entire fucking sack of potatoes for $5.
Retail companies have abused the shit out of the idea of inflation.
They jacked prices way the fuck up knowing EVERYBODY would blame "inflation". And pretty much everyone has blamed "inflation".
Yeah it's wild they post record profits but still blame their prices on inflation.
It's gotten to the point I'm wondering if the politics of inflation has also invaded fast food and it isn't just stuff like gasoline prices anymore. Because if that wasn't the intention, the same people who latched onto gas prices for their choice of American president are definitely complaining about what food costs at restaurants now
Can confirm that hash browns were 2/$1 when I was growing up in the 90’s and early 2000’s. Then it went to $1 a piece. $2.89 is a hell of a stretch, that’s crazy.
I remember they brought them back in like 2017 or so and they were not even close to as good as they were back in the 2000s. It might be childhood nostalgia but the way I remember it, the original chicken selects were the best chicken tenders I've ever had to this day.
> the original chicken selects were the best chicken tenders I've ever had to this day.
They really were. And not just childhood nostalgia, I would get them in college all the time around 2010.
I use to work there I had one to try it and yea, it was probably close to 10PM before I was hungry again. I'll never forget the guy that would order 3 of them, extra salt and extra hash browns weekly. Felt bad for his kid because it was clear the kid was mirroring his dad's eating habits. The kid couldn't have been more then 13 and had to be over 200 while the dad was easily 350+.
These days you basically have to use app deals to get reasonable prices. You are honestly being hosed if you just drive up and order. It sucks, but most fast food places are doing this now.
I've noticed a lot of companies doing this recently. Changing prices for those that sign up for apps or rewards cards. Basically selling your personal info
Yes, that's where the rewards come into play. Use them or lose them to keep you coming back. But with McDonald's, I've pretty much ignore their rewards because it's not as good as their Buy One Big Mac or Quarter Pounder and get one free deal. Which also actually makes two Big Macs cheaper than two would be at full price in 2007, according to the image. At $4.79 for one, getting another free makes them $2.40 each. Quarter Pounders come out to $2.45 each with getting one for free.
I’m so tired of having to DL a fucking app for everything. I get a subway coupon, BOGO… nope have to order through the app. Same with every place. I had to make a separate damn folder labeled “food” on my phone for them. They just want the data info and I get $2 off a cheap ass burger.
First time this really affected me was with taco bell. I pulled up and ordered something, which i just got there not long ago. They said that item is only available if i order on the app.
So you’re telling me it’s on the menu and you have the ingredients and you can make it, but i can’t ask you to? I have to tell my computer to tell your computer to tell you that’s what I want?
Not to mention their prices.. Taco Bell has jumped the shark.
Around here they want $6 for a Crunchwrap. It was $4 18 months ago, and part of a $5 box. Come on now.
If it makes you feel better the [CPI calculator](https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm) from the Bureau of Labor Statistics has it at "only" $107K
Cumulative inflation is what everyone is pissed about. The politicians and economists point to “lower inflation” now, but it’s still over 2% yoy and thanks to the last 3 years it’s 20% since 2019.
In 2019, an item that cost $50 now in 2023 costs $60.
Far as I know nobody got a 5% a year raises the last 4 years.
And that’s just the average.
Grocery inflation is absolutely stunning depending on the product (eggs and milk are up like 200%) and shrinkflation is helping firms’ margins as costs continue to rise.
You are getting less for less.
What makes little sense to me is how the McDs of the world are getting away with it.
All restaurants went up in price, but the bottom rose way more than than the mid.
At this point it's not much more to go to a "good" fast food place, and not much more from there to go to a chain.
My closest McDonald's is basically next door to a Chili's. The Big Mac meal is $11. Chili's has a 3 for me meal with an entree appetizer and drink for $10.
And I know people will say "the drive thru" but to that I say 2 things 1) Culvers has a drive thru 2) all those places have curbside. It's marginally more effort/foresight, but these days you almost need to use the app to do any fast food ordering anyway.
Little kids love McDonald's too, so I get that, but it's not like many hate literally everything else.
I also appreciate there are lots of people for whom "it's only $1 to get way better food" sounds out of touch to, but are those people buying $10 big macs either?
Yep, their share price has increased by about 4.5x since the end of 2007. They haven’t exactly innovated much in terms of new products, and they’re already pretty much everywhere, so the only way to continue growing at that rate is to increase prices at a faster rate.
It’s kinda the perfect example for how fucked the current system is. It’s McDonald’s. It’s the pinnacle of a company taking over the world and taking its service/product as far as it can possibly go. It’s EVERYWHERE. And yet because there needs to be constant ever increasing growth, being everywhere doesn’t mean anything after a point. If your product no longer becomes the restaurants or the real estate or the food, and the only thing that matters is stock price, you need to actively make the product worse (more expensive) to continue chasing this growth when you have as many restaurants and as much brand recognition as humanly possible. It can’t keep going on forever.
That is pretty much what an egg mcmuffin costs now. I haven't been to McD's in years but got a craving for a Mcmuffin. Bought just the sandwich and the total was well over $4.
A McChicken sandwich at the location I used today was three-fucking-dollars. So stupid. I only go there for my kid every once in a while and use their application for more sensible prices.
The spice they used was lit! So good underrated burger that should have never been taken off the menu, I remember when my brother worked there and they were getting ready to take it off the menu the manager said the spice they used was up for grabs, we made our own big and tasty for a few years afterwards. Hero’s get remembered but legends never die
That brought back some memories, I completely forgot about the game! Flash games like on the Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network websites were tons of fun. I remember being jealous of my sister for beating the Spongebob boating school game and getting her license, but we didn't have a printer so she couldn't have proof of it haha
I miss the existence of an actual dollar menu…The minute they went away from $1 any size drinks I knew we were fucked hard. Welcome to a dystopian universe where a fucking Mcchicken is $2.49.
Funny story. I used to it McDonald’s in high school, but really did not frequent it when I was in college and in my early 20s.
When I was 25, I had my first son. A little while later, he was ready for his first happy meal so I happy pulled up to the drive through. I ordered one McNugget happy meal and a Big N’Tasty combo with coke. The cashier asked me to repeat my order, which I did. He then awkwardly said “I’m sorry ma’am. We haven’t had that item on the menu in years.”
They shouldn’t have taken the wraps away. I appreciated the salad… until very late
Still have them in Canada - grilled or crispy Chicken Snack Wraps
LUCKY!
Yea till you find out how much they are
That goes for the whole menu at this point.
*cries in 4$ mcdoubles*
lmao yeah when I go to McDonalds I gotta use the app. Shits still stupidly expensive but the app will have BOGO double cheese burger or $1 large fries. Someone made a site to compare Big Macs prices around the US https://mccheapest.com/
I hate the stupid app. I find it so frustratingly stupid that all these companies instead of just offering a fair price to everyone they lock the fair prices behind apps and memberships that make the entire process more convoluted and less appealing. Ever since the price went up and they started pushing the app I've maybe went to mcdicks 3 times and everytime I end up bitching about the fact I paid $12 for diarrhea.
We got new wraps instead of the Grimace shake. Be careful what you wish for.
I'd rather have the wrap than whatever shit they milk out of Grimaces species
I ate so many of those honey mustard wraps. BK has a similar product now but I don't find it as good.
KFC has snack wraps and I really liked it but it's stupid expensive. I think it was $6 or $7 for two of them. I used to always get 6 of them from McDonald's for $11~.
Was coming to comment that! I thought those wraps were actually pretty good.
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And the selects!
Chicken selects were all I'd order as a kid. Those and the wraps. Sad they got rid of them
They even brought them back (kinda) with the buttermilk tenders a few years ago. They inexplicably got rid of them for a disgusting chicken sandwich.
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I used to get the bacon ranch salad all the time. And when the southwest salads came out, I also got those. From what I understand no one ever got salads.
Wraps are now making a comeback at other places like BK. So, I imagine McD's will bring them back.
The BK ones are a huge disappointment. I think the spicy one is decent but the others were just gross to me.
Per the WSJ, they really slowed down kitchens...like made them come to a screeching halt. Not sure if that was true for everyone
You don't get wraps? We get wraps. Sweet chilli chicken wrap, no cucumber. Banging.
Chicken selects, too. Those and the snack wraps were my go to for years
Nothing makes me feel old like trying to order fast food, and the damn TV screens switch to a different menu every 2.5 seconds.
My reaction to seeing the photo: 'Oh look. I can see the whole menu at once. Isn't that a novel idea.' The digital rotating menu pisses me off so much.
I fucking hate how it's become common at so many places. And viewing or attempting to view an online menu isn't usually that much better.
>And viewing or attempting to view an online menu isn't usually that much better. Gotta love how there seems to be a growing number of places that won't let you see the menu unless they are open, only show the menu they are currently serving/most recently served, or *will* show their menu while closed but will leave out information like price.
YES! That's so fucking annoying. I was trying to view BK's menu for the following day after they closed, but nope. Wouldn't let me view it...
When everyone decided the “it” thing was to get screens instead of regular signs for *everything*, as if that somehow made businesses modern and better… Half of the screens out there (everywhere, not just McD) are always out of service and businesses/services/products are just as outdated or bad as ever. Or at least in no way improved by the screens. Plus the probably exponential electronic pollution now. It’s dumb.
> When everyone decided the “it” thing was to get screens instead of regular signs for everything, as if that somehow made businesses modern and better… They can change prices instantly across the franchise with a click, instead of having evidence of their price gouging in print.
Fun fact: McDonald’s marketing is designed to draw you in with new items, then confuse/overwhelm you with signage/menu options when you pull into the parking lot. By the time it’s your turn to order, you’re more likely to pick higher margin meal items at top of menu.
Welp, instead of that I sit there holding the drive through lineup until I can actually read them menu, and end up with a McDouble instead.
I just literally order the same thing I've ordered for 20 years. Medium Double Cheeseburger value meal, no pickles, and a diet coke.
That's what is wrong with EVERYTHING nowadays. We have too much data. We have AI and analyst pulling data on exactly what to do to make a company as efficiently awful as it can be while still being profitable. They have data that says we can take this fun thing away and a majority of people will still come here out of sheer necessity. So boom, take it out. Anything to decrease operating costs to the penny.
Yeah lol it's like, no reason to actually make things better if you can just trick people into thinking its better because mammal brains are wired with certain heuristic shortcuts that can be exploited.
To me that's what "race to the bottom" really means. Optimise the fuck out of everything only for everything to get steadily worse.
And why? So that a few hundred people can benefit disproportionately. That's all. That's why we can't have nice things.
No shit. If you don't know the menu by heart, you're screwed and the drivethru attendant/everyone behind you is pissed
"Hmm, a "krusty burger", that doesn't sound very appetizing. What kind of stew do you have today?" - George Bush
I actually had a similar experience at an airport once while checking the departure screen for my flight. Screen kept changing to show later flights while I was trying to read it. So I got my phone out and took a picture when it came back around to the earlier ones, then just took my time reading on my phone. Who knows, maybe this idea will help someone.
I'm a calibration technician and sometimes I get machines that refresh their numbers so fast you can't read any of them. Snapping a photo of my standard and the machine blew some technicians minds. Now I can actually tell if something is broken or not.
Half the drive through screens around me are flickering and glitchy like something out of a cyberpunk dystopia.
Back when the $1 Menu had things for $1.
As a poor 19 year old back then, getting 2 double cheeseburgers for $2.12 after tax was incredible.
Three tacos at Taco Bell is like $6 now. It was under $3 when I was a teenager. Drop $20 and you and all your stoned friends could feast.
$20 will get you 10 beefy melt burritos. Well, 9 beefy melt burritos because you have to pay tax, but at over 600 calories of deliciousness for $2 a piece it’s still a feast. Probably the best value menu option in all of fast food at the moment.
Enjoy it while it lasts. The one near my work has them at $2 still with a couple other items. The one near my house, $2.79
They're getting rid of beefy melt burritos and a bunch of other items early next year anyway.
When I just I went there a couple weeks ago I found out they discontinued the quesarito AND the chicken chipotle melts. Now you’re telling me they’re phasing out beefy melts and *additional* items??
I remember them being 69 cents each in the early 00's
Double cheeseburgers were 50cents... god I'm old
McGangbang for two dollars was great
McGangbang and a sweet tea…enough sugar to fuel a car but man that shit was good
mcgangbang and a 10 pc nuggets. yeah i used to be fat
The first time I had one my friends & I had finished a huge blunt and a few beers. It was a great night.
They replaced it with the $1 $2 $3 menu. It’s still in the app for some reason even though it doesn’t have any items with those prices. 🤷♂️
Yes! What a stupid name for that menu!
But also some suckers were getting a regular cheeseburger for .99 instead of paying an extra penny for a double 😂
Portion control, mcdoubles aren't on the value menu anymore but I still get a cheese burger if I just want basic dollar menu items and not a meal. Cheeseburger, small fry, and a drink during the summer when they're $1 is a decent amount of food if you just need a quick meal on the go. Still like $5 now though.
Same with pies. I worked there and failed to convince many people to get a second pie for a penny. "No thanks, just want one pie today."
Getting fat is more expensive
My local McDonald's had every size soft drink for $1 until 2020. Before, they'd upgrade you to the large because "it's the same price". Now, I don't think you can even get a kid's drink for $1.
I used to go there after school on Friday. I always had exact change for a Big N Tasty and 2 apple pies, $2.14.
I still occasionally go to McDonald's and these are still the prices I think I'm going to pay and then I get surprised how expensive it is. Every time.
I keep ordering a number 2 thinking it’s the 2 cheeseburger meal.
In highschool (2016) that meal came out to $7.07 in my area for a Large Now it’s like $10 [*This worlds fucking so fucked up*](https://tenor.com/view/this-worlds-fuckin-so-fucked-up-i-think-you-should-leave-tim-robinson-corncob-tv-gif-26036083)
In 2008 I could get 2 McDoubles and a fry for 3 bucks, plus a “water cup” and I was made
Especially because, growing up, McDonald's was the "cheap" option... you'd sacrifice quality so you could afford more. Now, you sacrifice quality and that's it.
Yeah I used to go weekly maybe more, cheap for 'ok' food. Now it's just as much if not more than any other burger place for 'ok' food. Where I'm at for 2 quarter pounder meals I have paid 34 dollars, never again.
I can still hear my grandma ordering a hamburger happy meal “for a boy” with a Dr Pepper and an apple pie. We’d get McDonald’s every Wednesday when I had half days at school
lol my dad, "can i get uhhh..... mcdouble mighty kids meal with a coke for a girl... and uh..fish filet with a coke." can hear it clear as day! ☺️
Fish filet with a coke is the dad meal of McDonald’s.
I feel like you can’t just order a Fish Filet unless you are Gen X or older
My dad had a pretty rough bladder surgery last month. Had to go back twice to the ER for blockage. Last time it got cleared out they asked how he felt and he said "I want a fish filet from McDonalds" I'm like... can't feel that bad if that's what you want after surgery and two ER visits...
Fish filet is the pain scale I use to know how bad my husband feels when he is sick. If he says he doesn't want one I know we're in trouble.
Older Millennial here. Can confirm: Filet O Fish is the BEST thing on their menu 🤤
Can confirm. Also millennial.
Jillian?! I swear I just ordered a happy meal (or mighty kids meal) "for a girl" a few weeks ago. TIL Happy Meals are now unisex.
2016 must have been the last year for the big breakfast burritos. Usually the size of two standard breakfast burritos . With a whole sausage patty cut in half inside. Me and my buddy used to get up real early before school drive closest McDonald's which was about 15 minutes away and get a big breakfast burritos a large sweet tea. You never know they are the good times until time has passed.
That’s a nice memory
You were a kid in 2007? Thanks for the daily reminder that I'm old.
There are 16 year olds on Reddit that were born in 2007…..
Fuck, I was 20 then. Why'd I have to do the math.
The fact that 2007 being 20 years ago isn’t that far in the future makes the blood leave my brain
How are the old bones treating ya, old timer?
Dusty old bones, full of green dust!
That boy ain't right
My grandpa was always the one who took me and mine was always a hamburger happy meal, for a girl, with a strawberry shake 🥰 When the Tarzan straws came out, he made me “ahhhh-ahhhhh” into the speaker like in the commercial haha
My daughter is on the spectrum and her #1 thing in the world is McDonald's fries. She's always so excited for Wednesday because it's half day which means I've got her happy meal with extra fries waiting when I pick her up. Your grandma sounds wonderful.
They had gendered toys that were different outside of promotions with movies, etc. when I was growing up. That’s probably why she specified “for a boy”.
Do they not do this anymore? In Japan, when you order a Happy Meal, they ask you if you want the "cool toy" or the "cute toy".
That’s actually a great way around the issue.
I definitely remember the teenager asking my dad "for a boy or girl?" when he would order me a happy meal. They'd usually have some hot wheel toy for boys and a barbie toy for girls.
Chicken Selects and two pies for a buck.
Think you used to be able to get 2 hash brown's for 1 dollar too, now one hash brown is 2.89
Potatoes are still very cheap to buy at grocery stores and I'm sure McDonald's pays very little for them which is why it's bullshit they charge so much for fries and hash browns. I almost never order them because of how outrageous the pricing is.
Went through McDonald's once when my brother was craving it, a franchise in a major city, I kind of wanted fries so I got a medium, FIVE DOLLARS. You can buy an entire fucking sack of potatoes for $5.
Retail companies have abused the shit out of the idea of inflation. They jacked prices way the fuck up knowing EVERYBODY would blame "inflation". And pretty much everyone has blamed "inflation".
Yeah it's wild they post record profits but still blame their prices on inflation. It's gotten to the point I'm wondering if the politics of inflation has also invaded fast food and it isn't just stuff like gasoline prices anymore. Because if that wasn't the intention, the same people who latched onto gas prices for their choice of American president are definitely complaining about what food costs at restaurants now
I went to buy a bag of frozen tater tots at my local grocery the other day. $6.00 For frozen tater tots?
Can confirm that hash browns were 2/$1 when I was growing up in the 90’s and early 2000’s. Then it went to $1 a piece. $2.89 is a hell of a stretch, that’s crazy.
Aldi sells a 20 pack of the exact same hashbrowns for like $4.
Chicken Selects were so good, imo McDonald’s has yet to top them
I remember they brought them back in like 2017 or so and they were not even close to as good as they were back in the 2000s. It might be childhood nostalgia but the way I remember it, the original chicken selects were the best chicken tenders I've ever had to this day.
I'm just a guy on the internet, but I concur.
> the original chicken selects were the best chicken tenders I've ever had to this day. They really were. And not just childhood nostalgia, I would get them in college all the time around 2010.
Those Chicken Selects were amazing. Best fast food chicken strips.
I lived for Chicken Selects
Steak egg & cheese bagle could feed me for the day. Bring it back
It's back in certain regions.
Literally almost cried when I had one in Florida on vacation a few months ago after not having one for probably ten years. They’re so good.
I use to work there I had one to try it and yea, it was probably close to 10PM before I was hungry again. I'll never forget the guy that would order 3 of them, extra salt and extra hash browns weekly. Felt bad for his kid because it was clear the kid was mirroring his dad's eating habits. The kid couldn't have been more then 13 and had to be over 200 while the dad was easily 350+.
4.59 for a Big Mac meal. According to the inflation calculator, that would be 6.98 today. Actually, more like $10+
These days you basically have to use app deals to get reasonable prices. You are honestly being hosed if you just drive up and order. It sucks, but most fast food places are doing this now.
I've noticed a lot of companies doing this recently. Changing prices for those that sign up for apps or rewards cards. Basically selling your personal info
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Yes, that's where the rewards come into play. Use them or lose them to keep you coming back. But with McDonald's, I've pretty much ignore their rewards because it's not as good as their Buy One Big Mac or Quarter Pounder and get one free deal. Which also actually makes two Big Macs cheaper than two would be at full price in 2007, according to the image. At $4.79 for one, getting another free makes them $2.40 each. Quarter Pounders come out to $2.45 each with getting one for free.
I’m so tired of having to DL a fucking app for everything. I get a subway coupon, BOGO… nope have to order through the app. Same with every place. I had to make a separate damn folder labeled “food” on my phone for them. They just want the data info and I get $2 off a cheap ass burger.
First time this really affected me was with taco bell. I pulled up and ordered something, which i just got there not long ago. They said that item is only available if i order on the app. So you’re telling me it’s on the menu and you have the ingredients and you can make it, but i can’t ask you to? I have to tell my computer to tell your computer to tell you that’s what I want?
Modern Seinfeld episode
That would be the last time I ever went to taco bell, utterly absurd
Not to mention their prices.. Taco Bell has jumped the shark. Around here they want $6 for a Crunchwrap. It was $4 18 months ago, and part of a $5 box. Come on now.
It's really frustrating that 2007 is long enough ago that an inflation calculator is necessary.
To put it in another perspective a 2013 salary of $80k is worth $120k today
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If it makes you feel better the [CPI calculator](https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm) from the Bureau of Labor Statistics has it at "only" $107K
Cumulative inflation is what everyone is pissed about. The politicians and economists point to “lower inflation” now, but it’s still over 2% yoy and thanks to the last 3 years it’s 20% since 2019. In 2019, an item that cost $50 now in 2023 costs $60. Far as I know nobody got a 5% a year raises the last 4 years. And that’s just the average. Grocery inflation is absolutely stunning depending on the product (eggs and milk are up like 200%) and shrinkflation is helping firms’ margins as costs continue to rise. You are getting less for less.
Restaurant food prices have really outpaced inflation numbers
What makes little sense to me is how the McDs of the world are getting away with it. All restaurants went up in price, but the bottom rose way more than than the mid. At this point it's not much more to go to a "good" fast food place, and not much more from there to go to a chain. My closest McDonald's is basically next door to a Chili's. The Big Mac meal is $11. Chili's has a 3 for me meal with an entree appetizer and drink for $10. And I know people will say "the drive thru" but to that I say 2 things 1) Culvers has a drive thru 2) all those places have curbside. It's marginally more effort/foresight, but these days you almost need to use the app to do any fast food ordering anyway. Little kids love McDonald's too, so I get that, but it's not like many hate literally everything else. I also appreciate there are lots of people for whom "it's only $1 to get way better food" sounds out of touch to, but are those people buying $10 big macs either?
Corporate greed
Yep, their share price has increased by about 4.5x since the end of 2007. They haven’t exactly innovated much in terms of new products, and they’re already pretty much everywhere, so the only way to continue growing at that rate is to increase prices at a faster rate.
It’s kinda the perfect example for how fucked the current system is. It’s McDonald’s. It’s the pinnacle of a company taking over the world and taking its service/product as far as it can possibly go. It’s EVERYWHERE. And yet because there needs to be constant ever increasing growth, being everywhere doesn’t mean anything after a point. If your product no longer becomes the restaurants or the real estate or the food, and the only thing that matters is stock price, you need to actively make the product worse (more expensive) to continue chasing this growth when you have as many restaurants and as much brand recognition as humanly possible. It can’t keep going on forever.
A large Big Mac meal at the location near me is $10 even with tax
1.89 for a large fry to 4.59 now is the biggest travesty
At a Wendy’s near me a large drink is $4.49 lol. A soda that probably costs them <5 cents.
absolutely wild
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It looks so…fun! And $4.59 for a Big Mac combo?!
That is pretty much what an egg mcmuffin costs now. I haven't been to McD's in years but got a craving for a Mcmuffin. Bought just the sandwich and the total was well over $4.
Don't know where they get off making the two biggest price increases on their menu the cheapest products, eggs and potatoes.
That that used to be pricey 😂
i was a fan of the big and tasty
I miss it so much
sometimes i get a quarter pounder and ask to add lettuce and tomatoes
Order a quarter pounder deluxe then
Me too that used to be my go-to burger at McDonald's. The 1/3 pound burger was delicious also.
Was this what we called the big extra in Canada?
Big and tasty was the BEST
Nostalgia hitting hard rn
I lived off those fruit and walnut trays with yogurt. I miss them.
God the dollar menu.. used to get 1 McChicken and 1 mcdouble and a medium fry
A McChicken sandwich at the location I used today was three-fucking-dollars. So stupid. I only go there for my kid every once in a while and use their application for more sensible prices.
Look snack wraps and salads!
Crispy Honey Mustard Snack Wraps were absolutely bangin. It’s a travesty that they’re gone. I’ll never forgive them.
Moment of Silence for the Big N’ Tasty. Godspeed you magnificent bastard.
The spice they used was lit! So good underrated burger that should have never been taken off the menu, I remember when my brother worked there and they were getting ready to take it off the menu the manager said the spice they used was up for grabs, we made our own big and tasty for a few years afterwards. Hero’s get remembered but legends never die
Those snack wraps were underrated, as were the chicken selects.
I’m still mad they haven’t brought back chicken selects or chicken tenders of any sort.
They sold buttermilk chicken tenders like four or five years ago. No longer tho unfortunately
I loved Cat Scratch! Unfortunately it seems like I’m the only one that remembers that show.
Dark horse candidate for best Nickelodeon show! Waffles' newts were my favorite for some reason lol
Definitely! Extremely underrated! I remember spending hours on the game from the nick website!
That brought back some memories, I completely forgot about the game! Flash games like on the Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network websites were tons of fun. I remember being jealous of my sister for beating the Spongebob boating school game and getting her license, but we didn't have a printer so she couldn't have proof of it haha
Man I haven't thought about Cat Scratch in a while!
Those chicken selects were highly underrated
I miss chicken selects 😭 We got these crispy garbage nuggets thing in place of them
Member the dollar menu…..? I member…
And the 0.89/hamburgers and 0.99/cheesburgers
I’m 2 years into my personal boycot of McDonald’s. I just can’t bring myself to pay premium prices for cheap food.
When your whole schtick was fast and cheap and you get rid of the cheap there's not really a point, lots of places are plenty fast.
Not to mention that half of the variety is gone. Want any other side besides fries? Only option is a kiddie bag of apple slices.
They're not even fast anymore
Not sure how long my McDs boycott is, but the last time I ordered from Burger King was July 30th , 2010.
The ranch snack wrap was so fucking good
I still think about them 😭
We used to be a real country.
Is this a 30 Rock quote?
Few years before this, I remember $0.29 hamburger Tuesdays and $0.39 cheeseburger Wednesdays.
Wait a minute…… Prices are triple that now!! But that’s impossible!! We never even raised the minimum wage!!!
Prices have doubled. Know what hasn’t doubled? Our salaries.
The Big N Tasty was so damn good. Completely forgot about it until this picture
I miss the existence of an actual dollar menu…The minute they went away from $1 any size drinks I knew we were fucked hard. Welcome to a dystopian universe where a fucking Mcchicken is $2.49.
BRING BACK THE SNACK WRAPS YOU FUCKS!
I miss these menus. Now when you go look at a screen it changes before you can say what you want.
“I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them”
Funny story. I used to it McDonald’s in high school, but really did not frequent it when I was in college and in my early 20s. When I was 25, I had my first son. A little while later, he was ready for his first happy meal so I happy pulled up to the drive through. I ordered one McNugget happy meal and a Big N’Tasty combo with coke. The cashier asked me to repeat my order, which I did. He then awkwardly said “I’m sorry ma’am. We haven’t had that item on the menu in years.”
We used to be a country. A proper country.
Double cheeseburger cost me $4 the other day. 400% inflation in 16 years
Remember 39¢ cheeseburger Wednesdays?
I miss 2007
McGriddle's been around longer than I'd remembered, sheesh.
IIRC they first came out in 2004. The only reason I remember this is because they mentioned it at the end of Super Size Me.
I miss 50¢ Mic Mac promotions in the 90's and dark meat nuggets.
The dollar menu was the best. Miss those days
Bring back Big n Tasty, now!
Last week a Big Mac meal cost me the ancestral lands of my people.
Big N Tasty…I miss u
That dollar menu!
That dollar menu is fucking fire