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• IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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?

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  • MotoAsh@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Because McD’s has gotten worse.

    It’s still always been shit, but it has also gotten worse.

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They’ve cut corners somewhere this century and the meat turned to cardboard. Their burgers were tastier when I was a smoker.

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  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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.

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    • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      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.

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    • IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I don’t remember how much McDonalds cost in the 70s. kids tend to not retain that information. Hell I ate at McDonalds two weeks ago and I don’t remember how much that costs.

      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 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.

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