Comment on Anon watches Super Size Me
GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world 2 days agoI think one of the reasons he did it was an executive from McDonald’s had stated that their food was healthy and someone could eat it everyday for a month without health consequences. His goal was to prove this was an obvious lie and secondly how many low income people are stuck in a system where this is the only food that is conveniently available and how that is making generations of low-income households sick.
Not sure about the alcoholism - but this wasn’t a strict scientific trial so…
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
Not buying the low income excuse, when I was on low income I would have loved to have enough money to be able to afford fast food every day. If I had been doing that I wouldn’t have been able to afford rent.
I don’t go to mcdonalds but just looked up their prices. A single “big arch” (wtf is that? first thing on the menu) for £10, about the same as a weeks worth of food with the sort of things I was getting poverty shopping.
KuroiKaze@lemmy.world 2 days ago
You may not know this but when it was made McDonald’s was vastly cheaper than it is today. Double cheeseburgers were just a single dollar. It’s somewhat difficult to achieve a multi ingredient hot meal for that price with groceries and it requires doing meal prep and reheating. Today’s McDonald’s is way more expensive which completely invalidates the case for eating it at all outside the breakfast menu (actual eggs).
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
I am aware of inflation
KuroiKaze@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Not inflation, the price has increased far beyond the inflation rate as McDonald’s struggled to stay profitable and adjusted their strategy and posture (mccafe era).
WalleyeWarrior@midwest.social 2 days ago
When was this? Because of seriously doubt it cost £10 for a McDonald’s meal back in in 2004. That would have been $20USD at a time when you could still get a Big Mac from the dollar menu
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
It was a few hours ago.
WalleyeWarrior@midwest.social 1 day ago
So back when Super Size me came out, you could easily feed a family of 4 for like $10. Now McDonald’s is as much as getting a burger from a sit down restaurant and takes forever because they have transitioned to doing Doordash for whatever reason