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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.

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KuroiKaze@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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).

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- Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I am aware of inflation
  
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  - 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).
    
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    nomy@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Prices on takeout have gone insane post-covid.
    
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WalleyeWarrior@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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

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- Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  It was a few hours ago.
  
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  - 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
    
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    Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    I eat more food in a week than 4 people do for a single meal, so the same would apply. Plus buying ingredients to make food would also have been cheaper back then.
    
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