The shrinkflation

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• tacosanonymous@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Give money to shitty company, get a shitty product.

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  • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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.

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    • lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      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.

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    • Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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    • k0e3@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      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.

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      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!

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  • bytesonbike@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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.

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• Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Soon:

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  • mech@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    “That’ll be $39.99 with our special in-app-only deal.”

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    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      $59.99 without the app

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    • criss_cross@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Plus $20 handling fee

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  • hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Is this a miniature or one of those things where they make actual tiny food?

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    • AbsolutelyClawless@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      This is the original. Polymer clay.

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    • Honytawk@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Nah, it is just a really big hand

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    • myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Anything is edible if you believe it.

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    • melroy@kbin.melroy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Ai generated?

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  • ooterness@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    What is this? Fast food for ants?

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  • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    wait until they can feed you paste but make you think it tastes good.

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    • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      This is how I feel about certain expensive meal replacement supplements.

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• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Wtf, that’s a medium from like pre-covid.

  Oh well, restaurants were neat, time to learn how to coom.

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  • 87Six@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    9 yo me could’ve helped a lot

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    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      … sigh …

      Of all the degenerate things I’ve done as a horny kid, somehow fucking my McDonalds meal is not one of them.

      … but, its a fucking hilarious typo, so it stays, lol

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      9 yo

      Damn, kids really be starting young these days

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• Caketaco@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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• Shieldtoad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  In Belgium, when you go to a ‘frituur’ and you order 2 small fries you get this amount of fries:

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  • yakko@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    As it bloody well should be. More than one order of fries of any size should be a life-altering amount of potato

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  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That’s like 5 Guys burgers in the US

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    • FatVegan@leminal.space ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Calm down with the inaults

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    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      its called that because you need 5 guys to finish 1 meal!

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  • GreatRam@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Thats like five guys

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  • djdarren@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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.

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    • jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      a large is just Too Many Chips.

      I’ve yet to encounter such a phenomenon.

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  • Honytawk@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They really go overboard.

    Like even the smallest portion, you can eat with 4 persons and all be full.

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Lots of them, but man they’re all little nubs. That would annoy me.

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    • wieson@feddit.org ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If you’ve never eaten Belgian fries, they’re really good

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  • mystrawberrymind@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yeah I was in Belgium last year and them OG fries were the best. Really good quality mayo too.

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  • Obi@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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.

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• Doomsider@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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.

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• chad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I ORDERED ONE LARGE FRY AND YOU GAVE ME A BUNCH OF FUCKIN LITTLE ONES

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• RBWells@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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.

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• ranzispa@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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?

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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.

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    • ranzispa@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      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.

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Just spend like $3 more, go to Cava, and end up with enough leftover for another 2 meals

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  • imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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.

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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

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  • lechekaflan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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 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.

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    • SpraynardKruger@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.

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• OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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.

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  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Guessing OP’s picture is from Europe or a Micky D’s inside of a theme park.

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    • miked@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’m in the US and my fries come as pictures. San Francisco Bay Area

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    • mystrawberrymind@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yeah. These are from the San Francisco Bay Area as the other commenter said lol

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• IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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.

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  • yermaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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.

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    • IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Uh-huh…

      If this place was Reddit it would be called Karma farming.

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  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Tell me you weren’t alive in the early '70s, without telling me you weren’t alive in the early '70s.

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    • IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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  • IronBird@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    it is funny seeing americans complain about not being able to eat like disgusting slobs though

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    • lemonSqueezy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      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 ?

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    • IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      HEHE Truth.

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    • mika_mika@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I ordered 4 cheeseburgers and devoured them all in a single sitting. I need bigger burger so I’m full!!

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  • Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Bullshit! Mcnuggets were amazing back in the 80’s.

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• JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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 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.

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  • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Their competition is other expensive British food, so I could see the logic there.

    Theres mcds in vietnam, selling their crap at american where you can walk 200 feet in any direction and get amazing food for like 60 cents.

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    • JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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).

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  • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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.

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• Bluewing@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Good. Smaller portions are what many need these days. And the high price of fast food is a great incentive to eat at home.

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• BroBot9000@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Bag of potatoes, a knife, oil, a pot and thermometer. Now you can have a snack that is a million times better and cheaper.

  Double fry the potatoes for that authentic fish and chip style fries.

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  • zakobjoa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    What do you do with 2 litres of oil then?

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    • themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      This is always my concern. Actually frying something takes minutes, but heating, cooling, straining, and storing significant volumes of oil just doesn’t justify the convenience. If I want fried food, I’m going to a restaurant.

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    • optissima@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Drink it

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  • mystrawberrymind@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I know, I don’t eat like this usually lol. I’m just doing night shift and it’s only fast food and convenience stores open right now😆

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  • NABDad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    If you want it to be really good, use beef tallow instead of oil.

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  • supamanc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    And your whole house can smell like a chippy!

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  • finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They’ll never have that limp, soggy, and oversalted McDonalds feel like that.

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• bagsy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Fuck Ray Kroc, that whole company is rotten to it core. Stop supporting these giant shitty companies.

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• prac@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I guess ‘Large’ now stands for ‘Large Disappointment.’ Shrinkflation is getting out of hand.

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• th3dogcow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Are the contents less by weight? I don’t doubt your frustration. But when I was a kid, the happy meals came in a cardboard box, but not they come in a paper bag (at least in Japan). Obviously to save money. Maybe they just cut the cardboard box to save money? FWIW I actually ate a large fries yesterday and they came in the traditional packaging, so this was surprising for me.

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• KaRunChiy@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I work at a McD's, our large fries come in 6oz tall cardboard boxes, not whatever the fuck that is. My only guess is that the area you're in has extra taxes on cardboard waste or a supply chain issue.

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• DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Mcdonalds these days suck ass.

  The 2010s were great. Very nostalgic and McDonalds was one of my first and my best memories of America. Glad I got to enjoy them before they went to shit, cuz otherwise kid-me would’ve have the impression that “all western foods suck”. (I mean it’s hard to even know how to look for local non-chain “western” restaurants… since the reason I know what a McDonalds is because back in China, we also had them, but I think it tasted different… don’t remember)

  I mean seriously, is it just me or does like Papa Johns and Dominos and even Pizza Hut all went to shit?

  P.S. I remember my mom telling about the Pizza we had in Pizza Hut in China… like she said it was expensive and it was only a very small pizza (like individual-size). I don’t even remember having it in China

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• Guillermosaenz@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “Large” is a state of mind now 😅 If you’ve got the receipt, it’s worth a quick feedback ticket—sometimes they’ll toss you a replacement or coupon.

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• hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I really wonder what they’d consider “small fries” then.

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• emb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m actually pretty OK with this. Portion sizes were generally kinda oversized, especially for not-so-healthy fastfood.

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• finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  McDonalds Rep: It’s not really fair you dug up Andre the Giant to hold our large fries in your picture.

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• serpineslair@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Can’t lie, that looks massive.

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• OpenPassageways@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Wasn’t the large fries always a ripoff? I think someone showed once that it’s only marginally more fries than a small fry.

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• gon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You’re holding that bag very kindly. It looks like you’re fondling it. I see you have a deep appreciation for McDonald’s fries… I can’t imagine how painful the shrinkflation must be for you!

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• Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Meh, pretty ok with this. America needs a serious downsize on processed food.

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• rafoix@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Tell me you’re a smart person when you keep buying low quality shit you don’t need and complain about the quantity of that same shit when it isn’t sold by weight or volume.

  Maybe change your eating habits.

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• HeyJoe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Kind of crazy when I just saw they announced a new “group” fry which is an XXL fry that basically allows them to sell you an even bigger version of the original supersize fry by saying its meant for groups.

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• tpihkal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I can’t discern the size of the fries based on this picture.

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