The size decrease of fast-food over the last 5 years.

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• k0e3@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Stop going.

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Fast food sales have plummeted since covid.

    We have stopped going.

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    • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Surely another price increase will make up for our terrible products not selling!

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    • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Few things made me feel more depressed that seeing cars backed up for what must have been an hour long queue trying to get McDonald’s at the drive through, since that’s the only bit that was open.

      I don’t really want to wait an hour for good food, let alone some hyper processed slop.

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    • Rothe@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You haven’t stopped enough though. Plummeting is not the same as them crashing and burning.

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  • BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So many reasons to not eat out and especially where that sandwich is likely from. Better to make a good meal with chicken, rice, and veggies for pennies compared.

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    • a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Or go to a local shop and get a decent sandwich.

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    • TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Okay but what if you don’t have the time/energy to do that? Still need to eat every day

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  • Trampampoline@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wendy’s and Arby’s know what stop going means. Here’s hoping McDonalds enjoys it just as much next year.

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  • bookmeat@fedinsfw.app ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • Crozekiel@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Unfortunately, bookmeat has a point… There is a monopoly brewing on food supply chains and it is only getting worse as the largest restaurant supply company is trying to buy the number 3 (I think) company. Basically, even local hole-in-the-wall type places are being squeezed by one of the 3 options to have food supplied. We need anti-trust and consumer protection laws to start being enforced in this country ASAP.

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• jaschen306@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I live in Taiwan and the food market here is INTENSE.

  My kid loves chicken nuggets from McDonald’s. So when I was visiting America, I noticed that the size of the nuggets are about 20% thinner and noticeably shorter than what we have locally. It wasn’t always like this. I still lived in the US during early pandemic.

  In Taiwan, there are so many restaurants and food stalls and online delivery and Line messaging app group buys that everyone is trying to get a tiny slice of the consumers food budget. It’s because the barrier to entry is so low. Less than 1500USD, you can get a food stall and materials to start a food cart.

  What that means is that restaurants who pull this shit gets quickly found out and the restaurant is gone pretty quickly.

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  • randombullet@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah the Taiwan food scene is incredibly competitive and everything tastes so amazing. If the good is not good, then you get priced out. There are even Michelin Stared street vendors, although it may not be indicative of the quality.

    I had a full meal at a night market for 6 USD including desert.

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• brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t get Chick-fil-A.

  It’s as expensive as takeout from a real restaurant, for a sandwich with plain dry bread.

  The chicken is… fine. Consistent, other than shrinking over the years.

  Shakes are runny. But fine.

  Yet people queue in like like it’s Disney world. I just don’t get it. Why wouldn’t I go to, like, Raising Cane’s or Chicken Express or Steak and Shake for a better sandwich at half the price?

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  • DarkFuture@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s like 3 places within a half mile of my Chick-fil-a I can go to and get a REAL chicken sandwich for the same or less cost.

    Real as in slab of chicken and it has that grill taste to it.

    And I’m not giving my money to an anti-LGBTQ organization.

    Whenever I’ve been in a Chic-fil-a I feel like I’m at some church social event. And there’s cars wrapping around the building and jamming up traffic out into the street. It’s some cult shit.

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    • FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s why I buy fried chicken from Popeyes and bonchon South Korean fried chicken

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  • sobchak@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve only been to Chic-Fil-A a few times. When I went, they always said something like “have a blessed day,” giving me cult vibes.

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    • impairedimperator@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah they’re super jesus-y. They had the whole thing back in 2012 where they fired people for being lgbtq+, their owners fund a number of Christian political organizations, and they aren’t open Sundays. Not sure if they franchise or are all corporate, but I think they might even have rules that franchises can’t be open Sundays. There was another story where they claimed religious discrimination after an airport denied them retail rentals due to them being closed Sundays.

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  • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yet people queue like it’s Disney World. Why?

    religious zealotry mostly. it’s a shitty chicken sandwich who’s only redeeming quality is the pickle.

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  • bitchkat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The chicken is not fine. It’s soggy and rubbery.

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    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And it’s a triangle now. I seem to remember that it used to be a real piece of chicken, but not any more.

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  • kevincox@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Me neither. I heard the hype so I went, I love me a good chicken sandwich. It was fine. But I don’t think I’ve gone again. Might if I was hungry and it was nearby. But it always has a line up the door and was packed. These people must see something that I don’t in it.

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    • dingus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You were with me until the latter part. People aren’t hitting up a sit down restaurant when they want fast food because they want to get in and get out without having to leave their car.

      I have a Chick Fil A literally a 2 minute walk from me. I go often because of convenience. I don’t have to wait in a long line in my car and because it’s one of the few fast food joints that offers healthier alternatives like grilled chicken nuggets, salads, fruit, sides of kale, etc. It’s not a common occurrence to have options like that at a fast food place. The Chick Fil A and Taco Bell are right next to each other, but I end up going to the Chick Fil A 9 times out of 10 over Taco Bell because of this.

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    • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      My theory is it’s “the best” and a consistent default choice in areas that don’t have good fast food chains.

      Like, it’s better lunch than McDonald’s.

      …But it doesn’t explain why it’s still so popular in my area.

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  • Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Also on a moral ground, the CEO is extremely anti-lgbtq and still every lgbtq person i know is addicted for some reason (mainly G’s, some L’s and a T)

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  • Initech_vs_Initrode@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Before Chick-fil-A built a restaurant in this area, they had a food truck that passed through every week. It was fantastic. Delicious, hot, efficient, and the employees all seemed pretty happy.

    After they built a location here, and after the long lines died down, I tried it. The sandwich was barely warm. I spent the weekend with food poisoning, unable to leave the house because I was pooping constantly.

    I tried again at a location in California, on a road trip. I again got a sandwich that felt like it had been sitting out, cooling for a long time. No food poisoning that time, but that’s the last time I went. Now I buy a few bottles of their sauce when it’s on sale and make my own chicken sandwiches.

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    • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’ve discovered that good honey mustard mixed with BBQ sauce is better than the Chuck-fil-a sauce anyway (as it’s just mustard + bbq + sugar).

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  • obviouspornalt@fedinsfw.app ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    people love the bigot biscuits.

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  • RebekahWSD@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My twin use to go to chickfila during the dress like a cow thing to get a free meal. My twin is gay. I think they felt it was taking food for free? They haven’t done it in awhile, so guess not even free they’re worth it anymore. I never went, I prefer Popeyes.

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    • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I have similar anecdotes.

      I don’t get that at all. Hence I don’t purely buy the bigotry angle either; I think it’s just trendy, kind of like Starbucks?

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  • DioramaOfShit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why would you go to Disney world?

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    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I would pay the kind of money that people pay to go to Disney to not have to go to Disney.

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  • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Compared to chicken from other fast food restaurants, it’s top of the line. I don’t even like it but it’s so much better than I’ll like McDonald’s, burger thing, windys

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    • KC_Royalz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Lol no it’s not. I had honestly prefer McDonald’s mcchicken over chick fila. Popeyes spicy is the goat for fast food.

      Only been to chick fil a 4 times I’ve never understood the hype and honestly don’t think it’s good. Pretty bland in fact

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    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      it’s top of the line.

      fucks sake find a better line.

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    • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      McD’s, burger thing, windys

      This is not my fast food environment at all, though.

      I guess chains are just kinda regional. But I might go to Chick-fil-A if those three were the only alternatives.

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  • VitoRobles@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t get it either. You can either pay $12 for a sandwich that’s continuing to shrink and taste funny, or hit up a bar that suddenly has the best chicken sandwich you have ever eaten.

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  • HeyJoe@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t get the lines either, but I do think I enjoy it more than you do. Ill have it maybe a few times a year and im always satisfied with what i get, but the price is rough. I enjoy the grilled chicken sandwich with pepperjack and bacon. I will then throw a bunch of the chick fil a sauce on top since your right it is very plain. I almost wonder if they leave it plain just so you can do this yourself. Its a decent sandwich with all of that. We just got our first raising canes by us and i agree the chicken is way better, but i cant do the sandwich just the strips since its literally the same thing with less chicken for a little more money.

    Never heard of chicken express before. I had steak and shake like 20 years ago when i was in the south and remember it being good as well. Wish i had that as an option.

    I do think the popeyes chicken sandwich is still really good for a fast food sandwich. Its huge, tender, and the mayo somehow adds a lot of flavor. They also have deals sometimes which helps. Shake shack chicken sandwich was by far my favorite, but its so small its kind of insulting for the price asked. Its got some dill mayo spread on it thats really good, i wont even order the burger from them anymore. Again it seems like i go a lot but this is only my experience over the years lol, i get one maybe once every 3 to 4 months from some place.

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• whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The price must be lower, right?! right?!

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  • fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Actually…

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  • 87Six@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    2x is all I can do

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• SourDragon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Don’t you love how not only is everything so expensive, but they’re also all worse quality 😁

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  • adarza@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    ordinary fast food tacos are probably the worst. ‘crispy’ by name, hardly so once you open the bag and take a bite.

    the shells are so thin now, they get soggy in mere seconds. the sad thing is, part of you is actually hoping for that outcome because the alternative is a shell that’s already splintered into numerous pieces just from being wrapped-up and put into the bag.

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    • fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I can’t get crunchy tacos anymore the shells are so thin now they’re always split.

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    • BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hard shell tacos from most places suck eggs. Especially with how greasy the low quality meat they use turns it into dust. I try for soft shells now when I do buy. Or those weird combination ones with an inner hard shell and outer burrito tortilla.

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  • IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The quality is still the same. Its always been shit.

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• PP_BOY_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s a good thing tbh. The world used to laugh at America for our portion sizes

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  • DupaCycki@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It still does. Except now because the portions are tiny, for a price higher than ever. And they somehow maintain the calorie count!

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    • PP_BOY_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      A fool and their money

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  • ChromaticMan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They’re still ridiculous compared to the rest of the world.

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  • mrmisses@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, well who’s laughing at us now! 🥲

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    • Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Literally the entire world?!?

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  • Trampampoline@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I paid for meat mountain, I damn well want meat mountain.

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Maaaaaaaan, you don’t want a meat mountain. I got one once at arbys in 2014. I’m 6’0, and the meat mountain was the same length as my wrist to my elbow. I was like “Well, I’ve made a huge mistake…”

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• SaintNectar@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Your life will be far better if you just decide to stop fast food 😂

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• BeUnique@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I agree with you but that first pic is a bit deceiving. Like it’s pushing the meat towards the camera more while squeezing the back to make it look bigger. Trust me, I’m an expert and making meat look bigger in a picture than it actually is!

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  • sarcasticsunrise@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Lol you’re a good one, BeUnique

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  • lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The first one looks just like the sandwich I got there last week. I don’t think I’ve ever gotten one like the second pic from there. That looks like it came out of the school cafeteria or something.

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• NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is probably a good thing honestly. Track your calories for a few weeks and you realize super quick how out of control portion sizes are.

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  • JcbAzPx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Perhaps. If they hadn’t doubled the price at the same time.

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    • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      If anything that just makes the decision to stop eating it even easier.

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  • architect@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is chicken vs ground chicken or at least a lower quality chicken.

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  • Kodama@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Totally agree, the portion sizes are way too large for a normal person in most Western countries and Middle East. However, also most people judge/rate restaurants based on portion sizes not quality, less food equal bad reviews.

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• TheHound@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  OP: I challenge you to learn to make this at home. Stop eating fast food.

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• darthsundhaft@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  diarrhea lettuce… you are brave soul for not yoinking that out

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• melroy@kbin.melroy.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Maximum stakeholder value!

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• pHr34kY@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you dig through archive.org and retireve the nutritional information PDFs over time, you can see the kj levels dropping.

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• youngskywalker@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Snaps pic of chicken sandwich , I’ll be needing this for later😈

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• starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Funnily enough, the “small” fries you get at McDonald’s in Germany are the same size as the US medium ones.

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• remon@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Have you considered that your hand has just grown larger?

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• liking625@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Just order a “big mac” and you will see, it should be called a “mini-mac” now, but is just big in the price sense.

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• CaptPretentious@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The Hy-Vee near me, used to make the best fried chicken sandwich in town. Possibly some of the best fried chicken I’ve had from anywhere. I would regularly get a fried chicken sandwich. It was good because it was a fresh chicken breast, coated and deep fried right there. It wasn’t some Sysco frozen patty. And it was priced pretty well too to be honest.

  New Management (I think at the corporate level) from my understanding, it’s not fresh chicken anymore. I would guess it’s maybe a third the weight it was, the price has gone up, and it is most definitely a frozen patty.

  The one section that used to do like Cafe options, stop doing spicy tenders. And no longer lets you get anything from the cold section.

  So I’ve stopped going. And I’m not the only one. Because the Hy-Vee also did burgers. But the burgers are also smaller and when I swing by and I see that there’s a lot of burgers both chicken and beef just sitting there no one touching them. Quantity and quality went down price went up.

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• arctanthrope@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  this could be two different angles of the same sandwich for all we know. if you pull everything halfway off the bun, from one side it looks big and from the other side it looks small

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• Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Let’s stop buying fast fast BS, buy from local restourants, shops etc etc or make the shit yourself at home if you can and bring it with you, sure it may get cold but better than that overpriced burger in your hands now

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• CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What gets me is less fast food and more the middle ground food, frozen stuff you throw in the oven that’s not quite processed to hell and back but definetaly not as healthy as cooking completely from fresh. It’s been getting smaller over the years but the increasing replacement of every ingrediant under the sun with slightly different variations of palm oil means that despite the decrease in size the calorie count as either remained the same or actually gone up. More expensive, less filling yet somehow more fattening.

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• DupaCycki@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It still does. Except now because the portions are tiny, for a price higher than ever. And they somehow maintain the calorie count!

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• Gammelfisch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I noticed that with cookies and one of my favorites, Jezyki cookies is guilty as F!

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• Sharkticon@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So why did you take a random photo of your sandwich 5 years ago. And why did you keep it?

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• OldChicoAle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Omg why won’t anyone think of the poor billionaires?!

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• NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Its weird to have a look back at shit food and say, it was a bigger shit food back then.

  Fast food is always the worst choice, given that its mostly salt, sugar, and fat, plus preservatives, they are doing you a favor.

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• Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Did the size decrease? Or did you get bigger?

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• Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is this the same kind of person posting about shrinkflation in 2026 likes it some radical new discovery?

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• TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is this homophobic Chick-fil-A?

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• Smoogs@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  aka ‘ability to kill self with unhealthy food getting harder’

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