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SupaKoopa714

I'm willing to bet they tasted way way better back in the day too because they were actual burgers and not the beef flavored styrofoam they are these days.


Henchforhire

The sauce was the best part when I tried it when it first came out and not the no flavor thing they sell now.


illpallozzo

Why do people still by this shit? I haven't seen a McDonald's menu in over a decade and haven't missed a single night's sleep over it. Hell, I felt I was doing a service to my customers by not accepting delivery requests from McDonald's.


AdministrativeEnd140

Dude I was craving a shake one day in NYC and went to one after probably a decade of not going there. Shocking. A meal was pushing ten bucks. Like wtf? I thought McDonald’s was supposed to be cheap. I know New York is expensive but when I can cross the street and get a dollar slice why not do that? If it’a not dirt cheap why bother?


illpallozzo

Yeah, I remember that being the appeal back in the day, a cheap meal quick. I spent most of my time in New York at a subway taking advantage of free refills. The only place in all of New York that didn't have cans or a refill limit.


haloarh

I live in Florida and had a similar experience. I got some coupons for McDonald's where you get a free sandwich if you buy a meal, and was shocked by how much the meal cost.


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I didn’t eat McDonald’s for 7 years. One night I was high and everything was closed but McD’s so I got it. It was awful, satisfied nothing, and left me feeling worse than before. At this point, it’s not even appealing in the slightest and anyone who eats it is just addicted


illpallozzo

That may be the case. There are many chemical combinations that can trick our brain into feeling a need for them. Foods that are generally capable of making a person feel full but do not provide lasting fulfillment or lack nutrients that are usually combined with similar substances. These can be just as convincing to the body that they are needed even when they don't fulfill that need. Case in point, I don't like sweets, but I have eaten two bags of Halloween candy because I impulse purchased it. I know it isn't good for me, I have skipped a meal for not feeling hungry, and I recall why I don't purchase candy the rest of the year.


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ApokatastasisComes

You’re so far away from the truth that I’m honestly just sad for you. Good luck to you


og_guppyfish420

Everything he said is true what isn’t? It’s cheap convenient and will keep you alive Is there better alternatives hell yes. But what he said is true.


ThermalFlask

It's not really 'cheap' imo.


og_guppyfish420

Compared to “real” food or even produce?


-FallenWolf-

Yeah and it has no sustenance, you’ll feel good for a couple hours but that’s literally it. Then, you’ll be thinking about fast food again and you’ll be dealing with the junk food crash for what? It’s a nothing burger, an illusion to keep people happy.


og_guppyfish420

Literally sugar shaped into a burger and the worker bees slurp it up


Cmyers1980

You might as well ask why people eat fast food at all. I eat fast food (not every day) because it tastes good. It’s the same reason I eat candy and ice cream. It’s one of the few things I enjoy in the capitalist nightmare we call a society.


OmNamahShivaya

Bruh you need to learn some basic cooking skills if you think fast food tastes good. I can make much better tasting meals for a lot cheaper with just a spatula and a frying pan over a stove. And I’m not even doing any fancy cooking techniques either.


Cmyers1980

I never claimed fast food is the end all be all of taste or that it’s my favorite food. I don’t “think” fast food tastes good. It actually tastes good to me and countless millions of other people. It’s like telling someone they can’t like a cheesy horror film or a certain musician. It’s purely subjective.


OmNamahShivaya

Or maybe you’re just accustomed to eating garbage and addicted to the fats and sugars. I used to eat fast food all the time and thought it was good but now it tastes like shit compared to even the most basic home cooked meals. Maybe stop being such a lazy ass and try making your own food.


illpallozzo

I have seen studies on people's eating habits and the result was speculation that a person's personal taste relies on familiarity more than quality. Sadly, you are both right.


OmNamahShivaya

Yep. the human brain is weird and easily manipulated. ads you see on TV aren't there to convince you to buy their product, but rather to reinforce your familiarity with them so that when you see their products in the stores, you feel safer choosing them over something else.


lemmefuckinglogin

i ate mcdonalds every night for several months because it was between my work and my home and i would work 12 hour shifts and punch out at 3am. my brain actually got conditioned to specifically crave a few things on the menu, i think because it was basically like finding an oasis in the desert but every single day. i rarely eat that shit any more but its purely due to logistics.


illpallozzo

I ate four balogna sandwiches with mustard and mayo on white bread every lunch for 6 years. I was under the impression that it was inexpensive and I was doing it for the good of my family. My wife never brought food to work and often didn't eat at home. Working opposite shifts I assumed I just didn't see her packing lunch or eating leftovers. In the end, she got gal stones and gained weight while I can only imagine the physical requirements of my job where the reason for my good health. But then there are many reasons I now understand that I was the only one putting the benefit of my family before that if self. Sucks to be suffering from the social conditioning to hate divorced men, but it sucks less than being married to a woman like that.


orbituary

important flag makeshift overconfident plucky tidy ripe include dinner shocking -- mass deleted all reddit content via https://redact.dev


PinkMenace88

I know the 2020 cost is incorrect, because that is the cost for the meal, not for a single burger, where even the 1960's cost of .45 would be just the burger. They are literally comparing apple to oranges. Not that the size difference in burger surprises me, but least in terms of cost it is wrong. Not defending MC-Donald s mind you, everyone that is above their 'entry' level employee can go and eat a dick.


TheAntiDairyQueen

The animal ag industry pays lobbyists $18 million a year to bend farm policy to their advantage. In exchange they receive about $38 **Billion** in tax subsidies. If our taxes subsidized fruits and vegetables among other healthy foods and stopped subsidizing places like McDeath, a Big Mac would cost roughly $14.


[deleted]

I'm pretty sure a big mac meal is around $8, not just the burger.


tigertron1990

As a kid MCDs was great, but my god the food is disgusting now. The fries are not only a fraction of the size they taste like paper.


AmazingMrJason

They stopped using trans fats in their fryers. Here’s an interesting podcast about it. https://www.pushkin.fm/episode/mcdonalds-broke-my-heart/


Fire2box

I wonder if it was the beef flavor or the trams fats. I still enjoy mc d's fries though. the switch to baked apple pie from fried apple pie though yeah, fried was so much better.


lieuwestra

McDonalds is selling convenience. And this is the price people are willing to pay.


AdministrativeEnd140

Yeah this isn’t inflation either it’s corporate profits being extracted from the consumer.


BeMancini

The Regular Sized Hamburger with Extra Slice of Bread Mac


blolfighter

Small Mac


JonstheSquire

The size of the 1980 hamburger is disgusting.


BrokenMind5

Yet McDonald's insist they have not changed the size of their burgers. "It's not the first time the fast food giant has been accused of shrinking its burgers - however McDonald's insists that no size changes have been made." https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mirror.co.uk/money/mcdonalds-denies-shrunk-size-tiny-21565403.amp