• BeUnique@lemmy.zip
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    6 days ago

    I’m doing my part helping put McDonald’s out of business. They aren’t cheap anymore and somehow the quality has gotten worse. I went from going once a week many years back to once a month then a few times a year to never. Every time I go I’m disappointed.

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      5 days ago

      It’s not even really any more expensive to go to a proper sit-down restaurant and order actual real food, anymore.

      • That was the reason I stopped going to Carl’s Jr years ago. Got to be about the same price as a real restaurant, albeit their burgers were still pretty big and not terrible. But when your best thing used to be advertised as being as good as a sir down burger but for only $6 and it goes up to the same price as a sit down burger, I might as well go get the sit down burger.

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      Everytime I go I’m disappointed.

      It makes me feel ill. The entire following day I feel tired and bloated.

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        I had lunch at Booger King last year for the first time in a long time. The whopper and fries were actually surprisingly good, freshly cooked and tasty. But god damn did I feel like shit after eating it. I suppose it was all the salt. And it was $16, and that was without a drink even.

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      I’m doing my part too! Haven’t been to a McDonald’s since 2024, and working hard to convince everyone I know to stop going there too.

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      Yeah, it’s disgusting now.

      I can’t believe the prices, they are on par with local hamburger joints that sell food that is 4-5 times better.

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      I go for only one thing - a Sausage Egg McMuffin, maybe once a week. That’s all.

      They screwed up my last two orders. One didn’t have an egg, and one didn’t have the sausage or cheese.

      Is it that hard?

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        Yeah I only hit them up for a large milk shake to blend with wild blueberries at home. Because I’m to lazy to make my own milkshake

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            Cost to buy a tub of good vanilla ice cream is like $10-$12 cost to buy milk $6-$7. Cost of a large vanilla milkshake at Mcdonalds $5 buy two at the same time freeze the second because they freeze well, and I’m still ahead. Also soft serve ice cream makes better milkshake than scoop.

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              You think they’re buying the good stuff to put into a McDonald’s shake? Also you think they’re putting in a whole gallon of milk?

              Your logic is….fascinating. Just admit to yourself that you feel lazy sometimes. It’s ok. We all do it.

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                You’re not saving money on the gallon of milk if it just goes to waste. And they didn’t say soft serve was higher quality than scoop for a milkshake, they said it was better. I took it to mean the taste and texture is better to them.

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      6 days ago

      I think I’m doing my part but the extreme discounts in the app every two weeks mean I’m still visiting. It is a nice break from ramen.

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        I totally get that! When I visited the most was when they had the dollar menu and I honestly used it to survive back then. These days it’s the app and only sometimes but same thing.

        You couldn’t beat $3.75 for 2 sandwiches and a small fry when I had $20 to my name that had to somehow last me the work week!