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[-] Stamau123@lemmy.world 90 points 2 months ago

There's anti-American sentiment at home too

[-] ScrambledEggs@lazysoci.al 11 points 2 months ago

Yes but I think it's that cost of goods increase and income doesn't. It takes over an hour of work to feed one person with these prices.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

I don’t know I’m a pretty anti-American American. Though that’s the least of my problems with Mackers

[-] Aussieiuszko@aussie.zone 6 points 2 months ago

Maccas with a hard r? Where are you from?

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

America, unfortunately

I don’t know how we call ourselves free when we still have a Burger King

[-] NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago

The reach of the Burger King extends the globe, but it is far from absolute rule. Most have democratic burger parliaments.

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 44 points 2 months ago

Also they eagerly price gouged people for their crap food, so no one is really hankering to go there anymore

[-] ApeNo1@lemm.ee 33 points 2 months ago

As on old fart living down under, I am not anti American. I am anti current American government and toxic big corporation. Hating McDonald’s does not equal broadly hating the American people.

[-] cattywampas@lemm.ee 13 points 2 months ago

Thanks friend! I promise there are still some good ones left here 🥲

[-] AmidFuror@fedia.io 3 points 2 months ago
[-] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago

'Anti-American sentiment'...

You stupid fuckers, the bigger problem is the Anti-McDonalds sentiment that's everywhere, because your food is shit, your prices are outrageous, your restaurants are fake and ugly, and you don't give a flying fuck about your customers or your employees!

[-] AngrySquirrel@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

I like to get my burgers and milkshakes from the small, locally-owned, independent, place near where I live. It is real food, cheaper than mcdonalds, a much wider selection, and just as fast. It is also a cozy, relaxed, and welcoming environment; rather than sterile, corporate, hostile, and rushed.

[-] i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago

Love the way the local places tend not to have employees that have been so abused they lost all the light behind their eyes.

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago

Maybe they shouldn't have let a fascist use their brand image to appear similar to the working class?

They've had a fucking decade to distance themselves from trump, but they loved having him serve their trash in the White House...

Now they're shocked people don't like fascists?

[-] Luouth@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Someone on Lemmy mentioned that he eats McD's on the regs mainly because he's less likely to get poisoned. If there's millions burgers at the ready, more chance of catching a good one than a bad one

[-] Zier@fedia.io 5 points 2 months ago

The ironic part of that is, the more you consume fast food, especially McD's, the faster it poisons your body. If we could only convince him to eat 3x more of it, the world could be happier soon.

[-] Luouth@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Preserving yourself for when you die. Maybe he'll be museum ready

[-] oakey66@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago

Maybe we should look at their corporate donations and tell them to go fuck themselves when we see who they donated to.

[-] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Yup. Am canukian, avoiding American however and wherever possible. Including McDonald's

[-] a_fancy_kiwi@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago

Have you seen the price of McDonalds recently? I’d rather miss a meal than get scammed like that. Fuck them.

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 7 points 2 months ago

Ain’t worth the squeeze. The food is real cheap and real expensive. Like, just get some ready-made meal at the grocery store it’s a better value and better for you.

[-] GluWu@lemm.ee 16 points 2 months ago

For a while I practically lived off $5 at mcdicks. I would get 2 double cheese burgers, 2 mcchickens, and a large drink. $1 each. That's was 10 years ago.

Then they started giving away free food just for using the app.

Then they had really good deals on the app.

Then they got rid of the dollar menu.

Then the only way to get cheap food was through the app.

Now even the prices and "deals" from the app are a scam for such shit food.

Now I make my own smash burgers in cast iron that are so much better you can't even compare them to McShit and still cost half the price.

[-] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 11 points 2 months ago

Don't worry, they'll increase prices and cut quality even more to make up for the difference in lost profit.

[-] ramsgrl909@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

I grew up with and worked at McDs in high school and college. It used to be a family place (play places, fun colors) it used to be a friendly place (you could have birthdays there, cashiers were nice, you'd run into people you know), it used to have prices that were reasonable/cheap.

It is none of those things anymore. Why on earth would I go there when there's a burger place right across the road thar costs maybe $1 or $2 more and is actually good?

[-] foggy@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You can bet McDonald's is doing horribly whenever they bring out a limited product or do a celebrity deal.

They've done mcrib, celeb deal, Minecraft movie promo, and now chicken strips are back.

Yeah. Red flags. They're desperate.

Their current '2nd item for $1' is an ok deal right now. But this makes me think that won't last.

2 sausage muffins and 2 hash browns for like $7. Throw some hot picante salsa on there and you have deal. Without that deal? It's like $13.

[-] ieatpillowtags@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

Yeah but how many years ago was it that an order of hash browns used to have two?? They’re just “giving a deal” on what used to be the baseline.

[-] foggy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Oh I'm not disagreeing. It's shit.

But even without the has browns, two sausage muffins for ~$3.50 is solid. It's what I expect.

Sadly it's the bottom barrel best deal going.

[-] ieatpillowtags@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

That actually is solid, I might even consider it as that was my go to breakfast item back in the day!

[-] foggy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Yep! Adding a hashbriwn to each for ~$2.50 + $1.00 more is what makes it ~$7.

And for two sausage, hash brown, spicy salsa and cheese muffins? I mean damn.

But yeahz seeing all these promos makes me know this is in the cutting block.

[-] kungen@feddit.nu 2 points 2 months ago

They even stopped selling McHash in Sweden like over a year ago. The only thing that I'd have any desire to eat from their breakfast menu, and they kill it. I even asked their support why they killed it, and I got no real explanation.

I thought that it's maybe to be able to clean out their deep fryer? Nah, as they still sell normal french fries during breakfast!

[-] pycorax@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

You can bet McDonald's is doing horribly whenever they bring out a limited product or do a celebrity deal.

Is this an American thing? In Japan and Singapore, they have seasonal limited specials every month or so. It's not really a "when they're doing badly" kinda thing.

[-] entwine413@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

I think the McRib is just dependent on pork prices.

[-] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Sure, blame anyone but yourself, Ronnie.

[-] BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Well, McDonald's let Trump do a photo op there. Oh well.

[-] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Blame the current administration, where it is due

[-] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Could have something to do with it costing as much as a sit down restaurant used to while tasting like it came from back water gas stations.

[-] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago

Shocking idea it may perhaps be because

  1. McDonalds "food" tastes like shit
  2. McDonalds "food" costs a ton of money
  3. There are burger spots (especially local ones) that can match or beat McDonalds pricing for significantly better burgers
  4. People can not afford to spend obscene amounts of money of food
[-] SaladKing@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Boo-fuckin-hoo. You vote and support like a fucking idiot then you should suffer the consequences.

[-] 3dmvr@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

I still go becuase im lazy and its still like 2$ cheaper than alternatives, the app deals get worse every year and I used to go every other day now its 1-2 times a week, cooking does not hit the same I cook all the time, sometimes you want a specific flavor, texure, taste, etc. they know they ingrained themselves in my brain and they abuse it, ill never be free

[-] kungen@feddit.nu 3 points 2 months ago

Pour E621 on your food, put your fries into beef fat, and then put even more salt on it.

[-] aegis_sum@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

I was guessing that E621 was MSG, and I was correct. Monosodium glutamate is great, I keep a shaker of it on my spice rack.

[-] 3dmvr@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

They dont use beef fat and havent for like 25 years?

[-] 3dmvr@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

I already use msg, mcdonalds cheese does not equal any store bought cheese and I dont trust anyones tastebuds if they say it does, and its just the whole combination, I dont even like anything ar mcdonalds individually like their sauces suck unless its paired with mcdonalds

[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 1 points 2 months ago

I've heard a claim going around that McDonald's cheese is formulated to have a distinctive flavor so people will crave McDonald's cheese specifically. I don't have any source, so I'd say that's more of an urban legend than an established fact, but you can find articles like this one that give less sinister sounding reasons for why their cheese has such a distinctive flavor:

https://www.marketingscoop.com/consumer/what-kind-of-cheese-does-mcdonalds-use/

[-] 3dmvr@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah the blend they used is used by them alone since they own the means of production

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