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America has failed. (hexbear.net)

https://www.dailydot.com/news/mcdonalds-three-items-almost-twenty-five-dollars/

The Daily Dot has previously reported on content creators who’ve called out the fast food giant for its high prices. Popular content creator Kevin Fredericks lamented the loss of the value menu, which a former McDonald’s corporate chef agrees has become virtually nonexistent. Additionally, a Connecticut-based customer revealed that a Big Mac combo cost them $16.89.

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[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 63 points 11 months ago

All fast food seems to have gotten really expensive, but why does that title say it's 3 items when it's clearly 5?

[-] ikilledtheradiostar@hexbear.net 43 points 11 months ago

Also banana bread!?!

[-] Comp4@hexbear.net 30 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yeah there is a discussion to be had about fast food getting to expensive. The pics are kind of misleading though

[-] EndOfLine@lemm.ee 60 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

... paying almost $25 for 3 items

Meanwhile the pic clearly shows the order was for 5 items.

Laura appears to have ordered at a McDonald’s in Australia, given the availability of banana bread on the menu and her reference to the restaurant as “Maccas.”

How do fast food prices in Australia mean that America has failed?

[-] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 48 points 11 months ago

mcdonalds and america are one and the same

the golden arches sing from sea to shining sea

[-] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 32 points 11 months ago

That's also $16USD which seems about right at $3USD/item

[-] Hohsia@hexbear.net 41 points 11 months ago

“See, we told you this is what would happen if we started paying service workers a living wage!”

Fast food workers were not in fact paid a living wage and most of their jobs were replaced by kiosks

Also, you ever think about how something like a kiosk or its equivalent could’ve been implemented like a decade ago or some shit

[-] GarfieldYaoi@hexbear.net 12 points 11 months ago

I find it funny how people tell the workers that they should partially pay for everyone's slop by working for free, but no one tells landlords to charge less rent to keep consumer prices from going up.

[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 31 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

picture has 5 items for $23.45, but the headline says 3 items for $25

EDIT: ok it does say "almost" $25 but I feel like this stock image was lazily chosen

[-] context@hexbear.net 43 points 11 months ago

last time i went mfs charged me nearly $400 for 1 item of 83 large fries

[-] Viatorem@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 11 months ago

And i dont think its american, what american McDonalds sells banana bread?

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 31 points 11 months ago

what a fucking shell game the media plays: "the economy is gangbusters! historic low of unemployment! historic wages! inflation is dead (dont count food or gas)!"

"by tarnation we are shocked! shocked i say! that McDonalds has high prices that are bothering regular people. this is a cottage story that only applies to this one specific restaurant and the social media buzz around it"

[-] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 17 points 11 months ago

If I wanted to spend $25 for three items, I could just grab Chinese and leave a generous tip. I swear, I'd practically block a bullet for my local American-Chinese joint at this point.

[-] GarfieldYaoi@hexbear.net 15 points 11 months ago

Rich people when they realize that if living itself is a status symbol, then with all the poors starved to death, they don't have anyone to rub their wealth in their face anymore oooaaaaaaauhhh

[-] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 14 points 11 months ago

Does the increased price mean that they're using higher quality ingredients? Are the nuggets still pink sludge?

[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 12 points 11 months ago

You had to raise your prices so you could have better quality products and pay your e.ployees more right?

😐

Right?

Anyway yea thank God we didn't raise the minimum wage, remember how we couldn't raise the minimum wage because then a meal at McDonald's would cost $15.

[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 11 months ago

This is in Australia, and I can confirm that Maccas is stupidly expensive these days. Most fast food is really pricey and will probably only get worse. People associate it with good times or "being lazy" so they just get it by default without thinking about the price. People probably won't break out of that habit unless they literally can't afford it.

[-] LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA@hexbear.net 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

here in the states, every single day, if you have the app, you can buy a big mac and then get a quarter pounder for just another .29. its literally been helping me survive the last few months

[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 11 months ago

I've heard that if you download the app you have to agree to waive your right to join a class action lawsuit against Mcdonalds though. But I'm glad you can get food like that. Maccas used to be my main source of hot food when I was really struggling a few years ago. I hope things turn around for you soon!

[-] LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA@hexbear.net 24 points 11 months ago

oh no, not the class action lawsuit that might get me 40 bucks in 6 years!

[-] Mindfury@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago

there was a point a few years ago where I thought "now all of this is trash, but only Nandos is pointlessly expensive trash"

no need to single out Nandos anymore lmao

[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 11 months ago

I've always felt that about KFC, it's just worse Kingsley's, but twice the price. Yet people love KFC, the drivethrough is always full when I go past one. I don't get it.

[-] Mindfury@hexbear.net 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

bruh I actually want to try kingley's now after learning of it's existence from a canberra mate who filmed some shitpost interviews for his upcoming music "festival"/day gig in one

why does everywhere but melbourne have its own hyperlocal chicken shop chain? Ogalos, El Jannah, Chicken Treat, Kingsley's

[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 11 months ago

It's pretty good, real greasy, so it's not the sort of thing you'd want to eat everyday. I grab it every time I'm in Canberra. Local fast food is always better than massive multi-nationals, it's always cheaper and nicer. I thought it was in all the major cities though lol, but that would explain why I've never seen it in Sydney or Melbourne.

[-] largerfather@hexbear.net 10 points 11 months ago
[-] RoabeArt@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago

Yeah like I know they stopped doing the $1 for all sizes thing a while ago, but that's a huge jump.

[-] rubpoll@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago

Hate to say it, but because grillman will pay that much. Even if they complain about it and use it as evidence of America's downfall, they'll never stop going back for more.

[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 9 points 11 months ago

Yeah I’m on an all carb diet

[-] AlpineSteakHouse@hexbear.net 9 points 11 months ago

Just get 8 of the $1 dollar McChickens and eat that like a massive insatiable fucking blackhole.

[-] optissima@lemmy.ml 10 points 11 months ago

Oh those $1 sandwiches are $2.29 now

[-] AlpineSteakHouse@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago

It some places but not my Local McDonalds.

Sucks to suck I guess.

[-] optissima@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

Give it a month!

[-] TylenolJones@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago

Why the fuck are you buying banana bread at a McDonalds, apple pie or bust!

[-] MemesAreTheory@hexbear.net 5 points 11 months ago

Well I can still buy 3 value menu burritos clocking in at a whopping 1600 calories for 6 dollars at Taco Bell, so Checkmate socialists.

[-] MoreLikeHazBeen@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)
[-] LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago

who the fuck is buying banana bread from mickey d

[-] rubpoll@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago

Live by the pig slop, die by the pig slop.

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