What I hate most is that they removed the mcchicken biscuit... makes no sense for me to go there for breakfast now

Many other chain restaurants have increased their prices too.

Even smaller ones here, have gone crazy:

16" pepperoni pizza, 26.99

If you have an alternative to McDonalds and you still eat McDonalds anyway, get some self-respect.

For the longest time I knew fast food junk was not good for you so I ate less of it.

During the pandemic I completely avoided fast food.

It's been three years now and I haven't gone to any fast food at all.

Now I can't rationalize eating it any more.

It isn't healthy, it isn't food, it has no nutrition, it has too much of the things that degrade your health. It's also prepared by people being paid as little as possible to maximize the profit to the people who do the least in the transaction.

From a health point of view is like investing in degrading your body .... it's like investing in rust for your car or pouring tiny amounts of water or sugar in your gas tank ... it's paying a premium for an unhealthy body in the future.

And now it costs more ... it costs more to ruin your health. So you spend a lot of money now to ruin your health and then spend a lot more money to fix your unhealthy self when you get older.

When you look at it over a lifetime, it's far cheaper to just not eat fast food

While McD is gouging their customers hard, I'm still considering restaurants as a luxury.

I'll do my hashbrowns in the toaster-oven in the morning and make myself a "McMuffin" at home for dirt-cheap.

Like any other businesses you won't make them change their price unless their cashflow is impacted. Want to send a clear message? Stop going, and you may end up not coming back later because you'll see all the money you wasted. Or at least make it a rare treat, not a habit.

I stopped buying the hash browns years ago because of how overpriced they are. They are worth no more than 50 cents.

Enshitificaion, complete!

I'm overweight, not especially healthy, and even back in the day when I was dirt poor and on heroin (I'm good now, for 17 years, thanks) I never ate that shit. It just made me miserable every time and my stomach was never full. Even simple sugar cubes were a better short term solution back then, used to put 12 in my coffee.