Funny since a common argument against a fed minimum wage from the right was that prices would increase, and then they increased anyway

people are paying $16 whole American dollars for that trash?

You know it's gone to shit when you can't afford a burger in burgerland

I have become the old man reminiscing about the days of my childhood when mcdonalds had specials running on thursdays, I think, of 14cent burgers and 19cent cheeseburgers.

BACK IN MY DAY!!! UPHILL BOTH WAYS!

Have you seen the japanese McDonald's ad they've recently released on twitter?

Rightoids went fucking ballistic over it, like lmao and this is even funnier!

Now, sticking to the meme. To me and basically everyone in Poland McDonald's was anything but affordable since they started serving their slop here. And yet I still see plenty of students going in fucking hordes to McDonalnd's despite the prices! And they acknowledge the fucking robbery that it is and still proceed to eat that shit. Fucking incomprehensible to me.

Becoming unaffordable is truly the greatest sin that McDonald's can commit. People are generally aware that it's addictive garbage food used to fuel a massive real estate company, but it's cheap so people can afford to eat it. Take that away and what's left?

I know this is meant as a joke and I normally never get burgers from McDonald's, although I do buy and love their breakfast sandwiches, but just a couple of days ago I was craving a burger and went to McDonald's specifically for the first time in maybe decades and was shocked at how expensive it was. I think all fast food is really expensive now. Might as well buy a real meal for basically the same cost.

Anyway, point being, I can afford to waste money on a meal like that but I just wondered what poor families who sadly live off cheap fast food are doing to eat now.

Three meals a day is round 6 hours of minimal wage job. Thanks industrialization, some real labor saving here

The worst thing about “inflation” is how it’s completely manufactured and every single fucking person pretends that this is just the all holy market behaving rationally

I've heard they subsidize the prices pretty heavily through in-app offers/deals to get you into their ecosystem

WTF? I thought fast food down in america was supposed to be dirt cheap. Above the 49th I'm also consistently shocked that the A&W coupons are increasing in price so rapidly, I swear each one that comes out, the combos go up a dollar. I only eat fast food when my work is paying lmao, it's a fuckin racket

I haven't been to McDonald's in a while. Dafuq? Is it really that much now, or is it just at certain places or certain items?

the taco bell $5 combo is the last thing i can somewhat consistently afford now because its $5 and fills me for like almost the whole day. the food cost situation in america is making me miserable.

Just end the country, there is no point going forward

If McDonald's switched to a bean-based patty without telling anyone they could slash that price in half and also be secretly vegan and nobody would be able to tell.

after ww2, Europe and America decided between a social safety net and free refills, and America made their choice, and now the refills aren't even free.

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