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Funny since a common argument against a fed minimum wage from the right was that prices would increase, and then they increased anyway
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Min wage has been the same for 12+ fucking years man. It blows my mind that people can still seriously argue that prices of thing will go up if wages do.
There is a connection. But it's to the wages of Musk and Bezos and the like. Not to yours and mine.
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people are paying $16 whole American dollars for that trash?
Their breakfasts are almost $11 now
what is the point of industrial garbage food if it isn't even cheap
I only eat their breakfast, and only when I'm in a rush. At least our local donut shop still sells ham and cheese croissants for $4
What do you get for almost 11$ at a mcdonalds breakfast
#1 w/ large OJ
If the price doesn't fit, you must not sit.
You know it's gone to shit when you can't afford a burger in burgerland
Old joke used to be that McD's was the only cheap food around and only rich snobs cooked their own food. Now it's cheaper (and healthier) to buy and prepare your own stuff.
bullshit, we just switched to microwave meals from grocery stores bought on sale. who has the time/energy/space/appliances to cook lmao i live in a room with a mattress on the floor and i barely know how to safely boil water
you put the water, over the heat. when you see the bubbles, turn the heat down.
a year ago (or 2?) during the heat wave in the US, thousands of cattle just dropped fucking dead so... supply and demand, borger cost go up
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! 
yeah but 'the old days' was like six years ago
For me it was the 80s.
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.
To me and basically everyone in Poland McDonald's was anything but affordable since they started serving their slop here
Yeah, that seems to be the case for a lot of non-Anglo countries, it's similar in the Balkans. We already have our own fast food traditions, so the various American franchises are more like imported luxury food (well, luxurious by fast food standards anyway), nothing like the way they're viewed in their country of origin. Although I assume there might also be some genuine differences in the product due to food regulations (I think the EU had a ban on some growth hormones that are used in American beef), plus just the practical factor of which ingredients are more easily available locally.
Yeah from what I have heard fast food places outside the US are generally much better in quality.
In Colombia they're basically the same as I ever remember seeing in the US, but prices are higher compared to local incomes so it's sort of a treat to go there
I've never understood it, there are local Colombian fast food chains that are way, way better
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!
"They won't let McDonalds run ads showing a happy WHITE family in the West!!!!!"
Bruh, wtf that family is Japanese as fuck.
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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
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It really has increased in price though, I used to get fast food once a month or more (when I'm depressed used to be the only hot food I can get my hands on) but these days all the big chain places are so expensive that I just don't bother anymore. I'm sure I'm not the only one who doesn't like the 30-40% price increase from just a couple of years ago. I guess, in a way, it's helped me get better at cooking while depressed, because I just don't have that option anymore, so I guess it's a good thing?
Have this book comrade https://traumbooks.itch.io/the-sad-bastard-cookbook it has a lot of tips on really easy things to make that don't require any big effort, and tips on how to stock your pantry and stuff to be able to make these things, it's a very short read
This is beautiful. Thank you. I get caught between work, ADHD, and meds that suppress my appetite so, well give this a read.
I very much appreciate it! My main "depression meal" is usually a kind of instant noodle egg drop soup, so it's nice to read something that lists that as basically the first option. I have a few friends who would appreciate this a lot too!
We checked and Piers Morgan's tears count as vegan
Oh what a wonderful cookbook
(Kraft Dinner) might be the only thing this colonialist country
got right.
I need to buy this book in hardback
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
most of the bigger fast food chains do this now. Taco Bell even does it. I only have the McDonalds app (because I fucking love their french fries sue me) but it is genuinely insane how a large fry and mcflurry outside of the app is like $9 but you can get that down to like $3.00-5.00 depending on the day and deal used.
Didn't they tie a class action suit waiver into the ToS of their app or something?
Oh yeah I remember that post
Yummy yummy arbitration-waiving fries 😋
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
burger king did this too, but like they also sell their burgers for like 2-3 dollars in bundles for absolutely no reason.
Like OK- it's 30 dollars for two people to get a whopper combo. Which is nuts
But if you take away the drinks that cost burger king 20 cents, and then order one additional whopper, three additional regular cheeseburgers, and one additional order of fries, you know how much that costs you? They will hand you 10 to 12 dollars. It is literally negative 10 dollars for what burger king considers 20 dollars worth of food.
It's all so made up
ya the meals were always absurd -- just grab shit off the value menu if you're in a pinch.
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I think the price of fast food is genuinely a major sign of decline in a treat-centered country like the US.
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.
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?
If it's in a city like NYC, maybe. Anytown USA and it's more likely $12-13 for the large meal which is still absurd.
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.
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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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