$3.49 for a fucking hashbrown? They better be frying that up with truffle oil and giving me overpriced pink Himalayan salt for fucks sake
…AND they’re limp and greasy AF. Almost like they don’t let them drip dry anymore and let the bag and car seat do the soaking up.
Been going to Rotten Ronnie’s for 40 years. Haven’t been since 2022.
Lolol rotten ronnie's...
Almost sounds like a pleasant dive diner until you realize what you're actually talking about
I can get a 16 pack for $3.79, essentially the price of one. I do occasionally eat McDonald's because of my kids, but I cook my hash browns at home.
The grocery store near me sells a frozen 20 pack of these for like $8. Also I can get sizeable breakfast tacos from a local spot for $3 each. Corporate America is the problem, you should never visit corporate chain stores if you don't have to.
But both those things mean I have to get out of my car! Total rip-off, man. obese noises
I recently bought one and was baffled by the price. They are about 1.5 times the size of the original. That doesn't make up for the absurd price and I don't see myself buying another one.
The thing that always used to confuse me is how a hash brown costs more than a sausage McMuffin
I’m speculating, but I feel like their fries and hash browns have absurd standalone prices to try and steer people towards the meal deals that already include them.
Mofo that's crazy
You used to be able to get a Quarter Pounder for that. One hashbrown??
Federal tipped minimum wage is 2 hours per hash brown.
That's a half brown per hour!
Hey the way I figure that's 2240 cal on an 8 hour shift, so not like you can't eat on that. What more can you expect from a "minimum" wage? Rent? A house? Utilities? Insurance? A family? A life? Please, these jobs are for high school kids trying to buy some hash browns on the side. Our hash brown based economy would collapse if we paid people enough to cover the costs of life
Measuring minimum wage in calories is some dystopian shit.
I also like to think of it in terms of hours for goods.
A Switch 2 is like $500. A game for it is $70. The minimum US wage for an hour of human labor is $7.25.
The right to play Pokemon legally is worth 78.62 hours of productive labor, or 2 weeks of full employment.
According to Zillow the average rent in the US is $2000. So the average landlord is entitled to the equivalent of 275.86 hours of the minimum value of labor. That's 6.9 (ni.ce) weeks of full employment.
Financial advisors say no more than 25-30% of your income should go to housing. The average rent is $2000/mo, so the average income should be $8000/mo. The average landlord thinks the average American should make $96,000/y. $7.25/h4052 = $15,080/y. Based on the 25% rule one should be able to find a place renting for $314.17 somewhere.
The majority of employees are not high school kids, you're mindlessly repeating McD propaganda.
A minimum wage job was supposed to keep a family of four over the poverty line with one worker, according to the 1938 labor law.
We abandoned that with a long decline in wages since the 1970s.
We used to be able to support the "hash brown based economy" on far higher wages for most (adjusted for inflation and purchasing power). We still can... back in the day, a CEO would make 50x what a front-line worker would make, now 500x or even more, and there's an entire executive and stockholder class making a fortune.
Figure it out.
p.s. I had to pay rent and bills and buy food as a high school kid, but fuck me right.
"Our hash brown based economy would collapse if we paid people enough to cover the costs of life"
The fact that so many of you can't recognize plain, screaming sarcasm shows just how illiterate many of you have become.
It's a little concerning.
This is what the wealthy elite have brainwashed you into believing. Yes, if you work full time, you should be able to afford to live full time.
Just bring home some of your hashbrowns to your family and landlord and to pay for services. Duh.
Also in case anyone's thinking "at least I never seen a job pay the federal minimum wage," it's where salary negotiations start from for a lot of immigrants, and can go up or down. I was paid $5/hour in my first warehouse job.
Still tons of jobs in my area that pay federal min wage for anyone who applies.
So so many people don’t live in big cities or rich states. Low cost of living areas are a trap that you’ll never save enough to get out of, if you were born into one to poor parents.
Damn you can buy an entire bag of frozen fries for the price of one of those hash browns…
Potatoes: 87¢/lb source
McDonald's Hash browns: $3.45/56g(0.143 lb) source
1 ÷ 0.143 = 6.99
$3.45 x 6.99 = $24.16
Now I'm not great at math so correct me if I'm wrong, but that means that for every 1 pound of potatoes McDonald's buys, they sell 7 hash browns for about $24 fucking dollars.
Numbers are of course prone to fluctuations but JFC
Actually about 28$/lb, or about 32$ hashbrown price per 1$ potato cost
56g is 0.12345 pounds.
0.87/3.49*0.12345=0.03077 (assuming it's only potatoes.. this is the ratio between potato cost and McD hashbrown price).
We invert it to flip the ratio: 0.03077^-1= 32.5.
32.5$ for every 1$ of potatoes.
Ah, lovely, thank you.
Hash browns are just really expensive, these people actually get paid a lot. Hash browns take multiple entire industries to build. You wouldn't even have them without capitalism./s
How is a person supposed to raise a family of morbidly obese shitposting xenophobs in this country with these numbers? Little zander needs at least 7 per day to sustain the grease requirements of his mullet.
Don’t forget Hayden, Braden, Jayden, Caiden, Aiden, and Caseadeē.
Jeighden, Breighdan, J'd'n, Ceighdin, Aeighdyn, and Caseighdei.
Honestly all those names and Xander sound like suburban semi healthy people to me. But I may be out of touch. I am old and (proudly) not a parent. But yes, Midwest soda guzzleres need cheeper greasy tatters. Their never get early onset heart disease at this rate.
Lmaoooooo
You've got to spend a half hour making soggy hash browns before you can afford a single soggy hash brown for yourself.
Again, using anything to avoid the metric system.
Sure. Go on, what's the minimum wage in centimeters?
Federal minimum wage is 4.8 centigrams per hour.
Tap for work
Going off the price of gold, and assuming my math isn't just absolutely fucked, which it probably is because I'm just some schmuck doing math for funsies.
Current gold price is $150/gram according to the first site I found that wasn’t blinking the information at me in blue and neon green
150/7.25=20.69 (wage hours to a gram)
1/20.69 (1 gram divided by the wage hours) = 0.048 (total portion of gram representing one wage hour)
0.048x100 = 4.8 centigram 0.048x1,000= 48.33 mg for a more common conversion :)
I buy McDonald's about once every two months. Two of my three kids like it and the app unfortunately provides far better pricing. But I haven't paid for a hash brown there in years. I do sometimes make those things at home though. I can get a whole frozen pack of 16 of them for that price.
I buy hashbrowns from the store for like 78 cents a piece in a pack of 12. I like a McDonald's breakfast with a sausage egg n cheese McHeartattack. It's a guilty pleasure, like running kids over at the playground. I only do it once or twice a month, like all my vices.
How can hash browns be us$3.50 ? If this isn't a south park joke (nice) then I'm aghast that a c75¢ item is suddenly so pricy.
If you don’t order the whole meal and you don’t use their bullshit app, they’ll absolutely rake you over the coals. Part of the reason I don’t get McDonald’s anymore.
Remember when fastfood was poor quality but fast and convenient?
Now it's poor quality and takes more effort than a visit to a DMV. Gee, I wonder how much longevity this industry still has...
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