McDoubles were $1 many places until 2016 or later. My standard McD meal for years was 3 McDoubles for $3. After that they raised McDoubles to closer to $2 but the McTriple was also about $2 so I switched to 2 McTriples for $4.

Now the only way to get a decent price meal is to use the app and I refuse to use the app. Now and then they’ll have a 2/$6 deal but it still feels overpriced.

To compare, inflation from 2014 to 2025 has been about 33%

2024 their sales went down for the first time, so they cut the prices a bit on some meals, but you get a small drink and a small frie like we're fucking stupid. If you up it back to medium fries and drink it's the same shitty overpriced deal.

It got me over the idea of stopping for fast food. Fuckem

I don’t eat there so the jokes on them!

Good! People should not eat that crap. It’s hardly food.

Don't eat fast food. It is really bad for you and will eventually kill you.

Running out of thin kids to show in the commercials so they zoom away from the fat belly.

I haven't eaten "fast" "food" in basically forever. It's been decades. Unless 2010-ish Subway counts, and that was only consumed b/c I was driving cross-country and one whole sub was a day's eats that I could stash as-needed.

These prices blow my mind. I can't believe that people are paying so much for so little, and for crappy fried heart-attack and diabetes fare too. I can eat for a day for the price of one of these "burgers" (or "meals" - just because there's more than one item in the bag doesn't make it a "meal" no matter how much the marketers use the term). For the price of a "quarter pounder" here, I can get at least three big cans of "chunky"-style soup, each of which is a meal in itself - all you need is a bowl and a microwave and a spoon and a few minutes to heat. For the price of that burger I can (and do) get 3-4 boxes of cereal at Walmart, each of which will, along with a little milk in a bowl, provide a week's-worth of breakfasts.

Frozen veggies, basics from the Winco bulk aisles, a bit of dairy maybe, a little spice, and maybe a worn, curled recipe book you got from the used bookstore (or not, if you already have the intuition for cooking) and you can eat incredibly cheaply (and well, if you're careful) in the US. No need to fill your body with expensive McShit just because the ads tell you to and justify your doing it. Everything changes if you're already homeless of course, that's gonna cost you, but just be aware that McEating is going to get you to that state of being all the sooner.

I think that people eating all this McShit and justifying it as some kind of necessity ("too busy shop and cook!") are just addicted to sugar/fat/salt/industrial-chemicals and who demand "treats" of such things each and every goddamn day (vs maybe once every few weeks 40 yrs ago) because that's what they "deserve". I understand, a treat is all you can aspire to, you're never going to buy a house or have a decent job, but blowing what little $ you have on ruining your health and mobility and sanity doesn't seem to me like it's going to help get more out of life. No more than a daily 12-pack of McBeer would, and for that you wouldn't have to wait in line.

Not Worth it their food is not very good anyways its average.

Think about people working there.
They want a living wage at least.

I'm surprised they are not all 200%, didn't the money supply double in that time period?

mildy inflating

Must eat at McDonald's.

This is disinformation

We used to call this fast food. I would say it is barely 1 of the 2 words in that description.

It is of low nutritional quality, bad for the environment, and takes forever if you dont order the popular stuff. It is often lukewarm at best and they often fuck up the order.

I just see this stuff as a waste of time and health.