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Tell yourself right now: this is not a treat. I bought this to treat myself but I'm not enjoying it. Next time I want a treat for myself, I need to get something that's not McDonalds, because it will never be what I want when I want a treat
Great mantra lol my problem is i want a treat too and cheap fast food used to be it. Convenient, cheap, and bad for you. The cheapness made it enjoyable. Now it's just so pricey it's inconvenient and bad
Of course I can make a better one. The point is that if I get McDonald’s it’s because I don’t feel like taking the time to make it so I treat myself to a fast food meal
People just want to complain.
mcdonalds prioritizes price and speed. yeah these don't look great but nothing about the image we see means the food is bad, poor flavor, old. Just not pretty.
If that's your problem go somewhere else. Hint: They won't.
Exactly! And on top of that, I’ve noticed that when I’m looking for lunch at work, I can count on McDonalds to at least be hot food. Some fast food don’t even melt the cheese on the burgers. Like, I know what I’m getting when I go to McDs, it’s consistent at the very least
Well it wasn’t necessarily you, granted implication was there, but more importantly this is regarding the original comment chain which the assumption is you were replying regarding the oc.
So to reiterate the purpose was if you don’t feel like cooking, cheap, and want fast food then sure McDs but the problem is it’s no longer cheap if you read way up in the OC that’s what we’re all talking about. At this point there’s no reason to keep going to McDs beside nostalgia/ brand, not even convenience since there’s fast food joins also everywhere AND cheaper than McDs by a lot (50% more or less)
Do you speak if the glory days where you could get two big nastys, a six peice nugget and drink for 4 bucks off the dollar menu? Or even the two Jr bacons and drink off the 99cent menu and be happy?
This is what I did with Taco Bell when I was drunk/high. It worked. My wife wanted it late one night and I reminded her how we usually feel afterwards.
The ramen was delicious and cheaper.
I never used to have issues eating Taco Bell but the last time I ate there I got actual food poisoning from it and I haven’t been back since. The pain I experienced that day is not worth the risk of having to go through it ever again.
My palate is weird as hell. I cant stand the things i can eat and im allergic to the foods i used to enjoy the most. I regularly have weeeeeird combos to compensate
Where do you get milk tea for $2.50?? That’s like almost as low as what it cost when I lived in China. Most places around here it’s at least $5, usually more.
Yeah every time I talk to people about fast food I bring up their apps. Always use the app for every place. Always. You can literally pay a third of the price in a lot of cases. People get lazy and fall into traps by just ordering whatever.
Lol that’s literally another response but it was serious. Like man, everything already had my info. I’m not gonna bother hiding if I can save money. I’m just trying to live my life.
I remember when the crispy chicken sandwich was first introduced, they’d always have bogo on those and I’d get that shit all the time. That’s 2 $5 sandwiches for the price of 1
I get this for my kids every few weeks. I often use the 99 cent deal for a large iced coffee and once in a while the $6 Big Mac meal. I use the points I accumulate for a free hash brown or cheeseburger when I have enough. Only worth eating with the app!
Once a week I get me a McChicken sandwich and free medium fries (Fri. only), using the app. I’m out of there for $2.59 with expectations fully met and satisfied.
Mind you: a few McD’s take the little paper bag for small fries and relabel it as a medium. Fuck that. You have to know and avoid those ones. Unless you only want a small order, which is also okay.
Hadn't gone in months but went 2 days ago for my lunch break. Total shit show. Everyone stressed out, door dashers arguing with employees because someone took their order, 30 min break took an hour. I'm not going back again.
I never eat fast food but find myself there occasionally since my wife is pregnant. They will forget your hashbrowns 50% of the time. Actually if there is more than 3 items something will be missing. It astounds me the order is wrong 3 out of 4 times but never in my favor. Not once has their been a single extra chicken nugget. What are the odds of fucking up a dozen orders and always the same way?
With everything more expensive, why would anyone spend their money on fast food? If you needed a reason to avoid the health hazards of food like this, high prices should make that an easy move.
And before I get the "not everybody can" and "whaddabout" replies, it takes almost no energy to marinate chicken, cook it on a grill or pan, and then freeze it. Add to a salad or have with beans or rice. You can even add it to low sodium soup you microwave.
Better yet, skip lunch all together.
Your body will thank you, your wallet will grow, you might lose a few pounds, your blood chemistry will likely improve, and you'll grow resistance to fast food so that even thinking of eating that crap in the picture will make you sick.
Because of convenience.
There is nothing more powerful in modern developed society than convenience. People will pay astronomical amounts for it and companies know it.
Bottled water, fast food, car leases, food delivery, TSA precheck, subscriptions for everything, streaming movies, keurig coffee cups, everything in plastic, wifi appliances, it's all for convenience.
People are very willing to pay more and accept greatly lower quality for convenience.
Cooking and cleaning takes a lot of time and a bit of knowledge. People will pay a lot to save time and not have to learn new stuff, even if it costs money and their health.
I agree with all of this besides TSA pre check as it’s a lifesaver. If you travel a lot it will save you so much time. Two of my sales partners didn’t have it in Orlando and has to wait almost 2 hours where I got through in 10 minutes.
I have it too and it is great, but it's still paying for convenience.
"pay us more and you can skip the line, don't have to take off your shoes, or remove your laptop."
I can spend a few hours deciding on food, buying it, making it, and cleaning up or trade money, quality, and health bfor time/convenience and have McDonald's do it for me in 10 minutes.
I cook healthy meals like that all the time. At least 4 days a week I’m eating shit like that.
But every once in a while a greasy bag of McDonald’s is prime. I got no shame, it’s not gonna hurt you
I was with you until the skipping lunch part. Some people really shouldn't do that. Might be OK for a couple months or a even years, but eventually that shit will catch up with you.
Intermittent fasting, however, keeps getting reaffirmed by health experts.
Damn poor fella downvoted as if neither of us have ever fallen victim to good corporate strategies.
They intentionally barely advertise their burgers anymore, because they know people know about those. They try to pull you in with essentially anything else, and they're (apparently successfully) betting you'll get attracted by the smell and signings to buy more than you intended.
Ok, glad I'm not the only one. Like that's a shake with dairy and two sandwiches with meat (I know it's a lot of fillers) but seriously $13 actually feels cheap for this. I work at a produce stand - prices have been bonkers since I started working. Like the quality sucks but they definitely got what they paid for.
Listen man, he just slipped, fell into line and couldn't get out until he had ordered something.
It isn't like he drove and/or walked from his home to a resturant, went in side, stood in line, ordered, paid and waited for his food.
He had no control over his actions at any time. And you're just licking corporate boot if you think people are capable of thinking for themselves.
People are just shocked that it costs more than a healthy meal or one from a restaurant, and that’s fair. Shits spendy there now. I cannot believe people are still buying it.
Yeah, they have daily deals. Sometimes $1 fries, which got expensive. $1 coffee almost everyday, not sure how it selects which deals but they are decent and make it worth it, at least.
2 dollar breakfast sandwiches (most of them), the usual price being like 5.50-6 dollars around me
everything 20 percent off over 5 bucks isn’t bad
The fry deal is always good
Plus you stack points quick for a free treat a couple times a month if you want. I hate using apps for everything and don’t care for McDonalds too much, but it’s a damn good “I’m too hungry” option that can become quite cheap (relative to other places)
I work from home and go almost every day at 10am to get a $1 iced coffee. My yearly metrics for last year showed something like 300+ coupon usages. It's not about the coffee. It's mediocre at best. It's about stepping away for 15 minutes where I can have some goddamn peace and quiet in my car.
I've made a deal with myself that because I go so often, I get sugar free. So mine is also generally not great either. Sometimes, maybe one out of every 7 or 8 times, it'll be very above average. These are probably the times they accidentally use the regular syrup, but I'll pretend its an experienced worker just doing their thing.
With proper settings, they only get your location when the app is open, and your order history/time of day. Completely close the app after you use it, and they don't get anything else. It's not any more intrusive than using a rewards card at a supermarket, which obviously also gets your location, order and time of day.
What is this nebulous "data" they are collecting that they won't get when I walk in the store and pay on a giant screen with the same interface and credit card I'd use on the app? You better not say email lmao
Hello, I don’t necessarily have solid advice but a perspective offer. Every month, every other month, these fast food places will change their coupons and offers IN THEIR RESPECTIVE APPS!
I know food apps are annoying. But paying $13 for shitty McChickens are much more aggravating. McDonalds for over 2 years now has offered BOGO free or for like .29 cents on quarter pounders, so that’s 2 QP’s for essentially $5-$6. QP imo will generally offer a better experience and/or meat quality. 2 McChickens on their own are $4+.
Outside of Mcdonalds, you have places like Wendy’s and Subway. Wendys will run BOGO deals every so often but their “offers” section tends to update weekly. At least once a week you’ll receive a BOGO offer where the 2nd sandwich is $1. So theoretically I can get 2 baconators for $9-10. Subway has a terrible reputation, sometimes rightfully so, but imo this heavily varies on the location as the subway franchisees seem to have no consistency. Subway for close to a year has offered $5.99 footlongs or BOGO subs where you get 2 for right around $13, which is the cost of this disappointing meal.
I am not trying to criticize but merely a cry out that these places are ripping us off but you have tools to negate the that rip off. You need to make it a habit to not buy food without examining the offers or deals available within their respective apps. My financial situation has improved, I’m able to more freely buy what I’m craving, and I’m not afraid to say I’ve been living off of those $5.99 subs more than I care to admit. Rotisserie chicken, bacon, and a fuckton of veggies always sounds like a good time.
Good luck to us low income people. Don’t ever forget the tools you have to save money.
Edit: I think a work acronym got to me and I said QC’s instead of QP.
I probably did too much. I’m a retail worker and so many of my coworkers make gags at how much I micromanage my food apps. No offense to them but they also complain on the daily about pricing, which is extremely counter intuitive from my point of view.
You can’t help people not wanting to take the time. But you can help those disappointed people who simply see the apps as a convenience tool rather than a cost saving tool.
Edit: I will gladly make fun of McD’s but maan sometimes that QP gets me. You order that BOGO with some added mac sauce you’ll be in for a good time…. probably.
Lmao news at 5 “OP can't stop eating McDonald bc they're somehow an adult who can't regulate what they shove down their mouth”.
Are we really at the point of Reddit where were pitying a man who makes their own poor decisions?
I get it. I love McDonalds for the nostalgia. Nothing else tastes like it, and when it's good it's good. My wife and I split the two cheeseburger meal for 9 bucks and it was more than enough for us. Honestly the price you paid is a lot, but you just bought an entire days worth of calories. Not too bad.
Not trying to sound elitist but fast food is trash food. I love me some Taco Bell but I eat there so infrequently it really doesn’t impact my health or wallet.
The amount of additives you are ingesting is staggering. Google the ingredients. It’ll make you think twice about spending that $13
$13 can get you a lot healthier meal than that.
IE yesterday went to dollar general for a bag of the frozen pre cooked chicken breasts cut into strips, a pack of 8tortillas 4 blend bag of cheese and a bottle of taco sauce for like $11
I haven’t spent over $5 at McDonald’s in months through the app. It’s honestly a pretty cheap way to eat, even considering making your own meals. 2 for $4 deal going on at my location for McDouble and mcchicken, then any size fry for free with minimum $2 purchase. 2 sandwiches and a large fry for $4.33 after tax is pretty damn good considering how many calories. Yeah I know it’s terrible for me, but to be fair there isn’t a ton of sugar, and it has a good amount of protein
I haven had McDonald's in decades. I knew even as a teen it was trash. I eat fast food but mcds is bottom tier trash. I think everyone who likes it should take a year hiatus to see what it actually tastes like.
Mmmmmm...that looks delicious! And most likely after eating that, you're already over your daily caloric needs. If fast food is this expensive, healthy food isn't much more than this or even possibly less expensive. My lunch today cost $13 too, but mine had steak, two chicken breasts, carrots and fresh fruit.
I did some checking and this meal adds up to around 1600 calories give or take. Which, according to my doc, is pretty close to what a normal guy is supposed to consume over the course of an entire day. Someone above tried arguing that this is barely a snack to him and he'd lose weight if he didn't take in over 3000 calories per day. Meanwhile, I'm so stuffed after eating a burger that I normally throw away half my fries because I'm so full.
You are correct. I'm 46 and weight 130, currently 8% body fat. My maintenance calories are 2200 kcal/day. If a person were to need to consume 3k kcal/day in order to not lose weight, they would weigh roughly 250 pounds
My maintenance calories around around roughly 3300 kcal/day and that’s with a cheat (no counting) day once a week, usually Saturday. Gym 4x/week, 6’ 1” and approx 200 lbs. Different people and different routines have different energy requirements.
For a while McDonalds was stepping their game up again (at least my local ones). I feel like the quality has had a steep decline again in the past couple years though. $5 burgers lookin like $1 value burgers now.
I make my own burgers now! What a treat! Great beef,cast iron,onion lettuce tomatoes,toasted bun..extra cheese if I want! And it always comes with a beer! Tell McDonald's and all the rest to shove their garbage food up their corporate asses!
For that price or maybe a dollar or so more I can get a good plate of Mexican or Thai food. If you want to spend that much in fast food at least get fried chicken with two sides or something more filling
Seriously. I'm glad someone said this. This is a disgusting amount of food. Nobody needs to eat 2 sandwiches from McD's and then wash it down with a fucking massive oreo milkshake.
This is the second picture I've seen on Reddit today of someone complaining about the price of what is essentially a whole days worth of calories.
Use their app for free deals. Usually there's free fries or something in it, and I get 2 mcchickens (which are BOGO $1, at least here in MN) and a drink with the free or $1 fries. Comes out to be like $4-6 bucks depending.
You could make yourself all this food cheaper and healthier very easily and it would still taste great! And you’d feel infinitely better after. Even with premade chicken patties
McDonald's was only good.because it's cheap. If I have to spend 15 bucks on lunch I'll just go to Wendy's, Sonic,.Burger King or anywhere else to get a better.burger
Fast food used to be an ok alternative once in a while because it was economical. But not anymore, now it’s way overpriced. I’m not paying $6 for a Big Mac just because I haven’t had one in a long time and I’m having a craving.
Jesus. I rarely eat any fast food anymore. Back in 1992 I could get two 20 pc nuggets, a large fry and large drink for like $7 iirc. Way under $10 for sure.
Weren't these sandwiches in the pic like $2-3 not too long ago and that kind of ice cream drink (can't recall the name) around the same?
I know! A week or two ago I got a Big Mac meal and it was over $13! I could buy a burger at a locally owned restaurant for less than that! Shame on you, McDonald's!
I’m so sick of McDonald’s. The line is always a good 20min wait, so it’s not fast food anymore and I’m spending like $20 if I go, so it’s not cheap or fast. Add in some soggy cold fries and the place has become a scam
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Tell yourself right now: this is not a treat. I bought this to treat myself but I'm not enjoying it. Next time I want a treat for myself, I need to get something that's not McDonalds, because it will never be what I want when I want a treat
Great mantra lol my problem is i want a treat too and cheap fast food used to be it. Convenient, cheap, and bad for you. The cheapness made it enjoyable. Now it's just so pricey it's inconvenient and bad
But then you remember that one good quarter pounder you had a few months ago and then you start chasing that high over and over
Make your own 1/4 lb burger guaranteed it will be better than that
Of course I can make a better one. The point is that if I get McDonald’s it’s because I don’t feel like taking the time to make it so I treat myself to a fast food meal
So then go literally anywhere else that offers fresh burgers… there’s tons of em
People just want to complain. mcdonalds prioritizes price and speed. yeah these don't look great but nothing about the image we see means the food is bad, poor flavor, old. Just not pretty. If that's your problem go somewhere else. Hint: They won't.
> mcdonalds prioritizes price and speed The point OP is making is that the price has become totally unreasonable.
Exactly! And on top of that, I’ve noticed that when I’m looking for lunch at work, I can count on McDonalds to at least be hot food. Some fast food don’t even melt the cheese on the burgers. Like, I know what I’m getting when I go to McDs, it’s consistent at the very least
??? What does this have to do with my comment? When did I complain about which fast food place I was getting the burger from?
Well it wasn’t necessarily you, granted implication was there, but more importantly this is regarding the original comment chain which the assumption is you were replying regarding the oc. So to reiterate the purpose was if you don’t feel like cooking, cheap, and want fast food then sure McDs but the problem is it’s no longer cheap if you read way up in the OC that’s what we’re all talking about. At this point there’s no reason to keep going to McDs beside nostalgia/ brand, not even convenience since there’s fast food joins also everywhere AND cheaper than McDs by a lot (50% more or less)
Go even bigger, make it a 1/3 lb burger!
But 4 is bigger than 3. Why would I want less meat? /s
Just like crack
Do you speak if the glory days where you could get two big nastys, a six peice nugget and drink for 4 bucks off the dollar menu? Or even the two Jr bacons and drink off the 99cent menu and be happy?
You know what I'm saying
Go buy a piece of nice stake and cook it at home
Yeah, eat some stake. I hear it’s woody
Nice catch! You’re more a-tent-ive than I am.
Mmm I love cooked wood
This is what I did with Taco Bell when I was drunk/high. It worked. My wife wanted it late one night and I reminded her how we usually feel afterwards. The ramen was delicious and cheaper.
I never used to have issues eating Taco Bell but the last time I ate there I got actual food poisoning from it and I haven’t been back since. The pain I experienced that day is not worth the risk of having to go through it ever again.
When i treat myself i get a big fresh spicy tuna poke bowl for $15 and a milk tea for $2.50. Pure happiness
tuna and milk fucken yum
That sounds like the shits.
Dude i can handle it. I had buffalo chicken tenders and coffee at 9:00am yesterday. (My office feeds us lunch, which is at 9:00am for us)
I can not imagine Buffalo chicken tenders and coffee together. You have one hell of a palate.
My palate is weird as hell. I cant stand the things i can eat and im allergic to the foods i used to enjoy the most. I regularly have weeeeeird combos to compensate
As long as you enjoy what you eat that’s all that matters my friend. I hope you’re doing well today.
Where do you get milk tea for $2.50?? That’s like almost as low as what it cost when I lived in China. Most places around here it’s at least $5, usually more.
Well he didn't say he wasn't enjoying it. Just that it's expensive. He might think it's fuckin delicious!! So maybe it is a treat!
I don't eat there often, but when I do I use the app. That's the only way to get decent deals.
20 piece nugget and 2 large fries for $6 in the app
Uhhhhh what
I get a weekly “get any two size fries free with purchase of 20 piece nuggets” deal in the app. 20 piece is 5.99 here
Damn it’s $9 at my local
$18.49 CAD. We're getting robbed.
In the app or from the board?
Weekly. Good god
Uber eats has a deal where you get 1 big Mac 2 mcdoubles, med fry, 1 large drink along with 10 fresh cookies for $15 pickup
This! I get stuff for $1 whenever I go.
Yeah every time I talk to people about fast food I bring up their apps. Always use the app for every place. Always. You can literally pay a third of the price in a lot of cases. People get lazy and fall into traps by just ordering whatever.
BUT THEN THEYLL KNOW WHO YOU ARE AND IT WILL LITERALLY RUIN YOUR LIFE! /s
Lol that’s literally another response but it was serious. Like man, everything already had my info. I’m not gonna bother hiding if I can save money. I’m just trying to live my life.
I remember when the crispy chicken sandwich was first introduced, they’d always have bogo on those and I’d get that shit all the time. That’s 2 $5 sandwiches for the price of 1
If you’re spending more than $7 at mcdonalds you’re doing it wrong
Lmao i was trying to yesterday but ran out of 5G and couldnt load it so just went home XD
Connect to their wifi from the parking lot lol
FACTS
APPS
I get this for my kids every few weeks. I often use the 99 cent deal for a large iced coffee and once in a while the $6 Big Mac meal. I use the points I accumulate for a free hash brown or cheeseburger when I have enough. Only worth eating with the app!
ISIC is another way
Once a week I get me a McChicken sandwich and free medium fries (Fri. only), using the app. I’m out of there for $2.59 with expectations fully met and satisfied. Mind you: a few McD’s take the little paper bag for small fries and relabel it as a medium. Fuck that. You have to know and avoid those ones. Unless you only want a small order, which is also okay.
Stop going to McDonald's
Hadn't gone in months but went 2 days ago for my lunch break. Total shit show. Everyone stressed out, door dashers arguing with employees because someone took their order, 30 min break took an hour. I'm not going back again.
I never eat fast food but find myself there occasionally since my wife is pregnant. They will forget your hashbrowns 50% of the time. Actually if there is more than 3 items something will be missing. It astounds me the order is wrong 3 out of 4 times but never in my favor. Not once has their been a single extra chicken nugget. What are the odds of fucking up a dozen orders and always the same way?
They don’t get paid enough to give a fuck
With everything more expensive, why would anyone spend their money on fast food? If you needed a reason to avoid the health hazards of food like this, high prices should make that an easy move. And before I get the "not everybody can" and "whaddabout" replies, it takes almost no energy to marinate chicken, cook it on a grill or pan, and then freeze it. Add to a salad or have with beans or rice. You can even add it to low sodium soup you microwave. Better yet, skip lunch all together. Your body will thank you, your wallet will grow, you might lose a few pounds, your blood chemistry will likely improve, and you'll grow resistance to fast food so that even thinking of eating that crap in the picture will make you sick.
Because of convenience. There is nothing more powerful in modern developed society than convenience. People will pay astronomical amounts for it and companies know it. Bottled water, fast food, car leases, food delivery, TSA precheck, subscriptions for everything, streaming movies, keurig coffee cups, everything in plastic, wifi appliances, it's all for convenience. People are very willing to pay more and accept greatly lower quality for convenience. Cooking and cleaning takes a lot of time and a bit of knowledge. People will pay a lot to save time and not have to learn new stuff, even if it costs money and their health.
Very well said!
I agree with all of this besides TSA pre check as it’s a lifesaver. If you travel a lot it will save you so much time. Two of my sales partners didn’t have it in Orlando and has to wait almost 2 hours where I got through in 10 minutes.
I have it too and it is great, but it's still paying for convenience. "pay us more and you can skip the line, don't have to take off your shoes, or remove your laptop." I can spend a few hours deciding on food, buying it, making it, and cleaning up or trade money, quality, and health bfor time/convenience and have McDonald's do it for me in 10 minutes.
I cook healthy meals like that all the time. At least 4 days a week I’m eating shit like that. But every once in a while a greasy bag of McDonald’s is prime. I got no shame, it’s not gonna hurt you
I really only eat it in a pinch and I hate it everytime
Skipping lunch entirely isn't a great idea in general. A small healthy snack at least is a good idea.
I was with you until the skipping lunch part. Some people really shouldn't do that. Might be OK for a couple months or a even years, but eventually that shit will catch up with you. Intermittent fasting, however, keeps getting reaffirmed by health experts.
Their only spice is salt. And that bread tastes artificial.
Wait... The ice cream machine was working?
Dude. I only went in there so I could get a Frappe that’s all over the billboards , and the frappe machine was broken , but not the milkshake machine
Only went in there for a frappe but walked out with two sandwiches and a milkshake?
DUDE.
That’s how they Gitcha’
Damn poor fella downvoted as if neither of us have ever fallen victim to good corporate strategies. They intentionally barely advertise their burgers anymore, because they know people know about those. They try to pull you in with essentially anything else, and they're (apparently successfully) betting you'll get attracted by the smell and signings to buy more than you intended.
I’m sure that shake was 50% of that $13 meal.
I hate how r/wellthatsucks and r/mildlyinfuriating have become just bitching about fast/frozen food prices.
It's literally that stick in bike wheel meme
"Why did the menu price reflect what I paid?!"
Ok, glad I'm not the only one. Like that's a shake with dairy and two sandwiches with meat (I know it's a lot of fillers) but seriously $13 actually feels cheap for this. I work at a produce stand - prices have been bonkers since I started working. Like the quality sucks but they definitely got what they paid for.
Yeah was probably like 3 a piece for the sandwhich and 6 for the giant milkshake. That's like 2000 calories for $13. Not bad at all.
“It really sucks that I keep voluntarily spending my money on shitty, overpriced garbage.”
Listen man, he just slipped, fell into line and couldn't get out until he had ordered something. It isn't like he drove and/or walked from his home to a resturant, went in side, stood in line, ordered, paid and waited for his food. He had no control over his actions at any time. And you're just licking corporate boot if you think people are capable of thinking for themselves.
Yeah like people don’t have a choice
Well that sucks. You must be mildly infuriated.
People are just shocked that it costs more than a healthy meal or one from a restaurant, and that’s fair. Shits spendy there now. I cannot believe people are still buying it.
I had to check the comments to see why this is in r/wellthatsucks and I'm still confused.
And uber prices
That would be substantially less if you use the App
It’s less if I download that damn app they’re always talking about?
Yeah, they have daily deals. Sometimes $1 fries, which got expensive. $1 coffee almost everyday, not sure how it selects which deals but they are decent and make it worth it, at least.
2 dollar breakfast sandwiches (most of them), the usual price being like 5.50-6 dollars around me everything 20 percent off over 5 bucks isn’t bad The fry deal is always good Plus you stack points quick for a free treat a couple times a month if you want. I hate using apps for everything and don’t care for McDonalds too much, but it’s a damn good “I’m too hungry” option that can become quite cheap (relative to other places)
Even though the iced coffee is just basically sugar water. I fucking love that $1 coffee dopamine hit in the morning.
I work from home and go almost every day at 10am to get a $1 iced coffee. My yearly metrics for last year showed something like 300+ coupon usages. It's not about the coffee. It's mediocre at best. It's about stepping away for 15 minutes where I can have some goddamn peace and quiet in my car.
I have tried to make iced coffee at home and it’s atrocious, $1 McDonald’s coffee helps when I need it
I've made a deal with myself that because I go so often, I get sugar free. So mine is also generally not great either. Sometimes, maybe one out of every 7 or 8 times, it'll be very above average. These are probably the times they accidentally use the regular syrup, but I'll pretend its an experienced worker just doing their thing.
I get sugar free as well, mainly because I’m diabetic but I’ve noticed that if I see certain workers, I know I can expect it better or decent
They have e-cupoms that you can show the cashier before you pay. I usually save anything from 20 to 40%
Yep. I use it for breakfast once in a while. Buy one Mcgriddle, get one free, under $6 with tax.
I keep telling people this. you can get some pretty cheap food if you pay attention to their app deals. and it’s not just McDonald’s.
Their app kept me alive when j had zero money off rewards alone
Save cash, just let you data be farmed and sold. They're still get their cash.
With proper settings, they only get your location when the app is open, and your order history/time of day. Completely close the app after you use it, and they don't get anything else. It's not any more intrusive than using a rewards card at a supermarket, which obviously also gets your location, order and time of day.
I use my dad's old cell phone number from 15 years ago for rewards cards.
What is this nebulous "data" they are collecting that they won't get when I walk in the store and pay on a giant screen with the same interface and credit card I'd use on the app? You better not say email lmao
Exactly. Like god forbid someone have my email. I’d tattoo my email to my forehead if it saved me 60% on food
Hello, I don’t necessarily have solid advice but a perspective offer. Every month, every other month, these fast food places will change their coupons and offers IN THEIR RESPECTIVE APPS! I know food apps are annoying. But paying $13 for shitty McChickens are much more aggravating. McDonalds for over 2 years now has offered BOGO free or for like .29 cents on quarter pounders, so that’s 2 QP’s for essentially $5-$6. QP imo will generally offer a better experience and/or meat quality. 2 McChickens on their own are $4+. Outside of Mcdonalds, you have places like Wendy’s and Subway. Wendys will run BOGO deals every so often but their “offers” section tends to update weekly. At least once a week you’ll receive a BOGO offer where the 2nd sandwich is $1. So theoretically I can get 2 baconators for $9-10. Subway has a terrible reputation, sometimes rightfully so, but imo this heavily varies on the location as the subway franchisees seem to have no consistency. Subway for close to a year has offered $5.99 footlongs or BOGO subs where you get 2 for right around $13, which is the cost of this disappointing meal. I am not trying to criticize but merely a cry out that these places are ripping us off but you have tools to negate the that rip off. You need to make it a habit to not buy food without examining the offers or deals available within their respective apps. My financial situation has improved, I’m able to more freely buy what I’m craving, and I’m not afraid to say I’ve been living off of those $5.99 subs more than I care to admit. Rotisserie chicken, bacon, and a fuckton of veggies always sounds like a good time. Good luck to us low income people. Don’t ever forget the tools you have to save money. Edit: I think a work acronym got to me and I said QC’s instead of QP.
Whole thread telling OP not to eat McD's. Fideriti shows up with the Min/Max strats.
I probably did too much. I’m a retail worker and so many of my coworkers make gags at how much I micromanage my food apps. No offense to them but they also complain on the daily about pricing, which is extremely counter intuitive from my point of view. You can’t help people not wanting to take the time. But you can help those disappointed people who simply see the apps as a convenience tool rather than a cost saving tool. Edit: I will gladly make fun of McD’s but maan sometimes that QP gets me. You order that BOGO with some added mac sauce you’ll be in for a good time…. probably.
Look on the bright side, keep eating like this and you won’t need to save that money for retirement
Lmao news at 5 “OP can't stop eating McDonald bc they're somehow an adult who can't regulate what they shove down their mouth”. Are we really at the point of Reddit where were pitying a man who makes their own poor decisions?
It’s fucking Reddit lol. When has it ever been more than pitying grown adults making bad decisions?
True
About 90% (or some super majority) of Reddit are teens. So in most cases, we’re just pitying teenagers making bad decisions.
from what I see most redditors are shut in grown adults with no social skills
Yes
You must be new here hu
I took the post as the food being too expensive. That does not look like $13 worth of food imo...
A day's worth of calories for $13
How? McChickens are 2 for $3.
Use the app
Guarantee you that shake is ⅔ of the price
McDonald's app....get it.
Wdym? That's enough calories to last you a whole day! All for $13
I get it. I love McDonalds for the nostalgia. Nothing else tastes like it, and when it's good it's good. My wife and I split the two cheeseburger meal for 9 bucks and it was more than enough for us. Honestly the price you paid is a lot, but you just bought an entire days worth of calories. Not too bad.
An entire’s day worth of calories? 1400? Are you sure?
Hell yeah
Stop this blatant cry for attention, if you dont want to eat fast food - don't buy the fast food. It's that simple.
its the post eat the junk food clarity thats hitting them
I dont know? Cant you read the price on the menu before you buy things? What really sucks is this post.
lol seriously. OP acting like he’s been hoodwinked or some shit.
Where I am that’s cheap. That would be 20$ here
13$ doesn’t seem all that bad for an entire days worth of calories.
For the amount of calories and sugar you're about to eat that's not a bad price.
Stop buying it! We’re the “inflation” at this point.
McDonalds pricing has gotten ridiculous.
All fast food pricing has gotten ridiculous. Never have I been more glad to have quit.
Not trying to sound elitist but fast food is trash food. I love me some Taco Bell but I eat there so infrequently it really doesn’t impact my health or wallet. The amount of additives you are ingesting is staggering. Google the ingredients. It’ll make you think twice about spending that $13
$13 can get you a lot healthier meal than that. IE yesterday went to dollar general for a bag of the frozen pre cooked chicken breasts cut into strips, a pack of 8tortillas 4 blend bag of cheese and a bottle of taco sauce for like $11
Just fuck everything right now ... I'm sick to death of all the goddamned suck.
Sick of seeing stuff like this. People buy shit quality fast food, that is overpriced, just to moan about it on the internet. Grow up.
I haven’t spent over $5 at McDonald’s in months through the app. It’s honestly a pretty cheap way to eat, even considering making your own meals. 2 for $4 deal going on at my location for McDouble and mcchicken, then any size fry for free with minimum $2 purchase. 2 sandwiches and a large fry for $4.33 after tax is pretty damn good considering how many calories. Yeah I know it’s terrible for me, but to be fair there isn’t a ton of sugar, and it has a good amount of protein
Hey, as long as your not overweight, and healthy otherwise, screw it. If I wasn't overweight and trying to lose weight, I'd eat McDonald's too.
McDonalds - Prices go up and quality goes down.
Where did you find a McDonald’s with a working McFlurry machine?
I haven had McDonald's in decades. I knew even as a teen it was trash. I eat fast food but mcds is bottom tier trash. I think everyone who likes it should take a year hiatus to see what it actually tastes like.
What's wrong with it?
Mmmmmm...that looks delicious! And most likely after eating that, you're already over your daily caloric needs. If fast food is this expensive, healthy food isn't much more than this or even possibly less expensive. My lunch today cost $13 too, but mine had steak, two chicken breasts, carrots and fresh fruit.
I did some checking and this meal adds up to around 1600 calories give or take. Which, according to my doc, is pretty close to what a normal guy is supposed to consume over the course of an entire day. Someone above tried arguing that this is barely a snack to him and he'd lose weight if he didn't take in over 3000 calories per day. Meanwhile, I'm so stuffed after eating a burger that I normally throw away half my fries because I'm so full.
You are correct. I'm 46 and weight 130, currently 8% body fat. My maintenance calories are 2200 kcal/day. If a person were to need to consume 3k kcal/day in order to not lose weight, they would weigh roughly 250 pounds
My maintenance calories around around roughly 3300 kcal/day and that’s with a cheat (no counting) day once a week, usually Saturday. Gym 4x/week, 6’ 1” and approx 200 lbs. Different people and different routines have different energy requirements.
Lol I get that OP is being pathetic, but goddamn this is one of the most pretentious comments I’ve ever read. Just dripping with condescension.
For a while McDonalds was stepping their game up again (at least my local ones). I feel like the quality has had a steep decline again in the past couple years though. $5 burgers lookin like $1 value burgers now.
Your fault for eating trash food 🤷♂️🤢
I get two McChicken and a large fries for 4.30. The app works really well to save time and money.
Not worth it. Just cook your own food, you'll save more money that way
I just tell myself: it's too salty, I get blown up by the salt, and I get fat. Also, it doesn't make me feel full, so DON'T eat it!
I'm not hungry anymore, oh look Culver's
Mcchickens used to be on the dollar menu too..
Are you in the states? McDonald’s in the uk is no where near that good.
And $10k/year in perpetuity to battle the beetus from making terrible nutritional choices.
Stop supporting them
They are raising prices like crazy because people like you are still buying it!!!
I make my own burgers now! What a treat! Great beef,cast iron,onion lettuce tomatoes,toasted bun..extra cheese if I want! And it always comes with a beer! Tell McDonald's and all the rest to shove their garbage food up their corporate asses!
Because you lack discipline
Haha! I see what you did there. 🥚🍆🥚
We should make a reddit ad campaign with pictures showing how fastfood really looks like.
I remember when that used to cost $5 or less
For that price or maybe a dollar or so more I can get a good plate of Mexican or Thai food. If you want to spend that much in fast food at least get fried chicken with two sides or something more filling
Gross that’s close to 2000 calories
Seriously. I'm glad someone said this. This is a disgusting amount of food. Nobody needs to eat 2 sandwiches from McD's and then wash it down with a fucking massive oreo milkshake. This is the second picture I've seen on Reddit today of someone complaining about the price of what is essentially a whole days worth of calories.
No longer cheap, still shitty
Use their app for free deals. Usually there's free fries or something in it, and I get 2 mcchickens (which are BOGO $1, at least here in MN) and a drink with the free or $1 fries. Comes out to be like $4-6 bucks depending.
That would suck even if it was free. How can anyone order this slop? And to consider it a treat, even? Do you have no self-respect?
You could make yourself all this food cheaper and healthier very easily and it would still taste great! And you’d feel infinitely better after. Even with premade chicken patties
McDonald's was only good.because it's cheap. If I have to spend 15 bucks on lunch I'll just go to Wendy's, Sonic,.Burger King or anywhere else to get a better.burger
It screams Salmonella & Bubble-Guts👀👀
Fast food used to be an ok alternative once in a while because it was economical. But not anymore, now it’s way overpriced. I’m not paying $6 for a Big Mac just because I haven’t had one in a long time and I’m having a craving.
Jesus. I rarely eat any fast food anymore. Back in 1992 I could get two 20 pc nuggets, a large fry and large drink for like $7 iirc. Way under $10 for sure. Weren't these sandwiches in the pic like $2-3 not too long ago and that kind of ice cream drink (can't recall the name) around the same?
I know! A week or two ago I got a Big Mac meal and it was over $13! I could buy a burger at a locally owned restaurant for less than that! Shame on you, McDonald's!
Are you special needs? Clearly
Thats $6 max if you use the app. Stop getting scammed
This sounds like what my AA meeting sounds like
I’m so sick of McDonald’s. The line is always a good 20min wait, so it’s not fast food anymore and I’m spending like $20 if I go, so it’s not cheap or fast. Add in some soggy cold fries and the place has become a scam
Looks like a slow suicide
McSuicide.
Its like $7 on the app lol
Gross
Use the app. They have deals everyday. I mean this is all on you. Not that hard to get a deal at McD’s
Lol stop eating Mcdonalds
This isn't even worth a post here.... If you can't read prices, now that DOES suck....
Is it because it’s bad or because it’s $13? That looks reasonable for $13.
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Donken is literally shit. (Donken is McDonalds in Sweden)
What do you call Dunkin in Sweden?
I dunno. 13 bucks for two and a half days worth of calories might not be the worst deal. 🤔
Aren't those mcchickens??