• Furbag@pawb.social
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    2 days ago

    Fast food is hilariously overpriced. You pay about as much for a sit down meal at a restaurant for some crappy burgers. I remember the days when they had a true dollar menu. Now they just call it a “value menu” or whatever.

    Used to be able to get two double cheeseburgers for $2 at burger king. Add fries and a drink and you were sitting at about $8 after tax. That same order today will run you about $19 before taxes. I’m not even that old, this all happened within the last two decades or so - prices literally more than doubling and all the while the quality getting worse and portion size getting smaller and smaller.

    It’s probably better for my health that I can’t stomach the idea of paying that much for greasy unhealthy food, so it’s an occasional treat to let me have that nostalgic taste.

    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Burger King is the worst offender of Restaurantitus.

      They forgot they are fast food, so now try to sell 10 dollar burgers and other ridiculous shit at sitdown prices.

      McDonalds is the worst offender for just plain price gouging. Their 99 cent menu doesnt exist anymore, all the shit that WAS on the 99 cent menu is now like 4-5 bucks.

      Which is what a fucking bigmac used to cost, and we’d groan about the big mac being 5 dollars.

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      I got lunch for my mom and myself at Five Guys the other day. Two burgers, one order of fries, two fountain drinks, $44. I wouldn’t even have minded the price if it had been, y’know, fantastic food, but it was just mid. Burgers were bland, fries were limp and greasy – so greasy that the bottom of the bag broke open when I got it home – and even the drinks were watery. For $44!

      I tried Taco Bell yesterday for the first time in years. At least it was “only” $11 for a mexican pizza, two tacos and a large drink. Unfortunately it was utterly disgusting, everything tasted like stale wheat flour which was weird because I don’t think the food actually had wheat flour in it anywhere.