Mildly Infuriating

The quality has also fallen dramatically. I used to like their standard hamburgers (the little ones), but the buns are leathery these days, and the meat seems smaller than it used to be.

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

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.

Stop buying shitty, overpriced food from a dumpster organization.

If you stop buying it, you'll help signal to the dumpster organization that their prices are too high.

The graph itself's utter lack of proportion is more infuriating than the content.

Must eat at McDonald's.

Back ~2010/11 I used to go to McD's once a week with friends after practice. I'd order a McChicken, a mcdouble, and a medium fry and pay with just random loose change from my car. Thanks for confirming this for me with this infographic, these are the prices I remember paying.

What I as a German take from this is fucking hell was McD in the US cheap before. O.o

I mean it inflated a lot here too, but wow.

It's called inflation right? Try to compare it with a cryptocurrency instead of the dollar ;P

were the bar lengths randomly generated? they make no sense

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.

They can surge all they like. Our family just stopped buying from them (and most fast food places).

It's not a time saver to sit in a drive thru instead of making something for meals at home.

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

At this point, you’re better off going for the lunch specials at an asian restaurant. Same price, more filling, and less unhealthy.

It would never even occur to me to eat at fast food (unless you count like the pizza by the slice place on the corner).

I just feel so alienated from everyone else sometimes. Just... The food isn't good, isn't good for you, isn't cheap, isn't fast. The org isn't environmentally or politically friendly. Just stop eating there. Be mildly inconvenienced if you have to.

But I guess that will slam right into the constant problem of "someone feels bad and now they're not going to listen"

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

Just remember that the location which let the cheeto use it as a platform never got any blowback from corporate. So, just stop going to McDonald's altogether; plenty of other food places for when you don't want to cook.

I was becoming more and more infuriated as I read through this, then I realized where this was posted. Carry on.