You can get a burger and fries (or a bunch of other things) at many of bar and grill type places around here for less than mcdonalds. Several of the ones near me will do carry out if you want to call ahead and put an order in too. Hell, I got a steak dinner for like 15$ a few weeks ago.

I've eaten there three times in five years. Each time was due to a social situation. Overpriced and nasty is how I rate them.

I actually miss mcdonalds here in Japan because it's actually pretty tasty and did pretty fun collabs with IPs my kids and I like (except the pokemon and chiikawa ones, those were just stupid and irresponsible). Haven't had it in a year or so to keep my elbows up and support my Canadian brothers and sisters.

Now, I just go to MOS burger or just make my own. Unfortunately, the independent ones are a bit too pricey for my food budget.

Wife doesn't like burgers, had never been to Steak n Shake. (Must be a Filipino thing because she cant' cook 'em either.)

First bite, "This is the burger I have been looking for!" She loved the seasoning so much she bought 2 bottles, $5 each.

Forget what we paid, but it was on par with McDonalds, including the $5 tip. The restaurant itself and waitress kinda sucked, "Do you have coffee?" "We're out." So make some? This is a restaurant. Something else basic was out, I forget. But the point stands, a proper sit-down meal was the same cost as McDonalds, except delicious.

And don't start me on local Mexican dives and trucks. I can get 3 deluxe street tacos for $10, less than some of the gross combos at McDonalds. And that place is a little high!

This is the original. Polymer clay.

Nah, it is just a really big hand

Anything is edible if you believe it.

Ai generated?

This is how I feel about certain expensive meal replacement supplements.

its called that because you need 5 guys to finish 1 meal!

Calm down with the inaults

a large is just Too Many Chips.

I've yet to encounter such a phenomenon.

Except they will give you a parcel of chips instead of fries

Who the fuck goes to a chippy and orders a "Minimum fries" lol???

... sigh ...

Of all the degenerate things I've done as a horny kid, fucking my McDonalds meal is not one of them.

... but, its a fucking hilarious typo, so it stays, lol

9 yo

Damn, kids really be starting young these days

They are so understaffed these days that they are no longer fast anymore.

I think the real reason they exist is because of addiction. They've got people addicted to 7,000 times the amount of recommended daily sugar, fat, and salt content.

They're still trying to rake in that high despite it now costing 5x the price, at 1/3 the quickness and 1/2 the quality.

If they started from scratch today - I don't think they would go far.

Not where I live, no. And wouldn't I rather take them to an actual restaurant? I mean, if we leave the house to go eat somewhere I'd rather take the family to a nice place and eat something good.

Dining in and cooking tends to take thirty min to an hour.

Don't know how much faster the fast food is, when I've been to that burger king I tell you I have been fighting with that automatic ordering machine for 10 good minutes before I actually succeeded.

If I have to go to the shop, order, get the food and take it back home I'm better off cooking at home.

I never used them, but I guess at this point if you really don't want to cook nor to go out you're better off with those applications which allow you to order food at your place from any restaurant.

I can understand eating out when you have no time to get back home, but then I have much better options where to eat at the same price or even cheaper.

Just spend like $3 more, go to Cava, and end up with enough leftover for another 2 meals

At least around me, I feel like the drive-thru is often noticeably slower than parking and going inside. The last time I got McDonald's at the drive-thru, I was waiting for over a half hour to get my order. To make it worse, I was stuck in the inner lane, so I couldn't even say "fuck it" and drive off until I was third in line. At that point, I had spent a good 25 minutes waiting, so the sunk cost fallacy kicked in and I waited some more. When I got to the window to pick up my order, it wasn't even warm.

I don't get fast food as much anymore, but when I do, I order through the app and go inside to pick it up. At least then it doesn't feel like I'm stuck in gridlocked traffic.

That's crazy! I hope the sales from the McDonalds branches, in Vietnam, are at least contributing to the country in a meaningful way through taxes etc.
(I don't know about that sort of thing, I just hope the huge difference in price at least has some benefit to locals).

Not sure what the rules are where you are, but one way is to check the menu for calories if they need to be listed.

Then you can tell exactly what the size difference is between a small, medium and large, assuming they aren't lying about the calories, and that they actually fill it to the proper size listed per the calories.

wdym reusable? You take it back to the restaurant next time you go? You eat in and they collect it after you leave?