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[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, I can get an actual pub burger for 3-5 more than a quarter pounder... and I don't hate myself after it? Why should I go to McDonald's?

[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I've been asking myself the same question lately. If Maccas is nearly the same price as an actually good burger, why not just get the good burger?

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Exactly this. It was "fast food" where you didn't expect greatness because it was cheap. Now it's not at all cheap and crap anyway.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah it was always cheap, fast, good... pick 2 (sometimes) now it's fast or good, pick 1 (maybe).

[โ€“] joshcodes 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Near me it's none of the above, teenagers arent winning any races and I dont expect them to. $15 minimum for a meal, and $30 for my partner and I, so fuck it, might as well go to the local burger joint where it's $36, feeds us both ,and I get a blue cheese and bacon burger for my trouble.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

That's the way nowadays... good gravy I remember scoffing at a $10 burger... now finding one that cheap is like a unicorn!

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Without the sauce the patty just tastes like cardboard. ( Urm, not that I eat cardboard often. )