r/SipsTea • u/Spiritual-Pudding-70 • 5d ago

SMH Fast food prices are outrageous now

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u/Poet_Pretty 5d ago

It used to be good and cheap. Then bad for you and cheap. Now it’s worse and expensive.

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u/iHayzues 5d ago

Exactly

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u/craftasaurus 5d ago

It was never good for you. It was just cheap and tasted OK.

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u/Poet_Pretty 5d ago

Yeah but OK when you are very hungry is the best.

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u/BullShitting-24-7 5d ago

A burger and small fry without the soda isn’t all that bad for you. The old school McDonald’s didn’t have that much preservatives and flavoring. Thats what makes it terrible now. And getting a soda was always bad.

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u/Pete-PDX 1d ago

how old school? 1965? I remember pancakes from the 70's that tasted like plastic.

in recent years - McDonalds has reversed that trend of using those things in many products

https://corporate.mcdonalds.com/corpmcd/our-stories/article/changes_to_burger.html

https://eathealthy365.com/mcdonalds-food-without-preservatives-what-it-means-for-you/

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u/Pete-PDX 1d ago

I never remember it being all the good - salty and fatty but never "good"

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u/penny_eater 5d ago

You can thank Ray Kroc; Mcdonalds we know today is a company not out to make good food, healthy food, or even food at all. Its only incentivized by making money off of land leases. Its up to the franchisees to make money off of food, and they need to do it in any way thats profitable, because they only get to keep what they earn past the base franchise remit rate.

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u/Poet_Pretty 5d ago

McDonald’s it’s toasted… I mean product.

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u/KimJongRocketMan69 5d ago

I know an r/okbuddydraper poster when I see one