Private_Citizen: [Fark user image image 850x587]
This isn't about 'inflation', it's about monopolistic corporations hiking prices to maximize profit.
/If inflation were at work, the raw materials going into the food would have increased, which would have offset the price hike. For profit to go up so dramatically, the cost of their goods are relatively flat, they're just charging more for it.

optikeye: McD's tastes terrible and I've never eaten there anyways.

Ketchuponsteak: The Brains: How in the dark can people eat this garbage?

How fked up do your taste buds have to be to taste McD's and think, "Yeah, this is it. This is the flavor worth waiting 20 minutes ina drive thru for"

I am more curious about why people use drive through, when they can go inside and eat at a table.
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Hyjamon: Eightballjacket: Private_Citizen: [Fark user image 850x587]
This isn't about 'inflation', it's about monopolistic corporations hiking prices to maximize profit.
/If inflation were at work, the raw materials going into the food would have increased, which would have offset the price hike. For profit to go up so dramatically, the cost of their goods are relatively flat, they're just charging more for it.

If you read through their results, their profits are actually lower than a year ago

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/27/mcdonalds-mcd-earnings-q3-2022.html

The company reported third-quarter net income of $1.98 billion, or $2.68 per share, down from $2.15 billion, or $2.86 per share, a year earlier.

sounds like it is time to fire some essential workers that were impossible to find at $15/hr in the past couple years...then rehire for $7.25/hr

Eightballjacket: kittyhas1000legs: Rapmaster2000: Make sure you're not criticizing it just because it's for poor people.

It's for convenience more than for poor people (who, to be fair, might just grab it because it's a bunch of quick calories while going between poorly-paying jobs).  The price of two value meals at McD's could buy a lot more groceries and be several meals.

The golden arches have become expensive enough that I'd rather just hit up Five Guys, Freddy's, or some other semi-fast place that tastes much better than the salt/fat bomb McDonald's offers.

I was at a Five Guys about a year ago, and the cost for cheeseburger, fries and coke was over $20.  The burger was definitely better, but I don't like their fries.  They give you a ton, but I just don't care for their style.

Eightballjacket: Private_Citizen: [Fark user image 850x587]
This isn't about 'inflation', it's about monopolistic corporations hiking prices to maximize profit.
/If inflation were at work, the raw materials going into the food would have increased, which would have offset the price hike. For profit to go up so dramatically, the cost of their goods are relatively flat, they're just charging more for it.

If you read through their results, their profits are actually lower than a year ago

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/27/mcdonalds-mcd-earnings-q3-2022.html

The company reported third-quarter net income of $1.98 billion, or $2.68 per share, down from $2.15 billion, or $2.86 per share, a year earlier.

Private_Citizen: [Fark user image image 850x587]
This isn't about 'inflation', it's about monopolistic corporations hiking prices to maximize profit.
/If inflation were at work, the raw materials going into the food would have increased, which would have offset the price hike. For profit to go up so dramatically, the cost of their goods are relatively flat, they're just charging more for it.

born_yesterday: The Brains: How in the dark can people eat this garbage?

How fked up do your taste buds have to be to taste McD's and think, "Yeah, this is it. This is the flavor worth waiting 20 minutes ina drive thru for"

Salt
Sugar
Social conditioning

Eightballjacket: Private_Citizen: [Fark user image 850x587]
This isn't about 'inflation', it's about monopolistic corporations hiking prices to maximize profit.
/If inflation were at work, the raw materials going into the food would have increased, which would have offset the price hike. For profit to go up so dramatically, the cost of their goods are relatively flat, they're just charging more for it.

If you read through their results, their profits are actually lower than a year ago

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/27/mcdonalds-mcd-earnings-q3-2022.html

The company reported third-quarter net income of $1.98 billion, or $2.68 per share, down from $2.15 billion, or $2.86 per share, a year earlier.

The Brains: Rapmaster2000: The Brains: How in the dark can people eat this garbage?

How fked up do your taste buds have to be to taste McD's and think, "Yeah, this is it. This is the flavor worth waiting 20 minutes ina drive thru for"

I went through this attitude from about 20 to 40.  Now I recognize that hot fat, salt, and sugar press all the primal taste centers in the human brain.  Similarly, I wouldn't deign to eat any kind of "unauthentic" Mexican food.  Now I recognize why Chipotle exists and don't mind it.

It's unhealthy and pedestrian, but there's nothing unevolved about it.  Make sure you're not criticizing it just because it's for poor people.

I *am* poor people. Kinda.

(Transitioning to middle class this coming year, iffen the Rapture don't happen)

(By Rapture I mean WW3 or CW2)

Eightballjacket: optikeye: Eightballjacket: I had never seen it before either and was shocked.  I just looked at their online menu, Cheeseburger $11, fries just under $6 and the drink was $3.   I should have just skipped the fries and had a water like I normally do, but I was on the road, couldn't find another place that wasn't just drive through (was near the end of the worst of COVID)  so I may have over did it.

Where the fark do you live a McD's cheese is 11 dollars, low earth orbit?

This was a Five Guys.

optikeye: Eightballjacket: optikeye: Eightballjacket: I had never seen it before either and was shocked.  I just looked at their online menu, Cheeseburger $11, fries just under $6 and the drink was $3.   I should have just skipped the fries and had a water like I normally do, but I was on the road, couldn't find another place that wasn't just drive through (was near the end of the worst of COVID)  so I may have over did it.

Where the fark do you live a McD's cheese is 11 dollars, low earth orbit?

This was a Five Guys.

Oh...just get a flame broiled Whopper, some peanuts,...and a bag of fries...put the fries in a paper bag and dump 1/4 cup of cold Wesson oil them. Ta Da.

optikeye: Linux_Yes: optikeye: McD's tastes terrible and I've never eaten there anyways.

Look at the bright side.

Leave their fries out for a few months and they wont mold

It's called dehydration and salt. Happens all the time, you big jerky. Ask your Mummy.