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Looks like McDonald's is reaping what it sowed. Shit food at shit prices and no one wants to buy?! SHOCKER.

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[–] [email protected] 168 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I went to McD’s a week ago for an Egg McMuffin meal with an extra hash brown and a large Coke for the drink: $15.00. Less than 2 years ago, this exact meal was like $5.

I hope they go down in flames at this point.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

I don't understand getting to the drive-thru and seeing those prices and ordering the food anyhow. Why don't you just tell the person, "actually, never mind. this is too expensive?"

Go to a grocery store nearby and grab a deli sandwich and fountain drink. At least it'll be fresh food.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Yes, but then I'll have to get out of my car like some sort of animal. ~/s~

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But then you'll finally get some exercise and do something about your sat-in bean bag chair physique. ~/s~

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't actually own a car. I bike everywhere. Hence the /s

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The sarcasm was about the car and not about being "some sort of animal"?

Was all that just so you could tell us you bike everywhere? /s

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

No, the /s was to show I was mocking others who do this exact thing and have this exact thought process. Why would I care if people know I bike? I live in a city where biking is way more prevalent than cars.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If you are pressed for time and/or have your hungry kids in the car then a couple of dollars isn’t a big deal. But that doesn’t mean those consumers are going to come back again after getting burned by high prices.

Starbucks raised the price of my iced coffee and changed the recipe for the brew. I still ordered and drank it, but I have cut my visits from three or four times a week to only once in the last three months. This means they lost out on not only my drink revenue, but the revenue on what I would have ordered for my wife and kids as well.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So, you're now drinking something you don't like only a few times? Just go somewhere else.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

My man, sometimes there is no where better to go and you just make due.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The ones near me have a concrete curb that prevents people from leaving. You can not order, but you are sitting there waiting for everyone else to get their food.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

So? You're not forced to buy anything. You're actually getting out quicker if you don't. No shame in leaving. Vote with your money.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

Coke for breakfast, yuck

Edit: you can downvote all you want, I’m not wrong. If you’re drinking coke for breakfast, you’ve got issues, maybe negligent parents.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Trying not to be an ass with this info:

A large McDonalds coke is 290 calories and 77 grams of sugar (153% DV). Even a small is 150 calories and 39 grams sugar (77% DV).

I get it, I don’t like my lifestyle being attacked either and I freely admit I consciously choose some unhealthy options in my life such as having a few drinks a week and eating fatty foods or cheesecakes now and then.

But please, if you are starting your day by slamming 70 grams of sugar in your face, please reconsider lol. It’s gonna give you diabetes and ain’t no regular American can afford that.

That doesn’t even take into account what they add to the food itself 😟

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

Starbucks mocha cookie crumble frappuccino, grande size: https://www.starbucks.com/menu/product/956/iced/nutrition

480 calories, 55g sugar.

2 cups of cap'n crunch crunchberries: https://www.capncrunch.com/products/cap-n-crunch-s-crunch-berries

340 calories, 34g sugar. Not including milk.

Just for comparison.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

My family and I live on opposite sides of the country. My dad likes to come visit pretty regularly, and I used to be concerned at how little he drank. He drank beer, but barely took a few sips of water here and there.

It wasn't until, like, his fourth visit that I realized that he drinks soda. I now stock juice when he visits. Still sugary, but I'm not stocking soda for him. Anything left when he went home would just have to be poured down the drain.

I had forgotten that many Americans just don't drink water. And yes, he is pre-diabetic (but not overweight, remarkably enough).

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

Thats ok, you can have something else.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Yeah gross. Everyone knows dr pepper is the breakfast sort drink.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That addiction's real. Gotta take the edge off somehow

Seriously though, that sucks and it's super sad

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The addiction is probably just caffeine. Try coffee or tea.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nah, it could easily be for the sugar. When I was in high school (before I learned to properly take care of myself) I'd regularly have a redbull and a Mt Dew for breakfast multiple times a week just because I needed the caffeine and the sugar to get through school (and then working till 10 at night and having even more soda).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Very good point--I had forgotten to consider the sugar.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I mean, sure, if that's the only drug/addictive compound you think it contains

Regardless, I was moreso referring to the millions of people down south that drink coke daily with breakfast. I would never, but I can see how you assumed that

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure coffee isn’t made of high fructose corn syrup

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Neither is coke in most of the world, that's an American thing.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Cane sugar is not much better...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The best choice is fresh water from a glacial stream, but I guess you just have to set your standards somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Your standard is set at having 1/3 cup of sugar in 3.5 cups of water? You do know that cane sugar is also terrible for you, right? The difference between cane sugar and HFCS is a slight difference in mix of fructose to sucrose. Cane sugar is 50/50 and HFCS is 55/45. They are both very bad for you.

Your standard does not have to be your hyperbolic example. Simple tap water is fine (excluding Flint, MI). Or if you need a sugar fix, maybe get a small/medium? Still not great for you but 80g of sugar is a fuckton of sugar cubes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I want an Edgar suit...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Sugar or HFCS, if you're putting 1/4c of sugar into 12oz of coffee, you have serious problems.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Coffee is not unhealthy when consumed in reasonable (normal) quantities and assuming you don't pour a quarter of a cup of sugar in there. Which most people don't, unless they're getting a "coffee beverage" like a frappe or whatever.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I went to college with a guy from Uganda who would start off his morning by filling his coffee mug 2/3 full of sugar and then topping it off with a bit of coffee. It wasn't even enough liquid to fully dissolve the sugar.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Coffee is what people drink for breakfast. If you’re drinking coke for breakfast, you probably had negligent parents.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Oh yeah, they were the worst. You have no idea.