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Just a paper bag now. At this point they’re gonna bring back the supersize but it’ll just be a large lol
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Give money to shitty company, get a shitty product.
Yeah, last time I went there was over a year ago and had a similar experience to op, now I go to my local shop. Same price now as mcds, but I get almost 2x the food and it’s better quality.
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 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.
Did McDonalds leave Japan in the last few months? I was there last year and McDonalds was nice because free wifi and some locations are open 24/7, not the worst place to get work done during US business hours.
Oh no, sorry, they’re still around. I meant I avoid it because I’m avoiding as many American products as I can.
Other countries with standards held out a lot longer. Still, it’s a megacorp that prioritizes profit above all else.
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!
…is Steak n Shake considered a proper sit-down meal? Thats still fast food. Most of them have drive-thru’s.
Yeah, weird in-between dining model. Still beats McDonald’s inside where they have purposefully run off dining customers in favor of drive thru.
Still, way better food, brought to you and cleaned up, same price.
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’m so glad that so many fast food chains are disappearing in my city. There’s so much local cuisine here.
Compared to when I was in the Midwest, where there was a dozen of each franchise.
Here in colombia when you order any size fries from McD’s they are only a small amount. Doesn’t matter if you order large or small. Always a small amount. It makes me sad because their fries are really good even though they’re fake.
How are the fries fake?
McDonalds here in London is comical. I’m not even near the inner city (Greater London) and I’m surprised they get business these days.
The last time I wanted a burger I checked, and a meal was going for around £11+
I walked for five minutes and found a local place, paid about £7-8 for a proper good burger meal with better quality ingredients… They even asked me what kind of bun I wanted (went with brioche).The meat wasn’t as thin as a pencil either.
Their competition is other expensive British food, so I could see the logic there.
Theres mcds in vietnam, selling their crap at american where you can walk 200 feet in any direction and get amazing food for like 60 cents.
Same thing where I am, I could go to Wendy’s and get a meal for 15 dollars that won’t fill me up or I can go down the street and get a breakfast burrito the size of my forearm and a large drink that’ll last me until noon for 15 dollars. While I may be rather lanky in my arms that’s still a fucken forearm worth of food thatll hold me over till dinner.
I ORDERED ONE LARGE FRY AND YOU GAVE ME A BUNCH OF FUCKIN LITTLE ONES
Can’t lie, that looks massive.
Wasn’t the large fries always a ripoff? I think someone showed once that it’s only marginally more fries than a small fry.
Historically, it was one of the cheaper items on the menu. In college (20 years ago) I could get a large fries for under $1. Back in the 80s/90s they were practically free. Like, loose-change free.
Also one of the tastier meal items given that they went so fast you could safely assume they’d be fresh, why the sandwich options could be sitting in the warmer for half an hour or longer depending on the speed of business.
McDonalds Rep: It’s not really fair you dug up Andre the Giant to hold our large fries in your picture.
In Belgium, when you go to a ‘frituur’ and you order 2 small fries you get this amount of fries:
That’s like 5 Guys burgers in the US
its called that because you need 5 guys to finish 1 meal!
Calm down with the inaults
As it bloody well should be. More than one order of fries of any size should be a life-altering amount of potato
Yeah I was in Belgium last year and them OG fries were the best. Really good quality mayo too.
Thats like five guys
Similarly, any chip shop in the UK outside of greater London. I’ve taken to ordering a medium chips for my wife and I, because a large is just Too Many Chips.
In London, however, they serve a tragically small amount of chips in many chippies. Fuck London.
a large is just Too Many Chips.
I’ve yet to encounter such a phenomenon.
I think I’ve gotten too old for a large. The spud, coupled with a beers leaves me feeling uncomfortably bloated.
Lots of them, but man they’re all little nubs. That would annoy me.
They really go overboard.
Like even the smallest portion, you can eat with 4 persons and all be full.
Wasn’t even in Belgium but in France near the border and there was one of these shops setup in a kinda temporary thing on the highway. Still felt a bit peckish after the tiny triangle sandwich so ordered a small fry, was greeted with not much less than pictured here haha. Had to share them to get through it.
Sounds like a classic australian fish & chip shop. “Minimum fries” gets you a bag the size of your head.
Tell me you’re a smart person when you keep buying low quality shit you don’t need and complain about the quantity of that same shit when it isn’t sold by weight or volume.
Maybe change your eating habits.
Hell yeah. Why the fuck are people ignoring op eating literal slop?
Because you sound insufferable when you call fries “slop.”
Please find your nearest treadmill.
I’m actually pretty OK with this. Portion sizes were generally kinda oversized, especially for not-so-healthy fastfood.
You say you’re OK with it, but are you also OK with the constant price hikes for less quantity of the shitty food?
That’s a good question, answer is generally that it depends. Do I want to spend more money on stuff? Of course not.
But if the price is the same or negligibly more, then I’m better off not incurring the bodily damage of consuming excess calories. The smaller the default size of the suggested meal (eg, a combo) the better, unless it hits the point where it makes me order a second meal or extra sides.
That preference reflects my own privilege, health perspective, and lack of self-control though. I know it’s a different call for everyone.
I am, helped break my junk food addiction. Now I never pay for it.
I really wonder what they’d consider “small fries” then.
Two. Two fries is a small.
2 inches
Funny, here in Germany the small ones come in cardboard. There is no actual small anymore.
This is a terrible picture for anyone actually trying to understand the quantity of fries there.
I work at a McD’s, our large fries come in 6oz tall cardboard boxes, not whatever the fuck that is. My only guess is that the area you’re in has extra taxes on cardboard waste or a supply chain issue.
