• osarusan@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    The Big Mac set in Japan is ¥750 right now.

    And Burger King is even cheaper.

    It baffles my mind that people would pay $18 USD for that shit. I visited the US last year and while prices in general had definitely gone up since the last time I was there, there is absolutely no justification to pay $18 for McDonald’s. It’s crazy.

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      9 months ago

      It is insane that a meal at Red Robin with bottomless fries is actually less expensive than McDonald’s… I literally don’t go to these types of restaurants unless there is some app deal because fastfood retail prices have gone insane.

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        9 months ago

        I don’t know where they’re getting this $18 price from as my local McDonalds aren’t charging anywhere near that much for any of their meals.

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            9 months ago

            Someone was able to bypass the paywall and said it’s some McDonalds at a rest stop in Connecticut, which is just an outlier like any gas station charging $1.50/gal more because they’re right off a busy freeway exit.

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        9 months ago

        I live in Texas and had a sweet potato hash with pulled pork, kale, and a poached egg for lunch yesterday for $15. If $18 for a McDonald’s meal is true, people would be crazy to go there, there are a ton of more affordable and way better options.

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        9 months ago

        Same in America. You can at least get a decent lunch that was made in a proper kitchen, with good ingredients. Maybe not dinner.