Mildly Infuriating

Good. Smaller portions are what many need these days. And the high price of fast food is a great incentive to eat at home.

“Large” is a state of mind now 😅 If you’ve got the receipt, it’s worth a quick feedback ticket—sometimes they’ll toss you a replacement or coupon.

Give money to shitty company, get a shitty product.

Soon:

In Belgium, when you go to a 'frituur' and you order 2 small fries you get this amount of fries:

Wtf, that's a medium from like pre-covid.

Oh well, restaurants were neat, time to learn how to coom.

EDIT:

... cook.

.... ... .. god, damnit.

I ORDERED ONE LARGE FRY AND YOU GAVE ME A BUNCH OF FUCKIN LITTLE ONES

I acknowledge there are lots of regional differences, but that is absolutely not a large fries here in the southern US. Here, a medium(regular) fries comes in a cardboard envelope style container and they overfill it so there are fries all over the bag.

They do it to make us feel like we are getting our money's worth, but in reality, potatoes are cheap as shit for them. Here, a large McDonald's fries is almost a meal in itself. Eating a supersized McD's meal here is almost enough to make you throw up.

A large fry is almost $5 now where I live. It is probably .10 of potatoes .15 of oil and .30 of labor. The mark up is incredible.

I don't get the point of fast food chains anymore. Never really ate there, but I always had the idea it was a cheap place where to eat.

This past year I've been once in burger king, where I spent about 10€, and I tried KFC for the first time, where I spent some 15€. I did not eat enough even at such a high price.

With 15€ i can go to an actual restaurant, why would I go to a fast food place?

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.

One of the odd effects I've noticed with the last round of inflation is that prices are converging. Cheaper places raised prices more than more expensive places. I never liked McDonald's - the french fries are good but I've never chosen to go there, only had them incidentally. But it was cheap. Not now, it's more like going anywhere, so why would you go there? As someone else said, I can get tacos down the street, closer than any fast food place and they are pretty fast, or we go to the cafe up the street, they did have inflation but at least the money stays local.

Are the contents less by weight? I don’t doubt your frustration. But when I was a kid, the happy meals came in a cardboard box, but now they come in a paper bag (at least in Japan). Obviously to save money. Maybe they just cut the cardboard box to save money? FWIW I actually ate a large fries yesterday and they came in the traditional packaging, so this was surprising for me.

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.