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  • Have you seen the japanese McDonald's ad they've recently released on twitter?

    Rightoids went fucking ballistic over it, like lmao and this is even funnier!

    Now, sticking to the meme. To me and basically everyone in Poland McDonald's was anything but affordable since they started serving their slop here. And yet I still see plenty of students going in fucking hordes to McDonalnd's despite the prices! And they acknowledge the fucking robbery that it is and still proceed to eat that shit. Fucking incomprehensible to me.

    • To me and basically everyone in Poland McDonald's was anything but affordable since they started serving their slop here

      Yeah, that seems to be the case for a lot of non-Anglo countries, it's similar in the Balkans. We already have our own fast food traditions, so the various American franchises are more like imported luxury food (well, luxurious by fast food standards anyway), nothing like the way they're viewed in their country of origin. Although I assume there might also be some genuine differences in the product due to food regulations (I think the EU had a ban on some growth hormones that are used in American beef), plus just the practical factor of which ingredients are more easily available locally.

    • Have you seen the japanese McDonald's ad they've recently released on twitter?

      Rightoids went fucking ballistic over it, like lmao and this is even funnier!

      "They won't let McDonalds run ads showing a happy WHITE family in the West!!!!!"

      Bruh, wtf that family is Japanese as fuck.

    • Rightoids went fucking ballistic over it, like lmao and this is even funnier!

      what reason exactly? Was it because "america would never put a white woman in an ad" or because "there's no way an Asian guy can have a redhead daughter"

      And yet I still see plenty of students going in fucking hordes to McDonalnd's despite the prices! And they acknowledge the fucking robbery that it is and still proceed to eat that shit. Fucking incomprehensible to me.

      idk some people just do this thing where they adhere to social norms for no other reason than it being a social norm

      • what reason exactly?

        The reason being that they've presented a "traditional family unit". Fuckers got themselves to dick ride McDonald's purely because of an ad they weren't the target audience for. That was the ballistic reaction, and it made me laugh how easily you can manipulate a right wing mind to relinquish the hatred they once had towards a brand or idea if only you decide to pander to them.

        It rustled their bigoted jimmies so much it got me to think how easy it is to stir their pot. They are so shallow.

        One joke I've read that was pretty on point actually was: "Don't ask a white supremacist what's their preferred ethnicity for women". That made me chuckle.

        idk some people just do this thing where they adhere to social norms for no other reason than it being a social norm

        I've never seen anyone justify going to McDonald's in this way, not explicitly or even in a roundabout way. Maybe because I and my friends don't really conform to social norms anyway.

        The only time we went to McDonald's together is because they were hungry and had no cheaper alternative available. It's bad when it comes to food in shopping galleries here, like really bad.

  • Becoming unaffordable is truly the greatest sin that McDonald's can commit. People are generally aware that it's addictive garbage food used to fuel a massive real estate company, but it's cheap so people can afford to eat it. Take that away and what's left?

  • I know this is meant as a joke and I normally never get burgers from McDonald's, although I do buy and love their breakfast sandwiches, but just a couple of days ago I was craving a burger and went to McDonald's specifically for the first time in maybe decades and was shocked at how expensive it was. I think all fast food is really expensive now. Might as well buy a real meal for basically the same cost.

    Anyway, point being, I can afford to waste money on a meal like that but I just wondered what poor families who sadly live off cheap fast food are doing to eat now.

  • I've heard they subsidize the prices pretty heavily through in-app offers/deals to get you into their ecosystem

    • most of the bigger fast food chains do this now. Taco Bell even does it. I only have the McDonalds app (because I fucking love their french fries sue me) but it is genuinely insane how a large fry and mcflurry outside of the app is like $9 but you can get that down to like $3.00-5.00 depending on the day and deal used.

    • Didn't they tie a class action suit waiver into the ToS of their app or something?

  • WTF? I thought fast food down in america was supposed to be dirt cheap. Above the 49th I'm also consistently shocked that the A&W coupons are increasing in price so rapidly, I swear each one that comes out, the combos go up a dollar. I only eat fast food when my work is paying lmao, it's a fuckin racket

    • burger king did this too, but like they also sell their burgers for like 2-3 dollars in bundles for absolutely no reason.

      Like OK- it's 30 dollars for two people to get a whopper combo. Which is nuts

      But if you take away the drinks that cost burger king 20 cents, and then order one additional whopper, three additional regular cheeseburgers, and one additional order of fries, you know how much that costs you? They will hand you 10 to 12 dollars. It is literally negative 10 dollars for what burger king considers 20 dollars worth of food.

      It's all so made up

    • Taco Bell is still cheap. Besides that it really feels like everything costs $10 or $15 now

  • the taco bell $5 combo is the last thing i can somewhat consistently afford now because its $5 and fills me for like almost the whole day. the food cost situation in america is making me miserable.

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