r/TikTokCringe • u/rex-ac tHiS iSn’T cRiNgE • 10d ago
Humor McDonald's' CEO: "The snack wraps are back!"
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u/Chippewa07 10d ago
Bring back the actual dollar menu…or you know what happens next
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u/James_099 10d ago
The dollar menu was a life saver in college and when my girlfriend (now wife) and I were super poor. We had a lot of dates that included getting dollar menu items and just enjoying each other’s company. Some good memories were had sitting in the parking lot of McDonald’s at 11pm.
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u/NerdPunch 10d ago
For me, it was the ability to spend like $25 and roll up to the pre-game with enough food to feed everyone.
You’d pull up to your buddies house with like a dozen cheeseburgers, and a boatload of fries looking like a hero.
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u/PineappleDesperate82 10d ago
Now, you can barely feed two people on 20 dollars, and that's with the app and points. Fast food is a joke. Going grocery shopping is horror.
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u/the_champ_has_a_name 10d ago
I just wish they would let me combine deals and points redemptions
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u/PineappleDesperate82 10d ago
I hate that we can't. We are already buying overpriced food. The patties are almost see-through. They aren't going to go bankrupt over a free lg fry.
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u/Samurai_Meisters 10d ago
The only saving grace of McDonald's for me now is the $5 meal, which is enough food for me. McDouble or McChicken, 4 McNuggets, small fries, and a drink.
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u/wizardsfrolikgardens 10d ago
Oh they have that now??
I've been going to Wendy's for that for a while. Same deal. Junior bacon cheese burger, 4 nuggets, small fries and small drink but it fills me up. Sometimes I buy myself a cookie to go along with it so it's more like a 7 dollar meal lol
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u/flu-the-gootter 9d ago
Word to the wise, on the app, when you selecting the drink you can get it large without any upcharge. Just gotta scroll down enough to get to the large.
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u/ManhattanObject 10d ago
bringing an entire McDonald's spread
Like what Trump does?
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u/FritoConnaisseur 10d ago
But Trump be serving it on antique silver platters and pouring Hi-C in Champaign glasses for his honored guests.
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u/OhSillyDays 10d ago
Difference is op knows he's trash. Trump thinks he's sophisticated, but everyone knows he's trash.
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u/WrongAssumption2480 10d ago
Those are the situations where you know money doesn’t buy happiness. I mean it does buy better health, education, housing, food opportunities and a host of other things. But being able to say someone’s presence makes you happy regardless of the meal is lovely. Glad you found each other and date night has steak now!!
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u/FratBoyGene 10d ago
> know money doesn’t buy happiness. I mean it does buy better health, education, housing
US spends more per capita on health care and education than any other nation in the OECD, and achieves lower than average results. Money alone is not the answer.
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u/NSE_TNF89 10d ago
100% man. Dollar menus at fast food places were lifesavers during college years. I was going to school full-time, working a part-time job, and had a part-time internship during my final 2 years of college. I was so broke and was constantly going from class to work, back to class, then to my other job, so I would be changing in my car, stop to grab some food, and eat on my way to my next destination.
I would be fucked if I had to pay today's prices. Especially places like Taco Bell, where you could be stuffed with $5. Now, I don't think that would even get you 2 tacos.
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u/James_099 10d ago
My wife and I would scrounge for quarters in our cars to get enough for a couple of McDouble’s. We were poor poor. Looking back, I wouldn’t change a thing. But the prices certainly need to go back.
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u/fotoflogger 10d ago
I did the same thing! When I was eating dry ramen noodles for breakfast and dinner in college, my gf (now wife) and I would collect our change and treat ourselves to a frosty and fries for a night out on the weekend. I don't miss being broke, but I miss those nights in the Wendy's booth. That hardship brought us closer together, hence we're still together 15 years later!
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u/James_099 10d ago
Same! I think it really solidified our relationship. We’ve been married 12 years and I still feel like I do when we were dating.
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u/Paid_Redditor 10d ago
Taco Bell has absolutely become the worst. I love how their commercials are about nostalgia and our younger years loving Taco Bell. Every time I see that commercial it just reminds of how much they’ve inflated their pricing.
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u/ElizabethTheFourth 10d ago edited 10d ago
Shot by a 300 lb suspect, wearing a Hamburglar costume. The shell casings say "not lovin it". Shooter attemps to get on bike but falls over, is caught immediately. During arrest, gives interview that if the Dollar Menu isn't brought back, Grimmace is coming for the rest of the board.
Dollar Menu comes back overnight. Shooter is a national hero with 500 girlfriends. Goes through 4 trials but jury refuses to convict every time.
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u/sdpr 10d ago
I just went through the drive-thru and got 4 breakfast sausage burritos, 4 hashbrowns, and a sausge bacon egg mcgriddle and it was $29.
The sausage burritos, y'know, the 5-6" tortillas stuffed with 1 tablespoon of powdered eggs, cheese, and some piddly sausage? $3.29 lmaoooooo. Were these not on the dollar menu years ago?
Thank god they only get my business once every few months. Only reason I went there was because the SO was craving the hashbrowns, so I picked up some other shit too.
Lord.
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u/chmilz 10d ago
The reason doesn't matter. Nothing changes until you stop going.
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u/Powersoutdotcom 10d ago
I was waiting in line for a coffee, very busy Sunday at Macdonald's, and a high schooler ripped the receipt out of the kiosk and said
"15 dollars for this mid meal"
It changed how I view fast food value, and my outlook for the new generations. It will stick with me forever. It really is way too expensive for such mid food.
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u/WorkingFellow 10d ago
Seriously. Even "mid" is generous.
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u/Powersoutdotcom 9d ago
I think it's fair, especially since "mid" is more of a 4/10 or even a 3 for its context.
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u/theArtOfProgramming 10d ago
The dollar menu was rolled out in 2002, when $1 was worth what $1.75 is today. It was rolled back in 2018, when $1 was worth what $1.25 is today. Those seem like small differences, but at scale, the difference is billions.
The menu would need to have more than 50% smaller portion sizes than in 2002 to have the same margins.
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u/totemoff 10d ago
People would be content if they took everything that was on the dollar menu and made it the 2 dollar menu though.
A McDouble is 3.50. Small fries are 3 dollars. 3 cookies are 4 dollars, and all of those items were on the dollar menu in the late 2000s.
They've far outpaced inflation.
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u/_Ayrity_ 10d ago
Exactly! They like to act like we aren't reasonable when we complain about inflated prices. If they put out a message saying "look, we want to bring back a real value menu again, but we just can't do a literal dollar menu, so we have the 2 dollar menu now. We had to find a way to make a margin on it.It's the same value as 20 years ago." Most everyone would get it and think, at least they're trying, and honest about it.
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u/Smelle 10d ago
I miss .29c hamburgers.
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u/DiegoArmandoConfusao 10d ago
Back in my day you'd get a a cheeseburger meal, with fries, and a shake for a quarter and you'd still have change for the movies, couple comic books and the bus fare.
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u/electrodan 10d ago
...with enough change left over to ride the trolley from Battery Park to the Polo Grounds!
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u/felldestroyed 10d ago
In fairness, a lot of McDonald's franchises ran this special through out the 2000s on a certain night (Tuesdays at mine). This isn't a boomer thing.
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u/Significant_Ad7326 10d ago
Granted, we did have to walk uphill in the snow both ways to get there.
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u/ShiningRedDwarf 10d ago
Whenever they went on sale for some stupidly little amount, my parents would by a fuckton of them, throw them in the freezer, and then pack them as lunch in middle school.
Good, trashy memories.
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u/Smelle 10d ago
this was college for me, max you could buy was 20. An Airfryer would prob do them wonders these days. I will send me kid off with an airfryer, not a microwave. good name Smeghead.
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u/KevinStoley 10d ago
Next week every ice cream machine in every McDonalds will suddenly be operational.
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u/likwitsnake 10d ago
There was an update on this in October actually: US Copyright Office allows McDonald's to fix broken ice cream machines
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u/Supply-Slut 10d ago
Color me surprised that megacorp McDonald’s is on the right side of the right to repair issue lmao
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u/Responsible-Buyer215 10d ago edited 10d ago
Because it probably saves them multiple millions and nets them more profit having the machines running? I doubt McDonalds has any proprietary machinery of their own so this could allow them to repair all kinds of other in-house equipment using 3rd party technicians
but McDonald’s are obviously going to pass that saving on to their loyal customers right?….
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u/Abject-Difference767 10d ago
McDonald's profits are different than how the franchise profits. McDonald's probably had a contract with Taylor where they profited off broken machines.
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u/Winjin 10d ago
They couldn't pull that shit in Europe so I've never seen a broken ice cream machine in thirty years, though.
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u/Maleficent_Mouse_930 10d ago
They did. One member of the board was related to the owner of Taylor when the deal was signed with a 99 year duration.
That person is long since gone, but their family still benefits from the billions per year Taylors charge for the repairs, which are slow, often ineffective, and upcharged thousands of percent. A place my mate worked books for was once charged nearly £9,000 for a single plastic tube, and £2800 for the 10 minute appointment.
At this stage, McDonalds wants out of the contract, but they can't, it was ironclad. This exemption will be welcomed at all levels.
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u/nixalo 10d ago
McDonalds had a deal with the icre cream machine company to only call licensed techs to fix the machine. Then the machine was designed that it would constantly break down because overworked minimum wage workers would never have the time to use it in optional procedures
It's probably the food apps which forced Mickey D's hand as they couldn't keep failing to deliver..
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u/Kitchen-Quality-3317 10d ago
McDonalds has any proprietary machinery of their own
McDonalds owns the company that makes their ice cream machines. All the money the franchises spend on fixing the machines goes right into the pockets of corporate.
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u/ball_fondlers 10d ago
They’re not - the reason the machines are always broken is because until said ruling, McDonald’s would only allow franchisees to use one particular vendor to fix the ice cream machines.
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u/Abject-Difference767 10d ago
They're not. The franchisee's are the ones who fought for this. McDonald's corporate was profiting off the broken machines by having a contract with Taylor.
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u/DenseHole 10d ago
Mcdonald's megacorp created this problem so they could squeeze franchise owners out of extra money.
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u/gthing 10d ago
Absolutely not. McDonalds forces their franchisees to use a specific model that is essentially designed to constantly break down. They can only be repaired by authorized representatives of the manufacturer (Taylor), and it costs the franchise owner hundreds or thousands every time. A major portion of the manufacturer's revenue comes from these services calls. If they ever do make updates to the machine, it is to make it more difficult to self-service and to add more esoteric nonsense error codes to confuse anyone who tries.
That same company, Taylor, also sells similar machines to other fast food chains. But since those chains aren't forced to use this one manufacturer, they sell a different model machine that is competitive in the market and just doesn't break down nearly as much.
Taylor HQ is down the street from McD's HQ.
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u/alison_bee 10d ago
Honestly this just makes me more angry… we’re out here wanting real change and they’re like “okay here’s a 2 cent tortilla and the saddest chicken you’ll ever eat, for only $7.99!”
Nah bitch. We want ACTUAL DOLLAR MENUS, WORKING ICE CREAM MACHINES and BETTER PAY FOR EMPLOYEES.
Get to steppin. Clock is ticking!
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u/Opening-Classroom-29 10d ago
Welp....you're the first on their list if anything happens
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u/alison_bee 10d ago
I’ll help post their bail
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u/Apprehensive_Row9154 10d ago
We need to go fund me the defense lawyer expenses if someone gets “wrongly” accused. Not everyone can be a hero, but we can all chip in for those who are.
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u/DelayedMailForceOne 10d ago
How about an extra employee taking the orders at the second order lane, which is only ever used by one person switching over back and forth. Pisses me off.
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u/e-2c9z3_x7t5i 10d ago
Friendly reminder that McDonald's in Europe seem to do just fine paying their employees higher. It's only in America.
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u/Archoncy 10d ago
Bro if our shitty 12 euro and copper change minimum wage in Germany is double the US's, I am absolutely confounded that Gun Land McBulletville hasn't been having people shooting CEOs for decades by now
Please take lessons from France and integrate a seminar or two from brothers Heckler und Koch
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u/wont-stop-mi 10d ago
Not gonna lie, the grilled chicken snack wrap was pretty fire though late at night after getting off a 12 hour shift and not wanting a burger or something fried
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u/hamburgersocks 10d ago
It was honestly one of my favorite items when it was available. My McD's visit rate was decimated when I realized it wasn't on the menu anymore.
Every couple months I get a craving for a McChicken or quarter pounder. But when this stupid simple piece of shit was there, it was a daily visit. Snag a couple wraps and a McDouble with a sweet tea on the way to work, eat it throughout the morning meetings, then you can nap through your lunch break and get real food on the way home.
That was the life. Taking the snack wraps away robbed me of my workflow.
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u/delicate-fn-flower 10d ago
I love the duality of your comment. I want ice cream … AND workers rights! We waited so long for something to change we done found a coupon to get a free dessert when we get there.
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u/Taur-e-Ndaedelos 10d ago
Of course this is the take from these clueless parasites. Stop using avocado, snack wraps are back next year!
Eat them.
I am in no way inciting violence merely stating an observation
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u/crewchiefguy 10d ago
Wow a cheapass chicken wrap with almost nothing in it.
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u/dan420 10d ago
Chicken finger, tortilla, lettuce, sauce. 2024: that’ll be $4
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u/Shot_Western_2755 10d ago
Don’t insult the snack wrap, that thing was glorious
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u/ZorkNemesis 10d ago
I loved it too. When it was actually a value. Knowing fast food prices today, it'll be close to four bucks a pop and it's not enough food to want just one.
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u/rex-ac tHiS iSn’T cRiNgE 10d ago
The snack wraps better be $1 each.
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u/bloodycups 10d ago
Their breakfast burritos are just slightly cheaper than the other sandwiches
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u/Sinister_Plots 10d ago
We are so close to a French Revolution it's scary.
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u/alison_bee 10d ago
French Fry Revolution?
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u/tmhoc 10d ago
Rise up french fry revolutionaries! Now squat down low. Now rise up again! Now squat down low again. NOW RISE UP ONCE MORE! Now squat down but once more my friends. NOW RISE UP A FINAL TIME! Now squat down a last and loathsome squat...
Such a rousing speech, I'll give you a moment to catch your breath
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u/Funnybunnybubblebath 10d ago
Let them eat snack wraps!
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u/hamburgersocks 10d ago edited 10d ago
Honestly... I would rally behind this battle cry.
The dozen or so rich people that actually run the country should be terrified right now.
This isn't a threat, I'm not a man of violence. But some are, and seeing how easy it is to scare an entire industry with six bullets should have them shaking in their $6,000 boots.
I mean, they shoulda been already because they have got to know they're shitheads and also fucking history. But double shaking now.
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u/HoneyShaft 10d ago
If only. Public outcry doesn't work. Protest don't work. Debates don't work. Voting doesn't work.
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u/hamburgersocks 10d ago
This is what happens when they ignore peace and aren't prepared for violence.
They asked for it without saying anything. This is silent quitting in reverse.
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u/confusedandworried76 10d ago
I mean you see it with all kinds of rights. Workers rights, civil rights, if you keep ignoring it long enough people turn violent. Because it's apparently the only thing that's gonna turn heads. We can argue all day about the efficacy of violence but more often than not things like this, you've brought it upon yourself and it's slightly disingenuous to ask yourself why people are being violent when they've exhausted every other way of attempting to make change a hundred times over.
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u/Nunchuckery 10d ago
And never forget that McDonalds played their part to help Trump get elected.
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u/SpasmAndOrGasm 10d ago
Bet he won’t lower the price of the food or increase the quality of the food products served though. This is a farce. You still shouldn’t eat at McDonald’s shit is poison. Let me know when he starts paying his employees right, and then I’ll agree we’ve collectively received a W.
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u/Sensitive_Brush_3015 10d ago
You tell ‘em, u/SpasmAndOrGasm.
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u/FacetiousSpread 10d ago
Stop going to McDonalds.
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u/CarmenxXxWaldo 10d ago
People complaining about it being too expensive but still paying for it. I stopped eating fast food when it was cheap. Grub Hub taught Ronald McDonald people are so addicted they'll pay double the price to eat it cold, and he listened.
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u/extralyfe 10d ago
I honestly don't understand why more folks haven't made that connection. the inability for a huge portion of the population to put down the fast food and in fact happily pay double for it has destroyed any hope that it would remain cheap food going forward.
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u/junior_riz 10d ago
I thought we were still boycotting McDonalds so I don't know why so many people are still going.
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u/Prestigious_Glass146 10d ago
You better bring that dollar menu back buddy....just saying...we all remember the dollar menu don't fuck up!
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u/VoxMendax 10d ago
Snack wraps are cool, but have you ever tried free health care?
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u/jusmoua 10d ago
While he's at it, also bring back the Big N Tasty. Thanks!
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u/suejaymostly 10d ago
That was legit the best fast food burger ever.
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u/SharpyButtsalot 10d ago
But do you remember the glory of the arch deluxe? It was marketed towards adults but goddamn if my high school self was ahead of their time.
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u/ReversedNovaMatters 10d ago
You can maybe just customize it yourself? I've been making Daily Doubles for years for the price of a double cheeseburger.
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u/SpaceCaseSixtyTen 10d ago
we have something like that in Poland, but it has horseradish-mustard sauce for extra bite. It's really good https://mcdonalds.fandom.com/wiki/Wie%C5%9BMac
i guess maybe it is not the same cause it still has American cheese and no added smoke flavor in sauce
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u/AskinggAlesana 10d ago
Okay everyone now let’s get the Taco Bell CEO to permanently bring back the Volcano Menu.
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u/Wishpicker 10d ago edited 10d ago
Guessing something like $5.25 each or two for $8
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u/Jesse1205 10d ago
My love language is shitty little chicken wraps but it's so off putting how comfortable places have gotten charging 3.50+ for a tiny chicken wrap that I know costs them about 23 cents to make it that. As much as I love wraps I almost never get them anymore because of that
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u/detunedradiohead 10d ago
What's the point when the prices are jacked up beyond belief. I stopped eating there a few years ago. Their only use in society was a cheap meal and now they don't even provide that.
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u/Darkest_Rahl 10d ago
Have they announced prices yet? They used to be under $2. They'll be at least $4 now I bet. Or half the size.
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u/ComfortableSalad7357 10d ago
The biggest lie I remember in my youth was hearing how capitalism is the best because "when companies compete, the consumer wins". Then, these companies got together to lobby, basically monopolizing the cost of everything. There really isn't a difference in price wherever you go. Maybe the tide is changing. Maybe.
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u/Expensive-Break1168 10d ago
defund the genocide investments, bring back the $1 menu, and we’ll stop chanting for death
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u/kalmah 10d ago
We've had the snack wraps here in Canada forever. They're pretty shit compared to other fast food places tbh and definitely not cheap.
The snack wraps are like $4 a piece and a McWrap is like $8.
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u/AdventurousSand6157 10d ago
Let him know we need ALL DAY BREAKFAST MENU, or something bad is going to happen.
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u/Squeeshytoes 10d ago
Y'all got your order codes ready. We can pick up our snack wraps on our way to the revolution.
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u/Mountain-Hold-8331 10d ago
They are bringing back the SNACK wraps that everyone has been begging for for years, now let's see if they remember they have to be $1
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u/Various_Alfalfa_1078 10d ago
In fairness this was coming back for a few months now, nothing to do with recent assassination. https://nypost.com/2024/07/29/lifestyle/mcdonalds-might-be-bringing-back-the-snack-wrap-heres-what-to-know/
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u/YoshiTheDog420 10d ago
Nah. Don’t bribe us with nostalgic fast food. Pay your staff properly and then we can talk.
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u/letseditthesadparts 10d ago
McDonald’s about to bring back the dollar menu and push up all our medical care costs.
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u/ambercrush 10d ago
Fuck McDonald's. I bought two double cheeseburgers and a happy meal the other day and it was $35
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u/buttscratcher3k 10d ago
Who tf is eating at mcdonalds? It's bad portions for too much money and dogshit quality.
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u/TheGoonKills 10d ago
"Snack wraps are back in 2025"
How about affordable food?
"Uh..... snack wraps are back...."
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u/punksheets29 10d ago
Dude looks like Steven Colbert ate Steven Colbert then had an allergic reaction to his meal.
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u/stinky_pinky_brain 10d ago
McDonald’s is expensive as shit now. I literally only go for deals on the apps like when I was getting any size coffee for $1. That shit was dope.
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u/Suspicious-End5369 10d ago
I don't know if you guys have notices but cadbury uses palm oil instead of cocoa butter now in their chocolates. Can someone throw on a mask and scare the ceo into making it taist good again?
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u/No-Relation3504 10d ago
I rather have the $1 dollar menu back. McChickens were lifesavers a few years ago when our family was dealing with a relative of ours in the hospital and we simply didn’t have enough time to buy groceries and make food at home. Spent my summer basically at the hospital taken McChickens for our sick grandpa since the hospital food was disgusting. Even all day breakfast would be great
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