What is the point of fast food anymore
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I'll have a double corporate slop with extra gruel please
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their small frosty’s aren’t quite at fuck off levels of pricing yet.
My local Wendy's did a promo where you bought a keychain tag for $3 and can get a Jr Frosty with any purchase until the end of 2025. That certainly helps the Frosty thing, at least.
Politics aside, Chik-Fil-A is consistently one of the better quality fast food places I've been to.
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Which is wild when you realize the original idea behind McDonalds was to apply engineering and mass production ideas to food to maximize speed and consistency, and now a lot of the time they fail at both.
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I've officially stopped going to McDonalds. Their prices make zero sense, and their food quality has dropped to incredible lows.
Only desperate, dumb, or wealthy folks eat at this place in 2025.
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One regular fries is $8 at my local five guys. Just fries. $11 if I want a regular drink with that. That's more than I want to pay for a burger combo and it doesn't even have a burger with it.
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yes but still cheaper
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The point is the same it ever was. You sacrifice money for time and convenience. What's so hard to understand about that? Some will be more of less expensive than others and no one forced you to choose either option
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And yet people keep going. And why? Because those companies hire people with psychology and chemistry degrees to ensure they do. They play every psychological trick in the book to keep people coming back. And as much as anyone here (me included) think a burger from McDonald's is shit, there are people, a lot of people, who feel like they just can't live happily without their regular dose of Big Mac.
And, of course, McDonald's has used those psychological tricks to convince such people that McDonald's cares about them.
The whole thing is sick.
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Penn Gillette wisely said eating is mostly habit, and I agree. There are people who actually like McDonalds, etc, but the ones who still buy it even though they think it sucks are just slaves to habit. Like some people with $200 to their name will have Doordash deliver Wendy's to their apartment so they don't have to go anywhere or figure out how to cook. I can't relate to that mentality, but habit is a powerful force.
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Hopefully less racist.
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A lot of people don't have the time or the energy to cook because they are being ground down by their shitty jobs. It's no wonder so many people turn to processed food even if they don't eat fast food.
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Oh I know, for some people it isnt a choice. Thats why I prefaced it with "Some people I know." because I know their circumstances.
One specific coworker in particular. If you're stressing about your car payment, you dont have money for doordash. GO PICK IT UP YOU LAZY BASTARD THATS WHAT THE CAR IS FOR!
