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[โ€“] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 7 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

I live in a small town and the only garbage that i see around are McDonald's bags and drinkt that get thrown on the side of the road. I think it's a special kind of people that eats at McDonald's, and they don't care about quality, prices and the mystery shit they eat.

[โ€“] Kualdir@feddit.nl 2 points 9 hours ago

Luckily I do not notice that here, but have noticed how busy our McD can get while having a perfect alternative in town.

[โ€“] Soulg@ani.social 3 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

So... poor people? (But littering obviously bad)

[โ€“] Kualdir@feddit.nl 2 points 9 hours ago

Poor people? I pay 9.95 euros for fries and meat at my snackbar. I just checked in their app and I'd have to pay around about the same (depending on what meat option I pick) to have less fries and worse quality meat.

For the McDonalds I'd have to drive there, for the local option I could walk there faster than driving to the McD.

[โ€“] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

It's cheaper to boil a pot of pasta or make your own burger, hell, it's cheaper to go to other restaurants. People aren't going to McDonald's because they are poor.

[โ€“] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 hour ago

Poor people work a lot so they need readymade food and historically McDonald's was cheap readymade food. I'm flat broke right now until payday and making my own food out of what I have in the pantry is consuming a lot of my time between shifts

[โ€“] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 2 points 9 hours ago

I hear the argument a lot that yes, McDonald's is bad, but it feeds poor people. That is such a lie. Even if McDonald's were half the price, it wouldn't beat rice and beans for example. If you have to feed 4 people at McDonald's where i live, that's 4 menus, equals 80 dollars. Even if you'd half that, you vould coock for them for a week if you really want to, and it's not shit ass McDonald's food.

[โ€“] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 8 points 16 hours ago

McDonald's is so expensive here, it's not really poor people food, it's lazy people food.