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The bargain with fast food was that it was shitty for you, but it was quick, cheap, and tasted good. Now it’s even WORSE for you, costs as much as an actual meal, and increasingly tastes like garbage. What exactly are people trading off now?
It isn't quick anymore either.
there was ONE McDonald's that I used to still go to on road trips.
then the US threatened to take over my country, so ofc I stopped going to McDonald's. I tried to make an exception for it last year because I had to pee and I figured it would be the one place actually open at 1am for me to pee and get a coffee, but nope, closed. guess they want people to piss in the drive thru
McDonald's doesn't even offer washrooms anymore, they have literally nothing to offer me
There's no point going to McDonald's anyway because there's always a bunch of ubereats and door dashes in the way, so you can't get in.
I keep being amazed when we go out once a month for a sit down dinner and it's only $5 more a head than fast food.
A burger-fries-drink is the same cost as the most amazing local shawarma and drink or the freshest ban-mi from the local Vietnamese resto.
More reasons to not eat McDonalds. It sure seems like they are trying to shift from being a hamburger chain into full real estate company and are trying to sabotage their weaker franchises so they can cash out the properities PE style.
Every franchise is, and has been, a real estate company first.
No, corporate owns most of the stores property then leases that to franchise owners. If one wanted to liquidate some of the property they owned and downsize operations they'd have to kick out the franchise owners first.
McDonald's corporate is the franchise owner/franchisor. The franchisees lease and operate the stores.
For the price of one decently sized McDonald's meal here in Australia (about $16) I can comfortably feed myself for a week of healthy, filling dinners, and maybe lunches too, using staple foods and in-season veg.
It wouldn't surprise me if they had some super addictive drug in there
Fat, sugar and salt can totally be addictive.
For sugar, it seems to be more effective than cocain if you want to make some food addictive...
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0000698
After a couple weeks of almost total carb exclusion, you stop craving it. Slightly sweet things taste too sweet. You can try to return to a reasonable carb intake and it lasts right up until you have some social event where you eat a small amout of some nice confection. That's how it works for many people anyway.
I've found cutting sugar bit by bit helps, limit it to weekends, cut it out of hot drinks, then limit hot drinks to 1/day in the morning since they tend to have sugar built in. Best method when starting is to remember that its far easier to exercise self control in the shop than it is once the stuff is already in your home. Now sugar is something I can take or leave rather than crave, also made me realize that there are a lot of savory foods with an objectively better taste when you don't have that sugar craving biassing the decision.