And it’ll be $9 a burger, you watch.
Guess some executives finally saw WALL-e and saw a goal they should shoot for lol
So are they returning to the original sizes of burgers before shrinkflation?
Well, since the original patties have always been 0.1lb precooked weight and the quarter pounder has always been (checks notes) 0.25lb precooked weight, I’d say shrinkflation is one thing that hasn’t come to McDs. Actual inflation? Oh, yes - $4 for a double cheese burger (with 0.2lb of beef) is straight up insane. That’s $10 for a half pound burger - nearly the same cost per ounce of burger as a Five Guys standard burger, which isn’t even in the same league.
more fat in them nowadays than there used to be, and the buns have less ‘substance’, too… oh, and the cheese is wafer thin now. so yea. ‘shrinkflation’ has definitely hit even mcdonalds
The ⅓-pounder? A&W already tried that, and it flopped, because people don’t understand fractions.
It seems pretty successful for Hardee’s/Carl’s Jr
both BK and McD used to sell a 1/3-lb burger for a while in the early-mid 00s. Wendy’s, too, IIRC. to my recollection, it did ok in sales, but was maligned for being “unhealthy”, and both chains stopped selling it shortly thereafter.
Meanwhile, modern Wendy’s is all, “Here’s three patties on a greasy bun slathered in ketchup/mustard/mayo, and if you manage to take a bite it’s all gonna come sliding out the other side like bloody pus. Comes with bacon as an option, too. Don’t forget your quart of sugar water.”
I was thinking the same thing! Sure, a 1/3 burger is bad for you but a baconator is totally fine.
the bacon is for traction!
In a combo meal for only $14
No kidding, sometimes I have to take a napkin and wipe most of it off. Really excessive.
*Americans.
The rest of the world doesn’t bother with fractions of “pounds” in the first place.
Fractions work with metric too you know.
But you don’t need them since the units already neatly divide. You don’t use a quarter kilo, you’d just say 250 gram.
Ignoring that where I live the weight of the burger isn’t part of the name in the first place. They are just called “royal”.
We have that too. The “Big” Mac.
Different burger.
No shit? You are just being argumentative now.
Naming a different burger was hardly an argument, I just explained it to you in case you accidently mixed them up.
You mean the Royale with Cheese, right?
I’ll have the 0.333333333333333… Kg burger.
Metric weights for things like meat is basically always expressed in grams here in the EU. Using fractions makes no sense.
Bet it will be the size of a whataburger.
This is what our founding fathers fought for.
they fought for slavery and not to have to pay their taxes. i get that you’re joking, but it’s crazy to me that people still use this argument to defend… anything. Our founding fathers had some decent ideas about democracy and the separation of church and state, but when it came to their vaunted “all men are created equal” concept, they clearly didn’t mean what they said. What they really meant was, “Down with the aristocracy, down with nobility! We want all rich, white, Christian men on the same top run of society, regardless of bloodline!”
It really needs to be stressed that the founding fathers were not in any way a single group with cohesive ideas. There’s a reason that 90% of early American history is these guys arguing about essentially everything.
Some were genuine true believers in Enlightenment philosophy. Some agreed with it in principle but were willing to make sacrifices for the sake of pragmatism. Some didn’t give a shit but saw which way the wind was blowing and realized it would be more profitable to go along. And some were simply virulent pieces of shit.
And some were simply virulent pieces of shit.
enough that slavery, racism, sex/gender inequality, the inherent exploitation of a capitalist system, and many other terrible things were enshrined into our constitution from the start.
as for their cohorts whose noble and enlightened ideas fell to the wayside? well, when they could stand up to a king but wither at the idea of standing up to their peers - especially in the name of profitability - there could hardly be argued to have been any honor in it. This just sounds like the “it’s a few bad apples” bs we hear whenever there’s some news story about police bruality/corruption.
enough that slavery, racism, sex/gender inequality, the inherent exploitation of a capitalist system, and many other terrible things were enshrined into our constitution from the start.
Well… Yes. That’s how politics work. You need to live with and agree with those people about how we’re going to govern society. What do you expect to happen?
That, in retrospect, we would see them for who they really were, not for who we wished they were. 
Please. This is the MAGA philosophy. Kick and scream until you get what you want and burn everything down if you don’t. 🙄
all men1 are created equal
1 - Property-owning white men, no women, no poors
Still waiting for them to bring back their good chicken. Nuggets are thinner and more dried out since Covid, and snack wraps still AWOL.
I just want some veggie options in my country. I’d settle for a single burger on the menu!
The French fries aren’t even vegetarian in the US… they contain beef extract.
Hey you guys seem to love greasy garbage. How about bigger sized greasy garbage, Huh?
The bun will be twice as thick or something.
It’ll all be lettuce and onions
A fat stack of pickles.
“…having a larger burger is an opportunity,”
…customers want "larger, high-quality burgers that fill you up."customers want “larger, high-quality burgers that fill you up.”
Bigger burgers. High-quality burgers. Not more meat. More meat is easy, just add more meat. This is going to be some kind of filler, or a mix of “beef” and ground beans.
Bigger burgers. Larger burgers. Meat goes on it. Much meat. Pile it up. High meat burger that fills the customer up.
Worst of both worlds. Just give me a damn black bean burger
A mcdouble isn’t that big, but somehow I feel like I am going to explode after eating just 1 of them motherfuckers. I can’t imagine them being more filling. Other burger joints don’t get me feeling like I over ate with just 1 burger and a small fry the way McDonald’s does.
I need quality over quantity. It’s one of the reasons I rarely go to Olive garden nowadays. If I want fast food Italian, I’ll go pickup on olive garden.
If I want a nice dining experience. I go to a local Italian restaurant I know of. (same price, half the food, 10x better quality)
Most of the time I find myself having to season anything I pick up from olive garden.
Here in EU their biggest in diameter is the Big Tasty. Do you also get that in the US?
I was going to make a crack about them inventing a time machine to get Big Macs from like 20 years ago, but I actually kind of wish they’d bring back the angus 1/3rd pounder, those burgers were great.
