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[–] Nougat@fedia.io 26 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I got a bacon double cheeseburger, large fry, large drink at a Hardee's this week and it cost damn near $18. It was "okay."

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[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"What's the deal with fast food? It isn't fast, and it isn't food!"

[–] swab148@lemm.ee 21 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Get this person a ten-year sitcom deal!

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[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It’s been a long time since fast food was any good. It’s addictive, maybe comfortable, but definitely not good. Break your addiction, especially now that you could save so much money

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[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Now please tip 200% for the garbage

[–] JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Hey now, those poor businesses need to make up for their profit situation! Even though they have all made record profits year after year... After year...
We will be in a recession once they decide it's time for one.

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[–] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Fucking Applebee's is right now cheaper than all of them with $10 for a burger and fries.

[–] pixelscript@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Sure, but then the wait staff expects you to tip at least 20% for simply being given one, and if you don't you're an asshole.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sure, but then the wait staff expects you to tip at least 20% for simply being given one, and if you don’t you’re an asshole.

That's the neat part about affordable food, 20% on $10 only means you tip $2.

They bring you the food, refill your water, and serve you on ceramic plates with metal silverware then take your dirty dishes away, no trash. The burger and the fries are way better than McD.

IMO The only FF place you still can't touch is a $6 Taco Bell with the cravings box. It's a huge amount of shitty food for a total of $6, it is super fast and it runs through you super fast.

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[–] 2ugly2live@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Honestly, it's been a great help reducing take out. It's such a gamble, I'd rather spent nothing on a sure thing (even if it's boring) than nearly $40 for a meal I may not even finish.

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[–] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I got a double cheeseburger platter from a BBQ place with 2 sides for $10. Better burger than fast food and I got fries and collards.

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 week ago

That's a great find!

BBQ places in my area have gotten really expensive. Sides are like $5 each now for a small container.

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[–] GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 16 points 1 week ago (9 children)

In my industry, there's a saying along the lines of "Good, fast, cheap. Pick two."

I think the fast food industry version is "Good, fast, cheap? No, no. And believe it or not, also no."

I don't eat fast food very often, so this is entirely anecdotal. Of the fast food chains I've eaten at in recent history, Taco Bell is by far the worst. Against my better judgment, I even broke down and gave them a second chance at a different location thinking maybe my first terrible experience was a fluke. Didn't work out. Makes me think it's bad everywhere. Wendy's has held up the best of the places I've eaten. It's definitely not cheap anymore, fast depends on the location as well as other factors, and good is relative, but overall it hasn't gone down hill as bad as the others.

[–] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago (4 children)

taco bell definitely has one of the widest ranges in quality. one near my house is fucking awful and never gets the substitutions right, but the one 20 minutes away is great

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[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

When I was in high school, we'd split a gram of weed four ways and go to Wendy's for the $4.20 meal. For less than ten bucks, you got stoned, a junior bacon cheese, four nuggets, small fry, and a small chocolate frosty. This was in the mid oughts so not that long ago!

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The mid oughts was a different world, hundreds of years ago.

[–] the_grass_trainer@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Y'all oughtta know the mid oughts were a lit time to behold.

[–] goldenoreo@lemm.ee 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I switched to mostly cooking for myself sometime last year, really just trying to save money, but I feel significantly less fatigued day to day and more focused and don't wake up with random stomach pain anymore.

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[–] Bamboodpanda@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I don’t usually eat fast food, but one night I was starving, and there happened to be a drive-thru right next to me. I saw only two cars ahead in line and thought it would be quick. I pulled in and waited. Fifteen minutes passed. Then nearly twenty. By that point, a long line had formed behind me, trapping my car.

At the thirty-minute mark, I started asking the cars around me if they could maneuver to let me out. After almost forty minutes, I finally managed to escape.

Frustrated and still hungry, I drove a little further to a local gyro joint. I walked inside, placed my order, and within five minutes, I was enjoying a fresh, delicious lamb platter.

If this had been an isolated incident, I wouldn’t have thought much of it. But the reality is, experiences like this are all too common. Fast food isn’t fast, and to make matters worse, it’s often not even cheap anymore. Unless you’re scraping the bottom of the so-called “value menu”—which has become scarce and filled with low-quality options—you’re likely paying the same, if not more, than you would at a local spot.

When you stack up the cost, the wait, and the disappointing quality, it’s hard to justify why anyone bothers with fast food at all.

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[–] Aurelius@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

In my days, you got a week's worth of calories for $3.50

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[–] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I have a 2 year old who falls asleep when driving, and we have had troubles with sleeping so I drive the motorway for perhaps two hours. In Norway the only places that do drive through is BK and McD, and yeah I have been one black coffe guy. Or just fries and coke. And nuggets and fries are car friendly. Can be eaten with one hand, and makes little mess

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I didn't know 2-year-olds could legally drive in Norway.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It's a very advanced country 🤩

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