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[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 1 points 43 minutes ago

Looks pretty good ngl. Plus I don't support fascism by not going to McDonald's.

[–] LuckyFogic@kbin.earth 16 points 9 hours ago

Okay but really that looks way more refreshing than what it's imitating

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 11 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

Have you HAD Mcdonalds lately?

These fast food companies year after year after year report a drop in sales from the previous year.

And it's fucking stupid.

When I was a teenager in the 90s, I had an addiction to Mcdonalds fries. A literal addiction. I would order 6 of the supersize fries. I would do this multiple times a day, everyday.

Last Friday, I tried ordering McDonalds for the first time since that whole rick and morty sechwan sauce thing.

What I got were sad thin flavorless strips of potato. I cannot imagine trying to explain to a teenager today that I used to be addicted to these. These aren't the same fries that I used to know.

They report a 6% drop in 2025 compared to 2024. In 2024 I remember they announced a drop from 2023. It's been dropping since at least the pandemic.

And here's the reason why.

These companies keep asking "How can we make more profit?" And the answer keeps being "cut costs" and "raise prices".

Well, yeah, I can see the cut costs. These fries are thinner. They don't taste as good. They don't have the crunch I used to know. I didn't even get a super long fry, or a mushy fry!

And the chicken nuggets were also bland and tasteless. They were half the size as I remember. These were like thin scraps of a chicken nugget. The breading was worse too.

So I'm paying 3x the amount to get get portions that are half the size I remember, with none of the flavor, and somehow end up waiting 20 minutes.

Cool, cool, cool, cool. I don't think I want to ever go to McDonalds again. They obviously can't figure out why sales are dropping, and refuse to sell a fast product that tastes good for cheap.

So why would I want it?

I will however eat these apples.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 1 points 49 minutes ago

Agreed. It's inedible, costs more and the only way to get a halfway decent price is if you use their shitty app. They won't even put the deals or even an ordering platform on a website because they want to spy on all your data too. Fuck McDonald's.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 hours ago

Depending on when in the 90s you were a teen you may be remembering when they used to use beef tallow (fat) instead of vegetable oil for frying. In addition to all the other enshitification you mentioned.

[–] Townlately@feddit.nl 4 points 8 hours ago

The model is to reduce quality in time with our collective inability to afford anything better. Doesn't matter if the overpriced fries suck if everything else costs more and the shit fries are all you have time to pick up on your way home from second job.

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 3 points 8 hours ago

This actually looks fun. Not sure I'd like to have capsicum with apple, and I definitely wouldn't eat the citrus rind. But it's otherwise a killer idea to entice your kids into eating fruit

[–] 10thGlyphix@lemmy.zip 3 points 9 hours ago

At least its not made of human meat.

[–] agentant@hexbear.net 2 points 9 hours ago

I mean Apples go pretty hard and the art is quite impressive. Can't say I would be mad.