Go to In-N-Out. It’s the superior fast food brand
Either that or cook in your own god-damn house
As someone who hasn’t eaten recently and who loves burgers…
Die. that gif was unnecessary and made me so much hungrier than I already was. Whyyyyyyyyyyyyy
I agree with the people saying that being able to cook for yourself should be considered a key skill. My birthday meal when I was a kid was called a jigs dinner and if my grandma hadn’t taught me how to make it her way then it would have been lost. Having that said. We are talking about eating out, which is a thing that humans have been doing for awhile. I can get a feature meal at McDonald’s for just over $15. Across the street I can get a half pound jalapeno burger with onion rings and a beer for about $20. We need to start giving value to small businesses. Because they do produce quality and value.
Jigs dinner
The fuck
Are you Newfie too?
Use. Your. Ovens.
It’s broken.
But I’m allergic to mittens.
I started getting gyros instead. It’s fast, as cheap as fast food used to be a couple years ago, and tastes better. Plus, it’s a local restaurant and not a national chain.
That sounds like a great choice. A fresh Gyro certainly could be better for you, too.
Learning to cook at home is a great skill and talent.
During these trying times I just get 2 hot dogs from Sam’s. Can’t beat $3 lunch.
I’ve been eating a metric fuckton of hot dogs lately. I get a pack of 8 for $3.99 and a pack of cheap but not too cheap buns for like $3. Roughly $7 for four “meals” isn’t bad (except for my health maybe).
Plus I cut lines in them and air fry them and toast the buns, so, you know, fancytrash
Onion and bell pepper chopped and sautéed for a topping brings a whole lever of flavor without costing much. So fancy you need to eat with your pinky extended.
Yeah, prices went up and the quality went down. The best thing to do is stop buying there. As multiple people already pointed out, you can get a lot more and better food for 25 bucks.
The fast food chains forgot that they aren’t actual restaurants. The customers have to remind them. Aaaaaaaand that’s the problem.
I bought a single Big Mac in rural nowhere the day before yesterday. I expected to pay about 4.50. Nope. Almost 7 dollars. 6.80 for single, cold, dry, wilted ass lettuce, dry ass cheese, sloppily made burger. I waited outside for nearly half an hour for it. Girl came to my window and said, “what did you order?” I told her and she still handed me a bag with a 4 piece nugget and a small fry. I had to go in and tell them they got it wrong, show my receipt which was stuck on the bag, then wait another 15 minutes for that cold, yucky sandwich.
The person who ordered the nuggets either left without looking or decided to say “fuck it”, because they didn’t come back in with me.
I would have done that, but I paid 7 bucks for the the shit.
That is it for me.
I don’t get mad when people make mistakes, and I wasn’t mad when all that happened. The only thing that made me mad was the price.
McDonald’s can kiss my ass. A few more dollars and a short wait and I could have got a banging ass meal just down the road at the noodle joint.
Big mac has always been a scam.
It has the same amount of meat as a mcdouble. They’re literally just selling you bread.
https://youtu.be/QoBhGInCDRg TLDW These guys say no. But watch it just for the accents.
They thought they tapped out the fast food market and had to attract restaurant goers.
$25 for fast food for a single person? Two McDoubles, a small fry and a small drink is $11.05 here in Canada. More than enough food for a quick meal.
I spent roughly 16 USD on my order, I normally got two bacon mcdoubles no onions, a large fry and a large lemonade. This same meal used to be 11/12$ less than 4 years ago
In the US I use the app to get 2 mcchickens and a large fry on Friday for $4. Does the job just fine.
We also have a $5 mcdouble, 4pc mcnugget, small fry and small drink combo. You can’t just walk in and order what you want if you want a good price, unfortunately - but theres still some value to be had if you at least try - that $5 combo is on the app, drive through board, and the in store kiosk.
Eww McDonals. I’d rather just go hungry
Lately, instead of picking up a fast food buyer and fries for $13, I’ve been going to Chili’s. They have a $10.99 special that is a REAL bacon cheeseburger, excellent fries, and a drink, and it even includes a salad or a cup of soup. With tax and tip, it’s $15.
The last time I went to 5 Guys, it was $24.50, and it wasn’t nearly as good.
They have a $10.99 special
$11.
Yeah I go to the food court inside my local Asian grocery store instead. $12 gets you 2-3 proteins and 1 side. And they put so much food they have a hard time closing the bento takeout containers and you can technically split it into 2 meals. More filling and healthier than a burger and fries at the same price.
My local one will hook you up too. They throw in extra sides for waiting an insignificant time or give you the last few of something if it’s getting close to closing.
I discovered one of these food courts inside what I thought was a medical building. Everyone there was Asian so you know the food is legit. Im in Canada and $15 gets me a packed container of food overflowing. It costs almost $20 with tax to go grab a whopper meal. There’s also an Afghan place near me that will give you a big container filled with rice and salad, a soup container filled with Rajma masala and a side of naan for $8
There’s a burger commercial in my country where a guy is pleasantly shocked to learn his burger is. ONLY $5. $5 for one a la carte burger is somehow supposed to make me say “oh that’s cheap!” All it does is remind me that they used to cost $2 five years ago.
I have a local burger joint at which I can still get a $2 cheeseburger. It’s plain and everything is an up charge but that’s fine. A whopper or Big Mac clone is some $4.50, so like, it’s still pretty cheap.
However, they have no seating, and it’s an old ice cream shop so just a big kitchen and a tiny indoor order/pickup window and 2 benches. And there’s always a massively long line. Takes easily an hour to get fast food there during peak, cuz nobody goes to the local depressed millennial McDonald’s (one of those sad gray ones)
All it does is remind me that they used to cost $2 five years ago
Hey, but at least your pay also went up 150%!
Congrats. You just explained the problem of the West using a food analogy.
The downtown experience: $45 burger with a side of truffle fries. It’s mediocre at best.
Lol, and they charge you for the fries.
Wtf? 45 usd for a burger? That is insane
Only one specific hipster place I’m thinking of in Downtown but yeah. Lol
My local burger, taco, and sub shops are half the price of the international chains, plus the food is better and the staff are paid more. Shop locally every time you can
Mcdonalds is pricey and it sucks. Damn it, man.
It’s called I’m at work, I’m in some godforsaken suburb on the other side of the hills, and I have 30 minutes.
I would just bring some bread.
Seriously, fuck paying more than my entire weeks food budget on something shit.
That’s McDonald’s and Burger King here in Costa Rica.
Hence the only burgers I eat from there are the chicken ones
Are they chicken burgers, or just chicken sandwiches?
Most of the world uses “burger” semi-synonymously with sandwich - basically anything where the main is a big hunk of meat
I’m not going to pretend it’s not wrong.
A burger, short for “hamburger,” has two critical components, to wit: a patty, and a bun.
There are plenty of Germans on Lemmy. Maybe we can just ask if any of them are from Hamburg so they can clear this up.
But doesn’t it come from German immigrants to the US? Seems like the more traditional beef patty in Germany is Frikadellen, which has extra stuff mixed into the ground beef, like chopped onion. And is not usually served on a bun.
Where did the ham go?
Go to Mexico. it’s still there.
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Burger is round, sandwich is elongated.
Sandwich is rectangle, sub is elongated
I’ve had long burgers and radially symmetrical non-burger sandwiches. A hamburger is defined by the minimum of a patty and a bun.
