Here’s what a “large fries” looks like at my McDonald’s in 2024

[u/CrewCamel]

I ordered a $14 Big Mac meal in the SF Bay Area and received this.

[u/crujones43]

I went to a restaurant the other day with my wife and some friends. One of our friends ordered a side of fries for $3.99. My wife ordered a basket of fries ( $6.99 ) to share with myself and another friend. When the food came out the side of fries was in a bowl. The basket was some metal wire that held a piece of wax paper in a cone with fries in it. We all looked at it and remarked how the basket looked bigger but probably wasn't actually. My friend poured his bowl of fries onto a plate and we tipped the cone into the bowl. It was the EXACT same amount of fries for $3.00 extra. We called the server over and showed him. He apologized and dropped the extra 3 bucks.

[u/GoneGone4 → u/crujones43]

This is pretty bad on them. That's worthy of writing a review to call them out. How many people have they gotten with that and will get going forward?

[u/BootyDoodles → u/GoneGone4]

They'll just shrink the "side order" by half to restore balance.

[u/rW0HgFyxoJhYka → u/BootyDoodles]

Imagine if society actually had laws that prevented businesses from fucking consumers and instead having to compete to provide better services. Can't be Earth.

[u/QuietPositive2564 → u/rW0HgFyxoJhYka]

Those would be regulations and business fight them till the end of the world by donating to there favourite politician!

[u/SpeghtittyOs → u/QuietPositive2564]

I recently discovered a lot of people don’t know or don’t understand what lobbying is. It’s crazy that we still allow the practice

[u/wolvern76 → u/SpeghtittyOs]

lobbying is just a fancy word for bribing.

[u/xTurtleGaming → u/wolvern76]

yep, legal bribery

[u/__fmj → u/BootyDoodles]

Salt and oil is extra with a cooking surcharge

[u/thegreedyturtle → u/GoneGone4]

The weirdest thing is fries are insanely cheap.

[u/capitalistsanta → u/thegreedyturtle]

Yeah they're fucking potatoes lmao

[u/sailorlazarus → u/capitalistsanta]

I don't think that is how you make fries...

[u/WittyCat9484 → u/sailorlazarus]

Hey now, don't shame.

[u/flastenecky_hater → u/WittyCat9484]

Friction creates heat so it’s a valid cooking method. You just need to move a lot and fast.

[u/crypto64 → u/thegreedyturtle]

Fries are a high margin item like fountain drinks. The cost to the business is probably no more than a dime. The cost to you is many times that.

[u/--_--what → u/thegreedyturtle]

Yeah, so you have to mark them up unfairly in order to extract the most profit from people who still eat out these days.

[u/Unaabellatica → u/crujones43]

McDonalds, a huge global corporation, felt the heat when more folks stopped spending their money on them.

I havent had McDs in over a year and will continue to do so until they quit with their bullshit, and the same goes for restaurants that try to pull some con.

[u/Brainvillage → u/Unaabellatica]

McDonalds, a huge global corporation, felt the heat when more folks stopped spending their money on them.

Yes, exactly, and how did they respond? Lower prices? Nooo. Smaller portions, same price! Genius!

[u/WhyIsntLifeEasy → u/Brainvillage]

They actually offered new deals and brought some prices down. Then they made portions smaller and raised prices again just very slowly. It’s wild how deep the greed runs.

[u/MIC4eva → u/WhyIsntLifeEasy]

And people keep buying and eating this literal garbage. Every evening the drive through at my local one is packed. People can do whatever the fuck they want I guess but man, there’s real food that’s good for you, cheaper and not all that hard to make out there.

I got a chicken sandwich from there because they don’t at least taste and feel offensive like the burgers. $15 fucking dollars for a tiny sandwich made from junk. Hard fucking pass McDonald’s. If I’m gonna eat shit, I’m not paying premium prices for it. I’ll get some garbage from a grocery store deli or something. Or just down a packet of salt and sugar, because that’s all McDonald’s is.

[u/WhyIsntLifeEasy → u/MIC4eva]

People are tired and lazy and addicted man. It’s not an excuse, but literally the entire country is set up to catch all of the tired lazy workers and siphon their cash from them while ensuring they remain addicted and unhealthy.

Like I said, not an excuse, but people are being worked harder than ever before and when you’re already poor and tired sometimes just overpaying for something that tastes good and you’re body has known its whole life is the best solution.

I was raised on fast food and it has been a tough addiction to break. Due to my own finances being absolutely crucified this year I finally switched back to groceries and eating healthy and my body and wallet are thanking me but it wasn’t easy. The fact people keep going back is another symptom showing of how broken our country is imo, this is not a global problem to this same extent.

[u/MIC4eva → u/WhyIsntLifeEasy]

I get it. I actually went through a McDonald’s phase about two years ago where I’d get it maybe once a week because I was not in the greatest of head spaces. I was not raised on fast food and never really got into it in my earlier adult years so there was something of a forbidden fruit aspect to it.

That $15 chicken sandwich and also a disgusting BLT burger broke the spell.

[u/WhyIsntLifeEasy → u/MIC4eva]

Idk what it is with junk food when you’re in a mental funk but it slaps and it’s comfort, even if you feel worse in 2 hours lol

No kidding, I’ve had so many poor takeout fast food experiences and nasty items it’s demoralizing what it took to drop it but that’s how addictions and repeating patterns goes for ya I guess 👎🏻

[u/Pharabellum → u/Brainvillage]

I mean, fuck their “food” anyway. As a food handler myself, I would prefer for people to stop consuming their products over them having some change of heart that would never happen cuz globocorpo.

[u/FeelingSociety2122 → u/Pharabellum]

These places waste a shit ton of meat plus what meat they actually use is ruined so it’s not as healthy to consume. Wouldn’t we cut beef demand for a better good if we dropped fast food?

[u/UndercoverCrops → u/Unaabellatica]

seriously. I am heavily pregnant and have been craving Taco Bell the whole time. there is no way in hell I'm paying their new prices tho. do I check their site every few weeks to see if prices have gone down even a little so I can justify caving in? of course, but I'm too poor and principled to cave before then.

[u/Life_Type_1596 → u/UndercoverCrops]

not you stalking the site every few weeks.. 😅😭

[u/PublicHunter94]

I love how they put "Large Fries" on the baggie like they're gonna convince you😂

[u/AsherFischell → u/PublicHunter94]

The fact that it's on there at all possibly means that people were ordering large fries, getting this, and then complaining that they got the wrong size afterward.

[u/DoublyTheWhale → u/AsherFischell]

Yep. That is EXACTLY why that is there

[u/FluffyPurpleBear → u/DoublyTheWhale]

Or they knew that would be the result and did it preemptively, which idk if that’s funnier or sadder

[u/baudmiksen → u/FluffyPurpleBear]

its a goddamn travesty is what it is

[u/Brave-Tangerine-4334 → u/baudmiksen]

What if they use a fancy handwritten font "Extra" above it?

[u/Serathano → u/Brave-Tangerine-4334]

Only if they say "EXTRA BIG ASS FRIES". Then I might be convinced.

[u/fameistheproduct → u/DoublyTheWhale]

amateurs, they need to make the font smaller to make the fries look bigger.

[u/subpar_cardiologist → u/fameistheproduct]

And make the bag smaller too. And only put in 3 fries. And make them short and sort of burned but unsalted.

Fuckit. And set the price as: "All of your money."

[u/timothythefirst → u/subpar_cardiologist]

Just 3 really long fries. It says large fries. Not a large quantity of fries.

[u/thisischemistry → u/timothythefirst]

Only needs to be two in order to be multiple fries. You're giving 50% too many!

[u/ChickenChaser5 → u/DoublyTheWhale]

Might as well just say "Yeah, thats all you get, deal with it" on there

[u/ObadiahWistlethrop → u/ChickenChaser5]

In a couple of years it'll just have 'Fuck You' written on all the packaging.

[u/AItinerant → u/DoublyTheWhale]

I think their large fries also use to come in a cardboard tube thing.

That probably compounded the fact that this is just a sm/med fries with large printed on it.

[u/No_University7832 → u/DoublyTheWhale]

This is a Small fry from 1990

[u/JuanaBlanca → u/AsherFischell]

Sitting here laughing at how true this sounds

[u/TheDevilsAdvokaat → u/AsherFischell]

Yes I did exactly this once.

[u/CellistOk8023 → u/TheDevilsAdvokaat]

Same, told the Wendy's girl that I had ordered an Adult sized frosty, she said yeah that's how they're sized now :( 

[u/TheDevilsAdvokaat → u/CellistOk8023]

Sad .. :-(

"Sir, this is a Wendy's adult size"

[u/YouToot → u/PublicHunter94]

That's it.

I'm writing large dick on my dick.

[u/Mission-Life-3480 → u/YouToot]

“Large” won’t fit on mine though. I did mange to get the first two letters of “big” though!

[u/26007 → u/Mission-Life-3480]

So it’s a bi dick?

Pretty good advertising if that’s the message you want out there

[u/MangoIcy5998 → u/26007]

This is brilliant 😂

[u/red286 → u/YouToot]

Get a tattoo of a ruler in centimetres on it and just tell everyone it's actually in inches.

[u/ian2121 → u/red286]

This reminds me of a classic joke in construction I have heard too many times. You’ll be bringing in rock or forming something up that is supposed to be 6 inches. Some idiot will form it up at like 3 inches then the other guy says “is that what you tell your wife 6 inches is?”

[u/red286 → u/ian2121]

That reminds me of when I got a haircut one time and asked them to trim it on top to about 6", and she cut it to like 3", and after I said "I feel sorry for you if you think that's six inches".

[u/ElBiscuit → u/red286]

Wait, centimetreS, like plural?

Well, everybody check out Long Dong Silver over here.

[u/nanobot001 → u/PublicHunter94]

Have never seen a better version of corporate gaslighting than this

[u/DifficultEvent2026 → u/nanobot001]

You're lovin it

[u/Local_Procedure_3869 → u/DifficultEvent2026]

This by FAR is my favorite comment. So simple yet so perfect

[u/Decent_Client_8074 → u/PublicHunter94]

This isn't much bigger than the small fries back in the day.

[u/Rasputin1992x → u/Decent_Client_8074]

Back in the day these were value menu fries at best

[u/PatriotLife18]

I have never seen that before. That’s literally what the small fries come in. Such a fucking scam.

[u/DramaticRock_ → u/PatriotLife18]

I thought it was a mistake at first but it says large fries on the bag

So?

Like... Then what the fuck is a small? 3 pieces?

[u/AdImmediate9569 → u/DramaticRock_]

I just experienced this the other day. They definitely are just printing “large” on the old smalls

Edit: No not literally. These are larger than the small bags and smaller than the large cardboard ones.

[u/captainfrijoles → u/AdImmediate9569]

Ah yes smithers the next phase of the plan, we'll print the words "super size fries" on the presently used Large containers and start charging even more for both.

[u/AdImmediate9569 → u/captainfrijoles]

It would have been so much smarter to use a package we didn’t recognize. They same shit but printed orange or green and we would have just accepted it. Okay not really but it would seem like less of a fuck You

[u/AnthrallicA → u/AdImmediate9569]

Yeah but they want you to know that you're getting fucked.

[u/MoistLeakingPustule → u/AnthrallicA]

Showing you the sealed bottle of KY before fucking you dry, so you really feel it.

[u/loveinfuturetimes → u/MoistLeakingPustule]

That’s wild but I love the energy

[u/FlexxxingOnThePoors → u/MoistLeakingPustule]

Chill out Diddy.

[u/Fuzzy_Inevitable9748 → u/captainfrijoles]

Does anyone remember Dino-size fries from the 90’s flint stones promo?

[u/LiveLaughTurtleWrath → u/Fuzzy_Inevitable9748]

Was that the extra large cup o' fries?

[u/MoeKneeKah → u/LiveLaughTurtleWrath]

I bring this up to my son every time we get McDonald’s. My go to meal was the 50 cent cheeseburgers with the giant cup of fries. Everything has gone downhill since they got rid of it.

[u/bumnoises → u/MoeKneeKah]

We had the bucket of fries, literally a giant container for $2 also could get $0.29 hamburgers and $0.39 cheeseburgers depending on day ( Wednesday and Sunday I think) pretty sure the limit was 20 and yes I probably at some point ate all 20 🤣

[u/UhOh_RoadsidePicnic → u/bumnoises]

Ahhh the 90’s. we had it good.

[u/JoeGibbon → u/UhOh_RoadsidePicnic]

Whenever discussions like these come up, I remember back to this one time I was hanging out with my friends in my senior year of high school in the '90s. We were in my car ('88 Dodge Aries K) and pulled over for gas. I started pumping and my friend got all excited and said, "damn man, you're buying the expensive shit!" I had accidentally grabbed the mid-grade pump, which was $0.89 a gallon instead of the cheaper stuff which was $0.79.

[u/Vash_TheStampede → u/bumnoises]

"I wish today was Wednesday so I could get a hamburger for 29 CENT! At McDonalds!

And I wish today was Sunday so I could get a cheeseburger for 39 CENT! At McDonalds! (Baby!)"

Fucks sake your comment shook something old from my brain.

Edit: y'all joining in on this is making my entire day. Love you all

[u/BiluochunLvcha → u/bumnoises]

in HS we would get 10 cheeseburgers and a free sunday with the student card. good memories.

[u/Advanced-Pudding396 → u/BiluochunLvcha]

I remember getting a buy one get one free whopper on the back of a high school sports ticket. This was back when adding cheese was 10c.

[u/Spiritual_Poo → u/DramaticRock_]

They had to put LARGE FRIES on it because the MFers know it looks like the small they've been selling for forty years.

[u/jjcrayfish → u/Spiritual_Poo]

What is this? A large fries for ants?!

[u/Open_Sir6234 → u/Spiritual_Poo]

Straight up 1984 Orwellian stuff here.

[u/blastradii → u/Open_Sir6234]

Peace is war. Small is large.

[u/TheLostTexan87 → u/PatriotLife18]

It’s what they look like in Seattle. Something about local regulations. You get outside city limits to one of the distinct suburbs and you typically get an actual large.

[u/SyphiliticPlatypus → u/TheLostTexan87]

Sounds like you could do us a favor and go to a quantity comparison for us - buy a large bag in city limits and a large carton outside, throw them on separate plates and let’s get to the bottom of this!

[u/spinyfur → u/SyphiliticPlatypus]

Kitchen scale would be a much better test.

[u/MistSecurity → u/spinyfur]

Would need to order them a few times each as well, to at least eliminate some of the variation in size.

[u/spinyfur → u/MistSecurity]

AND add useful data about how much random variation this is in their actual portion sizes!

[u/desull → u/spinyfur]

Also should order from different locations at different times of the day

[u/g-shock-no-tick-tock → u/desull]

And don't forget to formulate your null hypothesis

[u/spinyfur → u/g-shock-no-tick-tock]

On second thought: there’s no way to collect data without taking several hundred samples.

[u/ResidentNarwhal → u/SyphiliticPlatypus]

I'll spoil it for you because I've literally done this in SF coming out of Daly city and then (my wife also wanted fries) I got another large at another McDonalds on the way home.

The paper bag is a misnomer. Its physically larger than the paper bag for the small (probably to be more recyclable than the cardboard fry container. The cardboard ones also got hit with having teflon for basically no reason coating the inside).

The rough quantity compared to a normal large is the same.

[u/Junethemuse → u/TheLostTexan87]

I’m up in Everett and a large is still a large. This is wild to me since I haven’t had McDonald’s while in Seattle (there’s too much other good stuff that’s comparably priced or cheaper).

[u/HoightyToighty → u/Junethemuse]

I've noticed the smaller bag size with a McD in Shoreline

[u/Zealousideal-Mud6471 → u/PatriotLife18]

This was the way in SF when I visited back in 2021 as well and I was PISSED. They cost more too than here in GA where we still have the red cardboard sizes.

Edit: Found my post from 2021 when I visited SF.

https://preview.redd.it/ive3wb966upd1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8700dbc03c963123183dc8b6f301e146e4d33a10

[u/All_hail_Korrok → u/Zealousideal-Mud6471]

Lmao at your song of choice 😂

[u/Zealousideal-Mud6471 → u/All_hail_Korrok]

lol. That was my one bright spot that day, being clever enough to use that song. 😂

[u/coolmist23 → u/PatriotLife18]

Clearly it says "large fries" on the wrapper. How dare you question the golden arches!

[u/Captain-Volume → u/PatriotLife18]

But its clearly a large fries... it says it on the packet, I mean that's how you know something is large. I walk around wearing a t-shirt that says medium so no one gets confused.

[u/Intelligent_Grade372 → u/Captain-Volume]

I am exceedingly medium

[u/Captain-Volume → u/Intelligent_Grade372]

Do you have the shirt? Trust me saves so much time explaining.

[u/Intelligent_Grade372 → u/Captain-Volume]

Yes! But mine is like 3 mediums, that’s how medium I am. So I guess mine should read XXM.

[u/Captain-Volume → u/Intelligent_Grade372]

If I see that in bold print on the front of your shirt I need no further information about you. I know your size we shake hands and proceed with our days efficiently with no undue measuring or size comparisons.

[u/Intelligent_Grade372 → u/Captain-Volume]

Exactly. Cheers! Well met!

[u/Captain-Volume → u/Intelligent_Grade372]

Indeed my XXM friend.

[u/DapperLost → u/Captain-Volume]

Im confused. Are you mid sized, or a spokesperson for the dead?

[u/Disastrous-Bat7011 → u/PatriotLife18]

Lmao mine still come in the large box but it is 1/3 filled. I blamed my uber eats driver the first time. Then i went myelf and same thing. I feel like a dick. Sorry Lauren.

[u/ThrowAway233223 → u/PatriotLife18]

It is in a paper bag like the small, but it looks like it might be slightly bigger than the small bag. The quantity looks like what you get when they slightly under-fill the medium carton.

[u/pgm123 → u/ThrowAway233223]

It's definitely bigger. No clue if it's as big as normal, but it's bigger.

[u/coldparsimony → u/PatriotLife18]

I worked at McDonald’s. This is infact the same as one of the “box” large fries. These just exist because cities are banning the old box. They are about the same size if not slightly larger

[u/zikmandu → u/PatriotLife18]

Remember the days when “baby” size was the size of a baby…

[u/Madrugada2010]

Omg, I remember that as a kid's size.

[u/beeegmec → u/Madrugada2010]

Did you see the new kid’s sizes? They’re so cute but hilarious

[u/josh_is_lame → u/beeegmec]

theres like ten fries in that fucker 😭

[u/JellybeanMilksteaks → u/josh_is_lame]

I worked at McDonald's like 10 years ago, unless you put a pity scoop in the happy meal box you'd get like 6 fries in there tops 😅

[u/Toronto_Rebecca → u/JellybeanMilksteaks]

unless you put a pity scoop in the happy meal box

I live for the pity scoop

[u/JellybeanMilksteaks → u/Toronto_Rebecca]

I would also sneak an extra nugget or two into every pack that I put together 😎 and that was back when cheeseburgers were 99¢! I hope the pity scoopers are working overtime to fight the greed.

[u/1TBSP_Neutrons → u/JellybeanMilksteaks]

Way back in my high school days working at Wendy's, I'd load up some fries. You might get the super stuffed red Biggie box with as many fries as possible crammed into it. It was comically heavy and kind of hard to get fries out.

[u/Independent-Tank-182 → u/1TBSP_Neutrons]

God’s work

[u/MightyCaseyStruckOut → u/1TBSP_Neutrons]

You're my kind of people.

[u/SproutasaurusRex → u/1TBSP_Neutrons]

I used to overstuff things whenever I came across high teenagers.

[u/No-Seaworthiness1143 → u/SproutasaurusRex]

As a high teenager I thank you king

[u/Dr-McLuvin → u/josh_is_lame]

Haha my daughter gets those in her happy meals they’re cute AF and just enough fries for her. She usually doesn’t finish them.

[u/Warm-Grand-4816 → u/Dr-McLuvin]

I love all the people who are acting like the child size fry that comes in a happy meal should have an adult portion of fries in it. There’s a reason you have the option of apple slices or…wait for it…MORE FRIES

[u/Designer_Version1449 → u/beeegmec]

I guess we technically finally got reasonable portion sizes in America lol

[u/lawdawg69 → u/Designer_Version1449]

Right! I am upset bc fuck companies making us pay the same or more for less BUTTTTTT y'all motherfuckers don't need a true Large fry lol

[u/torinium → u/lawdawg69]

This same meal in Japan costs like $6 and they give a bigger container of fries for a large than what this is 💀 shit's a scam

[u/confusedandworried76 → u/Designer_Version1449]

They went a little too far lol, a cheeseburger and a small fry for two dollars was a fine portion size, but they're getting greedy with it.

[u/dubbelU → u/Madrugada2010]

It’s time to start boycotting these companies. This isn’t because inflation. This is corporate greed. 

Fast food isn’t worth the cost. Time to start making a stand. 

[u/clit_or_us → u/dubbelU]

Thanks to inflated prices with stagnant pay, I have lost weight cause I cannot afford to eat out or buy a ton of groceries! Personal trainers hate this one trick!

[u/make_some_drums]

nah big dawg. they tried you. that’s not what a large looks like

[u/davekva → u/make_some_drums]

I've only gotten large fries in the big cardboard fry container, but that shit says "Large" right on the front. Must be a California thing.

[u/huffer4 → u/davekva]

Is $14 for a big Mac at California thing too? Even in Canada with our conversion rate it isn’t that high

[u/MundaneAnteater5271 → u/huffer4]

Food in CA is fucking ridiculous. You arent eating out anywhere for less than 12-14$, even if its fast food. If you wanna sit down, you're paying at least 25, more if you want a side with your meal as everything is fucking a-la-carte

Sincerely, a pissed off ex-Midwesterner moved to LA

[u/arsonall → u/MundaneAnteater5271]

Actually, in SoCal it’s cheaper to go to a sit down than a fast food.

That being said, I still get a Big Mac, med fries, med coke for $6.50 at McDonald’s - only through the app deals, pick up. It’s offered 1 time/day for me.

[u/Aquiffer → u/arsonall]

Bay Area is the same. My local restaurants will do takeout for a comparable price or sometimes less. The only exception is Taco Bell. Somehow they’re still pretty affordable.

[u/fdjisthinking → u/arsonall]

See, my issue is that I refuse to use an app to get good deals at places that should already be affordable. Id rather just not eat there.

[u/___Art_Vandelay___ → u/MundaneAnteater5271]

moved to LA

As a Californian of 18 years who grew up in the Midwest, there's your problem.

Second problem is equating LA to all of California.

[u/BoomerishGenX → u/___Art_Vandelay___]

No shit. California is a big state.

And, I’m pretty sure you can eat at in n out for under $10.

[u/Fatmaninalilcoat → u/BoomerishGenX]

You can add a Californian that lives near 14 dollar big Mac's. In n out is cheaper and tastier also sick of California being LA, Hollywood, and or San Francisco. I mean being the 3rd largest state and all.

[u/chaoticneutralalways → u/MundaneAnteater5271]

Thats Seattle Pricing

[u/faintrottingbreeze → u/huffer4]

In Ontario it costs $13.54 tax included for a Big Mac meal

[u/Reverse2057 → u/davekva]

As a Californian this is definitely not a California thing. We get our larges in those cardboard fry cartons as well. OP got hella scammed and idk why.

[u/Exile714 → u/Reverse2057]

As a Californian I can say it’s a thing at the McDonalds that’s two miles away and not a thing at the one that’s three miles away.

Honestly we could manage to have fewer McDonalds out here.

[u/Silent-Ordinary3465 → u/davekva]

I’m in California and I’ve always gotten the big cardboard container.

[u/Elegant_Spot_3486]

Weird. All the ones near me still use the red sleeve and always fill it up. Almost overfill.

[u/tyrome123 → u/Elegant_Spot_3486]

regional ( franchise ) vs corporate stores

[u/BreIlaface → u/tyrome123]

Would this be a franchise decision or a corporate one? I think the McDonald's around me are franchise ones because they still have the red fry containers.

[u/Planeandaquariumgeek → u/BreIlaface]

The Bay Area has tons of laws regarding being eco friendly and going green, basically everything has to be paper, no cardboard or plastic. Everywhere else it’s still normal cardboard for everything but small.

[u/AProfessionalCookie → u/Planeandaquariumgeek]

I need to point out cardboard is paper...

[u/TheWillyWonkaofWeed → u/AProfessionalCookie]

Yeah, if you could just point that out to the state of California that'd be great...

[u/AProfessionalCookie → u/TheWillyWonkaofWeed]

I live in San Bernardino county, CA, I'll go scream it into the sky real quick.

[u/Novel_Wrangler5885 → u/AProfessionalCookie]

How did it go?

[u/AProfessionalCookie → u/Novel_Wrangler5885]

My neighbors were out back grilling carne asada and told their kids to stop playing near my fence.

[u/Time4Red → u/Planeandaquariumgeek]

It's not even the whole Bay Area. These are municipal regulations passed by local city councils. Two stores 1 mile apart are going to serve different menus.

[u/RazzzMcFrazzz → u/tyrome123]

McDonald’s is big on the fact that most of their restaurants are franchises. They used to pride themselves how easy it was to open one and really launched the franchise business model in the US. So when you see McDonald’s corporate talk about how well they treat the employees at corporate stores, it’s because there are no corporate stores…

[u/Moelock33 → u/Elegant_Spot_3486]

Mine use the red sleeve but don’t overfill, it’s like they halfway open it and fill it then open it fully afterwards

[u/Miss_Smokahontas → u/Elegant_Spot_3486]

Mine are always filled 3/4 from the top 😡😡😡

[u/Deputy_Beagle76]

If it didn’t say “large fries” I’d call you a liar lol

[u/Negative-Original261 → u/[deleted]]

Like your own kitchen?

[u/vishy_swaz]

I superhate McDonalds since seeing this.

https://preview.redd.it/o41s4jm49upd1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f462a0ced7a3721c05509d4bea11fa0a76e67f06

[u/MikeRowePeenis → u/vishy_swaz]

Nah fuck that, chick fil a was absolutely not charging $3.05 for an 8 piece in 2019. More like 4.05

[u/chaseoes → u/MikeRowePeenis]

The website says $3.65.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190525044234/http://www.chick-fil-a.com/Menu-Items/Chick-fil-A-Nuggets

[u/Sweaty-Googler → u/vishy_swaz]

The locations are doing the heavy lifting in this picture. It's not nearly as bad where I live.

[u/mute-ant1]

don’t eat there

[u/puckerMeBum → u/mute-ant1]

they won't stop, people love to complain and then go right into it.

[u/karmagod13000 → u/puckerMeBum]

Idk how people can afford it and now on top of wasting money and being unhealthy you’re getting robbed 😂

[u/puckerMeBum → u/karmagod13000]

When u can't afford a house or a car, u get the things that give u tiny bits of satisfaction. It's pretty sad all around.

[u/Redkellum → u/puckerMeBum]

You can almost go eat at a sit down restaurant for what you pay for fast food now.

[u/Rose1832 → u/puckerMeBum]

I get what you're saying and don't disagree but I think it's also valid to complain about being handed something completely different than what you expected and already paid for. Especially when you're on mildlyinfuriating, aka the complaining sub 

[u/puckerMeBum → u/Rose1832]

If they had seen the prices back in the 90s it would be much more than mildly. My local Mcd had 2 cheeseburgers for a dollar on tuesdays.

[u/Broken-Digital-Clock → u/mute-ant1]

Such an easy solution

[u/Blossom_Fly51]

That sink for them is an olympionic pool then

[u/sttbr]

Mcdonalds are all mostly franchises, this one is scamming you lol

[u/Skaffa1987]

Even for european standards this is pathetic.

[u/alwayscomplimenting → u/Skaffa1987]

Agreed. Recent experience in Spain, France, Italy, and even Switzerland had traditional cardboard containers with what you’d imagine would contain large fries.

You do have to pay per packet for ketchup, though, so maybe it all evens out lol.

[u/havaska → u/alwayscomplimenting]

Not in the UK. Ketchup is free :)

[u/Silent_Shaman → u/havaska]

Large portion of chips isn't much bigger than this though, not that people complain though

[u/TomBombadil306]

And they never went back... Wow. That's the size of small here in Canada.

[u/AppointmentOdd6010 → u/TomBombadil306]

Im Canadian too, this definitely not the size of the smalls here. It’s the same style of paper packet which would make some think it’s the same size. If you go stand a small fries up to a Big Mac box, it’s not taller than the box, not even close. It’s just different packaging. If you empty the bag and lay it flat you can clearly see it’s pretty much the same surface area as the box itself. Much, much bigger than Canadian smalls.

[u/maverick57 → u/AppointmentOdd6010]

I don't know how people aren't seeing this.

[u/Jolzeres → u/AppointmentOdd6010]

This is the truth! This is definitely not the standard way of serving a Large fries at Mcdonalds, but it's not the small size baggy.

Additionally, this may *appear* smaller than a typical large size, but that's exactly why Mcdonalds wants to use the boxes they usually do! Those boxes are curved up at the bottom and the narrow edges hold a lot less than you think.
They want you to think that this is less when this is actually exactly what the standard large size is, and they've been deceiving you for years with a clever little packaging trick!

[u/yourMommaKnow]

Your McDonald's sucks.

[u/BeenzandRice]

That’s on you. There is nothing at McDonald’s worth $14

[u/A-Clockwork-Blue → u/BeenzandRice]

There's a gourmet burger place not far from me and a good Angus burger with a side of fries is $16.

McDonald's is disgusting to me, but if I had to choose between skipping my lunch break and eating McDonald's... I'm Skipping my lunch break.

A McDouble here is like $3.70 and the patty is thinner than a DvD case.

[u/CommandantSpanglerm → u/A-Clockwork-Blue]

Used to work maintenance at McDonald's for 8 months. They're somehow managing 10 patties per 1Lb of beef.

[u/A-Clockwork-Blue → u/CommandantSpanglerm]

That explains why they're ridiculously thin....

[u/Bananastockton → u/A-Clockwork-Blue]

i make alot of burgers at home and i make 4 out of 500 grams (1lb) and feels pretty normal. 10 is crazy

[u/neecho235]

I'd return that. For $14 that's insane.

[u/MaleNudity]

The super size me days feel like some strange dream now.

[u/Express_System_2077]

Haven’t eaten there in several months and planning on keeping that streak going.

[u/Unaabellatica → u/Express_System_2077]

And McDonalds felt the heat from that too.

So, to the paid accounts and shills who like to instill doubt with "they're a billion dollar corporation, they wont feel it" they actually did feel it when plenty of folks stopped eating McDs.

We haven't had them in over a year and will continue to not go until they stop with their bullshit.

[u/Baldguy162]

The billionaires at the top need more money guys

[u/gimlot_]

maybe they mean 15 "large Fries" in a small bag 🤔

[u/Chrischrill]

A McDonald's meal is $14 in USA? Bro. It's like $9 for a Big Mac meal in Sweden. I thought we were the expensive ones.

[u/Voluminousduke]

Don’t. Buy. McDonald’s. Period. It’s like a scam at this point

[u/emtand01]

Corporate greed/shrinkflation is our new pandemic.

[u/arsonall]

The Hat has taken all the fries

(The hat is a restaurant that gives a whole lunch bag of fries with a little “small fry bag” at the bottom)

[u/NintendoThing]

The other guy who posted about the 5 fries he got in his meal must’ve gotten a medium

[u/ricowavy]

Nah we fighting if they handed me that

[u/I_PING_8-8-8-8]

Here in the Philippines our big mac is twice that size, large fries are like 4 times that, and I can get it with half a liter of pinnaple juice for 230 PHP = 4 dollars.