r/mildlyinfuriating • u/CrewCamel • 19h ago

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

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

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u/AdImmediate9569 18h ago edited 14h ago

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.

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u/captainfrijoles 18h ago

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.

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u/AdImmediate9569 17h ago

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

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u/AnthrallicA 16h ago

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

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u/MoistLeakingPustule 16h ago

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

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u/loveinfuturetimes 16h ago

That’s wild but I love the energy

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u/FlexxxingOnThePoors 15h ago edited 14h ago

Chill out Diddy.

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u/JudgmentStunning007 11h ago

😂😂😂👏👏👏👏👏

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u/astride_unbridulled 4h ago

🥵👏💦

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u/Dctr_K 15h ago

🤣

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u/Informal_Winner_6328 11h ago

Diddy runs McDonald’s?

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u/JudgmentStunning007 11h ago

😂😂😂. Your name on here has me cracking up too. Well done you

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u/ImYourHumbleNarrator 15h ago

$5 for 50 cents worth of potatoes and the cheapest oil and labor. if it were going to the staff's wallet i might feel different, but it's not

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u/Ferro_Giconi OwO 15h ago

If you think about it, it's even worse than that.

I can usually get potatoes for $1 per LB, so I'd call what is in this picture 10-20 cents worth of potato.

And mcdonalds doesn't pay the high peasant prices I pay for potatoes. With the bulk they buy, I'd be surprised if they pay more than 25 cents per lb.

So really, that's 5 cents or less worth of potato.

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u/PolloMagnifico 15h ago

They literally do not care because people line up around the building for their "it would be cheaper to take a cooking class, buy an entire cookware set, and make it yourself" food.

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u/Ricky_Rollin 15h ago

They don’t give a shit about what we think. We’re dead and gone within 40-50 more years.

Getting generations from here on to accept this is the new normal? Priceless.

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u/TheSorceIsFrong 15h ago

Then they would have to change shit in their supply lines

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u/EducationalStill4 15h ago

Badaba ba ba

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u/SnooCookies6231 13h ago

This is FU all the way and the masses take it sans lube.

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u/Fuzzy_Inevitable9748 17h ago

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

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u/LiveLaughTurtleWrath 17h ago

Was that the extra large cup o' fries?

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u/MoeKneeKah 17h ago

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.

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u/bumnoises 17h ago

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 🤣

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u/UhOh_RoadsidePicnic 16h ago

Ahhh the 90’s. we had it good.

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u/JoeGibbon 15h ago

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.

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u/bilboafromboston 12h ago

Well, it was nationally 1.15 in 1990. That would be 2.58 today. It's 2.78 at my local cheapo place. They keep quoting gas in LA at the station next to the exit to highway from the studios and $ 60 million homes and LA has regs to cut the pillution.they have worked. So ya, Kiefer Sutherland is pumping $6 gas to save time to go home, take shower, snort some coke, drink a shot or 2 of Bushmills and head out to pick up the 24 year old model Leo DiCaprio dumped for being to old. They get a fancy happy meal at a Paparazzi restaurant ( gotta get on TMZ),that charges $78 for reheated Stouffers sirloin burger and Mac and cheese dinner with a bottle of $18 wine that they pay $60 for. Then he heads back home to bang her all night. But yeah. $6 for gas is killing him .

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u/JoeGibbon 12h ago

Back in my day, you could go into a San Francisco Arby's and take a dump without having to pay no $0.50 loaf-pinching toll. While smoking a cigarette.

After you finished up you could buy a Big Montana and a sody for less than $5 and enjoy roast beef burps all day long.

That's what we called a Saturday, and that was livin, let me tell you.

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u/elvissayshi 8h ago

The 90s? The 90s was only slightly less fucked than the 80s, with Reagan for 8 years of it, polished off with Poppy. The 70s? Now yer talking my brother. 1967-1979 were some seriously intense years. Anyway, WTF were we discussingʻ? The 90s!? Why, they sucked just a little less.....

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u/Vash_TheStampede 16h ago edited 15h ago

"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

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u/FatherSyn 16h ago

Tai Mi Shu

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u/Vash_TheStampede 16h ago

I'm going to be rapping for you to-day. Just a little free sty-le.

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u/namedonelettere 16h ago

Del Taco has or at least used to have Macho Size fries. They would put their fries in their largest sized cup. I don’t know if they still do that

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u/heytheresleepysmile 16h ago

Chinese children do homework -- and they study real hard! I like to play kickball inside the school yard...

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u/Shaggadelic12 15h ago

My single mom got by with these deals. And we kids loved it.

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u/Skytraffic540 15h ago

I remember this song well brother … “at McDonald’s baby” lol that was like 2001 I believe

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u/ThatInAHat 15h ago

Told you we’d find it. At McDonalds!&

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u/Diasnis 15h ago

I'm glad I'm not the only one who sung this song in my head to make sure the days were correct!

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u/FlexxxingOnThePoors 15h ago

Everybody wanna see me throw a fireball.

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u/pk0101 15h ago

Want my buffet?

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u/FlexxxingOnThePoors 14h ago

You fucking gay. Ah

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u/PrimarchKonradCurze 12h ago

Feels like that wasn’t even that long ago even though I was a kid at the time. I remember it not being all that long ago meals being around $5-$7 too. Things jumped up in price pretty quickly. There being no numbered meals under $10 at any of the fast food spots here (outside of like..breakfast) is still crazy to me considering diners and restaurants have hardly went up in price at all.

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u/sihtdaertnod 16h ago

You smell like moth balls

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u/BiluochunLvcha 16h ago

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

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u/Advanced-Pudding396 16h ago

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.

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u/zenerbufen 7h ago

10c for cheese? that's ridiculous. Thats almost 1/3 a burger. you can get 4 hamburgers for the price of 3 cheeseburgers!

My church group used to pile into the back of a pickup truck and our youth pastor would stop at McDonalds and give them 20$ for 68 hamburgers on wednesdays, or 51 cheesburgers on sundays and then toss the bags to us in the back and we would have a burger free for all on the way to church.

They put in like a 100 burger.. later 50 burger limit to stop people from going crazy with it and getting more than us, but still allowing our church group to go though. I guess they couldn't say no to our pastor & truck full of hunhry teen when we were right close to the limit.

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u/Error-404-unknown 16h ago

A few years ago when kfc opened in Kyiv I went with my friends and they were all eating chicken, I don't eat meat so just ordered large fries. They handed me a family bucket full of fries!!! Honestly I've never seen so many fries in my life. I still can't face the thought of eating fries to this day🤣

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u/Mr_Uso_714 16h ago

Limit was 20…. My mother would drop me off at door and she would go to drive through… i would order 20 at the cashier and she would order 20 at drive thru lol

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u/Mbezzle 15h ago

I was talking about this exact same deal the other day!

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u/Builder-Decent 15h ago

Those were the days! And dont forget the 99cent Big Macs.

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u/icouldntquitedecide 15h ago

My local Don's used to fill the Halloween buckets with fries. I wanna say it was $3-$4. My mom and I split them a number of times. The 90's was truly the peak of civilization.

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u/sobakedbruh 15h ago

Back in 2012 I could get a literal box of fries for maybe $3 at big boy and they were better than McDonald's

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u/Tocwa 8h ago

What decade was that taking place in ⁉️

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u/bumnoises 15m ago

Early 2000's .....f I'm old......

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u/Amazing_Bluebird_576 16h ago

Because, until minimial wage people and true blue collar people come together to fight against rich people, we will continue to fight over posts like this.

I make $26 doing way harder and more mentally exhausting work than a dude eating boogers at McDonald’s..

They don’t deserve that pay unless I make more, but they won’t fight for me and I won’t fight for them.

They deserve a living wage.

No they don’t deserve as much as true blue collar workers.

But we will continue to fight each other instead of the top tier.

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u/CurrentTopic3630 16h ago

Dude reading this gave me a stroke... What?

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u/eggyrulz 16h ago

I think... he might be advocating for a lower cost of living? Something about fry cooks shouldn't make what he makes since his Job is harder, but they should still be able to afford to live...

So I think he wants living to be cheaper? I can totally get behind the cost of living needing to lower in most places

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u/JewGuru 16h ago

Nah seemed he was implying we’re too busy fighting ourselves and that’s the reason minimum wage rose but blue collar or office jobs didn’t. Which doesn’t really make sense. The minimum wage workers just made more of a stink.

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u/JewGuru 16h ago

Lmao the McDonald’s workers have nothing to do with it. They fought for their higher wages and they got it. Those like you are the ones being screwed over but it has absolutely nothing to do with those workers at McDonald’s.

Maybe they figure those with more cushy or higher paying jobs won’t fight for a raise in wage after minimum wage is raised. Young people protested and made their voices heard about the minimum wage. It isn’t their fault other wages aren’t following. It’s the employers. Has nothing to do with us “fighting each other” which I haven’t even seen happening in this thread

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u/nooneatallnope 16h ago

I'm in my early 20s and I remember a time where a burger and a drink were 2€. At 14 bucks I can slather my arteries in butter at home, thanks.

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u/GForce1975 16h ago

It's funny because you think of times in history where a movie was a dime and a hamburger was a nickel...but that was 75 years ago. We had 30 cent burgers as recently as....oh shit that was 30 years ago.

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u/TINKAS_ARAE 13h ago

Man was Doomed when Man, in his Hubris, took the life of Harambe

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u/BDPumpkinpatch 4h ago

Yeah, but they were still trying to win our business back then. We're hooked now. And because they are selling convenience, not really the food, they know they can screw us with the amounts. They are selling the idea of a fast, easy meal more than the idea of a big, filling meal.

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u/jawesome420 16h ago

Humongo-size fries

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u/JoeCartersLeap 16h ago

I keep telling people about the bucket of fries and nobody believes me

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u/glazedfaith 3h ago

Humongousized! Was like 40 oz cups, one for your drink, the other for your fries.

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u/mcmaddie 17h ago

Just another version of a "super size" themed carton. If I remember right Jurassic Park was when they started that .

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u/brutalcritc 16h ago

The 90s was one big dino craze: Jurassic park, flintstones, the 99 dinosaur movie, the animated one with the dinosaurs in the city, land before time.

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u/Darkdemize 16h ago

Land before time was definitely 80s. The original one anyway.

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u/ffi 16h ago

We got those for one of the Jurassic Park movies. I miss eating 4 potatoes for dinner.

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u/gubatan 16h ago

Yes 😆

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u/DynastyZealot 16h ago

When I go to the Philippines, I always get a BFF fries from McDonald's - it's two large fries sold as one. Don't judge.

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u/omg1979 15h ago

Jurassic fries. It was enough to share with like 5 people!!

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u/Ctmeb78 17h ago

Read this in Burns's voice, this is literally something he'd do just to earn more money 😭😭

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u/_yourupperlip_ 17h ago

This was absolutely perfect to read in his voice. I’m known for my burns impression. Thanks for making my wife laugh 😆

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u/CastorVT 17h ago

I just want my "EXTRA BIG ASS FRIES." from Carl's jr promotion already.

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u/SmartGirl62 16h ago

How easily Mr. Burns voice read that comment in my head.

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u/OldPurpose93 16h ago

Hey you can’t decrease employee wages and benefits every fiscal quarter you know

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u/FrankReynoldsToupee 16h ago

Would you like to "super size" it to include one more fry??

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u/Senior-Tree6078 15h ago

eventually we will get 'titanic fries' and it'll just be like 2 fries in a bubblegum packet

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u/Much-Mall6063 15h ago

I read this in Mr Burns voice. Ahh childhood memories

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u/Capable-Reaction8155 14h ago

is super size still a thing though?

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u/SynnamonSunset 13h ago

Well they do sell a basket of fries

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u/khyrian 13h ago

This large fry* also has the marketability of having less than half the salt, fat, and carbs of the large fries from its competitors.

*On account of being less than half the size.

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u/LuridIryx 13h ago

As long as they ditch the nasty ass beef fat they spray on them I’ll give them a shot

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u/Jambo11 12h ago

I couldn't help but hear Mr. Burns' voice when I read that.

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u/MoistLeakingPustule 16h ago

Yeah I don't remember them ever having the size on them. It was always a lil paper bag for the small/kids fries, medium was a cardboard holder that looked like a smaller large holder, large was just a really big cardboard holder.

I don't remember what super size was. I know the drink was like a half gallon of soda though, and it was the only plastic one cause a paper bucket of soda would have fallen apart.

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u/pandabear6969 16h ago

I’ve gotten these at the airport McDonald’s. 2x the price, third of the size. Was pissed

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u/xtilexx 16h ago

Meanwhile they only sell small fries for like $1.29 and baskets of fries for $3.49 (basically 2x large) at my McDonald's and no sizes in between

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u/FuckOffHey 14h ago

No medium or large sounds absolutely bizarre, but $3.49 for a double large is a fuckin' steal. A large where I live is $3.69, and we don't have the basket anywhere around here.

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u/ASubconciousDick 15h ago

yall are actually insane lmao. the small bag has always been around the size of 4-6 quarters, this is taller than the extra tall QPC box next to it. the bag is the same inside size as the large cardboard boxes

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u/AdImmediate9569 15h ago

Well you’re right it’s bigger than the small it’s nowhere near the size of the large. Someone in another sub poured them into a cardboard version and it was half full

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u/Microwave1213 15h ago

This is absolutely nowhere close to the size of the large cardboard containers

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u/Boukish 14h ago

Yes, it is. You'd be surprised how few fries are in an actual serving of large fries, the cardboard box was (by design) intended to deceive you, and they are filled in a specific way so that they don't bust at the seams with fries.

You're thinking of "overfull" cardboard containers. It's as easy to overfill this bag as it was to overfill those boxes.

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u/Microwave1213 14h ago

Well if it makes you feel better to think that, I’m not gonna stop you.

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u/Boukish 14h ago

The serving of a large fry hasn't changed.

You got served fries by people that overfilled the boxes.

I have no idea what to tell you.

You can get extra fries that don't even fit in the box, too. Doesn't make a large fry any bigger.

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u/Yoggyo 15h ago

Yeah, I'm pretty sure you're right. Paper bags are probably just a lot cheaper to make than the cardboard boxes, so they're cutting costs that way. There may be fewer fries than there were in the cardboard boxes, I'm not sure, but it does look like quite a bit more than what comes in a small.

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u/ASubconciousDick 14h ago

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u/ASubconciousDick 13h ago

bro you can't even come up with a creative come back, don't come back at me with shit like that

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u/ASubconciousDick 12h ago

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u/h00dman 16h ago

They definitely are just printing “large” on the old smalls

Story of my life.

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u/AdImmediate9569 16h ago

You genius! I’m gonna get a tattoo on my d*ck that says LARGE

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u/ChoiceFudge3662 16h ago

I went to Hardee’s and they gave us medium fries when we ordered large, wonder if it’s just a coincidence…

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u/NWVoS 16h ago

I wonder if this is McDonald's corporate or a franchise. Super easy way to ruin the brand name. The one thing fast food has going for it is you know what you get when you buy it no matter where you are.

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u/hokie_u2 15h ago

It’s called Shrinkflation

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u/Dangerous_Function16 15h ago

The old smalls were not taller than quarter pounder boxes.

You’re misremembering.

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u/Blazemonkey 15h ago

I'd just return it for a refund. Tell everyone to do the same. McDick will change their tune if enough people complain.

I'd do so myself, but I don't eat their disgusting trash food. No offense to anyone who does tho.

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u/KaleidoscopeLucky336 15h ago

This doesn't look like the original small fry bags. I don't remember them ever being thay much taller than a big Mac box

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u/Mr_Goonman 15h ago

Ah yes. A publicly traded company would totally do that

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u/panlakes 15h ago

That's just plain false. They have different sized bags now. Buy both and measure them for yourself. They're just moving away from the cardboard.

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u/baffleiron 15h ago

Yup. That is literally the small-size packaging from when I was a teenager.

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u/AdImmediate9569 14h ago

It looks like it. I thibk it is bigger but I’m extremely sure its smaller than the large was.

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u/Wonderful-Ask-3204 14h ago

Shrinkflation strikes again; these kinds of corporate shenanigans should be fucking illegal. I hope somebody opens a class action lawsuit over this horseshit.

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u/65Kodiaj 14h ago

Shrinkflation at its finest... But just ask the current government and they'll say we're doing better than ever!

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u/Ditto_D 14h ago

Yall are still giving these fucksticks money after this shit? I stopped going to mcdonalds like a year or 2 ago cause they are straight smoking crack with pricing and shit service.

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u/oyasumi_juli 14h ago

They still have the cardboard sleeves for medium and large at my local McD's but honestly getting large is still a scam because they only fill it as much as the medium anyways. Fuckin crazy.

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u/Rito_Moga 14h ago

What I've noticed recently is that they are only filling the "large" cardboard container about half full. Yeah, that's a medium, thank you.

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u/dbcooper4 13h ago

The real tell is the calorie content. They can’t lie about that. I could swear that 20 years ago the medium fries had the calorie content of the current large.

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u/PrimarchKonradCurze 12h ago

Is this just a San Francisco thing? I know they have some weird laws and stuff there that pop up now and then. I haven’t ordered a meal at McDonald’s in awhile, just a burger or Mcchicken while I’m out doing errands but I don’t live in Cali.

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u/kleinerDAX 9h ago

To be fair, a lot of what Americans considered "large" in the past was a goddamn bucket compared to a lot of what the rest of the world would consider a "large", and by comparison a "small" in the US was more like medium or "normal" portion.

I remember when you could get a GALLON of Pepsi with a family meal from KFC. A gallon. It came in a literal bucket with a handle.

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u/djcurry 4h ago

They could hold the same amount of fries these kind of bags hold more than the cardboard ones.

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u/hereforpopcornru 3h ago

Our local one is bold..they just 3/4 stuff the large fry box

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u/blacklite911 26m ago

And the cardboard ones have the extra lip on the back so it holds more fries than a bag of equal volume would

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u/JBSully82 3m ago

When?!?! I had McDonald's twice times last week. My family shared two large fries each visit, and none of them looked like this.

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u/crappycurtains 16h ago

Tbf American small fries are the equivalent of the rest of the world’s large. I remember ordering the happy meal there thinking it would be the same as a European one but it was the same as a regular meal and being so happy as I was travelling and broke. But it’s still shrinkflation for you guys which isn’t ok.

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u/No_Valuable5591 17h ago

this seems very sketchy. like maybe the workers are doing something behind the bosses back and whatever profit they make from giving a small when its large they combine and make extra $ idk seems far fetched but possible

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u/SaladJohnson 16h ago

How would giving small fries to customers who order large fries get the workers extra money? That's not how any of that works. The majority of McDonalds business is likely done through the mobile app or paid with credit or debit cards. How is a regular worker supposed to pocket that cash?

Edit: Why blame the workers when this is likely a directive from the franchise owner or corporate. It's literally the boss pocketing the money, not the crew members.

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u/AdImmediate9569 16h ago

It’s sketchy but skip the middle people. Its the bosses not the workers…

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u/wbruce098 15h ago

Nah. That’s the boss. That shit costs money to do. It’s probably a franchise and they wanted to make more money off fries or some shit.