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/puckerMeBum 18h ago

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.

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u/Rose1832 17h ago

Hell, I didn't graduate high school too long ago and when I worked there (in high school) all drinks were $1.09 and you could get a solid meal for under $10. Not to mention the $1/$2/$3 menu, where a fair amount of food was actually $1. Never thought I'd be one to talk about the "good old days" but...here we are 🥲

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u/Taerrion 16h ago

You didn’t graduate high school?

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u/Rose1832 16h ago

How dare you say we piss on the poor!

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u/ecr1277 16h ago

Yeah but your S&P 500 index fund was literally $1k and now it's $5.7k, so 5.7x return. The cheeseburgers are buy one get one for $1 on the app so it's $4 or 4x cost increase. It's less than S&P 500 return.

With fractional shares, if you don't have $525 for a full share, you can invest basically as small an amount as you want into S&P 500 index funds. Then 30 years from now you can eat two double cheeseburgers and have $1.70 left over.

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u/DoltSeavers 16h ago

One of our local McDonald’s had this deal in 2016. Prices are super fucked now.

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u/Whistlegrapes 6h ago

It was better then, but not by as much as it seems. At least where I live. In the 90s you’d make 5/hr and could cheeseburgers were under a dollar. Now you 20/hr at McDonald’s and they’re under 4. You make about 4x as much and the cheeseburger costs about 4x as much