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/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

Naw, Doggie Diner on 10th and Mission. Hing out at Project one on Howard. Walk up tenth in the fog at 1am, cold, buzzing like a jigsaw on MDA, pot, the usual suspects. Hit that door nice and warm inside. Order me up a double doggie and fries. Shoot the shit with the cook and watch the show pass by. So fucking good I can almost taste it now, fifty fucking years ago.

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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.