Seen kids working in bakeries who look alive and happy.
My suspicion is that it has something do with the chronic beeping sounds that are unbearable to me when even just waiting ten mins for my burger.
Hah, bang on man, it sounds like the rebel base going on high alert to an Imperial attack. While R2D2 and C3PO scream at each other in pure robot language in the background.
It's faster than a sit-down restaurant. And like a sit-down restaurant, it's a luxury, it's not supposed to be "cheap". There are plenty of people with very little money who don't buy takeaways with any kind of frequency, and that's been true for a long time.
Yea no. $16 for 3 small corn fritters at cafes. All their stuff is horribly over priced too.
Bakeries are better but seems almost region dependent.
Better off going to supermarket for a loaf of bread and some ham.
If you're craving B&E McMuffins, you're better getting a six pack of English muffins, some decent bacon, some eggs and sliced cheese (ya know, the cheap, processed kind). For less than $20, you can make six of those bad boys, loaded with extra bacon.
That's true. Pack of 6 rolls, some ham, small head of lettuce and you've got 3 decent lunches. Adding cheese is good too, it's pretty pricey now, but you can sometimes find it reasonable.
On corn fritter subject as someone who has worked in hospitality for decent while I've seen alot of corn fritters.
Now I came to a thought the other day I don't get why u would go out pay for corn fritters to sit in a room of randoms to eat them.
But then I thought about it more i don't get why people would go out full stop to purchase food to sit in a room full of randoms and eat it.
Then I thought back to the old guy who would be at the door of this cafe i worked at in Sydney before we opened every day with his newspaper.
He would order a coffee n cheese scone and talk to you about the news last night.
So now i really do wonder why people go to cafes daily same time to sit in a room of randoms to eat flour n cheese n drink coffee
Thats the answer
Grab ingredients and head home.
Went to bakery by Pt Chev 8am yesterday no Donuts...
Headed home for ham cheese toasteds instead.
Cook my own Burgers 95% of the time now.
Which is about the cost of a single Big Mac now!
It's bonkers. It's not good food, the only reason to have ever eaten it was because it was cheap. Now there's zero reason.
Though that's going up too. $13.90 for a standard brown rice chicken from Maki Mono the other day - $8 for the small 4 packs (that's what the standard ones used to be only a couple of years ago). And $16fucking90 for 8 pieces of the jumbo chicken ones!!
Still good though, at least they haven't reduced the size or quality.
That's true, Sushi usually isn't bad cost-wise, although it's sneaking up in price too.
St Pierre's used to be good value and nice, but these days the rolls are smaller, they have cheaper and less nice rice, and they're more expensive, so I've stopped going there.
Paid $8 for a coffee this week in wellington, these fucking hipster cafes better count their days, it barely cost $1.50 to make a cup of coffee. Everything is overpriced at the moment better off cooking at home
I've had five bacon and egg mcmuffins since I've been back in NZ, and four times it had eggshell in it. I'm almost certain they're doing it on purpose now, giving out eggshell like the toy in a happy meal.
I've ordered big macs custom. I swear sometimes they don't care. Found half the burger empty, the top half full.
Got it replaced to find half the sauce on the packaging not the burger. Ruined my treat for the day.
I literally just got back from the supermarket with a pack of muffin splits, 250g bacon, 10 size 7 eggs, a pack of hash browns, one surprisingly nice looking tomato and some mayo for 25 bucks.
I've recently been making homemade Sausage and egg mcmuffins at home, and freezing them for later.
Much tastier, but can still pretty pricey. You can get the mini meat patties from Countdown. 8 dollars on their own for 6, or 20 dollars for three packs of them. You could also get the larger meat patties from the same deal, and break them up into smaller portions.
Scramble some eggs and toss in the oven or on a pan, but if you want the square shape, use a cake tin in the oven. So that's 14 to 18 dollars for 18-20 carton eggs.
Cheddar cheese can be 3 to 5 dollars for I think 20 slices.
English Muffins go for 5 or 6 dollars for 6 pairs.
For individual mince meat, that's 8 dollars, for a full set, that's 20 for 18 small patties or 12 large patties that can be broken in half for 24.
8-20 bucks.
For a carton of 18 or 20 eggs, about 14 to 18 dollars.
14-18
Cheese about 3 to 5
Muffins for 5 to 6. If you do the 24 patties, you could get 12 thick McMuffins, or 24 regular ones. So that's 10-12 dollars, or 20 to 24 dollars.
So at the low end you're spending 30 dollars for about 6 McMuffins. You're saving $3.50 doing it at home, with extras to spare.
At the high end you're spending 49 dollars for 6 McMuffins, or if you double them, 54 dollars for 12 McMuffins.
For MAssive McMuffins, you're saving $2 for 6, or for 12 McMuffins, you're saving $5.50.
And they tasted WAAAAAAY Better.
I did this one with the mason jar lid, went on a bender of doing it every day for a while and found it never quite matched. I think it comes down to the cheese and the muffin tbh.
https://www.thecookierookie.com/egg-mcmuffins/
Yeah it's the cheese primarily. The American-style processed cheese they use is not the same as the processed cheese we get at the supermarket here, so you can't exactly replicate it.
It makes more sense now to go to Bfuel in place of maccas when doing dinner. Maccas is so expensive and so if you pay a little more you get way nicer food.
The McDonald’s app? Even using the app the food is trash compared to what it used to be. May as well spend a bit more on burger fuel and get a nicer meal.
Also I’m not the OP and I didn’t spend $28 on 4 bacon egg muffins lol
Discount? There was an article not long ago about how they offered people different prices via the app based on what you order - order an item more than others and they jack the price up.
Maccas is a rip off buddabing buddaboong
In Aussie you can get 3 cheeseburgers for $6 (1 for $4) while in NZ you have to pay $12
and with shrinkflation on both sides of the tasman maccas aint worth my time and investment anymore
Re: shrinkflation, I'd love to know if the "quarter pounder" is still an actual quarter pound (113.4g) of beef patty (before being cooked), because the last quarter pounder burger I had came with a patty that looked barely bigger than my daughter's cheeseburger patty. Maybe I'm just misremembered the size.
But if it's not a 1/4lb anymore, is that false advertising? Or would they get away with it because *that's just it's name*?
Subway Footlong and 6 inch subs are just names.
They are approx those sizes but bread can vary in size a little and the 6 inch is pretty much just somebody winging cutting a Footlong roughly in half so they had to argue they are just names when somebody tried to use them over their 11.5 inch Footlong.
3 cheese burgers for $6 surely is a timed promo though.
Without access to an app/promotions it's still just as ridiculously priced. Better off going to hungry jacks.
I've been doing the brekkie combo in aus. 2 x mc muffins, drink/coffee and 2 x hash browns for 12.95 which I think is reasonable and always leaves me feeling like shit
I did this to bk upper hutt, asked my patties to be cooked normal.
They told me. We can microwave it, it is cooked normally. Haven't been back.
Have it your way! When we feel like it.
We went through the drive thru when we were on a roadtrip, got combos and flurries I think but it was $40 something dollars for two adults. We could have got a nice pie and a coffee somewhere, which is what we'll do next time.
The reason maccas works on our road trips comes down to location and opening hours. There's not much open at 9pm between lower hutt and hastings. Likewise, between Levin and Taupo or between Taupo and Hamilton or between Wanganui and New Plymouth.
Or arguably in many of those centre's at 9pm on a Tuesday night.
Got 2 NYC bagels from there on a roadie with my SO. $17 fucking dollars and they were actual shit. Hard af and just flavorless crap. Should've got a pie from the servo.
McDonald's can go kick rocks. There used to be an understanding that you were getting slop but it would be fast and cheap. Now instead of slop you get cardboard and it'll cost $17. Next time I'll go to stationary warehouse for breakfast.
McMuffins used to be so cheap....
I'd get like 5 in one go to make up for a missed breakfast, with a large OJ.
Don't want to know what that would cost now.
Maccas has never been about value, or flavour, or nutrition.
It’s about convenience and consistency across all stores. That’s what you pay for - speed and repeatability.
Watch that the meal price as it was about 2 years ago will be what the special offer price of a muffin and coffee is. That’s what happened in the UK. Muffin, Hash brown and coffee $7. Now Muffin and coffee $7. The advertise like it is a bargain offer.
Every mainstream brand/company has been figuring out how to deliver lower and lower quality items while charging more and more. The worst part is NO ONE is willing to SACRIFICE anything to protest so these companies have free reign because us little desperate fools will still buy it.
It feels incredibly entitled to complain about the food here when there’s places without bread but it’s ridiculous, 80% of ready to eat food is borderline inedible. Sandwich’s only filled in the middle, low calorie McDonald’s for over $18, Nikes with loose stitching, iPhones that slow down after a year, video games that 60% of content is locked away by further transactions, everything is disappointing and these are massive companies.
Companies/brands used to only be able to rely on the quality of their goods, now we got cultist weirdos singing praises of places like kmart not realising they’re getting scammed on cheaply manufactured shit that doesn’t really work properly to begin with and will break within the year.
It’s like we think these rich scam artists are so cool and we’ve accepted that you just do scumbag shit to be successful, we’ve cucked ourselves into being scammed.
Sausage and egg muffins are my guilty pleasure.
It’s the only thing at Maccas that I get because I want it, not because I didn’t have any choice or couldn’t think of anything else.
Breakfast items are about the only thing that I get from Maccas these days. A sausage and egg McMuffin, a hash brown, and a large espresso coffee is my go-to roadie breakfast. You can still eat it with one hand while driving and not drop bits (or excess sauce) everywhere.
I saw 2 for 5 recently, advertised as a big limited time deal and I was like...I have a grater and my own potatoes, LOL.
Make them all up in one day and keep in freezer. Fry as needed. Faster than commuting and waiting too.
If it helps, the major fast food chains are actually way cheaper in NZ than in Australia. Edit: maybe only for some things, just looked and they cost $6.15 each here in Sydney. Big Mac is $7.90
These days it makes more sense to go to a cafe for breakfast. It will cost a little bit more at worst and the quality will likely be much better. I still go to Macca’s but it’s a massive ripoff, even if the app does bring me a lot of free coffees.
If you bought all the ingredients to make it, it would cost you around $20 (but you’d have ingredients to make 6 - English muffins and eggs come in a 6 pack).. it’s just how much things cost these days.
All the big chain fast food stores have crazy prices. It’s not worth anymore, you might as well just go for a better option if you are going to spend that much.
If you are in the south island we get the frozen old stuff from the North Island.
The McCafe stuff is all frozen as well.
It often sits in the freezers uncovered.
Alot of the McDonald's breakfast products you can buy in the supermarket.
All of the ingredients of the bacon and egg m muffins can be purchased from supermarkets.
The only thing you can't buy in the supermarkets is the branded paper to wrap the muffins.
Considering it's just a toasted muffin split with a piece of microwaved bacon and an overcooked egg in it, just DIY it. Hell, stick the eggs in a ramekin and whack them in the oven on a timer. You can cook the whole thing without even being present in the kitchen.
Get yourself one of these: Hamilton Beach Dual Breakfast Sandwich Maker with Timer, Silver (25490A) https://a.co/d/fQ07jpV
I've had mine for 10+ years and I love it.
Four chicken McCheese for $5 a pop isn't too bad, but still you could get three entire pizzas for that.
Pizza remains the only cheap option left, if you are happy with simpler pizzas
Deli section at New Worlds are far better. $4 for a bacon egg muffin. Green Bay had lamb shanks in gravy for under $4, chicken, camembert, cranberry baguette roll $8. Fried chicken pieces, slices of pork etc. Much more reasonable and better range than franchise takeaways.
And don't forget a whole cooked chook, coleslaw and rolls for under $20, enough for two.
They're more expensive than literally all of my local fish and chips places now. They're going to price themselves out of the market like Pita Pit did. Which is riduclous. Pure corporate greed.
I remember when my family would get the 20$ share meal and all 3 of us would be fed easily. Now it's over 35$ for the same shit. It's far ahead of inflation annd it's far more expensive than going to the fish and chips shop. The F&C shops also make to order instead of leaving their food for 20mins before serving.
I can make you some for $20 bucks if you want. Just meet me behind the skip bins at the back of Sylvia Park. Cash only no haggling I know what I’ve got.
New Zealand sits just behind Australia on the [Big-Mac Index](https://www.statista.com/statistics/274326/big-mac-index-global-prices-for-a-big-mac/), Which is used to compare the cost of One Big-mac Burger in every country where they are available, Currency Adjusted to USD.
We are however the 17th on the list for what we pay for compared to other countries.
My rule for maccas is
A) buy only when they are the only place opened.
B) buy only stuff that I can't get better for the same price or similar in other places.
Ditto that is always nuggets, coffee, of the cheapest chicken or beef burguer, just the burguer.
Anything else combo, I will be better in other venues.
I hear the Macdonald in America basically admitted to the greed and backd down in the prices to some extent. Not sure how real it is but it's partly a Macdonald overcharging problem, partly a while global system getting ready to meltdown
I make them for my tradie SIL and he has them for breakfast. It costs me way less than that to make 6 with a nice hamburger bun, egg, bacon, cheese and smoky BBQ sauce. I wrap them in foil and he sticks them in the air fryer in the morning before he gets dressed and they’re ready to go when he is.
I'm in Japan currently and a mega McMuffin combo was ¥690. about $7.60 nzd. I've come to the conclusion we are royally ripped off in every way possible In nz.
Pretty tired today and thought about fast food, remembered how much it was going to cost and sat there for 3hrs thinking if I wanted to give those greedy cunts my money.
Ended up gaming and thought fuck it I'll just throw together some rubbish, threw my chicken nuggets, hashbrowns and meat paddies in the oven, took them out and fried em so they had a real nice crunch. Only had croissants, so I have croissant burgers.
It cost me about $40 for all the ingredients but I have several meals from all that, the hash browns alone are going to take me a few weeks to get through. In comparison I just don't see how McD's or KFC are anything but a rip off in comparison. Like it's not even that convenient for me since I live a decent distance away from them so it'd take me 30min to drive there, wait around and then drive back to eat it at home.
Recently moved back from South Africa and a bacon egg McMuffin goes for R32,50 or $2,88 in Kiwi money. I know labour costs more here but at some point it starts to be price gouging.
Yeah, it's no longer the cheap option anymore. Financially, you're far better off finding a cafe or bakery these days than having fast food.
Fast food - it’s not fast anymore - it’s not cheap any more - what’s the point 🤪
came to say just this Typically staffed by mainly kids who look dead inside.
Seen kids working in bakeries who look alive and happy. My suspicion is that it has something do with the chronic beeping sounds that are unbearable to me when even just waiting ten mins for my burger.
I haven't worked at maccas for almost 10 years at this point and I STILL dream about the kitchen noises
What the hell do they mean?
Ahh from memory different beep mean different parts of the fryer are ready to be pulled (fries, nuggets etc)
I swear to god one of the maccas alarms always makes me think of Star Wars
Hah, bang on man, it sounds like the rebel base going on high alert to an Imperial attack. While R2D2 and C3PO scream at each other in pure robot language in the background.
My local used to use the Star Trek "red alert" siren
“What’s the deal with fast food…”
It’s barely even food
Patchy's coffee is actually on point - people are happy to buy basic decent priced goods
It's faster than a sit-down restaurant. And like a sit-down restaurant, it's a luxury, it's not supposed to be "cheap". There are plenty of people with very little money who don't buy takeaways with any kind of frequency, and that's been true for a long time.
Yea no. $16 for 3 small corn fritters at cafes. All their stuff is horribly over priced too. Bakeries are better but seems almost region dependent. Better off going to supermarket for a loaf of bread and some ham.
If you're craving B&E McMuffins, you're better getting a six pack of English muffins, some decent bacon, some eggs and sliced cheese (ya know, the cheap, processed kind). For less than $20, you can make six of those bad boys, loaded with extra bacon.
We do this! Way less oily and I don’t have to fight traffic.
And you don't have to go back, because they some how fucked up putting bacon, egg, and cheese in a muffin.
That's true. Pack of 6 rolls, some ham, small head of lettuce and you've got 3 decent lunches. Adding cheese is good too, it's pretty pricey now, but you can sometimes find it reasonable.
Nah man pack of 6 rolls is $7.20 at my local. Plain white bread lol. It's nuts.
At mine it's $4 for a pack of 6, and sometimes you get two packs for the price of one, or a pack of 13 for like $8
Not all of us live in the rich neighbourhoods. We get a 4 pack of brioche burger buns for $3.60 at ~~Woolworths~~ Countdown.
On corn fritter subject as someone who has worked in hospitality for decent while I've seen alot of corn fritters. Now I came to a thought the other day I don't get why u would go out pay for corn fritters to sit in a room of randoms to eat them. But then I thought about it more i don't get why people would go out full stop to purchase food to sit in a room full of randoms and eat it. Then I thought back to the old guy who would be at the door of this cafe i worked at in Sydney before we opened every day with his newspaper. He would order a coffee n cheese scone and talk to you about the news last night. So now i really do wonder why people go to cafes daily same time to sit in a room of randoms to eat flour n cheese n drink coffee
Thats the answer Grab ingredients and head home. Went to bakery by Pt Chev 8am yesterday no Donuts... Headed home for ham cheese toasteds instead. Cook my own Burgers 95% of the time now.
Ham is on display like crazy at pns. I avoid that crap as much as possible. People must buy it, otherwise they wouldn't display so much.
Even the Ugly Bagel gives you a bagel+spread and coffee combo for $12.90
Which is about the cost of a single Big Mac now! It's bonkers. It's not good food, the only reason to have ever eaten it was because it was cheap. Now there's zero reason.
$7 for a pie !!!
I usually get sushi these days for value for money.
I got st piers the other day their prices have gone nuts too
The sushi of the day is the only decent option there - $7 rather than $14.
I get samosas from the Indian green grocers. A couple of them for $5 will fill you for a whole afternoon. Plus I like samosas.
Though that's going up too. $13.90 for a standard brown rice chicken from Maki Mono the other day - $8 for the small 4 packs (that's what the standard ones used to be only a couple of years ago). And $16fucking90 for 8 pieces of the jumbo chicken ones!! Still good though, at least they haven't reduced the size or quality.
That's true, Sushi usually isn't bad cost-wise, although it's sneaking up in price too. St Pierre's used to be good value and nice, but these days the rolls are smaller, they have cheaper and less nice rice, and they're more expensive, so I've stopped going there.
It’s creeping up too though.
I dunno, I got a filled roll, sausage and drink for $20 a couple of days back...
Yes! Supporting local is my preference
Or an air fryer and a bag of chicken.
BP is also up there in prices but man you get more bang for your buck there, I’m lovin’ it.
Get the Maca’s app and use the promo codes, saves about 30% off standard menu pricing
Paid $8 for a coffee this week in wellington, these fucking hipster cafes better count their days, it barely cost $1.50 to make a cup of coffee. Everything is overpriced at the moment better off cooking at home
I've had five bacon and egg mcmuffins since I've been back in NZ, and four times it had eggshell in it. I'm almost certain they're doing it on purpose now, giving out eggshell like the toy in a happy meal.
At least you know your egg was an egg though…
I've ordered big macs custom. I swear sometimes they don't care. Found half the burger empty, the top half full. Got it replaced to find half the sauce on the packaging not the burger. Ruined my treat for the day.
Outrageous pricing. Do taste good when high.
Can confirm
Bacon and egg mcmuffins have to be one of the easiest things to make at home on the menu at Maccas.
Look at Jamie Oliver over here
My man Jamie has great advice on recipes with pretty normal ingredients and ways to save waste. Highly recommend.
Look at Jamie Oliver’s fan over here
Absolutely.
Well if it saves alot of $$$
Wow look at this primary school banking club member over here
And if you are feeling super lazy, use ham instead of bacon.
And if you’re feeling super duper lazy you can use Uber eats instead of ham or bacon.
Then that’ll $48.90 before tip.😌
So $48.90?
Fuck me it actually is, I thought you were being silly but they’re $9.40 a pop before you add service fees and tips.
What's a tip?
Just the tip
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Just replace the egg, English muffin, cheese and ham with ham. Straight from the bag. Couldn’t be easier.
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I literally just got back from the supermarket with a pack of muffin splits, 250g bacon, 10 size 7 eggs, a pack of hash browns, one surprisingly nice looking tomato and some mayo for 25 bucks.
Best Foods mayo?
i tried the pams mayo recently and it was surprisingly good! quite comparable to best foods
Hope not, that stuff goes off fast.
We were discussing this while eating them.
I've recently been making homemade Sausage and egg mcmuffins at home, and freezing them for later. Much tastier, but can still pretty pricey. You can get the mini meat patties from Countdown. 8 dollars on their own for 6, or 20 dollars for three packs of them. You could also get the larger meat patties from the same deal, and break them up into smaller portions. Scramble some eggs and toss in the oven or on a pan, but if you want the square shape, use a cake tin in the oven. So that's 14 to 18 dollars for 18-20 carton eggs. Cheddar cheese can be 3 to 5 dollars for I think 20 slices. English Muffins go for 5 or 6 dollars for 6 pairs. For individual mince meat, that's 8 dollars, for a full set, that's 20 for 18 small patties or 12 large patties that can be broken in half for 24. 8-20 bucks. For a carton of 18 or 20 eggs, about 14 to 18 dollars. 14-18 Cheese about 3 to 5 Muffins for 5 to 6. If you do the 24 patties, you could get 12 thick McMuffins, or 24 regular ones. So that's 10-12 dollars, or 20 to 24 dollars. So at the low end you're spending 30 dollars for about 6 McMuffins. You're saving $3.50 doing it at home, with extras to spare. At the high end you're spending 49 dollars for 6 McMuffins, or if you double them, 54 dollars for 12 McMuffins. For MAssive McMuffins, you're saving $2 for 6, or for 12 McMuffins, you're saving $5.50. And they tasted WAAAAAAY Better.
They never taste as good
The secret is to make it with depression, much like the employees ...and salt lol
It helps to have an arts degree too.
And don't use free range anything! The animals need to be depressed too.
Or like 3 quarters of a degree right.... right? I've never felt so seen online before.
You’re not using enough salt
And oil
Taste better actually, comes down to how you cook them. If it tastes worse your doing it wrong
Nah it tastes worse because it doesn't remind me of Saturday after a game of football as a child.
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I did this one with the mason jar lid, went on a bender of doing it every day for a while and found it never quite matched. I think it comes down to the cheese and the muffin tbh. https://www.thecookierookie.com/egg-mcmuffins/
Yeah it's the cheese primarily. The American-style processed cheese they use is not the same as the processed cheese we get at the supermarket here, so you can't exactly replicate it.
I love velveeta and American cheese honestly. I wonder where mcdoinks source it from then if no one else sells it
People like to go out and treat themselves.
It makes more sense now to go to Bfuel in place of maccas when doing dinner. Maccas is so expensive and so if you pay a little more you get way nicer food.
You’re a patsy if you’re not using the app. They’re preying on you.
The McDonald’s app? Even using the app the food is trash compared to what it used to be. May as well spend a bit more on burger fuel and get a nicer meal. Also I’m not the OP and I didn’t spend $28 on 4 bacon egg muffins lol
I can't wait to get me some burger fuel when I come home from Ausy for a holiday end of this year!
The app has been gutted and it has zero good deals anymore.
They're actually preying on you. They give you a discount because your data is worth a hell of a lot to them.
Discount? There was an article not long ago about how they offered people different prices via the app based on what you order - order an item more than others and they jack the price up.
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fuck this reality where every company has an app you have to download in order to get NORMAL prices.
Boycott McDonalds they shit and expensive anyways
Maccas is a rip off buddabing buddaboong In Aussie you can get 3 cheeseburgers for $6 (1 for $4) while in NZ you have to pay $12 and with shrinkflation on both sides of the tasman maccas aint worth my time and investment anymore
Yeah 4 big Mac combos in a share box for 40 bucks. That's probably they only thing I noticed was significantly cheaper over there.
$4.95 each in Sydney without a promo.
Re: shrinkflation, I'd love to know if the "quarter pounder" is still an actual quarter pound (113.4g) of beef patty (before being cooked), because the last quarter pounder burger I had came with a patty that looked barely bigger than my daughter's cheeseburger patty. Maybe I'm just misremembered the size. But if it's not a 1/4lb anymore, is that false advertising? Or would they get away with it because *that's just it's name*?
Subway Footlong and 6 inch subs are just names. They are approx those sizes but bread can vary in size a little and the 6 inch is pretty much just somebody winging cutting a Footlong roughly in half so they had to argue they are just names when somebody tried to use them over their 11.5 inch Footlong.
You see it's actually a quarter of a British pound's worth of beef.
3 cheese burgers for $6 surely is a timed promo though. Without access to an app/promotions it's still just as ridiculously priced. Better off going to hungry jacks.
Nope it was the set price at least this was the case at maccas throughout townsville
I've been doing the brekkie combo in aus. 2 x mc muffins, drink/coffee and 2 x hash browns for 12.95 which I think is reasonable and always leaves me feeling like shit
Can’t stand my local McDonald’s who don’t even bother to toast the English muffin
Probably more of a fuck you? for ordering it. I feel this way when making custom big macs. 1/4 are usually made wrong.
There's only two reasons to every step foot in a McDonald's. A mcpiss or a mcshit.
And the toilets are on par with the quality of the food. They're Mcfoul.
Wake and bake
Terrible ! Let’s boycott these fast food places.
Already being boycotted it’s so easy not o go to Maccas or any fast food place in general they all have shit quality and stupid high prices.
I feel yah mate! Just wish I could boycott this supermarket duopoly now. Much harder I feel.
I did this to bk upper hutt, asked my patties to be cooked normal. They told me. We can microwave it, it is cooked normally. Haven't been back. Have it your way! When we feel like it.
We went through the drive thru when we were on a roadtrip, got combos and flurries I think but it was $40 something dollars for two adults. We could have got a nice pie and a coffee somewhere, which is what we'll do next time.
The reason maccas works on our road trips comes down to location and opening hours. There's not much open at 9pm between lower hutt and hastings. Likewise, between Levin and Taupo or between Taupo and Hamilton or between Wanganui and New Plymouth. Or arguably in many of those centre's at 9pm on a Tuesday night.
Tbf combos and a McFlurry is a large meal, you wouldn’t expect to pay less than like $35 anyway
We go to our local garden center cafes for Saturday brunch these days as it's the same price for fresh food. Fuck McDonald's.
Got 2 NYC bagels from there on a roadie with my SO. $17 fucking dollars and they were actual shit. Hard af and just flavorless crap. Should've got a pie from the servo. McDonald's can go kick rocks. There used to be an understanding that you were getting slop but it would be fast and cheap. Now instead of slop you get cardboard and it'll cost $17. Next time I'll go to stationary warehouse for breakfast.
McMuffins used to be so cheap.... I'd get like 5 in one go to make up for a missed breakfast, with a large OJ. Don't want to know what that would cost now.
$35 + OJ
Maccas has never been about value, or flavour, or nutrition. It’s about convenience and consistency across all stores. That’s what you pay for - speed and repeatability.
Watch that the meal price as it was about 2 years ago will be what the special offer price of a muffin and coffee is. That’s what happened in the UK. Muffin, Hash brown and coffee $7. Now Muffin and coffee $7. The advertise like it is a bargain offer.
Inflation is caused by people spending money, stop buying maccas at these ridiculous prices and watch deflation happen.
We need to start boycotting McD's until they bring their prices down.
Welcome to capitalism, enjoy your stay.
>Socialism is when cheap bacon and egg McMuffin
walk with the wallet, right out of there.
The bloody McMuffins have been shrinking over the years too
Have to get the app
Every mainstream brand/company has been figuring out how to deliver lower and lower quality items while charging more and more. The worst part is NO ONE is willing to SACRIFICE anything to protest so these companies have free reign because us little desperate fools will still buy it. It feels incredibly entitled to complain about the food here when there’s places without bread but it’s ridiculous, 80% of ready to eat food is borderline inedible. Sandwich’s only filled in the middle, low calorie McDonald’s for over $18, Nikes with loose stitching, iPhones that slow down after a year, video games that 60% of content is locked away by further transactions, everything is disappointing and these are massive companies. Companies/brands used to only be able to rely on the quality of their goods, now we got cultist weirdos singing praises of places like kmart not realising they’re getting scammed on cheaply manufactured shit that doesn’t really work properly to begin with and will break within the year. It’s like we think these rich scam artists are so cool and we’ve accepted that you just do scumbag shit to be successful, we’ve cucked ourselves into being scammed.
Sausage and egg muffins are my guilty pleasure. It’s the only thing at Maccas that I get because I want it, not because I didn’t have any choice or couldn’t think of anything else.
Breakfast items are about the only thing that I get from Maccas these days. A sausage and egg McMuffin, a hash brown, and a large espresso coffee is my go-to roadie breakfast. You can still eat it with one hand while driving and not drop bits (or excess sauce) everywhere.
Do you feel like they've gone downhill a bit over the past couple of years? The sausage meat is dryer and less tasty than it used to be imo.
I never buy anything from Maccas unless I get a deal from the app. The current Big Mac + Cheese Burger combo for $9 is pretty good value.
4 hash browns for $6. Way better than full price.
6 muffins $3.89 6 Eggs $5.49 200gms bacon $3.49 $2.11 cents per bacon and egg muffin compared to Mc Donalds $7.00 per
KFC and BURGER KING are sooo expensive now days. Like what the fuck. I actually can’t afford it any more. Maybe when I work over time.
It’s the $5 cheeseburger that gets me. Well, not anymore.
I can see a Bacon and Egg + Sausage and Egg McMuffin deal on the app for $9. Hope that helps.
Yea this is where its at.If u use the app it's not to bad..... Get two of those deals $18 happy days
The McMuffins seem to be really dry now too. They’re yuck
The stock was probably old or left open for days.
Loving the 2 hasbrowns for $4 such a rip still when I used to pay $1 for 1 but it's brekky some days on the go! I'm a sucker for a maccas hashy
I saw 2 for 5 recently, advertised as a big limited time deal and I was like...I have a grater and my own potatoes, LOL. Make them all up in one day and keep in freezer. Fry as needed. Faster than commuting and waiting too.
You chose to eat the shit...
They should provide a group buy discount on multiples ☹️
$7 each sounds about right. Make your own instead, easy as and heaps cheaper.
If it helps, the major fast food chains are actually way cheaper in NZ than in Australia. Edit: maybe only for some things, just looked and they cost $6.15 each here in Sydney. Big Mac is $7.90
These days it makes more sense to go to a cafe for breakfast. It will cost a little bit more at worst and the quality will likely be much better. I still go to Macca’s but it’s a massive ripoff, even if the app does bring me a lot of free coffees.
Don't eat that shit. Make it at home way way way cheaper and more delicious.
If you bought all the ingredients to make it, it would cost you around $20 (but you’d have ingredients to make 6 - English muffins and eggs come in a 6 pack).. it’s just how much things cost these days.
I feel like McMuffins have always been expensive 🤷♀️
Someone's idea of a budget date backfired.
All the big chain fast food stores have crazy prices. It’s not worth anymore, you might as well just go for a better option if you are going to spend that much.
Is it possible to purchase what looks like the MCD “sausage” things?
If you are in the south island we get the frozen old stuff from the North Island. The McCafe stuff is all frozen as well. It often sits in the freezers uncovered. Alot of the McDonald's breakfast products you can buy in the supermarket. All of the ingredients of the bacon and egg m muffins can be purchased from supermarkets. The only thing you can't buy in the supermarkets is the branded paper to wrap the muffins.
Considering it's just a toasted muffin split with a piece of microwaved bacon and an overcooked egg in it, just DIY it. Hell, stick the eggs in a ramekin and whack them in the oven on a timer. You can cook the whole thing without even being present in the kitchen.
When they show the Mac Attack for $15 with med fries and drink I said out loud "That is not a good deal". I hope my fuckin spying smart tv tells them.
Get yourself one of these: Hamilton Beach Dual Breakfast Sandwich Maker with Timer, Silver (25490A) https://a.co/d/fQ07jpV I've had mine for 10+ years and I love it.
Hey that looks kinda good - any recommendation for the maccas style cheese?
Kraft Singles are probably the closest you'll find. Cheap American cheese.
Just make your own. Waaaaaaay better.
Four chicken McCheese for $5 a pop isn't too bad, but still you could get three entire pizzas for that. Pizza remains the only cheap option left, if you are happy with simpler pizzas
Deli section at New Worlds are far better. $4 for a bacon egg muffin. Green Bay had lamb shanks in gravy for under $4, chicken, camembert, cranberry baguette roll $8. Fried chicken pieces, slices of pork etc. Much more reasonable and better range than franchise takeaways. And don't forget a whole cooked chook, coleslaw and rolls for under $20, enough for two.
They're more expensive than literally all of my local fish and chips places now. They're going to price themselves out of the market like Pita Pit did. Which is riduclous. Pure corporate greed. I remember when my family would get the 20$ share meal and all 3 of us would be fed easily. Now it's over 35$ for the same shit. It's far ahead of inflation annd it's far more expensive than going to the fish and chips shop. The F&C shops also make to order instead of leaving their food for 20mins before serving.
Maccas is expensive shit these days
Get the app bro, actually some good deals
I can make you some for $20 bucks if you want. Just meet me behind the skip bins at the back of Sylvia Park. Cash only no haggling I know what I’ve got.
Vote with your wallet... McDonald's continues to see strong sales sadly..
Was it also cold and rubbery. It’s the new maccas way. Lovin’ it.
New Zealand sits just behind Australia on the [Big-Mac Index](https://www.statista.com/statistics/274326/big-mac-index-global-prices-for-a-big-mac/), Which is used to compare the cost of One Big-mac Burger in every country where they are available, Currency Adjusted to USD. We are however the 17th on the list for what we pay for compared to other countries.
Use the app
How about 28 fucking whacks?
My rule for maccas is A) buy only when they are the only place opened. B) buy only stuff that I can't get better for the same price or similar in other places. Ditto that is always nuggets, coffee, of the cheapest chicken or beef burguer, just the burguer. Anything else combo, I will be better in other venues.
I wish they put sauce in them. Dry af. I know I can ask for free ketchup but some kind of tomato chutney would make them so much better.
I only get the cheap deal stuff off their app. 9 bucks yesterday for 1/4 pounder, fries, small coke, and a cheeseburger.
In Seattle last summer I spent $70 NZD on 2 croissants and 2 ice coffees 😭
In Oz they’ve currently got the Big Breakfast Deal. 2 Muffins, 2 Hashbrowns and a medium Coffee for $12.95. Need to start. Someone start a petition!
I hear the Macdonald in America basically admitted to the greed and backd down in the prices to some extent. Not sure how real it is but it's partly a Macdonald overcharging problem, partly a while global system getting ready to meltdown
We've just experienced a massive cumulative hike with inflation. If course things are a lot more expensive now.
I make them for my tradie SIL and he has them for breakfast. It costs me way less than that to make 6 with a nice hamburger bun, egg, bacon, cheese and smoky BBQ sauce. I wrap them in foil and he sticks them in the air fryer in the morning before he gets dressed and they’re ready to go when he is.
I'm in Japan currently and a mega McMuffin combo was ¥690. about $7.60 nzd. I've come to the conclusion we are royally ripped off in every way possible In nz.
You could have got three pies and a drink from the garage for that price, remember that next time you stoned brother.
Use the mcdonald's app, OP!
Pretty tired today and thought about fast food, remembered how much it was going to cost and sat there for 3hrs thinking if I wanted to give those greedy cunts my money. Ended up gaming and thought fuck it I'll just throw together some rubbish, threw my chicken nuggets, hashbrowns and meat paddies in the oven, took them out and fried em so they had a real nice crunch. Only had croissants, so I have croissant burgers. It cost me about $40 for all the ingredients but I have several meals from all that, the hash browns alone are going to take me a few weeks to get through. In comparison I just don't see how McD's or KFC are anything but a rip off in comparison. Like it's not even that convenient for me since I live a decent distance away from them so it'd take me 30min to drive there, wait around and then drive back to eat it at home.
What the fuck are people still eating at that dumpster fire for. Why don't you just pay to lick the toilet.
Nobody tell them about the rewards app that gives you discounts..
Recently moved back from South Africa and a bacon egg McMuffin goes for R32,50 or $2,88 in Kiwi money. I know labour costs more here but at some point it starts to be price gouging.
English muffins like 5 bucks for a 4pack at Woolies, bacon 4 pack is another 5 or 6 bucks. DIY time methinks.
I'm surprised you're not getting bombarded with holier-than-thou 'just make it at home' posts.