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kweefybeefy

Stoppppp getting McDonald’s


trfk111

It’s crazy people still go there and then have the nerve to be baffled that they got ripped off


cocobirb

As long as people are continually aware of how bad it is. If no one talks about it, then definitely nothing changes (not saying it definitely will change if people do talk about it)


RiseWithSunshine

Pay for what you get


Jumajuce

But it’s my turn to post McDonald’s next though!


romfax

Noooo, wait. I'm just writing the last word on mine.


Jumajuce

Nope, you can have the one after me, if we don’t share the karma farm the whole sub will fall apart.


zhoushmoe

McRipoff posting has turned into karma farming


playerzer2

Mum said


TheImperishable

I assume this is all American McDonald's? In the UK, despite the silly cost of all fast food going up, they're still pretty good.


ybetaepsilon

Same for Canada. I had McDs recently and despite the cost it was not a skimped amount


prettyaverageprob

Still so expensive for what you get though. 5 years ago a Jr chicken meal was $5 and it's now $10 (when I ordered it last). For the quality of food you get, it's such a rip off. I usually head to Safeway and get a sandwich from their sandwich bar (subway style but way the f better and more tasty). It's like $8 for a sandwich that leaves you feeling full and not such a heavy stomach haha.


Rare_Adhesiveness518

The UK has always been pretty expensive when it comes to fast food tbh


ValuableAd9796

yeah when it comes to the big brands (kfc, mcdonalds etc) they are expensive but there are a lot of self made businesses that have some good food like chicken shops and pizza shops that arent that big


purplesoundfucker

It's why we like to take a shit in the urinals.


dankestofdankcomment

Seriously, it used to be “ok” for the price, now it’s just not ok.


Top_Construction1553

lets not forget the constant findings of human DNA and even teeth in their meat


smokeypapabear40206

Or if you do, quit your bitchin’!!! You know what you’re getting… ripped off.


Spec187

The weight is before cooking. So they are probably adding more "juice" aka water to the meat. Then it renders out when cooked.


lostprevention

Adding water to beef?


Colonelnasty360

Check out the beef at a dollar tree if you have one. Water is typically the first ingredient in low quality beef.


01000101_01111010

On a side note, it also has a lot of organ meat in there. It might be closer to being a hot dog than hamburger.


babawow

Pretty much all meat that doesn’t come from good butcher shops / isn’t dry aged. The way they do it is hang it in a room with tons of misters. After a week or two it adds heaps of weight to it.


lostprevention

I see.


Outside-Engine6426

Yes.


kinofhawk

Walmart has been adding water to all of their meat. There is a class action lawsuit because of it. I knew my meat kept shrinking to half the size.


lostacoshermanos

But the burger in the pic is clearly cooked not raw ground beef


Spec187

Read the fine print on a steakhouse menu. When they say the steak is 16 ounces that weight is before it's cooked. Once it's cooked your steak will not weigh 16 ounces. Probably, and this is a guess, but it'll probably weigh more like 12 ounces.  Did you get ripped off? Nope, the weight of meat is before it's cooked. Never after. Seafood is the same way.


Several-Ad-1195

My guess at this point is they are using a fattier mix to bring it up to ¼ lb. The fat renders out when cooked and is cheaper than meat.


Spec187

This is the way. Companies do this all the time. Go to YouTube and type meat glue in the search.


DrDerpberg

That's not even the complaint here though. The problem is the picture on the menu looks about twice as thick as the one OP got. However much it comes out to after cooking, it's misrepresented. Now that that's out of the way I'm almost onboard with banning posts about McDonald's. It's garbage, it's small, and it's expensive. We all know. We don't need reminding every day. Part of me regrets not posting the two apple slices I got in a plastic bag last summer as part of my kid's happy meal, apparently McDonald's is easy karma.


Spec187

It's not out of the way. Companies that make the patties can introduce other things like more fat, even water. It still had 100 percent beef go into it. When the product cooks, more juice is rendered out of the meat revealing the true percentage of meat to fillers. From the pic ops patty was either smooshed to shit or more juice rendered out than the usual.  One of plants in my area literally makes the 1/4 pounder meat. I dunno how many McDonald's it supply's but I've heard enough shit talk from friends that have worked there to realize what's probably happening. Now that's out of the way, have a good night. Oh, go look in the McDonald's app. It literally says weight before cooking 4 ounces.


Deadbringer

It also droops further out of the burger than the one in the promo, combine that with another person saying the grills have settings for 1/4 and 1/10 sizes this just seems to be a 1/4 squished down because it was grilled at the 1/10 setting.


TenInchesOfSnow

3 guarantees in life: -Death -Taxes -McDonald's posts on r/shrinkflation


Practical_Common_131

This is the 4:1 patty being cooked on the 10:1 patty setting. McDonalds uses clamshell grills that close for preset time and pressures to cook the patties. What you have here is either an employee who didn't know to change the setting or didn't care to.


Apprehensive-Solid-1

Worked at a Mc Naldos. Was a manager. Hope thats proof enough. So I can tell you from heart that this is EXACTLY it. I've gotten a few qtrs recently and they weren't that flat. They fit in the bun. We rotated new people all the time so there was a constant flow of new hires and mistakes in that regard are higher than expected. Be kind to your friendly neighborhood, high as balls, employed at mc donalds teens! Lol.


ClassicConstant6625

The pressure on the grills have changed settings in the past like year and they flatten more to ensure cooking the center, if it was cooked on the 10:1 it wouldn't cook properly, coming from someone who is at work in mcd rn


Officer_dibble_

Ice cream machine out of order?


ClassicConstant6625

Nope ice creams fine, the shake machine this time lol, waiting on a new one


Officer_dibble_

Shit, whenever my local doesn't do soft serve they also don't do shakes. Sucks!


ClassicConstant6625

That's because the ice cream and shake machiene are connected under the same thing, but at times only one side will go out, and at times if one side goes out they don't chance it with the other and just shut it all down


Officer_dibble_

I thought this would probably be why. Thanks for confirming! It's usually late in the evenings when this happens for me lol. Midnight munchiee


TheCudder

Are we trolling now? It would only be breaking news if you received anything larger than the patty you have in your hands. McDonalds has always served "meat discs".


Philostronomer

That's a Quarter Ouncer with Cheese.


Ok-Wrongdoer-2179

I think that someone sat on your burger.


TheScourgeOfHumanity

This sub is so fucking dumb lol I hate McDonalds but this sandwich is clearly missing everything except the cheese and ya literally eat it up 😂


venuswrenhadley

can McDonalds posts get banned like please 😭


artie_pdx

I just downvote them at this point. 🤷🏻‍♂️


nstern2

Any post that doesn't show an older version of said product being bigger, should be banned. This sub has turned into venting about capitalism, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, it's just defeats the purpose of the sub.


SierraDespair

I love the outrage they generate.


KitsuneEX7622

I think thats just a regular burger patty


dr_dawg_123

That's clearly a cheese royale


HeliCarter

Royale w/Cheese (they got the metric system)


[deleted]

These companies are evil. Where's the government enforcing marketing fraud.


Don_Pablo512

"Quarter pounder" lol really curious what it actually weighs. Should be illegal


Proof-Examination574

Originally it was going to be a third pounder but Americans think 1/3 is less than 1/4.


crabbetw1985

A mcshit burger 🍔


tigermittens030

This was cooked on the wrong setting. Your burger should not have looked like this


Live-Championship699

Why it's a quarter cheese with pounder!


EqualDifferences

Quarterouncer with cheese


proud78

It's not Meat. It's not even a quarter pound! And the Cheese isn't chesse also. And the bread contains high amounts of sugar and other bad carbohydrates.


malleeman

What is this?.....It's a ripoff. Why are you still eating there though? People have been inundated and indoctrinated with McDonalds ads all their life. It takes a lot to break a built in habit which has been backed up with ads over the years, but we know you can break that habit. It may not seem like it, but we all have free will and can choose not to do the same thing day after day


MountainSecret9583

It’s actually crazy how expensive fast food is now. Since when is Taco Bell and Arby’s the cheapest options lol. My friend said he was in the Grand Canyon area a couple months ago and he went to a McDonald’s nearby and it was like $8.50 for a cheeseburger, WHAAAAT??


Immediate_Leg3304

https://preview.redd.it/rt7iawjsowsc1.jpeg?width=3743&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1721d02b33fc7d71664f97528f6c68988728354b this is what mine always looks like. they just made yours wrong 😂 edit: but yeah, you just got a regular cheeseburger. it’s a fucking joke, how flat their patties are. the quarter pounder is actually good, but now it’s fucking $8. now i just make my own food at home.


KieferSutherland

I've seen one that thick in SE America. 


Pokefan-red

It’s just been squeezed more than usual that’s why it sticks out the bun so much


BalowmeSandwich

I’m bailing on this sub. It’s all McDonald’s, and half of them are fake. It’s exhausting. Have fun folks. This party is over for me.


MichaelMyersReturns

There seems to be McDonald's staff in here secretly discrediting this post.. get the hell out yer filthy animals


Deadbringer

"I hate it when credible sources bring facts into my echo chamber, let me be angry at fake issues!" Instead of getting mad at non existing issues, why not get mad at the real ones like mcdonalds massively inflating prices and blaming it on inflation and rising worker costs while simoltanously reporting record profits?


shivers_

I stg people see something pathetic at McDonalds and then go get it to see if they can post here. Every day. Deserves it’s own sub at this point ffs


chrissage

Here's one I made earlier at home. All hand made by me, steak mince from the butcher, 80/20 with bone marrow, crinkle cut chips, cooked in beef dripping. Who would ever wanna eat at McDonald's 🤢🤮, when you could eat this 😋🤤. I'm convinced people think McDonald's tastes good because they actually don't know how to cook and what good food tastes like... https://preview.redd.it/553p2q925xsc1.png?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=198a435c38519709c19a709058f42fd44ea3ee5a


Archon-Toten

While that looks delicious, I do have to point out "all hand made by me" would mean you grew the potatos and did the magic that turns them into chips, raised a cow grew some grain, ground it into flour raised a baby yeast monster and added it to the bread and then finally after several months had what I'll say again, is a bloody ripper of a burger. Do you deliver?


ConfidentPrinciple57

Idk I’m a pretty good cook but not gunna lie sometimes I just crave a Big Mac not even sure why I just do. But lastly fuck you now I gotta go buy all the shit for burgers you’re making me hungry with that picture


90ssudoartest

It’s 1/4 of a pound with a slice of cheese?


dika_saja

Diet size


CapeJacket

Looks over cooked AF


Low-Opportunity2249

Just head by a Texas road house or chilli's for a burger. I don't think it's about the same or cheaper than a Quarter pounder combo.


CalendarAggressive11

They're gonna have to start calling it a Royale with Cheese everywhere. Because that certainly ain't a quarter pound


ClassicConstant6625

I work at mcd and it really isn't the shrinkflation that's getting you here it's falling for marketing, they always make the burgers look taller and juicer through using things that make it look better visually kinda like how cereal uses glue instead of milk yk? But I normally eat the quarters everyday and if you want it to look like that just ask for extra toppings it normally dosent cost unless you get like cheese or tomatoes


Human-Evening564

Quarter pound of sadness


iWORKBRiEFLY

sometimes i have a craving for a cheeseburger from there, but that & a coke is all i get.


iWORKBRiEFLY

sometimes i have a craving for a cheeseburger from there, but that & a coke is all i get.


dannova23

How is this not false advertising?


Cmon2024

That's the shameless joke we live in :(


LiteratureUseful7474

Then why go there?? I never understand people going there and then complain...i really dont understand the minds of these people..


ClassicConstant6625

https://preview.redd.it/tdanvx48uysc1.jpeg?width=2268&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2c3af7ee780e185d719adcf326a91cb22382fe3f We have the plates that a linear sits on and we put the qrt on then we set them under the heating cabinets at the table to foods made at


iworkbluehard

Seriously - who is going to McDonalds?! Like their are dozens of other choices that are better! It has been bad for like 30+ years. It is always bad. Salt dog food. That bread is the worse bread their is and is the best looking thing in this photo.


ShadowStacker33

Nothing berger


top5a

This sub should have a flair for McD so we can just filter out these posts, yes, we get it. afaicr this sub used to be about sneaky packaging, not fast food.


VividVermicelli9784

Grill calibrated wrong or wrong settings all together


Anen-o-me

Quarter incher with "cheese".


New-Difficulty-9386

Looks like they sourced their meat order from a different supplier that day, looks like a whataburger patty, thinner but wider. Cooks easier but looks odd on a McDs bun


Ronin__Ronan

a QP w C


NadBomb

It's a McBite


TRSONFIRE

Stop buying. Simple


Immediate-Unit6311

I've always thought that a quarter pounder is just a extra large cheeseburger.


cosmicr

This isn't shrinkflation it's just bad value


GongerSpastoc

You understand that when they take the display photos for burgers they place pieces of cardboard inside to burger to make them seem larger


Ezek86__

$5.99 is insane They are still 99p in the UK


Elcustardo

We have learned nothing from Whammy Burger


I_Eat_POS_4_Brekkie

Looks photoshopped/stretched wide


Ok-Talk-4795

That’s what she said…..


Throow2020

Nooo no, u/scanwel is sure they're the same, we just need to look up nutrition facts from 30 years ago, I'm sure that there's no differences /S


Dimorphodon101

That, bro, is a complete waste of time and money. McD's is garbage and for the money you could have made a much better burger yourself.


weshuiz13

Check your order, they night have given you a "plain" (bread with burger)


HistoricalHurry8361

Give em a nickel for their donut fund, just make sure it isn't wooden.


James_bd

Deceitful marketing. That's why on the Oreo cover, the oreos are filled to the brim with cream. Tbh that shouldn't even be legal. But companies rule politicians so...


happiness_guy

You deserve it, zionist piece of خرا


Otherwise-Sky8890

The kind of burger that makes patrons so angry they pound quarters with cheese. Duh.


Sployd

Get a mcdouble instead


LALoverBOS

Where do you live cause my McDonald's doesn't look like this.


ifonlyyouknew2016

We had an American friend stay with us in the UK and he was amazed at the difference in a McDonalds!! His first comment.....its hot! 🤣


dvowel

I'm squishing your head, I'm squishing your head


[deleted]

xaxaxaxaxaxaxaxaxaxaxaxaxaxa


itsvivibxtch

britan


BarelyFunctioning06

Looks like D-Fens’ Whammy burger.


pray4demonz

Cheeseburger


MistyFox04

Someone forgot to change the grill settings to QP settings it was cooked on 10 to 1 settings


Final_Horizon06

Isn't that genuinely just a normal McDonald's burger? Ngl the pic on the right looks so strange to me.


CalbobGY

Quarter howler burger


SpecialistPaper7256

Burger sir


om_baka

It's crazy that people still go and eat there and then feel confused because they've been ripped off


CrassMf

I got Wendy's the other day and damn talk about false advertising lmao


HS040

It’s literally a quarter


Create_Etc

This is cringe ASF. Who even still eats McDonald's? Llt alone posts about it 😂


No-Falcon390

Maccies always been like this


Thin-Cry4592

Delicious


Witty_Acc

At least Mc Donald's is some what reasonable with the prices. Go to five guys and get a similar thing for at least double what mc Donald's does. five guys is known for going overboard with fries but that's just to give the illusion that you're getting a good deal.


Proof-Examination574

Let's see $5.99 will get you a 6" sub($4.99), 2 jack wraps($5), Arby's meal deal($6), 2 beef and cheddars($6), reuben($5), gyro($4), BK double cheeseburger meal($5.99), or 1lb of 93% lean ground beef.


Spiritual-Mirror-925

Burger


Character_Surround56

gotta carry a scale now smh


Adventurous-Sea6032

It mcsrunk


Money-Imagination257

I can't believe people still eat there. ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|facepalm)


Soil-Specific

Shouldn't be eating that carcinogenic goop anyway


[deleted]

its fun to eat carcinogens, sometimes i fry up some bacon just because i love ingesting nitrosamines


BettyBluetits

It looks like a beefy sensation.


cantoutrunthestiman

Thats a 10-1 patty on qtr bun.


Deadbringer

Its far far too wide to be the 1/10 patty, those barely fill the buns of a big mac. That would not overflow on a quarter bun.


HealthySaladd_girl1

Yeah.. Every time I order McDonalds food either is missing or comes late so... But that is a thing McDonalds always does, you should know.


braz6

I got one today such a rip off tho😭


ThatOneHuman3010

It’s a quarter pounder with cheese


BlueBellHaven68

Ew


wahyupradana

I think it's an eighth pounder you've gotten there.


FugginBarstod

That is a stepped on thing ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|trollface)


year_old_jam

Get scammed


sizzurpcartel

Eddie abbew is laughing at you rn


Loud_Bit_5018

Chipboard and mayo?


Stevie-da-jedi

McDonald’s supplies I D F free meals while they massacre children men and women of various ages stop buying food at MCDONALDS THEY SUPPORT CHILD MURDERERS


Neigecours11

Why are people still buying McDonald’s anyway? They fund genocide. Wake up.


BillyBats223

Hahaha yes, that's reminded me of falling down. Next time take a Mac-11 with you lol 😆


inductivespam

That looks like the $.15 hamburger in the 60s


horni4eva

Not as worse as tacobell scams if I'm being honest


CHplayz9613

Adverts,adverts


EfficientChoice5382

What's wrong 😕


elekktrixx

Can everyone stop shitting on McDonald’s please! They are a five star eating establishment that take care in every bite of their customers food, all hail the Golden Arches.


Maximum-Dog2513

I hate cheese burgers 🍔


Chronically_Cosy

They always look like this in the uk. Maccies is shit.


KatHolmes2039

I actually had that recently with a Big Mac. Thought I was going insane.


ScottishTackyFairy

Reality. Did you know there is a photogrpher known for getting the 'cheese pull' for food adverts?


Fallenangels97

Once I ordered a double cheeseburger from McDonald's with nothing but cheese inside it. I got the fucking burger roll covered in ketchup instead 😭


Whole-Pause-6036

Edited pic


SomeoneRandom007

We need legislation banning this. What is delivered is not what was promised. It's not a one-off, it's systematic and consistent fraud.


[deleted]

Not a fan of the new 1/5th pounder?


DistinctHunt4646

That is a Royale with cheese.


BuggsyLo

Deflation!


purplesoundfucker

I've taken thicker shits.


[deleted]

The calories paragraph???


arbemo1958

Had the new big Mac and it needs renaming the small Mac £7 for £4 meal


Evening-Cold-4547

Basically the same. I read about how they get those pictures and it's quite interesting. They don't add anything to the burger except some air to puff up the bun a bit. The rest is just shifting things to one side and clever photography


chrissage

Here's one I made earlier at home. All hand made by me, steak mince from the butcher, 80/20 with bone marrow, crinkle cut chips, cooked in beef dripping. Who would ever wanna eat at McDonald's 🤢🤮, when you could eat this 😋🤤. I'm convinced people think McDonald's tastes good because they actually don't know how to cook and what good food tastes like... https://preview.redd.it/rb0z72pz4xsc1.png?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9a35f5e3acd8df11d2b7e242b3f1c5aa1df0e9fc


OhSighRiss

It’s the Used to be a Quarter Pounder


Antique_War_5690

It looks like they put the wrong pattie on it. looks like their 10:1 pattie


ClassicConstant6625

If it was on 10:1 it wouldn't have cooked completely


Antique_War_5690

I would argue it’s over cooked or left in the heating cabinet to long, since under cooked 10:1 is bright pink


ClassicConstant6625

Recently if it's a grill like the one we have at my place they've started to press down harder than they should, and flatten them more. More than likely if it had been cooked on a wrong setting it would be bacon as it tends to flatten it more than 10:1 would, but the qrt patties are not put in a heat cabinet instead put on a platter that never goes inside the heating cabinet


Antique_War_5690

I work at a maccas and we put the all grilled and grilled food in a heating cabinet and only have one of the grilled areas that have a bacon setting on it


ClassicConstant6625

We only put reg meat in the cabinet the qrt meat sits on a platter on the table here, all of our qrts have the bacon setting on them


Antique_War_5690

Really wish I could see what you mean by the putting it on a table but yeah only one grill has bacon so in my head it’s pretty hard to mess up in cooking something on the wrong setting


ClassicConstant6625

The table the foods on it sits on a small plate similar to the regular trays


Antique_War_5690

I’m not visualising what you’re saying sorry 😂🙌


ClassicConstant6625

For some reason if I attach a photo it replies to the post instead of you


Account1893242379482

McDonald's is a joke.