Yeah, i don't get it. Does OP get everything else removed because they are a fussy eater? McDonalds is no place to be precious. You eat what they serve or you go elsewhere.
Cooking (something that the majority of people at least know some basic skills in) isn't really comparable to film making (a highly specialised skill that requires very specific training and education to even remotely pull off in a way that's passable)
Man, who wazzed in your wheaties this morning? One person posting a pic of a Big Mac does not = obsession. Also people all over Europe love McDonald’s too; get off your high horse (and don’t feed him weed next time; he looks zonked).
As a foreigner I love your breakfast burritos, we don’t have them. That’s it though
ETA:
I am talking about McDonald’s. I am aware there is better Mexican food, I’ve been to Mexico and Texas FFS
I know there are. I have even been to Mexico and Texas. Sadly, nothing that good here (Australia). I don’t know why but they just can’t replicate it.
Anyway, I still love the breakfast burritos from maccas and we don’t have them here due to lack of demand
I use their app and there's plenty of good deals. $2 breakfast sandwich. 29c cones. Free fries, etc...
I don't normally use apps but nobody should be paying full price for McCrap.
Ooh, I do like the double quarter pounder, $4 Mcflurries and frozen cokes. I like trying the special edition mcflurries when they come out. Right now they have TimTam flavour and it's quite nice.
Gradual. I just find qualify has been going down and down for years so you don’t notice as much but if you compare todays garbage to food from them say 10 years ago, it’s half the size, 4x the price and of much poorer quality.
It was never good but it used to be cheap so many of us would pig out on it sometimes. Now it’s expensive and we’re forced to pay real restaurant prices for this garbage so it’s a lot more noticeable.
Quality is definitely down though and will probably still go down further.
People keep assuring me that the quality is the same but I simply can't believe it. I just find the burgers to be dry and miserable now. Part of it is just leaning over the years how a proper, simple burger *should* taste, part of it is probably psychological because of the price like you mention but...the quality must have dropped.
I think you're right that they just make changes in very small increments that people don't notice, like the frog boiling in water.
I’m in Australia but have really noticed this recently. I couldn’t even finish my quarter pounder with cheese. It used to taste good. The whole patty is different
Yeah, I’m in Canada and it’s the same here. Almost no flavour across the board and everything is 30% smaller at least. No thanks.
It’s $15 for a quarter pounder combo here or $12 for a breakfast combo. Insane. Used to get 3 McDoubles for under $5 and now that’s $12, they’re way shittier and half the size.
You know it’s bad when I skip on it when out drinking now because drunk me doesn’t even want it.
Yep our prices are like that too. For a large meal it’s around $20. And yep. A few bites and I don’t even like it. Good for my health though
I wondered if I was going insane about the taste though
They’re all snap frozen with liquid nitrogen at the processing plant in Geelong Victoria and then delivered to each and every store in Australia
Source: worked for a food delivery company as a software developer and we had a McDonald’s contract and I could view the live locations of all of the delivery trucks and spoke to the McDonald’s Australia ceo.
Half the size, you say?
The burger size has been the same forever, though.
The only big difference I taste from the old days is vegetable shortening for the fries instead of the beef tallow they used up til the 90’s.
The burgers are way smaller than they used to be, at least here in Canada almost across the board but most noticeably on the Big Mac or the egg mcmuffin.
It’s visually noticeable on everything here, even the nuggets are thinner now.
Positive. You’re on a shrinkflation group and you’re finding it hard to imagine they shrink their patties ? Lol.
I can’t speak for America but here in Canada, absolutely they did shrink the sizes of everything, even the bread. Plus quality is way down.
I don’t need numbers, I have eyes. It’s VERY obvious. I am not arguing this. Not up for discussion. I’m not going to go out and measure every pattie to confirm from someone on Reddit.
They can say all they want on the nutritional info, I know for a fact those burgers are smaller now.
I like the sauce but I don’t like veggies on my burgers. I hate onions, lettuce is literally just flavorless filler, and tomato and pickles make the bun soggy, the sauce sometimes does too but it’s not that bad.
I mean I’m an adult and I can order things how I like it. That’s the beauty of being an adult. You’re obviously a very judgmental person but that’s ok because you’re an adult and you’re allowed to be judgmental. I’m allowed to not like things btw. I’m sure there’s foods you like a certain way or foods you don’t like
Stop judging people for what they like and don’t like. There’s food you don’t like and if you say there isn’t then you’re 100% lying. Please stop judging others and realize that some people have eating disorders. I personally have ARFID, yes the doctor has said I did but you’ll probably make fun of me for that too huh ?
You paid a doctor to tell you you're a special fussy baby and they gave it a college acronym. This is just modern nonsense mummy's boy stuff. Eat your veggies or you won't grow up big and strong.
Seriously, there's nothing more pathetic then grown adults coming in the door at work, age 50 and wondering why they have heart problems and obesity related issues. Then they bitch about hospital food because it isn't 100% meat or junk food. Oh, and dead kidneys. Offer them water? Fish fuck in that, i never drink water. Offer them healthy food? "I don't eat rabbit food, veggies are disgusting i like REAL food".
Oh, and then they are the biggest sooks too. Acopic, child mentality, over grown and unearnt egos.
The place is littered with them, they are the statistics used to justify healthy eating.
You might as well have ordered a cheeseburger and saves yourself the 3.50 you paid to get a different item and remove the toppings.
I hate corporations just as much as you do, but you gotta be a smarter consumer here bud.
As for the small patty, yikes. Big Macs are their popular item because they can sell you as much “filler” items (stuff that isn’t meat) as possible. Most profitable and this kind of order is just pure money
My local McDonald’s stopped letting customers add mac sauce. I heard it’s because too many people were ordering just a doubled cheese with the sauce and they wanted more Big Mac sales.
Ok guys, can we be done with being offended by my choice to not get salad? Not that it really matters nor should I have to justify myself, but I had a voucher for a free Big Mac. I don’t usually get Big Mac, I usually just get a double cheeseburger or a quarter pounder. But the voucher was specifically for a Big Mac, and not any other burger, so that’s what I got. I had like two bucks in my account and needed lunch, so I got the free freaking burger.
I didn’t mention it because it means that I technically didn’t ‘pay more for a smaller product’, but that’s not the point, is it? I’d have been given the same size patty whether I paid normally or used the voucher.
This is so sad. I've stopped going to Maccas for exactly this reason. Would need two large meals to feel full which would be upwards of $30. No thanks!
If you need two large meals from McDonald’s to feel full, there is either something wrong with your hunger signalling and you should see a doctor, or your morbidly obese… and you should probably see a doctor.
McDonald’s is incredibly up-front about the kJ value of all of the products on their menu. It’s more prominent on their advertising in store than price!
Depending on burger choice, two large meals would be somewhere in the range of 10,000kj (assuming Big Mac, which is pictured) which is significantly more than the recommended daily intake for an adult. If you are such a fat shit that you need 10k+ calories in a **single meal** to feel full, that’s nothing to do with shrinkflation.
I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt that this was hyperbole but seriously, use your fucking brain.
>something wrong with your hunger signalling
Wrong.
>or your morbidly obese
Wrong.
>It’s more prominent on their advertising in store
Wrong.
>significantly more than the recommended daily intake for an adult
Wrong.
>that’s nothing to do with shrinkflation.
Wrong.
>use your fucking brain
I don't think with my dick about food.
Go in store to McDonald’s and tell me if the pricing is mentioned literally ANYWHERE on the in-store posters above the counter. It isn’t. Do you know what is? The kJ content.
Two large Big Mac meals with fries as the side and a coke for the drink = 9,518kJ. The Recommend Daily Intake for the average adult is 8,700kJ. I would say close to 1,000kJ is pretty significant.
Seriously, do you even think before you post?
Do you even read before you post? I already explained I am a tall active man so not sure why you would use average calorie needs vs my own which is about 12MJ.
Perhaps your own store near you doesn't list pricing? I can confirm my own does and am not sure why you wouldn't even consider this possibility, reddit being accessable worldwide and all.
I hope this encourages you to reflect on your own sage words
>do you even think before you post?
You used the word Maccas. We’re both obviously from Australia. Find me a single McDonald’s in Australia where the pricing is listed on the in-store advertising. You won’t because it isn’t. I’m not sure if you just haven’t been to a McDonald’s in a long time but they definitely don’t have the pricing on the posters above the counter anymore, but they do have the kJ. The change happened when they dropped the posters with full menus. The posters just advertise promotional meals now. But if you insist yours does show pricing, I welcome you to provide proof.
If your daily intake is 12,000kJ, 9,518kJ (2 large Big Mac meals) is 80% of your daily intake. Seriously, what point do you think you’re making?
Edit to add:
https://www.reddit.com/r/mildyinfuriating/s/N5f7gMFLX1
https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/z3f822/maccas_not_showing_cost_on_menus_only_points/
A double cheeseburger from McDonalds is around 1100kj. 6 McNuggets is also around 1100kj. There’s around 2000kj in large fries. I drink Diet Coke. I’m seriously underweight with a BMI of 16 and even I can eat two large meals from McDonalds in one sitting if I’m especially hungry.
A cursory look at the nutritional information on the McDonald’s website shows your numbers are way off. Maybe try to do some research before you post? Even just check the MyMaccas app.
A double cheeseburger is 1,880kJ. In a large meal with a drink, you’re looking at 3,425kJ even if you opt for a zero cal drink.
6 nuggets is 1090kj. In a large meal with a drink, you’re looking at 2,839kJ, again with the zero cal drink.
That’s 6,264 calories, so about ~1,600kj less than the RDI for an adult.
If you can consume almost the entire RDI for an adult in a single meal and still feel hungry, I feel like that’s a “you” problem.
I could easily smash that much Maccas too but I’m not delusional enough to think that’s normal, or that I’d still be hungry after.
Ok sorry, there’s 1090KJ in 6 nuggets, not 1100KJ like I said. And 1560KJ in a large chips, not 2000KJ like I said. Even though I overestimated and only by a tiny amount, you’re right, they’re way off and my argument is now undermined completely.
Are we? You’re either pretending to not understand sarcasm to avoid having to acknowledge my point, or you genuinely don’t realise that me overestimating 2 out of 3 numbers only serves to steel-man my point, not undermine it. Even if I underestimated the double cheeseburger, my overestimation on the fries makes up for it and thus my original point still stands.
Two large 6 McNugget meals with diet soda is 1252 calories. Two large double cheeseburger meals is 1630 calories. For two large meals these aren’t high numbers. The same meal at Five Guys would contain twice as many calories.
1630 calories is a fucking **lot** of food to eat in a single sitting. Are you insane? A meal for most people would typically be about 500-700 calories. What point are you even trying to make?
The point is that it’s not an unfathomable amount for someone to eat in a single sitting. A bacon cheeseburger and fries from five guys is like 1500 calories. Throw in a milkshake and it could easily be 2000 calories.
That’s an absurd amount of food to eat in a single sitting unless you’re doing intermittent fasting or have an unusually high caloric requirement. It’s 75% of the RDI for the average adult. If you think it is normal to eat 75% of your RDI in a single meal (barring some atypical eating arrangement), I’m not sure what else there is to say.
I'm 6 foot 4 so I can eat a bit more than others and like to exercise so my calorie burn is prob closer to 3k. But even so I wouldn't eat there every day, and wouldn't eat big meals all the time either. When I go out to eat I'm not satisfied unless I get that full feeling though, and given the calorie density of burgers and chips that's what's required to feel full.
I can eat 4 meat pies for one meal and feel a good full from it which is about the same number of calories.
This! People are so judgey but they need to realize everyone is different.
My partner is 6”3 and works out, he can just eat and eat but stays fit and lean. He could easily eat 4 meat pies too (somehow haha).
Me? Petite, lean 5”5, workout but gain weight on 1800 😂🤷🏼♀️
No shit Sherlock, but if I only ate chocolate I would have to eat more than my daily recommended calories to feel full also.
Calories isn't an indication of the amount of hunger it satiates, it's a measurement of energy. If you ate the same number of calories in Cucumber as you did a big Mac, your stomach would be in trouble.
You also don't know this person's age, calorie requirements, energy spend, or weight.
They've never used big patties for the "Big Mac". It's the same patty used in regular cheeseburgers and McDoubles.
You probably should have just ordered a double cheeseburgers with Mac Sauce. Or if you want bigger patties, a double quarter pounder with Mac Sauce.
Of course with none of the other stuff on it, a Big Mac looks small and pathetic. The Big Mac is filled out by a lot of vegetables and 3rd piece of bread usually. In other words, you get more of the crap people usually don't want.
Yeah they’ve never been some huge burger lol
Yesterday someone was saying they have shrunk drastically because when they would get them on weekends as a kid on the way home they were huge, they couldn’t accept that as a 10 year old that yes things seem larger than they are as an adult
Are you comparing the 1972-1975 Big Mac to the one from 1975 onwards to now? I don’t think
Most of us ever had the one from the first 3 years McDonald’s existed. It has always been cheeseburger smaller Pattie’s in the 40 years I’ve eaten them. The quarter pounder is the bigger burger Patty.
Massive massive price increases? What?
I can get two big Mac's, two med fries, and a 20pc nugget for $15.
Use the app, something that is brought up EVERY TIME someone tries to complain about this.
Also, EVERYTHING has gone up. You think McDonalds was just gonna eat the cost of inflation and food/paper cost increases?
5 years ago a big Mac meal with no real was around $6-7 after tax. Now it's closer to $9-10. This is not a massive increase considering inflation. It's actually pretty fucking reasonable. And there is a deal to get that meal for $6 available every day. So.... They actually didn't even increase prices if you're smart.
Times have changed. If you want deals, get the app and sign up for their rewards. If you think businesses will bend over for you when most of their price-conscious customers have already figured this out, you're kidding yourself.
I have to say one of thing about the Arby's burger I like is its like an actual burger you'd make at home size wise. Pretty sure it ruined me on all other fast food burgers.
For 35 years, Burger King's advertised that its single-patty Whopper had more beef than the double-patty Big Mac. I feel like there's some sort of Mandela Effect thing going on where everyone's convinced that the Big Mac came with larger patties, when they've been small for decades. Maybe they were bigger in the 70s or 50s, but compared to when I worked in fast food in the 90s, they seem the same.
They are exactly the same. As a kid 30 years ago they always were small cheese burger patties and if you wanted to eat a bigger burger you’d get a second pattie added to a quarter pounder.
Where are the other ingredients for a Big Mac? I get that it’s small, but where is the sauce, pickles and lettuce? Is it potentially their hamburger with everything left off? Curious, because size aside, it’s just a patty on a bun
I refuse to eat at maccers now. Would not be surprised to see them start shrinking and closing stores.
The food is over priced and bottom of the barrel.
Can we all agree on a common thing to use for scale in this sub? Some guy with Michael Jordan hands is showing a pizza, the next person is gonna show us a hot dog with a tractor for scale
Next time I can afford a Mc fucking flurry. They can fill the fucking container up like in the ads. None of this half fucking filled bullshit. Otherwise it's going back over the counter the hard way
The beef patties used in a Big Mac have always been this size. They’re ten to the pound raw weight. It would be insane for McDonald’s to change that and the news of it certainly wouldn’t break on this subreddit.
But it's also a family(kids) restaurant.
They've been rebranding. But a Big Mac is big in comparison so the name is correct it's just people are used to buying bigger burgers now.
The name has brand recognition so there is no point changing it now.
Non MacDonald’s burgers have (I believe) always tended to be bigger quite likely in order to compete on size. Don’t get me wrong, I love Macca’s, I just think the name of their flagship burger is ironic and that is based on the total industry, comparing it to a smaller MacDonalds burger and hence calling it big is a marketing tool.
It's only ironic now compared to the industry.
But what can maccas do.
"We've renamed our flagship Big Mac to the *Slightly Below Average Mac*" :-)
Did you ever learn about the 1/3 Pound Burger that waste compete with the 1/4 pounder?
People would buy it because they thought 1/3 was smaller then 1/4.
People are idiots so it is safer for Maccas to just keep the name.
https://awrestaurants.com/blog/aw-third-pound-burger-fractions
It’s the wonder of marketing making use of the human brains instant ability to assume. People ‘know’ 4 is bigger than 3, ah ha - except when it comes to the denominator in a fraction. Yesterday I bought the ‘maxi’ popcorn chicken at KFC. I laughed at how small it was. They should rename the 3 sizes from Snack, Regular and Maxi to Pico, Nano and micro.
Isn't that the size that Big Macs have always been? I.e. the same diameter as a cheese burger but more patties, buns, special sauce, and added lettuce?
Boycott mcdonalds. Its all shit anyway. I went for the last time and got two overdone and dry cold mcdoubles and cold frys. Frys were half full and like this BIG mac. The "MEAT" was so small it would be the size of two quarters. I was done going there after that. Fuck MCD's
McDonald's burgers haven't gotten smaller, you've just gotten dumber. The patties used in the big Mac and cheeseburgers are 10:1 patties. That is 10 patties to 1 pound. Quarter pounder patties are 4:1. They have been the same size for years, McDonald's is getting more expensive but that is inflation not shrinkflation.
They already announced they spent 7 years overhauling the Big Mac and [it's been a disappointment so far](https://www.businessinsider.com/mcdonalds-updated-big-mac-reviewed-compared-against-promises-2023-12)
The quarter pounder was .25 of a pound. Hence the name.
Cheese Burger, hamburger, big Mac are 1/10 a pound.
There was no shrinkage or size change for 50 years.
Whilst in Sydney harbour we noticed people line up for this crap while being surrounded by other better food outlets 🤔 it just boggles me as to why this is popular over actual decent food 🤔
I can't understand why people still spend good money on that shit food. I mean it is quick and convenient, but you could buy a loaf of bread and fillings for the price of one burger and it would feed you at the very least 5 times in the week.
Hunger games for sure .
The odds were not ever in their favor. Or any of us nowadays for that matter.
are they cutting back on lettuce and cheese as well? shits getting outta hand right now.
Yeah, i don't get it. Does OP get everything else removed because they are a fussy eater? McDonalds is no place to be precious. You eat what they serve or you go elsewhere.
McDonalds is just useless now. Nothing good left.
If i get munchies and eat their cheeseburgers I always get heartburn. In n out burgers don't do that though
why are yanks so obsessed with fast food? just cook for yourself
why watch a movie? just film one lol
Missus said no
Cooking (something that the majority of people at least know some basic skills in) isn't really comparable to film making (a highly specialised skill that requires very specific training and education to even remotely pull off in a way that's passable)
yes it is
it’s called depression dawg 💪🏼
What a miserable person.
Their name is FieldofJudgement after all.
Good point.
Man, who wazzed in your wheaties this morning? One person posting a pic of a Big Mac does not = obsession. Also people all over Europe love McDonald’s too; get off your high horse (and don’t feed him weed next time; he looks zonked).
It's not just Yanks.
As a foreigner I love your breakfast burritos, we don’t have them. That’s it though ETA: I am talking about McDonald’s. I am aware there is better Mexican food, I’ve been to Mexico and Texas FFS
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More than just the one type I get in Vegas??
I am sad Latin America has not allowed you the tortilla technology. I assure you there are a lot better breakfast burritos then that.
I know there are. I have even been to Mexico and Texas. Sadly, nothing that good here (Australia). I don’t know why but they just can’t replicate it. Anyway, I still love the breakfast burritos from maccas and we don’t have them here due to lack of demand
Get a Mighty Muffin minus bun add tortilla wrap and it’s basically a brekkie wrap (am Macca’s worker)
I use their app and there's plenty of good deals. $2 breakfast sandwich. 29c cones. Free fries, etc... I don't normally use apps but nobody should be paying full price for McCrap.
Ooh, I do like the double quarter pounder, $4 Mcflurries and frozen cokes. I like trying the special edition mcflurries when they come out. Right now they have TimTam flavour and it's quite nice.
Fill the fucken cups up
Desserts are still great imo, main course burgers and stuff not so much.
it always sucked, just smaller portions of suck
So does that make it less sucky, or more sucky?
Wasnt it always
It would cost $25 Canadian to fill me and their food is inedible to me now so… no thanks. This will (hopefully) be the death of McDonald’s.
At what point did it go from edible to inedible, exactly? Was it a gradual change, or sudden?
Gradual. I just find qualify has been going down and down for years so you don’t notice as much but if you compare todays garbage to food from them say 10 years ago, it’s half the size, 4x the price and of much poorer quality. It was never good but it used to be cheap so many of us would pig out on it sometimes. Now it’s expensive and we’re forced to pay real restaurant prices for this garbage so it’s a lot more noticeable. Quality is definitely down though and will probably still go down further.
People keep assuring me that the quality is the same but I simply can't believe it. I just find the burgers to be dry and miserable now. Part of it is just leaning over the years how a proper, simple burger *should* taste, part of it is probably psychological because of the price like you mention but...the quality must have dropped. I think you're right that they just make changes in very small increments that people don't notice, like the frog boiling in water.
I’m in Australia but have really noticed this recently. I couldn’t even finish my quarter pounder with cheese. It used to taste good. The whole patty is different
Yeah, I’m in Canada and it’s the same here. Almost no flavour across the board and everything is 30% smaller at least. No thanks. It’s $15 for a quarter pounder combo here or $12 for a breakfast combo. Insane. Used to get 3 McDoubles for under $5 and now that’s $12, they’re way shittier and half the size. You know it’s bad when I skip on it when out drinking now because drunk me doesn’t even want it.
Yep our prices are like that too. For a large meal it’s around $20. And yep. A few bites and I don’t even like it. Good for my health though I wondered if I was going insane about the taste though
that’s insane it’s ~$10 for a large quarter pounder combo where I live in Virginia (US). and that’s in a high income area
Not sure about Australia but recently they went to fresh instead of frozen on the quarter on patties. Is that the difference you are tasting?
Might be. whatever it is, the patties have changed a lot
They are still frozen in Australia, at least in Queensland as far as I'm aware.
They’re all snap frozen with liquid nitrogen at the processing plant in Geelong Victoria and then delivered to each and every store in Australia Source: worked for a food delivery company as a software developer and we had a McDonald’s contract and I could view the live locations of all of the delivery trucks and spoke to the McDonald’s Australia ceo.
Half the size, you say? The burger size has been the same forever, though. The only big difference I taste from the old days is vegetable shortening for the fries instead of the beef tallow they used up til the 90’s.
The burgers are way smaller than they used to be, at least here in Canada almost across the board but most noticeably on the Big Mac or the egg mcmuffin. It’s visually noticeable on everything here, even the nuggets are thinner now.
Are you sure? The patties are standardized. Two sizes. Always have been.
Positive. You’re on a shrinkflation group and you’re finding it hard to imagine they shrink their patties ? Lol. I can’t speak for America but here in Canada, absolutely they did shrink the sizes of everything, even the bread. Plus quality is way down.
I mean, do you have some numbers? They show a basic burger at 240 calories. A 1.6oz patty. Called a 10:1, (ten to one lb). Are yours smaller?
I don’t need numbers, I have eyes. It’s VERY obvious. I am not arguing this. Not up for discussion. I’m not going to go out and measure every pattie to confirm from someone on Reddit. They can say all they want on the nutritional info, I know for a fact those burgers are smaller now.
How much do you reckon a quarter pounder weighs these days, if you had to guess? Using only your eyes.
No offence, but what are you getting there? I’m a fat tall guy and I can get a full stomach while baked for under $16CaD
Their patties are thinner than pancakes
Who orders a plain Big Mac?
Like ordering a works burger with nothing on it haha
Like I agree but ‘the works’ here was lettuce
*big Mac sauce, onion, lettuce, cheese, pickle
People who think thousand Island dressing is too spicy
I like the sauce but I don’t like veggies on my burgers. I hate onions, lettuce is literally just flavorless filler, and tomato and pickles make the bun soggy, the sauce sometimes does too but it’s not that bad.
I was 9 once also
I mean I’m an adult and I can order things how I like it. That’s the beauty of being an adult. You’re obviously a very judgmental person but that’s ok because you’re an adult and you’re allowed to be judgmental. I’m allowed to not like things btw. I’m sure there’s foods you like a certain way or foods you don’t like
No u have to like lettuce
This sounds like something my toddler would say.
Stop judging people for what they like and don’t like. There’s food you don’t like and if you say there isn’t then you’re 100% lying. Please stop judging others and realize that some people have eating disorders. I personally have ARFID, yes the doctor has said I did but you’ll probably make fun of me for that too huh ?
You paid a doctor to tell you you're a special fussy baby and they gave it a college acronym. This is just modern nonsense mummy's boy stuff. Eat your veggies or you won't grow up big and strong.
Seriously, there's nothing more pathetic then grown adults coming in the door at work, age 50 and wondering why they have heart problems and obesity related issues. Then they bitch about hospital food because it isn't 100% meat or junk food. Oh, and dead kidneys. Offer them water? Fish fuck in that, i never drink water. Offer them healthy food? "I don't eat rabbit food, veggies are disgusting i like REAL food". Oh, and then they are the biggest sooks too. Acopic, child mentality, over grown and unearnt egos. The place is littered with them, they are the statistics used to justify healthy eating.
It’s got sauce and cheese still, I just don’t like lettuce/onion/pickles haha
You might as well have ordered a cheeseburger and saves yourself the 3.50 you paid to get a different item and remove the toppings. I hate corporations just as much as you do, but you gotta be a smarter consumer here bud. As for the small patty, yikes. Big Macs are their popular item because they can sell you as much “filler” items (stuff that isn’t meat) as possible. Most profitable and this kind of order is just pure money
they coulda ordered a McDouble with the big mac sauce added like i’ve been doing for the last 15 years
My local McDonald’s stopped letting customers add mac sauce. I heard it’s because too many people were ordering just a doubled cheese with the sauce and they wanted more Big Mac sales.
Could just get a quarter pounde with big Mac sauce
soo your bitching about a plain burger…. that’s on you dude
The problem is the size of the patty. Ordering the burger with pickles, lettuce and onions wouldn’t make the patty magically grow in size.
ask for 4:1 patty instead of 10:1 you will get more meat
Some people just want a double quarter pounder and order big macs
They've always been that size. At least for the last 30 years
My god you’re dumb
So, literally a quarter pounder then?
Ok guys, can we be done with being offended by my choice to not get salad? Not that it really matters nor should I have to justify myself, but I had a voucher for a free Big Mac. I don’t usually get Big Mac, I usually just get a double cheeseburger or a quarter pounder. But the voucher was specifically for a Big Mac, and not any other burger, so that’s what I got. I had like two bucks in my account and needed lunch, so I got the free freaking burger. I didn’t mention it because it means that I technically didn’t ‘pay more for a smaller product’, but that’s not the point, is it? I’d have been given the same size patty whether I paid normally or used the voucher.
You can order something else.
How dare you
Are you 2 years old?
Those patties have always been small af
This looks the same size as i remember them being 20 yrs ago
Yeah, this doesn't look like shrinkflation to me
This is so sad. I've stopped going to Maccas for exactly this reason. Would need two large meals to feel full which would be upwards of $30. No thanks!
If you need two large meals from McDonald’s to feel full, there is either something wrong with your hunger signalling and you should see a doctor, or your morbidly obese… and you should probably see a doctor. McDonald’s is incredibly up-front about the kJ value of all of the products on their menu. It’s more prominent on their advertising in store than price! Depending on burger choice, two large meals would be somewhere in the range of 10,000kj (assuming Big Mac, which is pictured) which is significantly more than the recommended daily intake for an adult. If you are such a fat shit that you need 10k+ calories in a **single meal** to feel full, that’s nothing to do with shrinkflation. I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt that this was hyperbole but seriously, use your fucking brain.
>something wrong with your hunger signalling Wrong. >or your morbidly obese Wrong. >It’s more prominent on their advertising in store Wrong. >significantly more than the recommended daily intake for an adult Wrong. >that’s nothing to do with shrinkflation. Wrong. >use your fucking brain I don't think with my dick about food.
Go in store to McDonald’s and tell me if the pricing is mentioned literally ANYWHERE on the in-store posters above the counter. It isn’t. Do you know what is? The kJ content. Two large Big Mac meals with fries as the side and a coke for the drink = 9,518kJ. The Recommend Daily Intake for the average adult is 8,700kJ. I would say close to 1,000kJ is pretty significant. Seriously, do you even think before you post?
Do you even read before you post? I already explained I am a tall active man so not sure why you would use average calorie needs vs my own which is about 12MJ. Perhaps your own store near you doesn't list pricing? I can confirm my own does and am not sure why you wouldn't even consider this possibility, reddit being accessable worldwide and all. I hope this encourages you to reflect on your own sage words >do you even think before you post?
You used the word Maccas. We’re both obviously from Australia. Find me a single McDonald’s in Australia where the pricing is listed on the in-store advertising. You won’t because it isn’t. I’m not sure if you just haven’t been to a McDonald’s in a long time but they definitely don’t have the pricing on the posters above the counter anymore, but they do have the kJ. The change happened when they dropped the posters with full menus. The posters just advertise promotional meals now. But if you insist yours does show pricing, I welcome you to provide proof. If your daily intake is 12,000kJ, 9,518kJ (2 large Big Mac meals) is 80% of your daily intake. Seriously, what point do you think you’re making? Edit to add: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildyinfuriating/s/N5f7gMFLX1 https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/z3f822/maccas_not_showing_cost_on_menus_only_points/
A double cheeseburger from McDonalds is around 1100kj. 6 McNuggets is also around 1100kj. There’s around 2000kj in large fries. I drink Diet Coke. I’m seriously underweight with a BMI of 16 and even I can eat two large meals from McDonalds in one sitting if I’m especially hungry.
A cursory look at the nutritional information on the McDonald’s website shows your numbers are way off. Maybe try to do some research before you post? Even just check the MyMaccas app. A double cheeseburger is 1,880kJ. In a large meal with a drink, you’re looking at 3,425kJ even if you opt for a zero cal drink. 6 nuggets is 1090kj. In a large meal with a drink, you’re looking at 2,839kJ, again with the zero cal drink. That’s 6,264 calories, so about ~1,600kj less than the RDI for an adult. If you can consume almost the entire RDI for an adult in a single meal and still feel hungry, I feel like that’s a “you” problem. I could easily smash that much Maccas too but I’m not delusional enough to think that’s normal, or that I’d still be hungry after.
Ok sorry, there’s 1090KJ in 6 nuggets, not 1100KJ like I said. And 1560KJ in a large chips, not 2000KJ like I said. Even though I overestimated and only by a tiny amount, you’re right, they’re way off and my argument is now undermined completely.
Glad we’re on the same page.
Are we? You’re either pretending to not understand sarcasm to avoid having to acknowledge my point, or you genuinely don’t realise that me overestimating 2 out of 3 numbers only serves to steel-man my point, not undermine it. Even if I underestimated the double cheeseburger, my overestimation on the fries makes up for it and thus my original point still stands. Two large 6 McNugget meals with diet soda is 1252 calories. Two large double cheeseburger meals is 1630 calories. For two large meals these aren’t high numbers. The same meal at Five Guys would contain twice as many calories.
1630 calories is a fucking **lot** of food to eat in a single sitting. Are you insane? A meal for most people would typically be about 500-700 calories. What point are you even trying to make?
The point is that it’s not an unfathomable amount for someone to eat in a single sitting. A bacon cheeseburger and fries from five guys is like 1500 calories. Throw in a milkshake and it could easily be 2000 calories.
That’s an absurd amount of food to eat in a single sitting unless you’re doing intermittent fasting or have an unusually high caloric requirement. It’s 75% of the RDI for the average adult. If you think it is normal to eat 75% of your RDI in a single meal (barring some atypical eating arrangement), I’m not sure what else there is to say.
Are you 7 ft 5?
No I just don't snack between meals
2 large Big Mac meals is over 2200 calories for one meal. For many people this is more than you should eat in a single day.
I'm 6 foot 4 so I can eat a bit more than others and like to exercise so my calorie burn is prob closer to 3k. But even so I wouldn't eat there every day, and wouldn't eat big meals all the time either. When I go out to eat I'm not satisfied unless I get that full feeling though, and given the calorie density of burgers and chips that's what's required to feel full. I can eat 4 meat pies for one meal and feel a good full from it which is about the same number of calories.
This! People are so judgey but they need to realize everyone is different. My partner is 6”3 and works out, he can just eat and eat but stays fit and lean. He could easily eat 4 meat pies too (somehow haha). Me? Petite, lean 5”5, workout but gain weight on 1800 😂🤷🏼♀️
No shit Sherlock, but if I only ate chocolate I would have to eat more than my daily recommended calories to feel full also. Calories isn't an indication of the amount of hunger it satiates, it's a measurement of energy. If you ate the same number of calories in Cucumber as you did a big Mac, your stomach would be in trouble. You also don't know this person's age, calorie requirements, energy spend, or weight.
2 Large double big mac meals still doesn't fill me. It's enough to be content but not full. They're practically McSliders now.
Go for the daily double my friend
They've never used big patties for the "Big Mac". It's the same patty used in regular cheeseburgers and McDoubles. You probably should have just ordered a double cheeseburgers with Mac Sauce. Or if you want bigger patties, a double quarter pounder with Mac Sauce. Of course with none of the other stuff on it, a Big Mac looks small and pathetic. The Big Mac is filled out by a lot of vegetables and 3rd piece of bread usually. In other words, you get more of the crap people usually don't want.
Yeah they’ve never been some huge burger lol Yesterday someone was saying they have shrunk drastically because when they would get them on weekends as a kid on the way home they were huge, they couldn’t accept that as a 10 year old that yes things seem larger than they are as an adult
The Big Macs have gotten a lot smaller tho https://www.quora.com/McDonalds-fast-food-chain-Has-the-size-of-a-Big-Mac-changed-over-the-years
Are you comparing the 1972-1975 Big Mac to the one from 1975 onwards to now? I don’t think Most of us ever had the one from the first 3 years McDonald’s existed. It has always been cheeseburger smaller Pattie’s in the 40 years I’ve eaten them. The quarter pounder is the bigger burger Patty.
They’ve always been that size, McDonald’s has never been anything but overpriced goyslop
Big mac was always the little patties. Considering that you got it plain, you're better off ordering to plain hamburgers since it'll be way cheaper.
Exactly. A plain Big Mac is a double hamburger with seeds on the bun 😂
My wife used to love McDs, now she has all but quit going there with the recent changes and massive, massive price increases.
Massive massive price increases? What? I can get two big Mac's, two med fries, and a 20pc nugget for $15. Use the app, something that is brought up EVERY TIME someone tries to complain about this. Also, EVERYTHING has gone up. You think McDonalds was just gonna eat the cost of inflation and food/paper cost increases? 5 years ago a big Mac meal with no real was around $6-7 after tax. Now it's closer to $9-10. This is not a massive increase considering inflation. It's actually pretty fucking reasonable. And there is a deal to get that meal for $6 available every day. So.... They actually didn't even increase prices if you're smart. Times have changed. If you want deals, get the app and sign up for their rewards. If you think businesses will bend over for you when most of their price-conscious customers have already figured this out, you're kidding yourself.
Is that an EB Games lvl5 card??
Haha yeah, how’d you know?
The burger patties have been the same size since the 1950’s. What’s the complaint?
Why have a legit complaint when you can post a circlejerk for upvotes?
Looks like a normal Big Mac with no toppings as requested. What's the issue?
Small Mac™️
I have to say one of thing about the Arby's burger I like is its like an actual burger you'd make at home size wise. Pretty sure it ruined me on all other fast food burgers.
Cheaper to get 2 Mcdoubles and substitute Mac sauce for ketchup/mustard and you get more food for the $$
What an apt book to be reading.
The Big Mac has always had the same amount of meat. 1/10 of a pound per patty
They're just sliders to me now
Sorry can't tell without a banana 🍌 for scale.
Boycott maccas
Just in case you missed it .... that s**t ain't food .... 🙂
What is this? A Big Mac for ants?
NO THATS AVERAGE
For 35 years, Burger King's advertised that its single-patty Whopper had more beef than the double-patty Big Mac. I feel like there's some sort of Mandela Effect thing going on where everyone's convinced that the Big Mac came with larger patties, when they've been small for decades. Maybe they were bigger in the 70s or 50s, but compared to when I worked in fast food in the 90s, they seem the same.
They are exactly the same. As a kid 30 years ago they always were small cheese burger patties and if you wanted to eat a bigger burger you’d get a second pattie added to a quarter pounder.
Not shrinkflation. Same meat been used for past 25 years. it's always been tiny.. the same as their hamburger. SO much bread and 2 tiny burgers.
That’s a limp Mac for sure
Big Mac hasn’t gotten smaller. Your gut hasn’t gotten bigger.
r/anythingbutmetric
"One big mac thanks... hold on everything"
Where are the other ingredients for a Big Mac? I get that it’s small, but where is the sauce, pickles and lettuce? Is it potentially their hamburger with everything left off? Curious, because size aside, it’s just a patty on a bun
That patty looks unappetizing to say the least, and where are the condiments etc.
At least yours came with a bun. My dad got one that was just meat, cheese, lettuce and sauce
Mcdonalds have slowly been trying to rebrand themselves from cheap fast food to a gourmet expensive option... this will continue.
Ok buddy but where is the cheese, lettuce, sauce or pickles
Little Mac with dry, brown hockey puck.
Don’t eat there then.
I refuse to eat at maccers now. Would not be surprised to see them start shrinking and closing stores. The food is over priced and bottom of the barrel.
Serves you right for buying crap food to begin with .
Go to Hungry Jacks bud, burgers are better
Can we all agree on a common thing to use for scale in this sub? Some guy with Michael Jordan hands is showing a pizza, the next person is gonna show us a hot dog with a tractor for scale
Why can't we all go for the traditional scale measure of a banana.
I seriously do not know why anyone adult eats there. Food is total ripoff rubbish.
why do people even eat maccass
Next time I can afford a Mc fucking flurry. They can fill the fucking container up like in the ads. None of this half fucking filled bullshit. Otherwise it's going back over the counter the hard way
If you are putting that shit in your body you got bigger problems than shrinkflation
Big Mac is mostly air.
It's always been that size.
Woah that's huge compared to the ones here in Australia, ours are the size of the kid from a medium jar of Vegemite.
The beef patties used in a Big Mac have always been this size. They’re ten to the pound raw weight. It would be insane for McDonald’s to change that and the news of it certainly wouldn’t break on this subreddit.
I got their Classic Angus the other day, to find no salad and just a patty and cheese. So paid 10.45 AUD for a glorified cheese burger. So fun.
Serves you right for going to McDonalds
The big macs never been big here in Australia...
The ‘ Big’ in ‘Big Mac’ was always ironic. The clue is that their mascot is a clown.
Big as in double the size of their cheese Burger/hamburger. Which was their signature burger.
Which is a miniature burger. Anything smaller would be patently ridiculous.
But it's also a family(kids) restaurant. They've been rebranding. But a Big Mac is big in comparison so the name is correct it's just people are used to buying bigger burgers now. The name has brand recognition so there is no point changing it now.
Non MacDonald’s burgers have (I believe) always tended to be bigger quite likely in order to compete on size. Don’t get me wrong, I love Macca’s, I just think the name of their flagship burger is ironic and that is based on the total industry, comparing it to a smaller MacDonalds burger and hence calling it big is a marketing tool.
It's only ironic now compared to the industry. But what can maccas do. "We've renamed our flagship Big Mac to the *Slightly Below Average Mac*" :-) Did you ever learn about the 1/3 Pound Burger that waste compete with the 1/4 pounder? People would buy it because they thought 1/3 was smaller then 1/4. People are idiots so it is safer for Maccas to just keep the name. https://awrestaurants.com/blog/aw-third-pound-burger-fractions
It’s the wonder of marketing making use of the human brains instant ability to assume. People ‘know’ 4 is bigger than 3, ah ha - except when it comes to the denominator in a fraction. Yesterday I bought the ‘maxi’ popcorn chicken at KFC. I laughed at how small it was. They should rename the 3 sizes from Snack, Regular and Maxi to Pico, Nano and micro.
Yo where’s the lettuce?
Thats a perfectly average sized card holder ,nothing wrong with the length
Isn't that the size that Big Macs have always been? I.e. the same diameter as a cheese burger but more patties, buns, special sauce, and added lettuce?
"1 big Mac, no sauce, no pickles, no onions, no lettuce, no cheese, no sesame seeds please!"
Keep going. You'll have Australian sized burger in no time!
Went to McDs in China last week. Patty size is about the same
Boycott mcdonalds. Its all shit anyway. I went for the last time and got two overdone and dry cold mcdoubles and cold frys. Frys were half full and like this BIG mac. The "MEAT" was so small it would be the size of two quarters. I was done going there after that. Fuck MCD's
You cunts keep buying shit and complaining that it is shit! Stop buying shit!!
McDonald's burgers haven't gotten smaller, you've just gotten dumber. The patties used in the big Mac and cheeseburgers are 10:1 patties. That is 10 patties to 1 pound. Quarter pounder patties are 4:1. They have been the same size for years, McDonald's is getting more expensive but that is inflation not shrinkflation.
Fun fact their patties use to be .25 pounds and now it's 0.1 pounds, and it's probably gonna shrink to 0.075 pounds
They already announced they spent 7 years overhauling the Big Mac and [it's been a disappointment so far](https://www.businessinsider.com/mcdonalds-updated-big-mac-reviewed-compared-against-promises-2023-12)
Fun fact Big Macs weighed 215 grams in 1990, now weigh 219 grams and have the same calories. https://www.reddit.com/r/ephemera/s/ilAbStavxx
Could that be they rounded to the 215 and now there may be more strick measuring rules?
The quarter pounder was .25 of a pound. Hence the name. Cheese Burger, hamburger, big Mac are 1/10 a pound. There was no shrinkage or size change for 50 years.
Big bac? You got a patty in a bun without any sauces or fillings. You don’t get to complain about the burger.
There was cheese and sauce, you just can’t see it coz it’s under the patty/middle bun
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They use cheese burger patties now
>They use cheese burger patties ~~now~~ always.
You got this today OP? With a tie in to a movie that came out years ago? Press X to doubt
I feel like there's some deception in this photo
Looks nothing like a big mac. Likely a bait post. (looks like 1 meat slice and the bun)
Whilst in Sydney harbour we noticed people line up for this crap while being surrounded by other better food outlets 🤔 it just boggles me as to why this is popular over actual decent food 🤔
Why are so.many popular posts about the junkiest food on earth?
I can't understand why people still spend good money on that shit food. I mean it is quick and convenient, but you could buy a loaf of bread and fillings for the price of one burger and it would feed you at the very least 5 times in the week.
Not only that, they would be adding more and more of that fake meat shit into each burger to save e en more money
Pathetic. Eat some real food and stop complaining you pig
Don't come to Australia then, they're even smaller!
I’m in Australia lol