Posted on 01/09/2019 7:26:20 PM PST by be-baw
As long as they’re adding bacon to the Big Mac, why don’t they go back to making the French fries with beef suet.
Cheesy Bacon fries........ yummm. I’ll have to give them a try
Wendy’s has chili cheese fries that are a meal unto themselves
In point of fact, Mc Donalds has three sizes of Big Mcs. One is smaller
I get McRibs when avilable. The problem is that the sandwich is not offered except for a limited time.
I generally buy lunch and eat while driving. A Mcrib eaten while drivine is guranteed to ruin a shirt and perhps the steering wheel. The ooze is part of the McRib goodness experience
I just checked an inflation calculator. $1 in 1975 is $4.75 today.
So that $5 is $23.75 today.
McDonald’s is currently running a 2 for $5 special. You can get four Big Mac’s for $10. Plus 4 large drinks for $4.
I think they also have fries on the dollar menu, so let’s say 2 large fries at $2.
That’s $16 to fee a family of four.
Even without the special Bic Mac, I think they are under $4 each, so that’s still $24. Within $.25 of the level of inflation.
Not great food, but not a bad value.
Philly has the cheese steak thing down. I was in New Hampshire yesterday for work and ordered a Cheese steak for lunch.
It was OK for a steak but didn’t seems to have any cheese on it.
Today’s 1/4 lb burgers weigh nowhere near what the 1/4 lb burgers weighed when I was younger.
Enough with catering to the pansies with their salads and soy s**t. Bring on the bacon!
Bacon makes everything better.
Damn Metric System.
“Today’s 1/4 lb burgers weigh nowhere near what the 1/4 lb burgers weighed when I was younger.”
Just like a half gallon of ice cream is now 48 fl oz, a pint of Hagen-Dasz is now 14 fl oz, 3 lb of coffee is now 30 oz (!), etc.
I remember eating my first whopper. It was huge, ate in in the car with my friend, maybe 1968. The whole concept of eating a burger in a car was crazy.
So McDonald's is going all health-foody on us?
“I remember eating my first whopper. It was huge, ate in in the car with my friend, maybe 1968. The whole concept of eating a burger in a car was crazy.”
And that was probably before they had drive thru’s.
Around and before 1968 there were drive in restaurants where you’d park and a car hop would come out, take your order, and bring it to you. I recall there was an A&W in Port Huron, Michigan that would do that. That was a great treat at the time.
I remember those when I was a kid. I remember how you'd roll down your window and they'd seat a special tray on the car door with your order.
Sonic does something similar to that nowadays - although you give your order in a speaker, and no more trays on your car door. 
No there was no drive through just take out. Our family did not go to restaurants but every now and then Dad would take us all to the A&W root beer stand where they would bring the food to your car. They also took their big glass jugs back and you could get a new one filled with root beer. Any movies - maybe 2 a year were at the drive in.
Sonic does something similar to that nowadays - although you give your order in a speaker, and no more trays on your car door.
My first "real" job was as a Sonic carhop when I was 15. I took a tray out to a car, and as I was setting it down on the top of the window, the customer quickly rolled the window up about 4 inches. The tension on the tray created a makeshift catapult, which threw all of his food and drink into his lap.
Funny thing is, Sonic advertises all the time on my TV, yet there isn’t a Sonic within 50 miles of my house. The only time I get to see one is when I’m visiting my daughter, 90 miles away.
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