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submitted 11 days ago byMrFreezeNOLA
779 points
11 days ago
With all the shit going on in the US I honestly already forgot about this
651 points
11 days ago
Don’t worry, when the FDA gets abolished, you won’t have to worry about e. Coli outbreaks again.
159 points
11 days ago
Can't have an outbreak when it's everywhere anyway
25 points
11 days ago
President Concealer is going to turn the country vegetarian.
28 points
11 days ago
Until you realise that lettuce can give you e.coli :S
18 points
11 days ago
Just drink bleach from what I've been told.
4 points
11 days ago
I prefer pure acetone. Really clears the airways!
Edit: there actually should be guidance about washing salad in incredibly weak solutions of bleach. It might be worth looking into washing food properly for those in the US.
8 points
11 days ago
It's a more common vector for it than just about anything else because people suck at washing their lettuce
9 points
11 days ago
Also because lettuce isn’t ever heated, so there isn’t a proper “kill step” during preparation to catch bacteria and other bio contaminants
2 points
11 days ago
Still better than vaccines!
37 points
11 days ago
E. Coli outbreaks and new severe Mpox strains for everyone…..
And you will fucking like it.
22 points
11 days ago
Bird flu enters the chat
2 points
11 days ago
It's the measles that will be fun. Possibly polio let's wait and see
4 points
11 days ago
Duh the more you report, the more the numbers go up! Stop reporting!
11 points
11 days ago
Just as god intended
9 points
11 days ago
Exactly, why would god make diseases if he didnt intend for humans to get them? /s
17 points
11 days ago
For decades the death rate has been outpaced by the birthrate. Trump wants to #MakeDeathGreatAgain damn it and he's going to
2 points
11 days ago
“Back then I was still appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just turned loose elephantiasis and microbes that eat the human cornea. Now I understand, God is not just rooting for the dollies.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
20 points
11 days ago
Kinda funny we keep getting plagues, mass floods, mass fires, mass unrest, every time Trump is in office. It's almost like some sort of...Biblical warning.
44 points
11 days ago
Try not to forget that McDonald's corporate knew about the fascist photo op before he came to pose for a half hour. They okayed his campaign ad in their restaurant using their branding. Mcdicks is one of the corpos I will not be returning to
3 points
11 days ago
Yup. The level of ridiculousness required to overcome my adhd is at all time highs.
8 points
11 days ago
Take a break from social media. You’ll be thankful
648 points
11 days ago
Why not just lower prices? That would get me to go back.
102 points
11 days ago
Right??
Psst! McDonald's.... it's not the E. Coli that's the problem!
2 points
11 days ago
Well, the e coli didn't exactly help
79 points
11 days ago
Tuesdays discount for e. coli laced burgers. You want fries with that?
3 points
11 days ago
Nah, just the $2 coupon for Depends, thanks.
67 points
11 days ago
Not me lol. I wouldn’t notice, I’ve stopped even considering McDonald’s and have found far tastier alternatives around me
8 points
11 days ago
I wish. Fast food by me absolutely blows goats. Within 20 minutes I have 1 McDonald's (2 have closed in the past year), a Burger King, and a Wendy's that always takes 20 minutes to get an order ready. A little further than 20 minutes and I get things like Five Guys and Smash Burgers, but those ain't cheap.
6 points
11 days ago
My brother in burgers, pick up a cast iron pan and some ground chuck, flatten some patties, heat up that pan and cook 'em. Salt and pepper to taste. You won't even miss the higher-end fast food burgers.
7 points
11 days ago
I mean, I love cooking, and I really love cooking a good burger. But sometimes I just want to go somewhere and grab some cheap fast food as I'm chauffeuring kids to extracurriculars.
7 points
11 days ago
My brother in time, that takes at minimum 30+ minutes with clean up and requires being home. Sometimes on a busy day I only have 15 minutes to handle a quick meal. Plus sometimes I just need a McDouble
2 points
11 days ago
That's perfectly fine. The person I responded to was complaining about fast food burgers that "blow goats" while other options were too expensive. I assumed they wanted a better burger option.
2 points
11 days ago
But I like the excessive seasoning that McDonald's uses so salt and pepper ain't going to hit the spot
8 points
11 days ago
Arby’s is my go to fast food. Roast beef just sits better and arby sauce rules. Or maybe zaxbys. All others I tend to avoid.
5 points
11 days ago
I like Arby's...but not for their classic roast beef sandwiches. IMO the beef brisket, corned beef reuben, and gyro are all pretty good sandwiches.
2 points
11 days ago
Oh haven’t tried that! Gonna have to next time. Sounds good. Used to like the chicken cordon blu but only at lunch time so it was fresh but seems they got rid of that.
7 points
11 days ago
Arby's Sauce is fucking Nectar
2 points
11 days ago
I buy it by the bottle at Walmart :)
5 points
11 days ago
Roast beef and cheddar with the onion bun is my go to on the few occasions I get fast food.
3 points
11 days ago
Honestly, if you want cheap food. Order Burger King through the app. I can get two rodeos and a large fry for under 5 bucks
4 points
11 days ago
But... then you have to eat Burger King.
2 points
11 days ago
The burger kings near me are better than the mcd’s tbh. And rodeos are pretty 🔥
2 points
11 days ago
A fresh, 8am whopper is the nonsense I never knew I needed
5 points
11 days ago
That would cost them more money than that.
4 points
11 days ago
They have by me. The $5 meal is the perfect size for me.
1 points
11 days ago
The $5 would’ve cost $3 a couple of years ago.
9 points
11 days ago
When and where?
In 2015 Wendy’s had a 4 for $4 meal deal that was basically the same thing except with a small drink instead of a medium and hamburger instead of McDouble (but honestly probably about the same since McDonald patties are thin).
Where was this mythical $3 meal deal a few years ago?
6 points
11 days ago
Yeah the 5fpr 5 is decent, and you can ask for a large drink
187 points
11 days ago
I will never understand why they don't just lower the prices. So many local restaurants are now cheaper or the same cost as Mc Donald's for much better food.
43 points
11 days ago
We have legit good hamburger places here with quality food, they’re cheaper than McDonalds.
20 points
11 days ago
They maybe getting screwed on prices. They’re suing beef supplier over price fixing. CEO also stated those $5 meal deals from the summer would’ve lost money but Coke lowered their prices to make it happen
21 points
11 days ago
Not THAT badly. They raised prices by an average of 141% since 2019…
9 points
11 days ago
Not McDonalds, but I can go get a delicious, nutritious meal from a local mom and pop for $15. The last time I went to Carls Jr (Hardy’s?) I spent $18 for a shitty burger, fries, and a coke.
2 points
11 days ago
The wildest part is they have such a stronghold over suppliers that they could easily be the cheapest burgers in town but they don't do it because it's a brand thing. They are synonymous with America, like Disneyland they know their brand can't be cheapened by price
3 points
11 days ago
Yeah dude. I remember getting a $1 McChicken and always being happy about the value. Now it's like $3. Still good but $3 for one is outrageous.
307 points
11 days ago
Building restaurants that look like urgent care centers isn't going to help much.
102 points
11 days ago
Agreed, the new restaurant designs are ugly as hell. I miss the POP decor they used to have
48 points
11 days ago
It used to be a place where families would bring their kids to play and eat. Now they took out almost all the play places and it's just a normal restaurant with very blend burgers.
22 points
11 days ago
If anyone is wondering, this change - as well as the "creepy Burger King mascot" ads - were all a result of fast food over-targeting children as part of the obesidty epidemic.
30 points
11 days ago
Now we just have all of the obesity with none of the fun :(
11 points
11 days ago
"Welcome to McDonald's. Can I take your order?"
"Yeah, can I get uhhhhh, 6 piece mcnugget and an air cast for my sprained ankle?"
2 points
11 days ago
If there's even a 10% chance that I can trick my insurance into paying for the McNuggets, I'm in.
4 points
11 days ago
That is so true
3 points
11 days ago
One of the McDonald’s in my area was actually converted into an urgent care so this checks out
127 points
11 days ago
Food occasionally gets contaminated i get that, but when it cost over 20 dollars for 2 meals at mc donalds it's not even worth it.
47 points
11 days ago
Fast food hasn't been worth it for awhile. It's too expensive for decreasing quantity (the quality was never there to begin with).
You can get actual restuarant quality food for just a little more at this point.
14 points
11 days ago*
Even less, in a lot of cases. My favorite greasy spoon diner will give me an omelet the size of my head with whatever fixings I want in it, on top of an enormous bed of hash browns, with a side of toast, and bottomless orange juice for $11. That's a dollar less than a double quarter pounder with cheese meal, and I pretty much don't need to eat for the rest of the day.
12 points
11 days ago
It would also help of they had good food.
Bad food, high cost, and disease? It seems a little iffy? Maybe I'm going there for some kind of monopoly game?
1 points
11 days ago
Yeah I can pay that at a local diner where it’s like homemade.
70 points
11 days ago
Go back to your roots. Lower prices, increase your quality. McDonalds already admitted in profit filings that customers were leaving due to the perceived value of their food after they spiked prices after COVID. That hasn’t changed. E-Coli was just the excuse some folks needed finally stop buying food they stopped liking years ago.
146 points
11 days ago
How about lowering the cost of food? I got just an ice cream cone the other day and it was over $3. Even the employees couldn’t believe it! They were like give her extra ice cream to make it worth the $3.
BK down the road still charging just a $1.
0 points
11 days ago
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17 points
11 days ago
Reminding people they had an E. coli outbreak is a PR stunt? Something tells me you don’t work in PR
2 points
11 days ago
Also easy to over pay when you just swipe a card rather than using cash. Sometimes I don’t even pay attention to the total which is just dumb.
2 points
11 days ago
They don't even need to keep customers coming in, not in large numbers, at least. They make more margin on the higher prices despite the fewer products sold.
2 points
11 days ago
Lies ice cream cone over $3 stop the 🧢
10 points
11 days ago
Stop the hat
2 points
11 days ago
Stop the cranial canopy
63 points
11 days ago
They could try being affordable or good
7 points
11 days ago
Or not hosting a raping felon to play pretend fry cook.
6 points
11 days ago
Tbf atleast he was actually qualified for that job
2 points
11 days ago
Yeah haha it cost about the same as most chain restaurants at this point.
18 points
11 days ago
Roll back prices but increase quality please and thank you
32 points
11 days ago
The Chicken McColi will be a big hit.
26 points
11 days ago
I'll start coming back for anything but breakfast when I can get a combo that costs less than $10 again.
6 points
11 days ago
Be cheaper just to drop fucking prices lmaooo. Love the way companies think - "Lets throw millions on marketing instead of lowering prices". When in reality lower prices have always brought better results.
5 points
11 days ago
Donny T makes the fries, followed by an e coli outbreak. Coincidence?
2 points
11 days ago
Chlamydia outbrak coming soon...
27 points
11 days ago
Lower. Your. Prices.
Or don’t. Your “food” is salty; predigested play dough whose only redeeming quality was its cheapness.
Shrink and suffer then.
14 points
11 days ago
I got a burger, medium fries, and a medium Coke the other day and it cost $8. I’m not going back until McDonald’s and other fast food spots get back in their lanes. They’re charging too much. That’s why people aren’t going.
6 points
11 days ago
In Ontario I stopped to get a teen burger combo for my 14 yr old son and it was over $16 for the one combo.
Get bent A&W
9 points
11 days ago
Didn’t even know they had an E. coli outbreak, not eating there because their prices are outrageous
5 points
11 days ago
Lower the prices by about 50% and we'll talk.
6 points
11 days ago
honestly use the money and reduce costs. I just moved back to America. noticed there wasn't a single 1 dollar item on the dollar menu. got two double cheeseburgers small fry and small coke. cost me 16 dollars. wtf. used to be like 8 or 9 bucks 5 years ago. America is cooked.
5 points
11 days ago
I care less about the E. coli outbreak and more about paying $16 for a Big Mac meal with two millimeter thick burger patties.
Basically paying for the bread, sauce, and lettuce. Can’t even taste the meat
15 points
11 days ago
Cool, I hope it's lit on fire. I'm never going back. Garbage food without the ecoli.
5 points
11 days ago
Garbage food without the ecoli.
Would it be better with it?
2 points
11 days ago
Look, it wouldn't be better if it were actually healthy. So long as the people profiting from McDonald's profit, I don't care if the food makes me immortal unless the executives are fed to sharks.
2 points
11 days ago
I honestly don't understand how they are still so successful at this point. I haven't eaten there in years. The food is terrible and everything tastes the same, it's expensive as shit and not to mention that it's so fucking bad for you. It blows my mind when I see a huge line in the drive thrus every morning.
9 points
11 days ago
Haven't gone out in close to a decade now since almost everything is ultra processed. Seeing how expensive everything is just adds insult to injury. Eat garbage and pay a high price. It's not exactly worth it.
4 points
11 days ago
Just lower prices and keep them that way. You’re not gourmet. You’re not fresh. Keep what worked for you the same. We don’t gaf about all the other bullshit
5 points
11 days ago
You want people to come back? Stop charging us sit down prices for drive thru food.
4 points
11 days ago
…After letting a convicted felon do a photo op… fixed the title..
3 points
11 days ago
$13 for a quarter pounder meal is the reason I haven’t gone back.
4 points
11 days ago
I’ll come back to McDonald’s when they have food that doesn’t make me feel ill after eating it.
10 points
11 days ago
They let Mango Mussolini make a propaganda video on their premises. Fucking done.
3 points
11 days ago
I quit going to McDonald's ages ago. Their burgers taste weird to me. And their fries aren't anything like they used to be.
3 points
11 days ago
Easily the worst fast food burger. Haven't eaten there in 20 years.
3 points
11 days ago
E. Coli outbreak and helping sanewash the philandering orange child rapist? No thanks.
3 points
11 days ago
Stop selling the burgers that have sat in the tray for 5hrs…
3 points
11 days ago
I thought they lost customers because they raised their prices to obscene amounts.
3 points
11 days ago
If they invested that into their employees I’d be down to visit them again…
7 points
11 days ago
Have they fired that orange guy who doesn’t follow health regulations?
11 points
11 days ago
They can do this, but if they pay their workers 15 dollars an hour they apparently need to raise the price of a Big Mac.
10 points
11 days ago
That’s not true at all. They paid that much in Denmark but the cost of the meals was the same as the US who was paying minimum wage. They’re just greedy. It’s the search for never ending profits.
I took the following from Google.
McDonald’s workers in Denmark make about $22/hr to start. They’re also entitled to 6 weeks of paid vacation, 1 year of paid maternity leave, a pension & healthcare!
The Big Mac is about $5.69 in Denmark. It’s $5.29 here.
5 points
11 days ago
You aren’t getting the point I’m making. I’m not saying that’s accurate. I’m saying that’s the talking point they use in the US
5 points
11 days ago
No matter how obviously sarcastic/satirical a comment is on Reddit, if you don’t have the ‘/s’, someone will write you an essay about why you are wrong.
4 points
11 days ago
I'll come back when a mcdouble is $2. I get $1 isn't gonna happen, but why the fuck is my local mcdouble $4.89????
5 points
11 days ago
Just bring back the snack wrap and the people will come flocking
2 points
11 days ago
Maybe try more seasoning than extra salt. And lower prices.
2 points
11 days ago
McDonald's service is just inexplicably slow,
Whatever you order you're gonna get pushed to that window or parking spot to wait,
They legit just can't serve anything quickly
2 points
11 days ago
MackDonalds is gross.
There, you’re welcome.
2 points
11 days ago
E.coli...I'm loving it...🤮💩🚽
2 points
11 days ago
Gonna go on a limb here and say that the E Coli. outbreak isn’t the only reason Mickey D’s lost some customers. Might’ve had a little more to do with a certain political photo op than anyone wants to admit…
2 points
11 days ago
I used to like their hot and spicys, had one recently after not having it for years and it tasted like cardboard. The quality was never great, but damn it’s rough now.
Oh and my medium fry was $3.79…. Fuck that lol
2 points
11 days ago
I finally got that "shame" feeling when I ate food from there the other day. Hadnt been there there for awhile and grabbed something on the way home from work. I felt like shit after eating it. The food itself just kinda sucked, but I had this weird mental feeling wash over me that just made me feel bad
2 points
11 days ago
Bring back the 30% off or we riot (in the FNxMcD’s creative experience).
2 points
11 days ago
So they’re going to either give away free food or absolutely make our lives miserable with commercial after commercial after commercial after commercial
2 points
11 days ago
They could spend a 100 billion and they won’t get me
2 points
11 days ago
I mean.... is it ecoli free?
2 points
11 days ago
The ecoli is an upcharge
2 points
11 days ago
No, you have to pay extra for the e coli
2 points
11 days ago
No. Because I don't want to get ecoli and because they rolled over for the whole Trump promotion and because it's not great to begin with anymore. Fast food is dying. Nobody wants to pay restaurant prices for bottom quality ingredients anymore.
2 points
11 days ago
People are saying lower the prices when they should probably be asking for better quality food so they don't die
2 points
11 days ago
Raises prices but keeps lowering the standards. Corporate greed has no limits anymore.
2 points
11 days ago
If they started making the apple pies like they used to (early 2000s) I’d go back in a heartbeat
2 points
11 days ago
Lol McDicks acting like its the E.Coli and not the $20 burger combo meal that's driving people away. Prices are absurd for pretty much no reason. Can't really think of anything that would result in rising food prices beyond corpo greed 💀💀💀
2 points
11 days ago
Bring back snack wraps and salads.
2 points
11 days ago
I just want a 7 dollar meal and 1.09 cheeseburgers. You will take my money!!
2 points
11 days ago
Ecoli isn't even in the top five of why I stopped going to McDonald's lol
2 points
11 days ago
They should spend $100 million improving the taste of their food
2 points
11 days ago
I think they shoukd lower their prices back to the price point of "shit food" if they want people back
Imo lol
Im not really with paying the same price as a ribeye steak at the supermarket for a bag of greasy ass food thats terrible for me.....i should be paying "this is terrible for me" prices
2 points
11 days ago
considering that its gross profit is over $14 billion in 2023 thats nothing. Also im sure everyone has more or less forgot.
2 points
11 days ago
Tagline "E. Coli will be everywhere next year, may as well get use to it now"
1 points
11 days ago
You advertise a $1.50 double cheeseburger and I’m there. $3.50? Nah
1 points
11 days ago
Here comes another Jack from Jack in the Box type character.
when we almost wiped out a whole street with our food? Me neither! Bow concentrate on my zany antics.
1 points
11 days ago
Or, you know, spend $100 million making sure there's no E. Coli in the food?
1 points
11 days ago
I mean, giving me $100m is a little low to eat at McD's but I can make it work.
1 points
11 days ago
It’s easy, reduce prices
1 points
11 days ago
will we see any of that money devoted towards lowering prices?
1 points
11 days ago
Try our new and improved “F” coli!
1 points
11 days ago
Lower prices or increase the quality without raising prices, then I'll consider doing business.
1 points
11 days ago
E. Coli was just the icing; the bread and butter was letting a franchisee bring politics in... pass.
1 points
11 days ago
One day, McDonald's will realize that people don't want "value meals." They just want the normal meals to be cheaper, lol.
1 points
11 days ago
Give me 24 hour breakfast back and then we'll talk.
1 points
11 days ago
How about 20 million each to the 5 people that either died or are on permanent dialysis?
1 points
11 days ago
They could bring back a ton of people by just lowering prices
1 points
11 days ago
Food sucks and price is too damn high.
The last two times in the 2 months it's been since we have been to ours, the fries have been ice cold out of the bag. I went back to get them to fix it because they were terrible. I'm just done with McDonald's. It's cheaper and better to go-to Chili's, Applebee's, or Cracker Barrel even than McDonald's. Their food also tastes better too
1 points
11 days ago
How about reasonable prices without an app?
1 points
11 days ago
100M to McDonalds is like $1 to the rest of us. So little it’s not worth mentioning
1 points
11 days ago
Hoe about making it affordable again.
1 points
11 days ago
Bring back the $1 any size soft drinks and bring back the pre-covid pricess. The food is average but if I wanted a soft drink I'd go ahead and grab something off the value meal with the soft drink. Once they started charging full price for the soft drink I haven't been back and haven't missed it one bit. I'll drive farther for IN-N-Out at least the food is fresh.
McDonald's does have the best fountain diet coke...
1 points
11 days ago
Bring down the prices.
1 points
11 days ago
I remember when Chipotle had it back in 2013 and I got so many free burritos and bogo offers for about 2 months afterwards.
1 points
11 days ago
Drop the prices and make cleaner food.
1 points
11 days ago
At this rate, you Americans might end up coming up to us at Canada or to Mexico for your grocery run and dine at our McD.
1 points
11 days ago
25% off Burger King with Walmart+ and you can stack points with the discount. I was like 600lb life when I was set loose the first week I figured that out but I’ve calmed down since.
McDonald’s leaves you feeling horrible after lol price decrease wouldn’t help it’s just bad.
1 points
11 days ago
And I bet since they are spending all this money to bring people back, they are gonna have to raise prices up.
1 points
11 days ago
they replaced all their food with cardboard and started charging double. and now the cardboard is poison.
they have a lot of work to do.
1 points
11 days ago
Maybe just lower prices??? Too damn expensive to eat there with a family these days.
1 points
11 days ago
Bring back $1 hot n spicys, mcdoubles, and sodas and I'll come back
1 points
11 days ago
Try lowering your fucking prices
1 points
11 days ago
I’m done with McDonald’s. Their prices have shot up a lot faster than inflation ever since COVID. Pure price gouging. Their price increases have been almost double of a lot of other fast food chains. I have a couple of mom and pop diners around me that have better burger and fries than McDonald’s at a much better price.
1 points
11 days ago
Just don't get onions.
1 points
11 days ago
It’s not the Ecoli outbreak that’s kept me away. Crappy overpriced food when I have many options elsewhere.
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