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As a kid I remember being able to root around under the bleachers at the local AAA ballpark for half an hour and buy a full meal at McDonald’s with the loose change I found. These days you’d have to hope somebody dropped a gold bar.
As a child, over Easter no less, I got 3 days of food poisoning from a chocolate McDonalds shake.
I wanted Strawberry but they got the order wrong (18+ uncles & cousins there) it nearly killed me.
McD's has given me more food poisoning than anything else. :sigh:
A Whopper meal on "Whopper Wednesday" here in Canada? $8 plus tax.
A Teenburger combo here? $11+.
The size of a McMuffin? HALF what it was 10 years ago. I swear to heaven!
I remember the advert (long ago) where two old ladies get dinner for under $5 total... they want to leave a tip but are told "there's no tipping at McDonalds". :/
iirc it was Big Mac, drink, fries and a pie each.
And the real indictment isn’t McDonalds, it’s how much value the currency has lost. Silver over here hitting $30 an ounce. Man, that ain’t great because it means the currency’s ass fell the fuck out.
Yes, that's the more important things we need to remember - it's not that McDs jacked up their prices, is that the value of the dollar is plummeting to peso levels faster than Speedy Gonzales.
It’s so true. Especially here in California where minimum wage for fast food is $20 now. It’s like $50 for two at McDonalds or $40 at Chili’s! At Chili’s you get table service instead of ordering on a computer kiosk in the lobby.
What are you getting for two people that is $50…
Looking at San Diego right now (the most expensive McDonald’s I could find in CA), the most expensive meal is a double bacon quarter pounder with cheese, large sized, at $17.19. Two of those is $35 after tax.
In San Francisco it’s $15.69. LA it’s $11.89. Bakersfield it’s $12.49.
Went to a McD’s in the Caribbean 8 years ago. Noticed the fries were MUCH better than they were in the states. It hit me when a friend reminded me that other countries didn’t have the knee-jerk reaction that we had to everyone suddenly becoming vegan. Frying them in beef hits SO MUCH DIFFERENT.
Not frying them in beef tallow had nothing to do with being vegan or not. McDonald’s fries still aren’t vegan or vegetarian in the US because they use beef extract as a flavoring.
They switched to vegetable oil because of saturated fat being pretty bad for you.
People like to point to the gold standard as the problem, but just as important and impactful is the amount of regulations that have been added over the years driving costs up.
Some of these regulations are probably valuable while other regulations are horrendously overinflated.
Yup! This is true!
Mom & Pop outfits cannot absorb losses for a year like huge corporations can. Once they are gone the Biggies make even more money.
Big Tobacco LOVES high taxes!
For sure, but definitely seems disingenuous to act like pricing isn’t relative to income yet also say extra money causes inflation… because pricing is relative.
Every time the minimum wage has gone up in my city? Fast food prices have shot up.
I've followed it for 2 decades or more. It is no coincidence that the day after a hike the menu has gone up 15 to 25% overnight for ALL of them on every item.
I still remember in the early 90s when they did the throwback burger pricing. For years it was a $.59 hamburger $.69 cheeseburger.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JW8TbfJedLY
I'm guessing you are in CA because my state gets gas from both CA and TX. You always know when it is CA gas because its roughly $0.70-$1 more per gallon. I did see $1.88 a few times (obviously TX gas).
When Trump was President I was filling up at Kroger and used my points. Ended up paying something like 79 cents a gallon and told myself to enjoy it, because this would not happen again in my lifetime.
Just remind people who demand a higher min wage. Back when they made coins out of actual silver min wage was $1.25/hour. 5 silver quarters would be worth over $23 today. This is why they had to detach something of value from money, so the fed could inflate the money and make it worth less than the metal it was made out of
If everyone recognizes going off the gold standard was bad… why don’t we just… go back on? Like why are modern young politicians pussies?
There’s this weird push for “things are the way they are, this is the best for us why change it it’s been so good in the past! Let’s listen to the 90 yr olds!”
I guess it’s time to tell everyone to fuck off with the debt and say that was old America. Get politicians out that spend and line pockets and put in new people that love our country.
Recess and rebuild
You realize when a politician in another country does what you say, they are killed?
Gaddafi in recent memory tried to go to the gold-backed Dinar instead of the petrodollar and you saw how he went. If you're curious, look up his last speech, I'll quote some now:
>Now, I am under attack by the biggest force in military history. Obama wants to kill me, to take away the freedom of our country, to take away our free housing, our free medicine, our free education, our free food, and replace it with American style thievery called “capitalism”, but all of us in the Third World know what that means, it means corporations run the countries, run the world, and the people suffer.
It would derail the current political structure, that’s now an international facade of smoke and mirrors. It would also limit the shenanigans therein politicians and hyper-wealthy people/companies get away with. Can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube.
I mean, didn’t people in Europe have this same thought of “can’t put toothpaste back in the tube” when their king was slapping them and they were rolling in pig shit?
It was until a few young smart men to come over and declared independence no?
I mean, this is recent history. There’s been a milenia of history and revolutions and change. It’s difficult to step back and look at reality and that it’s a statistical guarantee that something like that will happen again
The other half of that coin is that everything else is new, too. Who’s gonna make the first move against the regime? I’m not saying nobody will, or can’t, I’m saying it’s not gonna be any of us arguing over it in Reddit lol
You never know. The point is there’s people hungry for it, and the more people voice their opinion the more likely someone will act and be confident people will follow.
If there’s no discussion or evidence people believe change needs to happen, no one will ever act.
If everyone hates speed cameras, and voices their opinions, someone in power will want to grab more power by making it happen by the will of the people.
If no one voices their opinion on their hatred of speed cameras, then no one will be confident enough to step up and say something about it because they know they likely don’t have a backing
Well what they do now is they tell you they're gonna get rid of the speed cameras, but then when they get elected there's all this pushback from the other side. Next thing you know it's re-election time and the speed cameras are still up, but you better vote for them again or otherwise the other side is gonna put up more speed cameras.
That’s not wrong. Gotta round up enough people. I think one of the challenges in that is that we all have *just enough* to lose to not speak up too much. The human condition is an MFer lol
Restart.
We can print so why not restart? It’s all seemingly arbitrary… countries accepting our money at this point are as negligent as the US for printing it.. and imo are in on it.
Adjusted for inflation they look to be around the same as [pre-pandemic 2019 prices](https://burgerlad.com/mcdonald-usa-menu-prices/), and without a value menu.
Looks like things have [gone up .60 to a dollar](https://www.fastfoodprice.com/menu/mcdonalds-prices/) since then.
The only thing that stayed close to the same after putting 4 of the items into an inflation calculator was a cheeseburger which got roughly 10 cents more expensive than if it were consistent with inflation (2.33 instead of the national average of 2.49). Of course, the portions and food quality diminished now vs back then I’m sure. That’s how all fast food and other food vendors have been getting us recently.
It was great! My friend and I would scrape all our change together, run to Taco Bell and load up on whatever we could get then run home and watch horror movies. Good times!
Very close to the same as today where I’m at.
$0.70 in 1972 is $5.25 today, and a QPC is $5.69.
$0.65 is $4.88, and a Big Mac is $5.59.
$0.45 is $3.45, and a large fry is $3.99.
$0.33 is $2.48, and a single cheeseburger is $2.39. A McDouble is
Minimum wage in 1972 was $1.60 an hour, which is $12 today, and the McDonald’s by me starts at $19 an hour.
So the employees get paid more than 50% more while prices are only 8-15% more.
technically we weren't actually on the gold standard, in the constitution it specifies whta our currency MUST be
The basic unit is the dollar, a silver coin containing 371.25 grains of pure silver.
Only gold or silver coins and currency (specie-backed banknotes) can be legal tender.
I'm familiar with the numbers behind it, just wasn't clear on OP's intent. Based on the down votes, I'm the only one. Oh well.
I'm not here to disagree that fiat currency destroyed our economy - not sure how anyone took my question that way.
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As a kid I remember being able to root around under the bleachers at the local AAA ballpark for half an hour and buy a full meal at McDonald’s with the loose change I found. These days you’d have to hope somebody dropped a gold bar.
Four bucks for a small McFlurry at my local McDs yesterday. Four damn dollars.
The ice cream machine was working?!?!
LMAO you win.
I would say you win. I mean that thing working is like winning the powerball after winning the megamillions with the same numbers
I wasted my luck on a McFlurry? Sounds about right.
As a child, over Easter no less, I got 3 days of food poisoning from a chocolate McDonalds shake. I wanted Strawberry but they got the order wrong (18+ uncles & cousins there) it nearly killed me. McD's has given me more food poisoning than anything else. :sigh:
Over $5 here. Bought two apple pies and a McFlurry one day and it was around $10. Dairy Queen blizzards? A small is almost $6. This timeline sucks.
A Whopper meal on "Whopper Wednesday" here in Canada? $8 plus tax. A Teenburger combo here? $11+. The size of a McMuffin? HALF what it was 10 years ago. I swear to heaven!
Used to be you could feed the whole fam for $10-15 off the dollar menu. I can't get away for under 20 bucks. I agree, this timeline sucks LOL
Dollar menu. That’s something you don’t hear anymore
I remember the advert (long ago) where two old ladies get dinner for under $5 total... they want to leave a tip but are told "there's no tipping at McDonalds". :/ iirc it was Big Mac, drink, fries and a pie each.
And the real indictment isn’t McDonalds, it’s how much value the currency has lost. Silver over here hitting $30 an ounce. Man, that ain’t great because it means the currency’s ass fell the fuck out.
Yes, that's the more important things we need to remember - it's not that McDs jacked up their prices, is that the value of the dollar is plummeting to peso levels faster than Speedy Gonzales.
I paid $4 for ONE taco today
Mc colan
I clearly remember they used to advertise that you could buy a full meal (hamburger, fries, and a drink) and "get change back from your dollar."
I too recall that one! It was plain single burger, but still!
It’s crazy, it’s just as expensive to go to a cheaper restaurant like chili’s or something
It’s so true. Especially here in California where minimum wage for fast food is $20 now. It’s like $50 for two at McDonalds or $40 at Chili’s! At Chili’s you get table service instead of ordering on a computer kiosk in the lobby.
What are you getting for two people that is $50… Looking at San Diego right now (the most expensive McDonald’s I could find in CA), the most expensive meal is a double bacon quarter pounder with cheese, large sized, at $17.19. Two of those is $35 after tax. In San Francisco it’s $15.69. LA it’s $11.89. Bakersfield it’s $12.49.
The tax rate is 2% there? Really?
Man a Pounder and a Coca Cola for a Dollar, And that was When Mc Donald's was real meat, Not what ever it is they are putting in it now.
The fries tasted so much better back then. They used Beef Tallow, and the fries had a smoother, more buttery taste.
Went to a McD’s in the Caribbean 8 years ago. Noticed the fries were MUCH better than they were in the states. It hit me when a friend reminded me that other countries didn’t have the knee-jerk reaction that we had to everyone suddenly becoming vegan. Frying them in beef hits SO MUCH DIFFERENT.
Not frying them in beef tallow had nothing to do with being vegan or not. McDonald’s fries still aren’t vegan or vegetarian in the US because they use beef extract as a flavoring. They switched to vegetable oil because of saturated fat being pretty bad for you.
I wish it was then now
People like to point to the gold standard as the problem, but just as important and impactful is the amount of regulations that have been added over the years driving costs up. Some of these regulations are probably valuable while other regulations are horrendously overinflated.
Regulations, and unregulated spending.
Regulations that big companies like McDonalds love because it raises the barrier of entry for competitors.
Yup! This is true! Mom & Pop outfits cannot absorb losses for a year like huge corporations can. Once they are gone the Biggies make even more money. Big Tobacco LOVES high taxes!
🎵 I wish I knew then what I know now 🎵
Right? Loving that $1.60 minimum wage…
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For sure, but definitely seems disingenuous to act like pricing isn’t relative to income yet also say extra money causes inflation… because pricing is relative.
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Oh, income and wages are different.
Yes, they are. Are you new to reality?
Maybe. I said wage and the responded said income. Was simply pointing out their change of vernacular matters.
Every time the minimum wage has gone up in my city? Fast food prices have shot up. I've followed it for 2 decades or more. It is no coincidence that the day after a hike the menu has gone up 15 to 25% overnight for ALL of them on every item.
I still remember in the early 90s when they did the throwback burger pricing. For years it was a $.59 hamburger $.69 cheeseburger. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JW8TbfJedLY
i member!
The best kind of berries
I missed it! Am in Canada, I guess it was south of the border, eh?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4oBpdBn5GZw Now you're lucky to get change back from your twenty. 😆
Because of the economy or because they can't count that high?
I'm gonna go with corporate greed. 😔
Corporations have been greedy since corporations have existed. Why would they not be greedy in 1971 but be greedy in 2024?
A really good reply!
A bit OT, but I remember when a gallon of gas was less than $2.
Dude, that was only one president ago.
Where I live it wasn't less than $2 when Trump was in office, but it wasn't as much as it is under Biden.
2020 it was as low as $1.43 hereabouts.
I'm guessing you are in CA because my state gets gas from both CA and TX. You always know when it is CA gas because its roughly $0.70-$1 more per gallon. I did see $1.88 a few times (obviously TX gas).
When Trump was President I was filling up at Kroger and used my points. Ended up paying something like 79 cents a gallon and told myself to enjoy it, because this would not happen again in my lifetime.
When I was 10, if gas got over .40, people were shocked. I remember vividly .29 gas. When gas hit $1.00, people lost their minds.
I was blown out of my mind a few months ago when I saw $2.60 at my local flying J, the next day it was back up to $3.75
And they served good root beer, not that crap they serve today
orange drink only for me!
Large fries for $.46? Here five bucks, give me hella fries.
That would be like paying a half day's wages for ~11 fries.
Just remind people who demand a higher min wage. Back when they made coins out of actual silver min wage was $1.25/hour. 5 silver quarters would be worth over $23 today. This is why they had to detach something of value from money, so the fed could inflate the money and make it worth less than the metal it was made out of
If everyone recognizes going off the gold standard was bad… why don’t we just… go back on? Like why are modern young politicians pussies? There’s this weird push for “things are the way they are, this is the best for us why change it it’s been so good in the past! Let’s listen to the 90 yr olds!”
Ain’t enough gold to buy our massive debt.
I guess it’s time to tell everyone to fuck off with the debt and say that was old America. Get politicians out that spend and line pockets and put in new people that love our country. Recess and rebuild
You realize when a politician in another country does what you say, they are killed? Gaddafi in recent memory tried to go to the gold-backed Dinar instead of the petrodollar and you saw how he went. If you're curious, look up his last speech, I'll quote some now: >Now, I am under attack by the biggest force in military history. Obama wants to kill me, to take away the freedom of our country, to take away our free housing, our free medicine, our free education, our free food, and replace it with American style thievery called “capitalism”, but all of us in the Third World know what that means, it means corporations run the countries, run the world, and the people suffer.
Whats gaddafi? Is he a us citizen? Idgaf what other countries say
It would derail the current political structure, that’s now an international facade of smoke and mirrors. It would also limit the shenanigans therein politicians and hyper-wealthy people/companies get away with. Can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube.
I mean, didn’t people in Europe have this same thought of “can’t put toothpaste back in the tube” when their king was slapping them and they were rolling in pig shit? It was until a few young smart men to come over and declared independence no?
You think what we have now isn't modern feudalism?
I didn’t say I thought anything. I just said there were people willing to overcome their problems and did
We ain’t in Europe and this ain’t Braveheart. Sounds good though.
I mean, this is recent history. There’s been a milenia of history and revolutions and change. It’s difficult to step back and look at reality and that it’s a statistical guarantee that something like that will happen again
The other half of that coin is that everything else is new, too. Who’s gonna make the first move against the regime? I’m not saying nobody will, or can’t, I’m saying it’s not gonna be any of us arguing over it in Reddit lol
You never know. The point is there’s people hungry for it, and the more people voice their opinion the more likely someone will act and be confident people will follow. If there’s no discussion or evidence people believe change needs to happen, no one will ever act. If everyone hates speed cameras, and voices their opinions, someone in power will want to grab more power by making it happen by the will of the people. If no one voices their opinion on their hatred of speed cameras, then no one will be confident enough to step up and say something about it because they know they likely don’t have a backing
Well what they do now is they tell you they're gonna get rid of the speed cameras, but then when they get elected there's all this pushback from the other side. Next thing you know it's re-election time and the speed cameras are still up, but you better vote for them again or otherwise the other side is gonna put up more speed cameras.
That’s not wrong. Gotta round up enough people. I think one of the challenges in that is that we all have *just enough* to lose to not speak up too much. The human condition is an MFer lol
there isn't enough gold in the world for the current US economy
Restart. We can print so why not restart? It’s all seemingly arbitrary… countries accepting our money at this point are as negligent as the US for printing it.. and imo are in on it.
You’d need Archimedes to make that happen
Adjusted for inflation they look to be around the same as [pre-pandemic 2019 prices](https://burgerlad.com/mcdonald-usa-menu-prices/), and without a value menu. Looks like things have [gone up .60 to a dollar](https://www.fastfoodprice.com/menu/mcdonalds-prices/) since then.
|Cheese Burger|$0.33| |:-|:-| |Large Fries|$0.46| |Large Coke|$0.20| |Total|$0.99|
The only thing that stayed close to the same after putting 4 of the items into an inflation calculator was a cheeseburger which got roughly 10 cents more expensive than if it were consistent with inflation (2.33 instead of the national average of 2.49). Of course, the portions and food quality diminished now vs back then I’m sure. That’s how all fast food and other food vendors have been getting us recently.
I wonder how much prices would go down again if they went back to such a simplified menu instead of having a full ass Cheesecake Factory menu
Thank you democrat party 🎉
I miss taco bells 59, 79, 99 cent menu. Even tho I dont eat that crap anymore lol
It was great! My friend and I would scrape all our change together, run to Taco Bell and load up on whatever we could get then run home and watch horror movies. Good times!
Yessss 99 cent theaters and taco bell. If i ordered off the 99 cent menu i was treating myself lol
Very close to the same as today where I’m at. $0.70 in 1972 is $5.25 today, and a QPC is $5.69. $0.65 is $4.88, and a Big Mac is $5.59. $0.45 is $3.45, and a large fry is $3.99. $0.33 is $2.48, and a single cheeseburger is $2.39. A McDouble is Minimum wage in 1972 was $1.60 an hour, which is $12 today, and the McDonald’s by me starts at $19 an hour. So the employees get paid more than 50% more while prices are only 8-15% more.
Yeah but do you want live in 1972?
Dolls dolls makes you holla
technically we weren't actually on the gold standard, in the constitution it specifies whta our currency MUST be The basic unit is the dollar, a silver coin containing 371.25 grains of pure silver. Only gold or silver coins and currency (specie-backed banknotes) can be legal tender.
Orangeade 🎉
How did somone take this pic with their phone if phones weren’t invented yet?
McDonald's is slop and not fit to eat.
Wow, that's mind-blowing.
Is this meant to imply getting off the gold standard was a good thing?
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I'm familiar with the numbers behind it, just wasn't clear on OP's intent. Based on the down votes, I'm the only one. Oh well. I'm not here to disagree that fiat currency destroyed our economy - not sure how anyone took my question that way.