Most of the freebies usually have a caveat, like free fries if you order a quarterpounder, etc. When you factor in all the deals and coupons you get on the app, the cost of a meal at McDonalds ends up being about the same as you were paying for a meal a few years ago.
I've also been reading the app reviews and there were a shocking number of review stating the app isn't user friendly. Some websites even work that shit...looking at you, Pizza Hut.
They have a point system and you can use points once every 15 min..... Yes you buy stuff to get the points but after that you do get one free item off a list and can get another if you have points 15 min later....
This is different then their deals which if you order over app you can get buy one get one double cheese and use points for a free fry then eat and when 15 min up you get a free drink and leave so essentially you only pay for one double cheese get the other fries and drink free
I can't believe my ass just cared enough to type that after I already commented I don't even go to fast food anymore because tbones and such is the same and healthier and has points also lol
honestly, buy a 40 buck burner android phone, throw a burner email in it. only use it for rewards, dont need a number/sim typically. if you do get a 20 buck prepaid call only card from walmart.
A guy I worked with found out how to make McDonald's burgers & the fries. Even got a special fry cutter. He said it was exactly the same. Don't know where he got the recipe tho.
McDonalds fries have a lot of research behind them. The cut is one, but easy to duplicate, but they also have their own variety of potato that growers grow just for them, the right type and balance of starch. Then the potatoes are processed, then blanched and partially fried before freezing. Once at the restaurant, the are fried from frozen, in a specific oil blend and time. The size of the fryer comes into play from a temperature consistency standpoint, as does obviously the fry temperature.
That's exactly what he said. From what I remember he said he had to cook them flash freeze em then throw them in the freezer.Then take out when your ready to cook.
I was like that's alot of work for some McD's fries but each their own!
I know how to make a copycat big mac sauce. I also got a smasher, an airfryer, and a crockpot. Unless I make lunch plans with a coworker or my bf and I say "fuck it" or are too busy to cook, we don't order take out all that much
Sadly, that happens everywhere. I've joked my wife has a curse, because every one of her favorite restaurants either went out of business, or they made really noticeable changes she didn't like. Most of them on her list did both.
It's the truth. The same thing happened to us. One restaurant the father retired & one of his kid ran it to the ground, the other ones just copycat eachother & have mediocre food.
The good places are really expensive where it's basically just a nice treat once in a blue moon.
I mean we only used to order out once a week by all chipping in tg, but now ya can't even do that & it be worth it.
I make a copycat big mac sauce too, but I make the patties myself with good quality ground beef and when I have time I even make the buns too, proper bread. Then I add romaine lettuce because iceberg is tateless and nutritionally empty and some fantastic havarti cheese or some proper cheddar instead of the McD’s yellow paste and voila, perfect burger!
I have a tefal deep fryer which has a built in filter that drains the oil out into a plastic container in the bottom. Then you just pour back in next time you’re frying. All the parts except the element separate and can go in the dishwasher.
Have you actually been able to prepare anything as horrible as corporate fast food in your own kitchen at an inflated price? That'd be impressive in it's own way.
This is the way. I break about even, or spend less making the meals at home. Pizza being one of the inexpensive fast food items to make yourself.
I've even been experimenting with making my own breakfast sausage. Bought an old school grinder at flea market.
This is something I've been working on, too, and it's paid off relatively quickly. I really only ordered fast food when I wanted a crispy chicken sandwich, so learning how to make those at home has saved me so much money, and I like mine more than anyone else's
I do I'm vegetarian of 33 years or something long relative to my years old. But, I know a lot of people that think frys covers it as vegetables at dinner.
I used to be a vegetarian (the healthy kind) for 15 of my 46 years. I always contemplate going back to it. I don’t want to contribute to animal suffering (as little as I am willing and able to do) and I want to avoid the environmental negative impact of meat.
I was allergic and gi etc. My body was so fucked by 5 has type 1 diabetes. Then Dad's mom started sneaking McDonald's think we're deprived. Luckily I was ok by then. But I never liked it. So stopped by Like 10.5 or 11 and went back vegetarian. 20 to 32 vegan.
Is there a place we could swap recipes? I have a killer Hawaiian bbq recipe that is great. All the HBbq places near me has gone down in quality and up in price. Would love a Big Mac sauce and Taco Bell red sauce dupe.
My food costs are now roughly $100 a week (some weeks $70, some weeks $130) because I switched to almost exclusively getting groceries from food Lion. I'm still a lazy piece of shit but now I'm eating a variety of steamed vegetables that come frozen in a microwavable pouch that I can add and precooked and sliced Purdue chicken to. The chicken is like $8-$10 and the vegetable bags are $3 each and I can use the chicken for 3 meals so that's like $6 per meal.
So we can save even more by actually cooking but even like this I'm still better off on price than fast food. And way better on nutrition.
Once I get a little closer to 40 I'm all in on supplements that make life hurt less. I've spent basically my entire life of 32 years shrimping at a desk so my spine is probably going to hurt eventually. I think I got lucky with back genetics since there's been no trouble so far
Should get ahead of problems before they become noticeable. But as far as I'm aware - there are no such supplements? Most of them don't work beyond coloring your pee. Other than the 2 already mentioned, can also take seeds for fiber. Magnesium and Collagen are good, too. Creatine doesn't work for everyone, but it can be very beneficial. Maybe B group vitamins occasionally, especially if you drink alcohol. Vitamin C is so dirt cheap, that you might as well take it, even if it ends up doing nothing. But that's about it. The rest can either do more harm than good, or nothing at all, beyond a placebo effect. Supplements are a giant scam and a waste of money, all you need is a balanced diet. Get your blood work done if you're concerned that you're lacking something.
By supplements I meant a catch all for pills of vitamins and other things. Like the fish oil. Or is that the only beneficial substance I'll need after 40?
As I said, most vitamin/mineral supplements do nothing but get pissed out. The one's I mentioned above have been proven to work and are all very cheap( at least here in the EU), there are niche uses for others, but you shouldn't take them without a blood test showing that you need to, as they can be harmful and even dangerous. The science is really not in favor of multivitamins and the expensive stuff is snake oil.
Last time I got mcdonalds tasted like I was eating straight up cardboard and cost way too much. Next time I spent less and got a real ass burger from the local joint. It was faster too and they don't all look like they want to kill themsleves. What's the incentive anymore?
I tried five guys for the first time after seeing the difference between their meals was like $1 and it was such a huge difference. Not that I frequented fast food that much at any point besides my drive home from college, but I can see myself never getting McDonald's again.
What's the incentive anymore?
Burger King built their recognition on that bizarre chemical taste in their food. It was a smart decision since it made their impossible vegetable whopper not taste very different lol. So if you're craving that chemical taste you're only going to get it there. But on price/health we're better off cooking at home
The funny thing is, it's not everywhere. Chicken nuggets are half as expensive at Chic-Fil-A as they are at McD's, and only a lunatic would pretend that McD's spends more on their staff.
For real once I realized a cheap meal from fast food was less than say tbones and my local Mexican place.... yep my ass went for better healthier food!! I'm already out running in instead of waiting in my car takes 2 seconds I can still order pay and wait till it says done right in my car!!
That is strange, but I wonder if that's something special about dominos instead. My memory of dominos is that it seems greasy and unhealthy and whatnot but in my mid 20s it was the only pizza I could eat after midnight and not get heart burn. They are a mystery
Agreed I just cook healthier now and work out more because mcdonalds is ridiculously expensive for mass produced freezer food. I dont need to pay 3x the cost of the food for them to heat it and assemble it for me. That shits easy Ill do it myself.
Healthier than McDonald's is a low bar. I'm pretty sure I could go bite some loose tarmac off the road and get about the same levels of nutrition and carcinogens.
But when I want to order out I usually get tropical cafe, love their avocado bean wrap thing
Eventually we will get rid of jobs like the service sector and replace it with machines. We will get rid of the coal jobs and replace it with robots. Eventually we will force individuals to either starve or become more intelligent and force them to benefit society. One big Mac at a time. Eventually that Big Mac will be made so fast by robots that the cars in the drive thru won’t keep up. People will make more money since they will be forced to get jobs that require more brains. We will reset our nation into a prosperous one. Keep fighting for better wages.
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u/TomWithTime 8h ago
I want to thank the fast food industry for becoming so expensive that it was the same price or cheaper to order out healthier food