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For me its been total shit. Inflation, and shrinkflation dug it's claws deep. Two tiny paddies, between 3 big buns. Take one big bite and it tastes like nothing.

On top of shit quality, prices have been going nuts. A big Mac near me is 8$. 8$ for one! Not a meal deal with a drink or fries included, just one burger!!!

Thats nearing the price of actually good places like five guys and other local joints that are like $12-16. The small burger from them probably has twice the meat of a bigmac. The bigmac is now a kid sized Burger.

Also ice cream machine always fucking broken.

I see a lot of videos showing people's fucked up McDonald's orders. Like getting cheese on the OUTSIDE of their burger, not getting any meat, or shit like that.

I have never experienced anything like that, outside of 1 random time and that was at a Jack in the Box where they gave me a brick of charcoal of a burger (thing was completely burned; bun, burger, even the fucking vegetables and it only took opening the box to notice). Absolutely 0 excuse to have served it except to purposely be asshats.

I have to assume that either the specific location people get fucked up food is to blame, or they're faked.

The prices, and the health of the food is why I don't go there often. Shits way too much now, and sure it tastes good but eating even a single small burger makes me feel like I ate entirely too much food.

Back when they were significantly cheaper than competing products, it was "you get what you pay for."

Now...just go to Wendy's.

It's really just a matter of habit and opinion. The only burger places near me are Jack in the Box and McDonalds, and if JitB burned I wouldn't eat hamburgers anymore.

My bugbear with Mc'D's is how they now always ask you if you are using their damned app.

I know I shouldn't, and that they're just teenagers reading from a script. But I just can't help myself. Whenever they ask if I'll be using the app, I flippantly reply, "nah, I don't want Ronald reading my email."

So is Coca Cola

Yes.

I mean last time I had it it was better than it used to be like decades ago but all fast food places got expensive enough that it make more sense to go to a bit better alternative.

All fast food severely degraded in quality and have had huge price increases since covid started. I haven't eaten out anywhere in months, and when I do it's to some Asian food place.

USA here. I've gone to McDonalds twice in the past year. Here's the experience:

1. Wait in line at the Drive Thru for 15 minutes.
2. Get to the speaker, no one acknowledges me for several minutes.
3. Someone finally asks me what I want. I tell them and it's radio silence for several minutes, no acknowledgement that they heard me. The screen that shows my order is shattered.
4. "Pull around"
5. Get to the window, person opens it and holds out their hand for my payment. Doesn't tell me how much it is or confirm my order. Doesn't respond when I say "Hello, how are you?"
6. Get to the next window, wait several minutes.
7. Get my food. Person at the window doesn't respond to my hello, Doesn't even look at me.
8. Get home, fries are raw, order is wrong.

I go to Wendy's sometimes for the chili and it's a similar experience, but at least my order is always right. Taco Bell at least the people say hi, depending on who is working.

It's that bad everywhere!

I havn't eaten at McDonads in years. Maybe 1 time in 10 years+.

But its not about the taste, its about everything else. I don't really go to any of the major chain fast food places. Sometimes I will go to Taco Bell or Carl's Jr but usually I try to go to the locally owned or regional chains.

In my area there is a place called Zips thats an old fashioned burger place and Taco Time which is not mexican food but a weird PNW version. They have crisp burritos that are so dang good.

Generally I try to support local so thats why I don't go to McDonalds.

Any food at the end of a long line of industrial processes is going to be bad. Fight me.

Mcdonalds used to be cheap, tasty, but unhealthy

Now it's expensive, taste horrible 🤮, AND unhealthy.

I wonder how much of it is people's taste changing. As in people who didn't eat good food before starting to realize there's more to food than fast food so their opinion of McDonald's changing over time.

I ask this because in South America and Europe McDonald's has always been consistently the same taste since I can remember. There were a couple of random specific locations where the food was subpar, but in general it's been the same, a Big Mac is a Big Mac since I started going to McDonald's over 30 years ago and in every city I've eaten it (never been to the US though).

McDonald's ranks just above Arby's. It isn't cheap anymore, they have doubled their prices in the last 10 years completely divorced from inflation and you pretty much have to use a self-Order kiosk if you go inside.

I do live within a somewhat unreasonable drive of their corporate headquarters, so I can get the best version of McDonald's possible in America if I have that level of self loathing.

I absolutely 99% of the time will go to Culver's instead and pay like $2 more for a vastly better fast food experience despite having to drive 30mins round trip instead of 10 minutes.

I would love to try golden arches in a European country or Japan to find out how good McDonald's can actually be.

I know this was targeted at the US but Ill answer from my perspective as an Aussie. Maccas used to be a good option for a cheap but by no means healthy meal. I dont eat there anymore because I no longer eat meat and the only things I would consider buying are exorbitantly priced. $1 AUD for a hash brown was a decent price, $2 is ok but not great. $3.60 for a single hash brown is simply outrageous even before you consider they are 2/3 the size they used to be. Even if I did eat meat, there are far better, more substantial options available for the same price

I only ever get nuggets and fries there, and those always taste fine to me, I even look forward to it sometimes. can't speak on the rest of the food they serve. thier water taste like ass

It'll be interesting to see how things change now that we'll possibly get flooded with unregulated meat from Argentina et al.

Yes. It's literal fucking dogshit in the USA and Canada now and for a long time. I was a trucker, sometimes I had to eat there for lack of options. The only time I ever found it passable was somewhere in Montana, Rocking i think, where they cooked it fresh after I ordered like the old days, it tasted like 1995.