• Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    They had a thing called the dollar menu for decades.

    During the 90s-2000s, they’d have hamburger Tuesdays where you can buy a hamburger for like $0.29 cents.

    They had ads where families would come with “a few bucks” and feed everyone.

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      I survived on one meal a day at McDonald’s when I was stuck doing day labor in Seattle around the 2002 crash.

      Back then it was actually cheap to get enough food to survive on for under 5 bucks. I remember the 20 cheeseburger and hamburger deals they had twice a week.

      The price increases to cheeseburgers really hurts, when that was usually my main dollar menu deal.

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      during that time, you could get whopper or jumbo jack or big 'n tasty, etc. for 99c just about everywhere. 3 bucks was all it took to eat lunch…

      even less if you ordered the ‘all american meal’ at mcdonalds: small hamburger or cheeseburger, small fries, small drink. was only $1.79 or $1.89. wasn’t always on the menu board, but i never encountered a store that didn’t sell it even if it wasn’t.

      its almost 12 bucks just to get a whopper ‘meal’ here now.

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        1 year ago

        BK around us has the 2 for $6 deal and I’ve found it very useful when we run late and can’t cook. Not dollar menu prices by any means, but most affordable option we’ve found among the fast food joints around us

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          If using the app, BKs value is generally pretty good because they often have decent coupon deals reletively speaking compared to other fast food joints.

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      Well to be fair it’s not McDonald’s fault that the dollar is practically worthless now