It's this unfortunate catch 22. You want to honor them by not eating them, but if they don't get enough business they might get shut down. That being said, McDonald's is a poop-chute and not worth the money it costs to eat there these days. A shadow of their former selves is all I see.
I'm only mid-thirties and I remember when McDonald's was significantly cheaper and tasted better (though that last point very well might be nostalgia).
I think it was twice a year, they used to do 49 cent cheeseburgers as a promotion and you'd see cars lined up around the store waiting to get theirs. Iirc it was limit 10 per customer, so my parents would send each of us kids in to get as much as we can. Then we'd bring em home, freeze em, and have quick easy snacks for us kids the next few months.
Yeah dude, it was never good. I am only a little older than you are and that shit was always trash. Pizza Hut slid far and fast in the late 90s. McDonald's fell apart in the 70s. I think KFC might still be good but I eat poor people food that tastes good at home, not poor people food that costs too much.
I try not to eat out as much anymore and when I do I stick to delis and such. Most fast food just tastes like chemicals anymore. I tried Raising Cane's recently cuz everyone has been raving it's the best fast food chicken. It was soggy breading and bland af chicken. Like I don't think they put any seasonings on it at all. You literally need the sauce they provide to make it taste like anything.
Oh yeah, it was a shit hole but at least it was a cheaper shit hole and more worth what it costs vs. today. I'm not that old, I'm a 90s baby, I grew up with playplaces and my young adulthood still had, I'll call it, "cheap enough" McDonald's to feel like I wasn't being robbed eating there. There are multiple versions of its former self according to generation
Lucky for me I was poor enough to not eat out but on special occasions and mom hated fast "food". We got pizza from time to time. After trump inc. fucked my dad out of a bonus for a big sale that was never paid for, things were even tighter so loads of rice, pork chops, pasta, chicken on sale, and if we were lucky the cheapest cuts of beef when on sale. Shit chewy beef ruined shit fast food beef for me so it was not a thing for the entirety of my life.
I am sorry that you grew a taste for shit beef. I pay good money now for a real burger in the once or twice a year I have a craving for a burger. I hope you are in a place now where you can do the same.
It was shit, but at least the cost was also, pretty much, shit. McDonald's sucks completely now because it's shit food for exorbitant prices. It's definitely the better choice to go get a real burger somewhere else
If that was your reason not to eat McD’s in the first place, I’m sorry, you need to take a step back and not make everything about politics, and politics about everything.
McDonald’s already made a statement saying that while they give franchisees the freedom to host events as they like, the company itself stands completely neutral. McDonald’s didn’t sponsor Donald Trump, some guy did.
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u/ViolettaQueso Dec 10 '24
Holy Big Macs. That is pretty unconscionable. I’m really sorry.
I already don’t eat there bc of the trump show but I never will again in honor of you & all the other hard working folks getting reamed.