McDonalds value menu is no longer a value!

Page 3 - Seeking answers? Join the AnandTech community: where nearly half-a-million members share solutions and discuss the latest tech.

ch33zw1z

Lifer
Nov 4, 2004
38,130
18,603
146
This just in....McD's was never a value buy. You paid shit because you get shit.
 

OverVolt

Lifer
Aug 31, 2002
14,278
89
91
It has to do with the price of beef and the droughts we've been having. At precisely the wrong moment, Mcdonalds moved most of their chicken sandwhiches out of the lower numbered value meals and put them in the bottom value menu area in the teens. (So chicken items went from like #5-9 to #11-15)

Then they put a whole bunch of quarter pounders, which have trans fat, near the top.

I'm the type of guy who eats almost zero trans fat if I can help it, so I always bought the chicken from Mcdonalds, because for whatever reason their chicken never has any trans fat (or at least less than 0.5grams).

Since they moved most chicken menu items to the bottom, their volume was always too low and so the sandwhich wasn't fresh, wilted lettuce, etc. So I stopped buying them.

So... the beef menu items are a bad deal because of beef costs, they have too many different chicken sandwiches so they're never fresh, so I haven't been to Mcdonalds in months where as I used to actually go there if I was hungry.
 

tortillasoup

Golden Member
Jan 12, 2011
1,977
3
81
If you want a relatively healthy, good value burger, try the Junior jack. $1.19 - $1.39, it's a pretty well balanced hamburger.
 

WaTaGuMp

Lifer
May 10, 2001
21,207
2,506
126
go to the onion dispenser for the hot dogs and put a few onions on the pizza. free toppings. :whiste:

Its funny you mention this. Today at Costco a couple of the people that work in the food court sat with me at the table for lunch, yeah I go there that much. They made a custom pizza by bringing in some other toppings. While sitting with me we talked about pizza and what we like, I mentioned I see people go get onions all the time for the hot dogs. I like onions, but only cooked on pizza.
 

Sonikku

Lifer
Jun 23, 2005
15,745
4,563
136
Pound for pound though, the Costco $5 Rotisserie Chicken is still the best value meal for the money. :)
 

Thebobo

Lifer
Jun 19, 2006
18,574
7,671
136
Sunday, I had been working outside all day, and needed to drive to town to buy a replacement hammer. While there, since I hadn't eaten all day, I decided to get a cheeseburger at BK. I looked at it for a couple moments, thinking, "wow, these things are a lot smaller than I remembered them." I very rarely get food from BK, except perhaps a coffee if I'm on the road. So, I was left wondering, did BK corporate make the change very very gradually, hoping no one noticed? Or, was it just a sudden change where they reduced the size by about 30%?

Whooper used to be about 30% bigger imo. Call it the whimper now.
 

DAPUNISHER

Super Moderator CPU Forum Mod and Elite Member
Super Moderator
Aug 22, 2001
29,447
24,128
146
Wendy's.

The Jr. Bacon Cheesburger used to be $1 and now it's $2.09

Had one 2 nights ago with a small chocolate Frosty and got food poisoning (that or stomach virus). Now I haven't eaten anything since then.

Affordable diet plan I guess.
LOL
 

rh71

No Lifer
Aug 28, 2001
52,844
1,049
126
Pound for pound though, the Costco $5 Rotisserie Chicken is still the best value meal for the money. :)

I had a BJs membership and other parents agree... every time you walk into that store it's a $100+ spent. I gave up on club memberships so saving money won't mean spending more money. It's kind of like paying for Amazon Prime.
 

feralkid

Lifer
Jan 28, 2002
16,599
4,698
136
Cook their own food more often rather than relying on cheap, ready made crap with inferior ingredients, whether that be McDonald's or $5/lb hot dogs at the grocery store.

There is always a need for convenience food and eating the aforementioned isn't an absolute no-no but the more people rely on it and demand grows, the more the ready made stuff will rise in price or shrink in size, which is what the OP was bitching about.


Wouldn't that make rising junk food prices a good thing? Perhaps it would get people to seek out cheaper (and maybe healthier) options, if crappy fast food gets too expensive.