Anonymous
08/20/2025 11:16
Subject: Question for Americans..
Anonymous wrote:I've never been to a McD's, actually. I refuse and I have never taken my children to one either.
How sad for them.
It’s like you believe this is a flex or something.
Anonymous
08/20/2025 11:13
Subject: Question for Americans..
Haven't been to one in 7-8 years (last time was on a road trip).
Anonymous
08/20/2025 11:08
Subject: Question for Americans..
Anonymous wrote:I dont like McD’s, our presdient? McDonalds is literally his drug.
McDonald Trump.
Anonymous
08/20/2025 10:55
Subject: Re:Question for Americans..
Anonymous wrote:I don't know but statistically speaking, probably a lot of people eat at these places because they certainly stay in business.
I never eat at McDonald's or similar places. I think the last time I was in one was 50 years ago.
They stay in business because they’re primarily in the rental / real estate business rather than the food business. Think about it….
Anonymous
08/20/2025 10:53
Subject: Re:Question for Americans..
I don't know but statistically speaking, probably a lot of people eat at these places because they certainly stay in business.
I never eat at McDonald's or similar places. I think the last time I was in one was 50 years ago.
I never eat at McDonald's or similar places. I think the last time I was in one was 50 years ago.
Anonymous
08/20/2025 10:43
Subject: Question for Americans..
Anonymous wrote:Do you guys really eat that much McDonalds as the rest of Europe and Latin America says? (Im from France).
French McD's is pretty good, and has much better coffee than US. Ditto for the German ones. As for whether Americans eat it more, can't say, the ones I've been to in France and Germany have been more crowded.
Anonymous
08/20/2025 10:42
Subject: Question for Americans..
Not McDonalds exclusively, but yes.
Yes we do.
Yes we do.
Anonymous
08/20/2025 10:41
Subject: Re:Question for Americans..
Anonymous wrote:(typing this having French-pressed coffee)
I eat at McD’s only a few times a year. Sometimes I will go a year or more without eating there. Why? Because McD’s (as many places are doing) charges higher prices while reducing the size. I feel ripped off eating a burger which is really a large biscuit, the bread so pathetic it disintegrates in my hands. I instinctively know not to eat the fries. They have a rancid smell and are more like anorexic potato strips than fries.
If I have to eat out, such as traveling or running errands, I will eat at Burger King but usually I will go hungry and wait until I get home.
The fries are the best part. But you are correct in that in some McD's they clearly don't change the oil often enough. Have had that happen on road trips, never at my local one.
Anonymous
08/20/2025 10:40
Subject: Re:Question for Americans..
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Not all Americans are the same. If you are upper class, no. If you are poor, yes.
This is such a ridiculous BS answer.
I lost a very dear friend and a beloved cousin this past winter, both were very unexpected passings and it threw me into a spiral of self-destruction in terms of eating because eating is sadly how I cope with my feelings. I share this as way of explanation for why I've been visiting the McDonald's down the block from my house 3-5x week the last few months.
When I'm in the drive through at McD's - I never go inside - I am sitting in a row of mostly very nice vehicles, not vehicles anybody poor in my area could afford. Shiny, late model vehicles in the higher price ranges - lots of suburban moms with stick figure families on the back windows of their SUVs, from Highlanders to Escalades.
Some poor people eat at McD's, off the value menu like I do - driving through in my Toyota Corolla '25, which eats up a very large share of my hospice caregiver 'salary.' I see the occasional beater, but McD's is not an affordable everyday thing for poor folks anymore like it is for the folks driving gas guzzling SUVs who think nothing of dropping $30-50 for Happy Meals and combo dinners for themselves and their pack of kids.
American fast food is pretty expensive in the post-covid era.
I live in McLean, which has a very busy McDonald's right at the main intersection of 123 and Old Dominion. There is always a line of cars there. The mix of cars is very high end (as you'd expect w/the local demographic) and a smattering of workers' trucks. But overwhelmingly Audis, Mercedes, the odd Maserati. Inside usually kids, middle or high school. If and when we go through the drivethrough, a family of 4 with older kids can expect to pay upwards of $40+. It's not that affordable unless you are careful and choosing of the dollar menu. But to say it's not frequented by the upper class is comical.
Anonymous
08/20/2025 09:39
Subject: Re:Question for Americans..
(typing this having French-pressed coffee)
I eat at McD’s only a few times a year. Sometimes I will go a year or more without eating there. Why? Because McD’s (as many places are doing) charges higher prices while reducing the size. I feel ripped off eating a burger which is really a large biscuit, the bread so pathetic it disintegrates in my hands. I instinctively know not to eat the fries. They have a rancid smell and are more like anorexic potato strips than fries.
If I have to eat out, such as traveling or running errands, I will eat at Burger King but usually I will go hungry and wait until I get home.
I eat at McD’s only a few times a year. Sometimes I will go a year or more without eating there. Why? Because McD’s (as many places are doing) charges higher prices while reducing the size. I feel ripped off eating a burger which is really a large biscuit, the bread so pathetic it disintegrates in my hands. I instinctively know not to eat the fries. They have a rancid smell and are more like anorexic potato strips than fries.
If I have to eat out, such as traveling or running errands, I will eat at Burger King but usually I will go hungry and wait until I get home.
Anonymous
08/20/2025 09:21
Subject: Question for Americans..
I haven’t had McDonalds in years. I do have Chick FilA a few times a month.
Anonymous
08/20/2025 09:13
Subject: Re:Question for Americans..
Anonymous
08/20/2025 09:12
Subject: Re:Question for Americans..
Anonymous wrote:Not all Americans are the same. If you are upper class, no. If you are poor, yes.
This is such a ridiculous BS answer.
I lost a very dear friend and a beloved cousin this past winter, both were very unexpected passings and it threw me into a spiral of self-destruction in terms of eating because eating is sadly how I cope with my feelings. I share this as way of explanation for why I've been visiting the McDonald's down the block from my house 3-5x week the last few months.
When I'm in the drive through at McD's - I never go inside - I am sitting in a row of mostly very nice vehicles, not vehicles anybody poor in my area could afford. Shiny, late model vehicles in the higher price ranges - lots of suburban moms with stick figure families on the back windows of their SUVs, from Highlanders to Escalades.
Some poor people eat at McD's, off the value menu like I do - driving through in my Toyota Corolla '25, which eats up a very large share of my hospice caregiver 'salary.' I see the occasional beater, but McD's is not an affordable everyday thing for poor folks anymore like it is for the folks driving gas guzzling SUVs who think nothing of dropping $30-50 for Happy Meals and combo dinners for themselves and their pack of kids.
American fast food is pretty expensive in the post-covid era.
Anonymous
08/20/2025 09:01
Subject: Question for Americans..
Let me put it this way, OP, we eat at McDo as much as French people walk around with a beret, letting their poodle crap anywhere, while eating the cul of a baguette.
Anonymous
08/20/2025 08:51
Subject: Question for Americans..
Chick Fil A > McDonald’s