Wow, they went from a gluttonous ball of fried chicken half the size of your head, to a perfectly reasonable portion size that would feed an adult. Outrageous.
I challenge you to learn to make this at home. Stop eating fast food.
Hey check out mister doesn’t get home at 10pm and has access to a safe kitchen
Your life will be far better if you just decide to stop fast food 😂
This is probably a good thing honestly. Track your calories for a few weeks and you realize super quick how out of control portion sizes are.
This is chicken vs ground chicken or at least a lower quality chicken.
Perhaps. If they hadn’t doubled the price at the same time.
If anything that just makes the decision to stop eating it even easier.
Totally agree, the portion sizes are way too large for a normal person in most Western countries and Middle East. However, also most people judge/rate restaurants based on portion sizes not quality, less food equal bad reviews.
Let’s stop buying fast food BS, buy from local restourants, shops etc etc or make the shit yourself at home if you can and bring it with you, sure it may get cold but better than that overpriced burger in your hands now
I used to live 6 hours drive from my parents and drive to theirs after work on Friday for a weekend roughly every month or so.
If there’s somewhere around halfway I can get fed, go to the bathroom, and take a short break which also doesn’t push my midnight arrival time much later, then of course I’m going to do that instead of going out to a full service restaurant, or cooking myself and having to clean up from it, again pushing my arrival later? I’d be shocked if most people wouldn’t agree with this?
For those who are feeding whole families where economies of scale can apply and forty minutes of shopping, thirty minutes of setup, twenty minutes of work, and then ten minutes of cleanup can feed half a dozen mouths at least two meals per day for an entire week or more, it is indeed worth it. But if you are, however, working three jobs and barely have time to sleep let alone cook, and you factor in the time it takes as time you could have been on the clock earning money, and the ridiculous cost of groceries lately, sometimes self-prep is just not cost effective
Go ahead and let yourself grab that Costco rotisserie chicken and eat it straight out of the bag with your hands. There’s still something primally satisfying to it, and no one has the right to take at least THAT away from you. You have symbolically hunted for this bird behind the punch clock. Savor the time it saves you.
if you can
Is the key in my message, anyway, it’s better if you buy food from lical restourants or shops, they usually sell bigger quantities for less than fast food
(well… at least where i live and a good chunk of europe, idk how the situation is in the USA and other places tho)
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Okay WOW it seems there’s a whole freaking paragraph i thought was IN my reply that i never actually managed to put in there x.x
I could have SWORN i had a bit where I was pumping up local restaurants too! DANG IT!
ANYWHO i agree with that and totally botched putting in the part where I wanted to make that clear >.< Local restaurants, especially the family owned ones, are a TREASURE! in my experience they are indeed actually worth it! Like, especially in terms of making the day to day lived experience more worthwhile! Real food cooked by good people from scratch is irreplaceable and impossible to replicate. Aint no sysco freight truck that bulk carries the ingredients i taste at the local Jamaican joint i love so much!
Furthermore we kinda have a too many calories problem in the United States anyway–specifically the empty ones without any micronutrient value whatsoever. Getting food full of diverse flavor and a wide scope of ingredients covers so many more bases. Hell, I also love salads from the Italian place near my house (they have this spinach pie one, i get Bleu Cheese dressing for it, it’s massive and feeds me for two days on less than ten bucks per day) and I can practically TASTE the vitamins @.@
(Ooh damn I’m gonna get that today too actually…!)
I only mentioned Costco because I like how they treat their employees and the rotisserie chickens are indeed extremely particularly cost effective
But yeah I’m entirely down with that: “IF YOU CAN!”
We’re all running on limited resources that are getting tighter by the day and everyone deserves s modicum of grace for needing to cut corners because there’s no other way to survive! Local small places that make their own stuff instead of adherence to some Corpo menu DEFINITELY ARE more cost effective now than any chain restaurant.I haven’t bought a single thing from McDonald’s since last year and I say GOOOOOOOD RIDDANCE!
What gets me is less fast food and more the middle ground food, frozen stuff you throw in the oven that’s not quite processed to hell and back but definetaly not as healthy as cooking completely from fresh. It’s been getting smaller over the years but the increasing replacement of every ingrediant under the sun with slightly different variations of palm oil means that despite the decrease in size the calorie count has either remained the same or actually gone up. More expensive, less filling yet somehow more fattening.
Just order a “big mac” and you will see, it should be called a “mini-mac” now, but is just big in the price sense.
diarrhea lettuce… you are brave soul for not yoinking that out
r/USdefaultism
Some people need a low cost ozempic
As if literally everyone hasn’t already switched their providers
I noticed that with cookies and one of my favorites, Jezyki cookies is guilty as F!
There’s a non-chain burger place in my town that explicitly states that they are not fast food at the order counter.
Best burgers I’ve ever had in my life.
They are pretty massive burgers!
Promote that shit. Where and name?
Seriously! OP, we talking smash burgers? How close is that place to your house!? Where’s your house.
Have you considered that your hand has just grown larger?
If you dig through archive.org and retireve the nutritional information PDFs over time, you can see the kj levels dropping.
Kj levels?
It’s basically a synonym for “calories”
Metric version of a Calorie.
1 kilocalorie (kcal) = 4.18 kilojoules (kJ)
1 Calorie (with the uppercase C) = 1 kilocalorie
I didn’t even know calories HAD a metric version. I thought “calories” was the unit to measure them.
Just like how lumens is the unit to measure light.
…wait, is there a metric version of lumens too???
As a general rule, everything in the US is measured or notated differently to the rest of the world. Lengths, and weights, food energy, dates, fuel octane, fuel economy, blood glucose. Hell, you guys can’t even do shelf price tags the same.
I didn’t know that one either, I am just somewhat familiar with joules, so I looked it up to see if that was kilojoules, and it was. It looks to be US/Canada that still uses Calories/kcal from what I read. Niagra Falls is the furthest I’ve been out of the US, so don’t assume that’s 100% factual from me, that’s just the one source I read. 😉
Lumens is already a metric (SI) unit, but it’s used in the US as well. It’s when we get into things like lux vs footcandles we go back to metric vs imperial again.
Measuring light gets all funky and I am always forgetting what all the terms mean, so I always have to look them up. That article goes into lumens, lux, candela but the tl;dr is :
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The amount of light emitted is measured in lumens.
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A surface’s luminous flux, measured in lux, is the measure of its brightness.
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The visual intensity of a light source is quantified in terms of candela.
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Funnily enough, the “small” fries you get at McDonald’s in Germany are the same size as the US medium ones.
this could be two different angles of the same sandwich for all we know. if you pull everything halfway off the bun, from one side it looks big and from the other side it looks small
Actually it’s all about the angle of the dangle which is inversely proportional to the heat of the meat. If you want to get even more technical the heat of the meat is directly proportional to the mass of the ass.
But the gristle on the thistle slides in like a whistle
aka ‘ability to kill self with unhealthy food getting harder’
