• 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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      1 year ago

      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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      1 year ago

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