octopus_ink , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

I don’t understand how McDonald’s was ever popular to begin with.

I agree with every single criticism of McDonald’s that is in this discussion.

But my dude, let me tell you how delicious McDonald’s was in the 70s and 80s. Their fries were less crispy than today, but OMFG I would have killed for them. The food was good. It was still fast food, it was never what you’d come up with if you cooked the same thing at home, but their burgers and fries were good. How good other stuff on the menu was is probably more of a mixed bag.

I might let someone have the tip of my pinky if they could magic a double cheeseburger and large McD’s fries directly from 1979 onto my plate for dinner one time.

Over the decades they have changed ingredients and formulations in addition to (or in some cases because of, I’m sure) all of this corporate greed. What you eat today is not what we were enjoying back then, and I’m sure what we were enjoying back then was not as good as early McDonald’s.

But it was at least cheap, fast, and reasonably enjoyable to eat for a time.