RIP, McDonald's Dollar Menu

My dad used to raise a stink because he'd order the 49-cent fish sandwich without cheese, and then bitch because they wouldn't give him a dime off for the cheese.

"If I order a hamburger, it's 59 cents, right? And if I order a cheeseburger, it's 69 cents, right? Then that cheese has to be worth 10 cents. So why shouldn't I get that fish sandwich without cheese for 39 cents?"

Meanwhile, the stoned, pimply-faced counter boy was wondering why he put up with that shit for $3.35 an hour, and our whole family was getting the extra-special tartar sauce put on our fish sandwiches in the back.

Great memories.

 

Still $1.50 for a Burger King double cheeseburger, flame broiled. No "dollar" menu but a "value" menu. Maybe BK has trademarked "Value Menu." I dunno.

 

The only difference between a McDouble and a Big Mac is the special sauce, lettuce and the middle piece of bread. Both have the two all-beef patties, cheese, pickles, onions and the sesame-seed bun. The McDouble was $1 and a Big Mac is $3.99 last I checked.

McDonald's is so unsatisfying to me nowadays. It's like the food just goes poof in my belly. I could probably eat there for a week and never have to shit.

 

There hasn't been a dollar menu in Canada for a long time. I think the double cheeseburger is something like $1.39. I remember when they still had 69 cent cheeseburger Sunday up here, it was glorious. Then in my second year of college they ended it. That was a truly terrible day for me.

And I cannot imagine eating a filet o fish. Most disgusting looking thing in the world.

They do two things worth going there for, the bacon and egg mcmuffin and their coffee now is damn good, as far as fast food coffee goes. I will take it every time over Tim's, which is almost sacrilegious to say up here.

 

It was a for-hours thing, not a quick send.

 

I once was a judge in a sweet tea competition in Alabama. The sweet tea at McDonalds is better than 95% of the entrants in the competition. And that's not a knock on the sweet tea in Alabama. McDonalds' sweet tea is that damn good. A dollar, two dollars, three dollars. I'll pay it. Same for the Filet o' Fish.

 

Then revoke my citizenship because Tim's is the WORST coffee in Canada.

 

Philistine.

McDonald's coffee is pretty good.

 

Old Tony, I agree 100 percent. The late Ray Kroc is spinning because of this outrage.

 

I wonder how much the Big Mic is nowadays?

 

The only meal I have eaten at McDonald's in at least 10 years is breakfast, which I like, even though it's doubtless the most unhealthy meal they serve. The sausage biscuit leaves more grease stains than a 10-car wreck at Talladega.

 

It's very good and very reasonably priced compared to the other coffee places... They did a Pepsi challenge on the streets of Seattle with Starbucks and a couple other expensive coffee places and McDonald's won pretty handily...