weswelker#83

http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv...080522?sp=true


Something tells me the portions are about to become smaller.

BelichickFan

This isn't actually surprising, fast food places always have better deals during slowdowns/recessions/whatever.

wistahpatsfan

That would be good. Less poisoning of our kids is always a good thing. Their burgers should be about the size of a quarter and their fries should resemble tiithpicks. McDonalds < food.

Little_Richard

You have no idea how much you are correct.

Take canned vegetable, for example.

There were always 15 oz in a can of vegetables.

Now, if you check the labels of a lot of the cans, Green Giant, Del Monte and others, many will only have 14.5 ounces.

A half an ounce isnt much but if you multiply that by the millions of cans that are packed each year it really is a tremendous amount of money that the manufacturer is saving on the cost of the vegetables.

But, of course, at the supermarkets the price of the veggies goes up, even though there is less in the can.

So, if McDonalds cuts the size of the patties by a fraction of an ounce in each patty..they literally save millions upon millions of dollars in their cost for the meat. Same price per patty to the public but just a trickle less of meat, which for the most part goes un noticed just like the half ounce of veggies in the can.

Little_Richard

The only fast food place that has almost decent fries is Wendys and even those are not as thick as they once were.

BTW, what is a tiithpick?

Harry Boy

It is a pick that you pick tiith's with, I have several of them, I have a lot of tiiths, they run in my family.

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Little_Richard

I imagine then that your family left their tiiths under the pillow for the tiith fairy.

KontradictioN

Checkers/Rally's blows everyone else's fries out of the water. Their other stuff (burgers, hot dogs, chicken sandwiches, etc.) leave a lot to be desired though.

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weswelker#83

They did the same with Frito Lay chips.

otis p. driftwood

How do you know they didn't eliminate some of the water in the can?

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