I remember eating the McRib and feeling a deep sense of disappointment. Like, I was expecting a life changing experience but it was really just a mid-tier pork sandwich. I've had better pork sliders from gas stations, yet I'm hearing stories about people going hundreds to thousands of miles to get the McRib.
It's all marketing. They only sell it for a week or two in November and sometimes threaten to get rid of it forever.
I also have a theory that it was once much, much better for the annual hype to be justified. That, or people remember things differently from how they actually were...
All fast food products are extremely worse than they were 30 years ago. They don't use treacle and ground beef anymore, and they don't even use the loss-leading sales model anymore. It's worthless.
To think, the downside of fast food used to be that it was considered slobbery. Just that. Now it can't even be seen as a guilty pleasure, like a Vegas buffet financed by whales. It's just an archaic method of getting food that has none of the benefits anymore.
4 months ago
Anonymous
Cook Out and greasy college town dives and diners may be our last hope.
4 months ago
Anonymous
I'm holding onto the few mom and pop places near me for dear life. At this point they're actually cheaper than going to a fast food joint, let alone using one of their apps.
4 months ago
Anonymous
Boy, do I feel lucky that there are three bars I can walk to from my home... Not right now, though, it's dark and b***h cold out there
4 months ago
Anonymous
Sincerely, one of the best things about college was that there was like 5-6 different places that gave you that cheap, greasy food that hits after a night of drinking at the local bars. I would and have actually walked in the snow just to get a gyro or a big ass slice of pizza at midnight.
4 months ago
Anonymous
For me, it's the staff.
Anytime you watch old videos of fast food it actually looks like the staff care about their jobs and aren't hating life 24/7. I know the pay wasn't "great" back then, but it was certainly more in-line with overall pay scales. I'm sure you could grind out a marginally decent existence with a fast food job in the 70s/80s.
These days it's absolute wage slavery. I can't go to a McDs without feeling bad for everyone who works there. No way you can live a decent life with only a fast food job these days.
4 months ago
Anonymous
I feel like fast food staff have always been characterized as hating life though. But, I agree that it'd still be way worse now since the pay is still shit, people who work the jobs have little to no other options, and you've got pretty much no way to go except make "manager", which holds about the same value at 18 as it does at 30.
4 months ago
Anonymous
Only because they were characterised as cynical teens in the latter half of the 20th century. Before that, it was just seen as a way of life for any layman, for as far back as restaurants have existed.
4 months ago
Anonymous
You couldn't. The difference was people didn't see fast food as a career choice back then, it was a job a teenager would do over summer to get an understanding of what employment was like, and would by the time they were 20 either have been promoted to a managerial/corporate role or moved on to a better place of employment. All those videos you see, pay attention to how old the staff is. They're all like 16 years old. The issue is now teens don't get jobs anymore, so their first work experience comes when they graduate college with 40k in student loan debt. It's also why they get skipped over for employment so often, because boomer employers are still stuck in the 20th century mindset of "you should have 5 years of job experience by the time you're 22".
4 months ago
Anonymous
>student loan debt
Outdated stereotype for millennials. Zoomers get fastfood/warehouse jobs and suffer.
It's fat and sugar. People like it and inhale it for the same reason they like cheesecake; fat and sugar ticks all the right reward boxes in the brain. Good body, did smart, ate good. Have chemical reward.
To me it's Sandman. Nothing like reading 60+ issues of this complex fantasy story watching the main character go from revenge to depression to despair, only to end it all in a ridiculously complicated suicide attempt.
It's weird to see Americans talk about their fast food because the view of the big chains is very different in Brazil
It's regarded as something more luxurious (not too much though) and I don't think they have ever been cheap
I feel like it's considered more of a luxury outside the US than inside. Maybe it's just the sheer number of them in the US that lowers the quality? Maybe its the shift away from experience-oriented service? If you go to some rural towns, places like Pizza Hut or even the McDonalds are still something like a community space that catering toward a family dining outing.
That's a really, really dumb thing to fall for. I'd rather make the real thing at home with good ingredients from the grocer than buy fast food because "it's American".
You have to remember that outside of the first world, fast food is probably the most consistently sanitary food readily available to the average person. Their 'grocery stores' are open-air wetmarkets with all manner of animals and dirty peasants who have never heard of soap picking at the produce as it sits out and rots from exposure to the sun and sooty diesel exhaust. Drop something in the gutter? Whoops, just pick it up and put it back on the table. Pay no attention to the flea-bitten stray dog giving birth next to the barrel of rice
That's a really, really dumb thing to fall for. I'd rather make the real thing at home with good ingredients from the grocer than buy fast food because "it's American".
It's just that lower and middle classes here have a very good impression of the US, mostly because of the media exported to here
It's a McRib. It tastes like cheap pork byproducts and MacDonald's BBQ sauce. Wasn't terrible, first time I had one
I remember eating the McRib and feeling a deep sense of disappointment. Like, I was expecting a life changing experience but it was really just a mid-tier pork sandwich. I've had better pork sliders from gas stations, yet I'm hearing stories about people going hundreds to thousands of miles to get the McRib.
It's all marketing. They only sell it for a week or two in November and sometimes threaten to get rid of it forever.
I also have a theory that it was once much, much better for the annual hype to be justified. That, or people remember things differently from how they actually were...
All fast food products are extremely worse than they were 30 years ago. They don't use treacle and ground beef anymore, and they don't even use the loss-leading sales model anymore. It's worthless.
>All fast food products are extremely worse than they were 30 years ago.
This makes me feel sad.
To think, the downside of fast food used to be that it was considered slobbery. Just that. Now it can't even be seen as a guilty pleasure, like a Vegas buffet financed by whales. It's just an archaic method of getting food that has none of the benefits anymore.
Cook Out and greasy college town dives and diners may be our last hope.
I'm holding onto the few mom and pop places near me for dear life. At this point they're actually cheaper than going to a fast food joint, let alone using one of their apps.
Boy, do I feel lucky that there are three bars I can walk to from my home...
Not right now, though, it's dark and b***h cold out there
Sincerely, one of the best things about college was that there was like 5-6 different places that gave you that cheap, greasy food that hits after a night of drinking at the local bars. I would and have actually walked in the snow just to get a gyro or a big ass slice of pizza at midnight.
For me, it's the staff.
Anytime you watch old videos of fast food it actually looks like the staff care about their jobs and aren't hating life 24/7. I know the pay wasn't "great" back then, but it was certainly more in-line with overall pay scales. I'm sure you could grind out a marginally decent existence with a fast food job in the 70s/80s.
These days it's absolute wage slavery. I can't go to a McDs without feeling bad for everyone who works there. No way you can live a decent life with only a fast food job these days.
I feel like fast food staff have always been characterized as hating life though. But, I agree that it'd still be way worse now since the pay is still shit, people who work the jobs have little to no other options, and you've got pretty much no way to go except make "manager", which holds about the same value at 18 as it does at 30.
Only because they were characterised as cynical teens in the latter half of the 20th century. Before that, it was just seen as a way of life for any layman, for as far back as restaurants have existed.
You couldn't. The difference was people didn't see fast food as a career choice back then, it was a job a teenager would do over summer to get an understanding of what employment was like, and would by the time they were 20 either have been promoted to a managerial/corporate role or moved on to a better place of employment. All those videos you see, pay attention to how old the staff is. They're all like 16 years old. The issue is now teens don't get jobs anymore, so their first work experience comes when they graduate college with 40k in student loan debt. It's also why they get skipped over for employment so often, because boomer employers are still stuck in the 20th century mindset of "you should have 5 years of job experience by the time you're 22".
>student loan debt
Outdated stereotype for millennials. Zoomers get fastfood/warehouse jobs and suffer.
You can thank the State for all of that.
It's fat and sugar. People like it and inhale it for the same reason they like cheesecake; fat and sugar ticks all the right reward boxes in the brain. Good body, did smart, ate good. Have chemical reward.
I remember getting these every time we went to McDonald's just for the Coke glasses.
Idiot. They barely stand and fill up your already bloated cabinet.
Not that Anon, but if you alternate up and down with them, they fit together way better.
And risk shattering by putting uneven pressure? Great idea.
why are your glasses under pressure while sitting side-by-side on a shelf?
What? Pressure? You stacking pots and pans on top of them?
>things zoomers saw as kids and still don't know what it was a reference to
ass2ass
"zoomers" are like 28 right now
Yes, exactly. Old enough to have seen the Simpsons episode but not ASS2ASS.
nobody has seen that except me
It was a reference to this movie? I never realized.
That gif reminds me, what's the requiem for a dream of Cinemaphile?
probably roger rabbit, if we don't consider obscure shit
To me it's Sandman. Nothing like reading 60+ issues of this complex fantasy story watching the main character go from revenge to depression to despair, only to end it all in a ridiculously complicated suicide attempt.
It's weird to see Americans talk about their fast food because the view of the big chains is very different in Brazil
It's regarded as something more luxurious (not too much though) and I don't think they have ever been cheap
fast food isn't really cheap in America either nowadays to be quite tbh
I feel like it's considered more of a luxury outside the US than inside. Maybe it's just the sheer number of them in the US that lowers the quality? Maybe its the shift away from experience-oriented service? If you go to some rural towns, places like Pizza Hut or even the McDonalds are still something like a community space that catering toward a family dining outing.
There is also the exotic factor
>it's american so it must be good
That's a really, really dumb thing to fall for. I'd rather make the real thing at home with good ingredients from the grocer than buy fast food because "it's American".
You have to remember that outside of the first world, fast food is probably the most consistently sanitary food readily available to the average person. Their 'grocery stores' are open-air wetmarkets with all manner of animals and dirty peasants who have never heard of soap picking at the produce as it sits out and rots from exposure to the sun and sooty diesel exhaust. Drop something in the gutter? Whoops, just pick it up and put it back on the table. Pay no attention to the flea-bitten stray dog giving birth next to the barrel of rice
wrong reason
It's just that lower and middle classes here have a very good impression of the US, mostly because of the media exported to here
the rib has heroin in it.
RIDE THE STIMUTAX