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I've been starting to wonder... Like I haven't checked myself, but our fast food places updating the calories, because they're patties and stuff like that are sure as hell shrinking.
Maybe a quarter pounder is still a quarter pounder, but a McDouble sure as hell feels smaller.
I went to BK a few months ago from being too busy and on the road all day. I hadn't gone in since 2019 when the pandemic started. I got 2 whopper jr's and I swear they used the $1.00 menu burgers because 1/3 of the bun had nothing at all on them. You had to eat a lot of bare bread to get to the patty. I was still hungry and had to go home and make some real food. I used to go there and get 2 of them, fries and a drink and was full.
I remember a few years back Jackobox raised the prices of their tacos above $1. They dressed them up all fancy, used better ingredients, and every time I got some the employees were like "we decided to improve the quality and so they're more expensive now because they're higher quality". Few weeks later and they kept the price but reverted to their original recipe and presentation. Now that the $1 barrier is broken they keep steadily going up in price. Pro tip though if you ever need a thousand calories for cheap and have a wrought iron stomach get the tacos and ask them to put nacho cheese in it. They usually dgaf and sometimes it comes out more cheese than taco