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Hi. I worked for Burger King late 1980s to early 1990s when it had great Canadian ham and fresh croissants for breakfast. We made our own fresh scrambled eggs. Then, Burger King switched to a pre-made egg mix that got shipped in cartons.
I also was at Burger King late 1980s to early 1990s when it had introduced the BK Broiler Chicken which was fabulous back then. It was actually one of my favorite items to order back then.
Another item that you might want to compare is breakfast pancakes in restaurants and even stores. ALDI'S refrigerated pancakes you need 6 pancakes for a person now.🤔😮😲
How can the quarter-pounder get smaller? Its name has the weight right in it. The other ones, so long as they don't advertise that they start with x amount of beef, then they are fair game for the grocery shrink ray.
AMEN! I Don't dare go inside where someone serves us. Nope, now we got the government trying to pass lab grown meat. I may need to start eating nothing but lettuce and rice
@@pslay9324I’ve already been subsisting on rice & beans 🫘 🍚 as my staple foods since 2019 ended. They’re still _somewhat_ cheap bought in bulk, and last a *very* long time without refrigeration if kept dry and uncooked.
It is part of inflation. This is a side effect of government over spending. Your dollar is worth less every day because of printing money. You are funding the fed.
What amazes me os that a few years ago people were complaining that fast food portions were too big.... now they are complaining that they are too small,... strange
It's the price per amount of food that is so insane. I'm all for a proper portion, but I don't want to be overcharged for it. It's smaller portion, larger price now. It's all bass ackwards now.
Only one person really complained. That super size me guy. If it wasn't for him we'd still have super sized fries. What did he think would happen if you eat like that, and never workout
I noticed this quite a while ago,fast food portions keep getting smaller.i noticed 10 yrs ago a half gallon of ice cream got smaller by 25 percent and the price went up.i love fast food burgers and fries just about all of them.but I won't buy them anymore,when a medium big mac meal costs 18$ i cant afford to eat out anymore
Years ago I used to buy Breyer's half-gallons and one summer I noticed that I was finishing the container somewhat faster than in previous times (sure, it's all me, so I can't blame anyone else). But, it took me 3 separate purchases to discover that they had zapped the stuff with the Grocery Shrink Ray causing it to go from 64 ounces down to, iirc, 48 ounces. I stopped buying it at that point, since, as we all know, the price didn't go down. And then there's an orange juice brand that went from 64 ounces down to fifty-something ounces. Again, I stopped buying their fresh-squeezed stuff. And then at some point afterwards, they became what I call corporate naming rights johns when they paid to be the name of a field for a sports team. I go out of my way to NOT buy products and services from those companies (I'll eat their stuff, I just wont give them my money). Yes, it's cutting off my nose to spite my face, but I do what I can.
Yeah ice cream shrunk from half gallon to 1.41 quarts and bs like that. Worst of all, a lot of ice cream companies changed from simple ingredients like milk, cream, sugar, to substituting with hydrogenated oils, seed oils, plant gums, and changed to "frozen dairy desert." Make sure you read the ingredients, if it's a huge paragraph containing oils, don't buy that trash, it's toxic for you.
I don't patronize them anymore cuz as a White Man I'm getting second class service. The order's wrong. Something's left out. I find pubic hairs in my burger. Etc.
That's horrible. I worked at a KFC nearly 20 years ago and we sold chicken sourced through Lillydale. Some of our pieces of chicken were so large, we couldn't fit the prerequisite amount into the fryer basket. That was also back in the days of "Toonie Tuesday". Remember that??? TWO pieces of chicken and a small fries for $2.
Portions are smaller and/or fewer (ie-nuggets); prices are more expensive; businesses state they can't pay living wages to their employees; yet these companies are making record profits. But yeah...let's blame it on the pandemic.
@@BabbleTopthe costs of goods and services go up, and they continue to do the same amount of business. that *should* mean more money is available to increase wages, right? *wrong.* All the extra money just gets funneled up to the top (ironically, to the people that already have more money than they’ll ever spend.) So your average worker is still getting paid on wage ranges from the 90s/early 2000s, but paying 2024 prices. This can’t go on. We’re working 2-3 jobs and becoming homeless/living paycheck to paycheck.
This is happening with everything. That's why the rich keep getting richer. Increase the price and decrease the size and/or value of the product. It's the American way, corporate big profit over everything else.
Most snack size, packs of candy bars did that in the 2000s and again in 2010; and *again* after 2020. In 2003, you used to get 10 fun size in a sleeve… then it was 8, then 6, and now it’s currently 5. The price didn’t change during the 2000s, but it started creeping up in the 2010s… a little. Just a few cents here and there. (You could still get the cheap ones at Dollar tree, but CVS, Walgreens, Walmart, ALDIs, and DG started creeping the price up a few cents at a time. In 2020, they didn’t even try to hide it; they f///ing _DOUBLED_ the price… and you’re still only getting 5 fun size candy bars. King size and regular size candy bars in the 2000s were a lot thicker than they were in the 2010s. The size (and ounces) got reduced while the prices did not, in the hopes that the consumer wouldn’t really notice or care. We noticed. We care. 😠
@hobomike6935 I remember this and saying these things look smaller and cost more. I also think the chocolate on snickers has cheapened up also. Not much beat a snickers and a dr pepper back in the 80s. Now it's barely a snickers and dr chemicals.
@@bjenkins803 part of me has been gaslit by companies who claim that _”you were just a kid then, so the candy bars seemed bigger. They were always that small.”_ But I keep seeing pictures surface online of the unwrapped products, they’re definitely smaller and they definitely cost more than it did in the 2000s
I love that “I am mad as hell and I’m not gonna take it anymore. I’ve seen that so many times in different fast food joints. Thank you for bringing that up.
Hi. I worked for Burger King late 1980s to early 1990s when it had great Canadian ham and fresh croissants for breakfast. We made our own fresh scrambled eggs. Then, Burger King switched to a pre-made egg mix that got shipped in cartons.
It applies to the grocery store as well, items from ice cream to potato chips to candy bars and the like are noticeably smaller than say they were in the 1980s. What good is technology if it can't control the price of goods from being inflated and the size of goods being deflated?
Was telling a co-worker that cars need to have small microwave ovens in them in the future. Can nuke a frozen chicken sandwich or English muffin egg and bacon breakfast sandwich on the go and not deal with fast food let downs. Plus, you'd save some money and time too.
There exists a device called a *hotlogic* which can be plugged into many cars; both old ones and modern. Types exist with both a “cigarette lighter” plug and a regular plug. 🔌 It takes some time (approx 1 hr) but it can heat your food up without much power draw on your battery, and keep it hot and ready for you to eat. They are extremely cheap and I highly recommend getting one. It’s gotten me out of a pinch several times, especially back when I was living out of my car because of catastrophic rent/mortgage prices.
When I saw the new double Big Mac I said to the person standing next to me, "I wonder if that means it has as much meat as the regular Big Mac used to?" Not that I can eat there anymore. My body decided to suddenly recognize wheat as a migraine trigger over a decade ago and McD's even puts wheat on it's fries. I'm just a DoorDash driver puzzled over how many people are willing to pay through the nose for delivery of food items that are only good hot and fresh at the restaurant. Hey, I'm glad they are as long as they remember to tip!
Down with tipping. Your employer should pay you a fair wage. I shouldn’t have to pay the cost of your food (which is already too high) AND pay you an additional amount for service which may or may not suck. (A lot of delivery men/women have a terrible attitude and are late, or have mashed the tops of the containers into food before it arrives so it’s smeared.) I’ll just cook at home and bypass the shrinkflation at restaurants, thanks 👌
I worked for burger kind between 98 and 2000 and am I the only the one that loved their fries and chicken tenders/nuggets ? Far superior to what they have today. manager would let us eat the food that would have just been thrown away at closing and it was the 2 things we never got sick of.
Honestly I'd rather the sizes go down than the prices go up. It's very rare I've ever eaten a meal from a fast food place and just decided I needed more.
I think the Mc griddle has gotten smaller over it’s nearly 20 year run. I got one a couple weeks ago, and I couldn’t believe how easily it fit in the palm of my hand. The McMuffin is kind of starting to look like that too.
The pic with the two Big Macs is misleading and has been circulating for years. The smaller burger is a regular Big Mac, the larger one is a Mega Mac (a version using Quarter Pounder sized patties and buns).
If Whataburger has made their food smaller over the 20 years they've been operating in my area, I haven't noticed. I'll happily pay a dollar or two more for my Triple Meat Whataburger if it means the burger stays the same size through the years. I'd always rather pay more for the same than pay the same for less.
Same with everywhere, use to get a 4 piece at Canes, and got a load of fries that came with it, now you have to get a 6 piece to get the same food, the chicken strips are way smaller, and that's $16, so now I'm boycotting, and again, most others, too.
I wouldn't care so much about the reduced size if it wasn't for the fact that when they reduced the size, they don't also reduce the price. If anything, they increased the price. That's the shit that pisses me off.
$2.00 won’t even buy you a drink at most fast food places now! You’ll need a little change to get over the hump that’s added by taxes. McDonald’s still has a $1 large soda, but I doubt even that will last long. 🫤
THE NEW SHAM IS THEY SHORT U FOOD AT THE DRIVE THOUGH. I PRETTY MUCH DONT DO FAST FOOD ANYMORE BUT THE LAST MANY TIMES I DID DRIVE THOUGH, I GOT SHORTED. ITS ALWAYS SOMETHING WRAPPED. Maybe just a hungry window clerk. ? 😳
As the topic of shrinkflation, with its diminishing product sizes but stable prices, garners attention, there's a darker trend worth spotlighting: scanflation. This issue extends beyond the realms of inflation or smaller packaging-it's a greed-fueled mechanism quietly lining the pockets of retailers through frequent, unnoticed overcharges. The occasional discovery of such pricing "errors" typically ends in an apology, yet the cycle of invisible overcharges rolls on, leveraging ephemeral deals that soon vanish. It’s a covert theft affecting those with the least leeway. To peel back the layers on this form of corporate malfeasance, searching scanflation videos could highlight the major players exploiting this strategy.
I used to work at mcdonalds. Sometimes when the burgers cook they shink when theyre a little overdone, thats normal. We would discard those batties but as far as im concerned, the burgers are still the same. Its just not worth the 2 dollars per cheeseburger when i can go to sheetz and get 2 hot dogs a drink and only spend 2 bucks on lunch.
The portion sizes have gotten smaller because companies figured out they won’t be held accountable for robbing their customers in front of their faces so what they do is make the food smaller, but the price is skyrocket and then they have it where they give us a choice either buy the food That they offer the price they offer for don’t eat at all and starve 😕🙁😒
The problem with Domino’s pizza size is a skill issue not a shrink issue... The dough balls havent changed size but if it isnt streached right the pizza wont be the correct size. Of the pies you showed all but 1 were improperly made, and the other looked like it was in the wrong size box ie: M in L box or L in an XL (which happened to me when I ordered a few weeks back bc the store ran out of L boxes)
McDonald's Quarter Pounder has not changed in size, likewise the Big Mac and Mcmuffins are the same size as always. What has changed is the size of the cold drinks.
I think this also has to do with a lot of chains starting to use meats with non added hormones and what not. Thus why our meats are smaller then what they used to be.
It’s not just fast food that’s shrinking its sizes and changing more. Many items in the grocery stores have done the same. For example many sausage, hot links and hotdog manufacturers have shrunken what was once typical 16oz packaging down to 14oz and in some instances 12oz. Ice cream which was typically sold by the 1/2 gallon is now packaged in 1.5 to 1.25 quarts etc…
I dont understand how its legal to shrink the foos while also charging more if the stuff stayed the same size and got more expensive is one thing but getting less and paying more shouls be illegal
I used to only go to Burger King. I loved their double cheeseburger. But somewhere along the line, the "double cheeseburger" became some small, poor imitation of itself. That was a change not due to recent shrinkflation, but it was a shrinkflation change that fundamentally destroyed my brand loyalty to the point I almost never got to BK for a burger.
See I wondered if it was just because Im older now. Like my perception of food just suddenly changed once I could actually buy things with my own money. I remember going into Mcdonald's to get my first Big Mac since becoming an adult and moving out of my parents house and thinking "Yo, I remember when you used to look so huge guess I finally grew into you." But now I feel better. Im not just crazy. Its also "Shrinkflation" 😅😅
Did you do any research at all? No, the Big Mac has not gotten smaller. The burgers have been 1.6 ounces for decades and have not changed. What may have changed is consumer preferences, as other burgers have gotten bigger and bigger, it makes the Big Mac look small in comparison. The truth is, it's always used the standard hamburger patties, not quarter pound patties or anything in between.
I stopped going to fast food all together. I now to to a local restaurant & for $10 I get a bigger better burger with plenty of fries cooked to order from organic grass fed beef. It is way better and comes with all the fixings as well.
McDonalds Quarter pounder had a quarter pound meat. Now the entire Quarter Pounder is INCLUDING the box and all ingrediencies and shrunk to fit better between your fingers not in the hand !!
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Hi. I worked for Burger King late 1980s to early 1990s when it had great Canadian ham and fresh croissants for breakfast. We made our own fresh scrambled eggs. Then, Burger King switched to a pre-made egg mix that got shipped in cartons.
I also was at Burger King late 1980s to early 1990s when it had introduced the BK Broiler Chicken which was fabulous back then. It was actually one of my favorite items to order back then.
Now...One fast food restaurant that I have a problem with is PANDA EXPRESS. The portions seem smaller as well.
Another item that you might want to compare is breakfast pancakes in restaurants and even stores. ALDI'S refrigerated pancakes you need 6 pancakes for a person now.🤔😮😲
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If the Big Macs, Whoppers, and quarter pounders keep shrinking they going to end up the size of a white castle slider.
How can the quarter-pounder get smaller? Its name has the weight right in it. The other ones, so long as they don't advertise that they start with x amount of beef, then they are fair game for the grocery shrink ray.
@@bikenyin 2034, it will probably be the “quarter incher” referring to the thickness of the patty.
😂😂😂 sooo true
@@hobomike6935 lol
I don't really buy fast food anymore. I can afford it; I just feel it's too expensive for the quality provided.
@jamescameron1861 Agreed. The disconnect between fast food prices and the quality offered can be a common concern. 🍕💸
COOK YOUR OWN FOOD
You just had to throw the 'I can afford it' part into your comment, huh?
AMEN! I Don't dare go inside where someone serves us. Nope, now we got the government trying to pass lab grown meat. I may need to start eating nothing but lettuce and rice
@@pslay9324I’ve already been subsisting on rice & beans 🫘 🍚 as my staple foods since 2019 ended.
They’re still _somewhat_ cheap bought in bulk, and last a *very* long time without refrigeration if kept dry and uncooked.
Its not inflation its price gouging.
Pure greed.
It is part of inflation. This is a side effect of government over spending. Your dollar is worth less every day because of printing money. You are funding the fed.
They're treating customers like garbage doing this. Why don't they just charge more and keep the original sizes?
They are hoping you don't notice.
More profit by selling the same amount of food, but smaller portions.
Why charge more at all?
@@FozzyTax ingredients
Because money.
Wonder if we can bring back the "Where's the beef" lady. Because WTH
That was Wendy's, not BK.
Well, just to play along, you're gonna have to bring her back from the afterlife. But, yeah, WTH is right!
We went from a Whopper to a whimper.
@mightygazooo4101 Not feeling the new vibe?
You're right. I used to buy the Whopper on sale in the 90s for 99 cents and they were bigger. Now, they're $9 including tax.
@masudaharris6435 Ah, the good old days of the 99-cent Whopper. Prices have indeed climbed since then. 🍔
My grandma used to buy 6 of em and put em in the freezer. When we got hungry and she didn't want to cook, to the freezer we went!
@@montabelloresling8750now the freezer’s empty; just a few sad ice cubes and cold packs.
Thanks Joe! 👍 really love not being able to afford food!
I worked MCDs in college.. big mac wednesdays sucked ass
Mcdonalds SWEARS the big mac has always come with patties that size. I don't believe it either.
@thefumexxl Interesting point! Many, like you, question the longstanding size claim of Big Mac patties.
@@thefumexxl It probably has the same roundness but is now transparently thin. Hold it up to the light & you can see through it thin.
What amazes me os that a few years ago people were complaining that fast food portions were too big.... now they are complaining that they are too small,... strange
@Donathon-qx8kq@Donathon-qx8kq Funny how perspectives shift. Small portions to big, and now back again.
It's the price per amount of food that is so insane. I'm all for a proper portion, but I don't want to be overcharged for it. It's smaller portion, larger price now. It's all bass ackwards now.
@@BabbleTop if you knew what you taling about you know prices change depending on the beef markets if they spike they have to rise prices
Only one person really complained. That super size me guy. If it wasn't for him we'd still have super sized fries. What did he think would happen if you eat like that, and never workout
I noticed this quite a while ago,fast food portions keep getting smaller.i noticed 10 yrs ago a half gallon of ice cream got smaller by 25 percent and the price went up.i love fast food burgers and fries just about all of them.but I won't buy them anymore,when a medium big mac meal costs 18$ i cant afford to eat out anymore
@edbrown6985 The downsizing dilemma strikes again! Smaller portions, bigger prices. What's going on, food industry? 🥺
Years ago I used to buy Breyer's half-gallons and one summer I noticed that I was finishing the container somewhat faster than in previous times (sure, it's all me, so I can't blame anyone else). But, it took me 3 separate purchases to discover that they had zapped the stuff with the Grocery Shrink Ray causing it to go from 64 ounces down to, iirc, 48 ounces. I stopped buying it at that point, since, as we all know, the price didn't go down. And then there's an orange juice brand that went from 64 ounces down to fifty-something ounces. Again, I stopped buying their fresh-squeezed stuff. And then at some point afterwards, they became what I call corporate naming rights johns when they paid to be the name of a field for a sports team. I go out of my way to NOT buy products and services from those companies (I'll eat their stuff, I just wont give them my money). Yes, it's cutting off my nose to spite my face, but I do what I can.
Yeah ice cream shrunk from half gallon to 1.41 quarts and bs like that. Worst of all, a lot of ice cream companies changed from simple ingredients like milk, cream, sugar, to substituting with hydrogenated oils, seed oils, plant gums, and changed to "frozen dairy desert." Make sure you read the ingredients, if it's a huge paragraph containing oils, don't buy that trash, it's toxic for you.
I don't patronize them anymore cuz as a White Man I'm getting second class service. The order's wrong. Something's left out. I find pubic hairs in my burger. Etc.
That's horrible. I worked at a KFC nearly 20 years ago and we sold chicken sourced through Lillydale. Some of our pieces of chicken were so large, we couldn't fit the prerequisite amount into the fryer basket. That was also back in the days of "Toonie Tuesday". Remember that??? TWO pieces of chicken and a small fries for $2.
@That_AMC_Guy Whoa, giant chicken pieces sound amazing! What was your favorite part about working at KFC?
Portions are smaller and/or fewer (ie-nuggets); prices are more expensive; businesses state they can't pay living wages to their employees; yet these companies are making record profits. But yeah...let's blame it on the pandemic.
@rosejustice Spot on! The disconnect between shrinking portions, rising prices, and low wages is concerning.
@@BabbleTopthe costs of goods and services go up, and they continue to do the same amount of business.
that *should* mean more money is available to increase wages, right? *wrong.*
All the extra money just gets funneled up to the top (ironically, to the people that already have more money than they’ll ever spend.)
So your average worker is still getting paid on wage ranges from the 90s/early 2000s, but paying 2024 prices.
This can’t go on. We’re working 2-3 jobs and becoming homeless/living paycheck to paycheck.
I got a double Big Mac and the patties were so thin one had a hole in it.
@mikeb611 Sounds like your Big Mac went on a diet! Thinner patties, but did it still satisfy the craving? 🍔😅
@@BabbleTop NO. Totally not worth the money or the name. Double Thin Mac is more like it.
Same here in Asia...paper thin when you look at the ads WOW BIG MAC Diffrence. Wheres the beef???
How can McDonald's be the "king of burgers" for years? Their patties are paper thin..
Bought a can of pringles and the can was 3 quarters full not to the top & 50 cents more
@ccg1171 That's disappointing! Have you noticed this with other products too, or is it a one-time thing?
It has been like that for years. Other brands come in bags that are less than half full.
@BabbleTop yes my bag of cat litter was 25 lb bag for 4.59 now it went to 20 lbs for 5.89.
Pringle aren't even considered potato chips.
Love how mcdonalds got busted for price gouging and the ceo promised to have the prices lowered.
This is happening with everything. That's why the rich keep getting richer. Increase the price and decrease the size and/or value of the product. It's the American way, corporate big profit over everything else.
@rascal211 It's a common trend, unfortunately. Profit-driven decisions can impact consumers.
@@BabbleTopoh there’s no “can” about it; they *have* impacted consumers. Negatively.
Yes, I've been noticing this a lot
and it really is a big bummer!😟
@JaneDoe-ov1hb Sad when things keep getting smaller. 🥺
DONT EAT IT,SIMPLE!
@@barnjob75 It is a choice, but it also shows corporate greed at it's greediest.
Snickers has done it also.
Most snack size, packs of candy bars did that in the 2000s and again in 2010; and *again* after 2020.
In 2003, you used to get 10 fun size in a sleeve… then it was 8, then 6, and now it’s currently 5.
The price didn’t change during the 2000s, but it started creeping up in the 2010s… a little. Just a few cents here and there. (You could still get the cheap ones at Dollar tree, but CVS, Walgreens, Walmart, ALDIs, and DG started creeping the price up a few cents at a time.
In 2020, they didn’t even try to hide it; they f///ing _DOUBLED_ the price… and you’re still only getting 5 fun size candy bars.
King size and regular size candy bars in the 2000s were a lot thicker than they were in the 2010s. The size (and ounces) got reduced while the prices did not, in the hopes that the consumer wouldn’t really notice or care.
We noticed. We care. 😠
@hobomike6935 I remember this and saying these things look smaller and cost more. I also think the chocolate on snickers has cheapened up also. Not much beat a snickers and a dr pepper back in the 80s. Now it's barely a snickers and dr chemicals.
@@bjenkins803 part of me has been gaslit by companies who claim that _”you were just a kid then, so the candy bars seemed bigger. They were always that small.”_
But I keep seeing pictures surface online of the unwrapped products, they’re definitely smaller and they definitely cost more than it did in the 2000s
The prices go up and the portions get smaller. I once paid $15 for a take out plate of lomein that weighed about as much as a loaf of bread.
@MackeyDeez Sounds frustrating! Smaller portions for higher prices are never fun.
I love that “I am mad as hell and I’m not gonna take it anymore. I’ve seen that so many times in different fast food joints. Thank you for bringing that up.
Great movie.
Network 1976
Peter Finch as Howard Beale. Won the Oscar for Best Actor.
cooking at home is the solution for the time being !
The Big Mac is definitely smaller. Breakfast sandwiches too.
@kenhill3230 Why do our beloved fast-food items keep getting smaller? Big Macs and breakfast sandwiches, I miss the original size! 🤧🥺
They're really not...
@@barrydavey7188 They really are.
I will NEVER go to McDonalds as long as they keep doing that pinching the bottom of the fry box trick :P
@JohnSmith-zw8vp Oh, the fry box pinch trick, classic move! What's the story behind your aversion to it at McDonald's?
Hi. I worked for Burger King late 1980s to early 1990s when it had great Canadian ham and fresh croissants for breakfast. We made our own fresh scrambled eggs. Then, Burger King switched to a pre-made egg mix that got shipped in cartons.
@trumpwonandyouknowit Remembering the breakfast glory days at Burger King - the homemade eggs and Canadian ham were unbeatable!😍
It applies to the grocery store as well, items from ice cream to potato chips to candy bars and the like are noticeably smaller than say they were in the 1980s. What good is technology if it can't control the price of goods from being inflated and the size of goods being deflated?
Yes. Notice ALDI'S. Pancakes...You need six pancakes for one person.
Cereal. Boxes are under 12 ounces at times now. WAL-MART, ALDI'S, TARGET....
Potato chips were in 16 ounce nags, when I was a kid. Now 'Family size' is 11 ounces.
@IceManLikeGervin Technology, step up! Inflation on prices, deflation on goods - not a fair deal.🙃
@michaelterrell Family size downsized to 11 ounces? Not cool, chip world!
Was telling a co-worker that cars need to have small microwave ovens in them in the future. Can nuke a frozen chicken sandwich or English muffin egg and bacon breakfast sandwich on the go and not deal with fast food let downs. Plus, you'd save some money and time too.
@HankColter Love the concept! Microwave-equipped cars could revolutionize on-the-go meals.
There exists a device called a *hotlogic* which can be plugged into many cars; both old ones and modern.
Types exist with both a “cigarette lighter” plug and a regular plug. 🔌
It takes some time (approx 1 hr) but it can heat your food up without much power draw on your battery, and keep it hot and ready for you to eat.
They are extremely cheap and I highly recommend getting one. It’s gotten me out of a pinch several times, especially back when I was living out of my car because of catastrophic rent/mortgage prices.
Where's the beef!!!?
Clearly not in the sandwich anymore. 😢
When I saw the new double Big Mac I said to the person standing next to me, "I wonder if that means it has as much meat as the regular Big Mac used to?"
Not that I can eat there anymore. My body decided to suddenly recognize wheat as a migraine trigger over a decade ago and McD's even puts wheat on it's fries. I'm just a DoorDash driver puzzled over how many people are willing to pay through the nose for delivery of food items that are only good hot and fresh at the restaurant. Hey, I'm glad they are as long as they remember to tip!
Down with tipping. Your employer should pay you a fair wage.
I shouldn’t have to pay the cost of your food (which is already too high) AND pay you an additional amount for service which may or may not suck. (A lot of delivery men/women have a terrible attitude and are late, or have mashed the tops of the containers into food before it arrives so it’s smeared.)
I’ll just cook at home and bypass the shrinkflation at restaurants, thanks 👌
I worked for burger kind between 98 and 2000 and am I the only the one that loved their fries and chicken tenders/nuggets ? Far superior to what they have today. manager would let us eat the food that would have just been thrown away at closing and it was the 2 things we never got sick of.
Another type of shrinkflation that is also employed is where the quality of the ingredients used is lowered.
@lunarpollen True, ingredient quality matters! It's essential for a satisfying experience.
Hope for an eventual part 2 please ??
@kleine.5438 Got you bro!!✔️
Honestly I'd rather the sizes go down than the prices go up. It's very rare I've ever eaten a meal from a fast food place and just decided I needed more.
I think the Mc griddle has gotten smaller over it’s nearly 20 year run. I got one a couple weeks ago, and I couldn’t believe how easily it fit in the palm of my hand. The McMuffin is kind of starting to look like that too.
@djhorn5769 Right? Noticed the same thing! 🍔😁
Thanks for a list of places I will never go. The CEO's make a ton when we don't.
I noticed the changes, especially the Big Mac. But where I really noticed a drastic change was the BK Big Fish.
@BigLou2 Definitely! The BK Big Fish underwent a drastic change that many have observed.
Now BK Little Fish. 😡
higher prices but smaller portions. Just eat at home.
The pic with the two Big Macs is misleading and has been circulating for years. The smaller burger is a regular Big Mac, the larger one is a Mega Mac (a version using Quarter Pounder sized patties and buns).
If Whataburger has made their food smaller over the 20 years they've been operating in my area, I haven't noticed. I'll happily pay a dollar or two more for my Triple Meat Whataburger if it means the burger stays the same size through the years. I'd always rather pay more for the same than pay the same for less.
Thanks for this video!
Same with everywhere, use to get a 4 piece at Canes, and got a load of fries that came with it, now you have to get a 6 piece to get the same food, the chicken strips are way smaller, and that's $16, so now I'm boycotting, and again, most others, too.
@malachi- Understandable! Changes in portion sizes can be disappointing.
Bankrupt them.
Their burgers are half the size they were 3 years ago
I wouldn't care so much about the reduced size if it wasn't for the fact that when they reduced the size, they don't also reduce the price. If anything, they increased the price. That's the shit that pisses me off.
Nothing will ever change with size and pricing because people will always buy it.
Thanks!
$2.00 won’t even buy you a drink at most fast food places now! You’ll need a little change to get over the hump that’s added by taxes.
McDonald’s still has a $1 large soda, but I doubt even that will last long. 🫤
Most people don't even know Tim Horton was a hockey player who founded that company
you could put this video in like 2 Minutes
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Hmmm... Ok, so: Big sMaCk, Chicken MCnothing, French prise, and "MC Donals" should be called "MC Dollars". 😂😂😂
Oof it’s so true. Had a few of these recently and the mc Donald’s Patties are very thin! Thanks Joe
@pinkwerewolf So true! McDonald's patties can be a bit on the thin side.
I've been noticing this for the past 10 years
Yet waist size of fast food customers is getting larger.
@markbole2496 True observation! Despite awareness, waist sizes continue to expand with fast food consumption. 🍟
Its not the the raw weight of the burgers has changed, its that they are using burger that has more fat so they are cheaper
The big Mac is the same size as the egg mic muffin
Both smaller than yesteryear.
@chesterhunt8164 Nahhh bro!😁
@@RealBigBadJohn Not really...
@@barrydavey7188 Yes, really. And Frank says hello.
Popeye's large red beans & rice used to be a 32 oz cup. The last time I was there, it was only about 1/2 that and more expensive to boot!!
Customers have done the right thing by making waves. Now we just need to start petitions to bring portions back to normal size.
Less food and yet we're getting fatter *pants button pops off like a bullet, ricocheting throughout the room*
@Astral_Dusk Whoa, talk about a wardrobe malfunction! Looks like those pants couldn't handle the pressure!
THE NEW SHAM IS THEY SHORT U FOOD AT THE DRIVE THOUGH. I PRETTY MUCH DONT DO FAST FOOD ANYMORE BUT THE LAST MANY TIMES I DID DRIVE THOUGH, I GOT SHORTED. ITS ALWAYS SOMETHING WRAPPED. Maybe just a hungry window clerk. ? 😳
Wendys old slogan was WHERES THE BEEF? 😂😂
I will never give KFC another dollar because their chicken is ridiculously small.
The old man fried chicken store is serving pigeon lol
As the topic of shrinkflation, with its diminishing product sizes but stable prices, garners attention, there's a darker trend worth spotlighting: scanflation. This issue extends beyond the realms of inflation or smaller packaging-it's a greed-fueled mechanism quietly lining the pockets of retailers through frequent, unnoticed overcharges. The occasional discovery of such pricing "errors" typically ends in an apology, yet the cycle of invisible overcharges rolls on, leveraging ephemeral deals that soon vanish. It’s a covert theft affecting those with the least leeway. To peel back the layers on this form of corporate malfeasance, searching scanflation videos could highlight the major players exploiting this strategy.
Who cares... We shouldn't be going to the places anyways... They was bad... And are worse now... Cook your own food
@fleabitpeanutmonkey614 Exactly! Home-cooked meals are often the healthier and tastier option.
I used to work at mcdonalds. Sometimes when the burgers cook they shink when theyre a little overdone, thats normal. We would discard those batties but as far as im concerned, the burgers are still the same. Its just not worth the 2 dollars per cheeseburger when i can go to sheetz and get 2 hot dogs a drink and only spend 2 bucks on lunch.
@user-ui8it3bw5x Makes sense! Overcooking can lead to shrinkage, but it's great you found an affordable lunch alternative.
This is why I only eat at three different restaurants.
QDOBA, Los Agave's & Great Wall.
McDonald's CHICKEN NUGGETS ARE SO THIN NOW THAT AFTER THE BREADING ITS A SLICE OF LUNCH MEAT??
The portion sizes have gotten smaller because companies figured out they won’t be held accountable for robbing their customers in front of their faces so what they do is make the food smaller, but the price is skyrocket and then they have it where they give us a choice either buy the food That they offer the price they offer for don’t eat at all and starve 😕🙁😒
I remember McD's ad featuring feed 4 for $20. Can't do 2 anymore.
They can just add the words "per person".
@karenharper4318 Nostalgic for the good deals! McDonald's promotions shift over time.
Can't even do that at White Castles now.
Big Macs are now Tiny Mac.
Dont think for one minute that it hasnt been noticed
The problem with Domino’s pizza size is a skill issue not a shrink issue...
The dough balls havent changed size but if it isnt streached right the pizza wont be the correct size. Of the pies you showed all but 1 were improperly made, and the other looked like it was in the wrong size box ie: M in L box or L in an XL (which happened to me when I ordered a few weeks back bc the store ran out of L boxes)
McDonald's Quarter Pounder has not changed in size, likewise the Big Mac and Mcmuffins are the same size as always. What has changed is the size of the cold drinks.
But its free refills, dont matter what size u get if u eat in!!!!
True if you're dining in, but not true in the drive thru.@@johnmacdonald3070
That's why I said if u eat in, in my comment!
I think this also has to do with a lot of chains starting to use meats with non added hormones and what not. Thus why our meats are smaller then what they used to be.
Lmao, sometimes it feels good tobe homeless, never to worry with my five finger discount
It’s not just fast food that’s shrinking its sizes and changing more. Many items in the grocery stores have done the same. For example many sausage, hot links and hotdog manufacturers have shrunken what was once typical 16oz packaging down to 14oz and in some instances 12oz. Ice cream which was typically sold by the 1/2 gallon is now packaged in 1.5 to 1.25 quarts etc…
Chick fil a don't have fried chicken
@joseosias1830 Lol
So, what kind of chicken do they have?
I have a shrink story. I was in the pool.
no longer a MAC like a very small slightly tall burger
This sounds like it was narrated by wendie malick 😂😂
I dont understand how its legal to shrink the foos while also charging more if the stuff stayed the same size and got more expensive is one thing but getting less and paying more shouls be illegal
I used to only go to Burger King. I loved their double cheeseburger. But somewhere along the line, the "double cheeseburger" became some small, poor imitation of itself. That was a change not due to recent shrinkflation, but it was a shrinkflation change that fundamentally destroyed my brand loyalty to the point I almost never got to BK for a burger.
@user-nz9hv5go2v It's tough when a favorite item undergoes a noticeable change. 😔
yea..i think it best cook meals at home...
See I wondered if it was just because Im older now. Like my perception of food just suddenly changed once I could actually buy things with my own money. I remember going into Mcdonald's to get my first Big Mac since becoming an adult and moving out of my parents house and thinking "Yo, I remember when you used to look so huge guess I finally grew into you." But now I feel better. Im not just crazy. Its also "Shrinkflation" 😅😅
Big Mac is the same. Patties are 1/10th of a pound each and 2 per sandwich. Please get your facts straight.
Puerto Rico fast food price is now cheap inhere . I missing cheap food
@turtleark Lucky you! Missing those affordable Puerto Rico fast food prices.
Ouch shrank my self.
They all at it. Nandos selling chicken thigh burgers for chicken breast prices.
Did you do any research at all? No, the Big Mac has not gotten smaller. The burgers have been 1.6 ounces for decades and have not changed. What may have changed is consumer preferences, as other burgers have gotten bigger and bigger, it makes the Big Mac look small in comparison. The truth is, it's always used the standard hamburger patties, not quarter pound patties or anything in between.
Oh of course we noticed
Have you seen the fila o fish from McDonald's!! It's so small like a child's sandwich it's like two bites for the same price of $6
I stopped going to fast food all together. I now to to a local restaurant & for $10 I get a bigger better burger with plenty of fries cooked to order from organic grass fed beef. It is way better and comes with all the fixings as well.
Burger Kings BK Big Fish and breakfast croissant sandwiches are tiny now too
Its called greed
McDonalds Quarter pounder had a quarter pound meat. Now the entire Quarter Pounder is INCLUDING the box and all ingrediencies and shrunk to fit better between your fingers not in the hand !!
You know what's insulting? I was just at Five Guys and ordered fries and the cook spilled a quarter of it on the floor before it got into the bag!
@ThePeterDislikeShow That's frustrating! Accidents happen, but it's not ideal when a portion ends up on the floor.
@@BabbleTop No it happens to every order. You get all excited they're scooting a big scoop and then most of it lands on the floor instead of the bag!
@ThePeterDislikeShow Yikes! A spill is never fun, especially when you're looking forward to a big scoop.
@@BabbleTop Why do they do it by the way? Is it part of the marketing?
I bought a whopper jr about 2 months ago and it could fit in my pocket
Increase the price but to shrink stuff is appalling! Theres no excuse for shrinkage
Corporate Greed
No reason to scam consumers when inflation is 3%.
Is this a way to shink the bellies of Americans ?'