/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>inb4 seed oil schizos and "muh tallow"

who do they need to impress? theyve captured their market, theyre here to stay, people will consume despite the declining quality, so it makes no sense for them to invest in quality, just in quantity.

This rings true for any global megacorp (google, netflix, apple)

I ordered the $5 spicy chicken combo again on the app

McDonald's went the Quantity over Quality path op

>>18120544
It can't be just the zoomers. There are two near me. One is staffed with zoomers because the manager is a pervert. The other one is all aging Gen Xers because the manager is lazy and wanted employees who can at least read. The food is pretty much the same. My go to is nuggs, and they've changed something about them. They're drier and flavorless.

>>18120573
>people will consume despite the declining quality
Are they though? I'm a fat fuck that recently went on a diet 2 months ago and stopped eating fast food altogether, but in the several years preceding that, even my fatass stopped eating there. It's fucking expensive at this point and there is literally nothing worth eating there other than the french fries.

Surely there are plenty of other fat fucks like me put off by the price hikes and lower quality.

China's food science industry has become very sophisticated and is constantly creating new horrors.

>>18120598
Fun fact! You know why McDonalds used to use a tallow-vegetable oil blend for their fryer oil? Because it was cheaper and they couldn't afford hydrogenated oil. Tallow is a butchering byproduct sold for cheap by rendering plants, mostly for industrial purposes.
>muh quality
>retvrn to sovl

>>18120644
>Fun fact!
You know you could have made your post without saying this and it would still be of equal quality. Don't use this shit. It's something people say in YouTube comments to get people to try to pay attention to them when they're insecure and don't feel like what they're saying is interesting enough on its own.

>>18120663
I am extremely insecure and use 4chan as a substitute for having a social life.

>>18120619
population growth is exponential. there are always new whales in new generations. same reason f2p games are on the rise still too.

>>18120573
Netflix is fucking tanking

>the nearest one is 15 miles away and has 1.5 stars

>>18120560
cope

>>18120663
Fun fact! You’re a cunt and I’d choke you out with my dick if my dick weren’t so unimpressive in size.

the last two times I've went to McDonald's they've fucked up my order. forgot my fries a few weeks back and I had to whip through the drive-thru again (fries ended up being stale and cold too). then tonight I was craving some ice cream so I actually went to grab a McFlurry since McDonald's is one of the few things open this late.
>promptly informed they have no ice cream
>decide to order some nuggets since I was there
>realize they gave me just a large fry as I'm driving away
>almost said fuck it but decide to turn around
>worker needs the situation explained to them 3 until it clicks
>have to wait another 5 minutes in line
normally I would have at least been content with the free fries but they were soggy and stale. I'm assuming they were meant for the person in front of me but whoever they were for they had ordered sweet & sour sauce with them, which I of course had to try. weird as fuck combo, imo, and I do not recommend it. the nuggets were fine at least but it's hard not to be salty over that situation. I've been tempted several times to actually send in complaints but what's the fucking point? worst case scenario they ignore me and best case is I get a coupon for a free large fry in the mail which will just get me some soggy stale fries.

fuck McDonalds and fuck the retarded lazy teenagers that they employ.

>>18120811
>>18120818
Lmao.

>>18120818
>implying that he would choke on even the largest dicks

>>18120818
Oh ho ho! We got a rebel here! That guy said not to do the gay thing and he did it anyways! What a badass!

>>18120544
As you get older your tastebuds die off and you become less capable of appreciating the rich subtleties engineered into every morsel of a McDonald's dish.

>>18120925
Nah my dad is 69 still enjoys a filet a fish and small fry small Coke

>>18120937
I tried the filet o fish for the first time today. It was alright but not worth £3.79.

Depends on the country. USA's McDonald's are infamous for being the lowest of the low, in my country food laws are strict and people are very picky, so quality here is way better, both in the food and in the sanitation

The quarter pounder is kinda legit ever since they switched to fresh beef. Sometimes for a quick lunch I'll get it with no ketchup and add some hot sauce

Everything else there is shit except the new spicy chicken sandwiches, but those are still overpriced for what you get

>>18120560
Do not deny it that the fries became significantly different, but that is ancient history by now, however, something else changed to make it lower quality still.

I am guessing workers are being replaced at an alarming rate for machinery, which perform the same functions cheaper, but with even less of a fuck since they are machines.

>>18120544
This is a direct consequence of corporate abuse causing workers to stop caring, as their jobs will soon disappear and all of them will be replaced by machines regardless of doing a good job or not.

>>18121231
>The quarter pounder is kinda legit ever since they switched to fresh beef.
For me it was good when they first announced it and then it reverted to meh quality. I used to love McDonald's hamburgers. Then I started cooking for myself and there's just no comparison. I can't even enjoy McDonald's anymore. My body deserves better.

Everyone talking about the fries tasting different and nobody mentioning that their drinks went from delicious freshly made coke to tasting like either chalk or flat bubblegum. It's basically undrinkable.

>>18121532
Yeah they started watering them down.

>>18120544
The memedemic ruined them in more than one way. Not only are they forced to hire literally any retard of the street (not that they didn't before, but at least they could afford to fire them if they fucked up), but the supply chain shutdowns made it financially untenable for them to source the same quality ingredients. That's why their food tastes worse now. This isn't just me being a schizo either. It's affected the entire food industry by forcing bakers to use different types of flour and things like that.

>>18120544
Same fucking thing as every product. This industry wide seeming secret of dilution and substitution. They put more filler in the product, simultaneously downsize it and then charge more. Profit, profit and more profit.

At some point, you and I will notice and stop buying it because it's shit. Literally garbage.

Due to supply chain issues, fast food is even more fake and gay than it used to be. More preservatives, more weird gmo zombie ingredients.

>>18120544
AAAAAH MUH ZOOMERS TAKING AWAY THE MAGIC AWAY FROM MY GOYSLOP

>>18120544
Stopped hiring freckle-faced white teenagers eager to prove themselves, started hiring convicts and mental patients.

>>18121588
I think Waffle House may be more up your alley.

>>18121550
>the supply chain shutdowns made it financially untenable for them to source the same quality ingredients
The taste the same today as they did in 2016. The food hasn't been good in a long while.

>>18121582
>GOYSLOP
This phrase is getting overused to the point where it's losing meaning. I think schizos are just embarrassed about eating.

>>18121639
I’d be embarrassed if I ate at McDonald’s, too.

>>18121651
Is eating anything else less embarrassing? It's all slop at the end of the day and you're an oink oink fatty pig for shoveling it down your throat like a mindless animal.

I guess I just don't get schizo memes. They seem embarrassed about being alive.

>>18121669
>it’s all the same
But that’s just not true.

>>18121669
It just depends on the enthusiasm for the food such as the Szechuan sauce giving McDicks a rep boost because of redditors so really it’s just a sellout joint that caters to sheep and at one point Jack in the Box had a rep opposed to that and it got them noticed

>>18121639
It’s mostly yurotrash who use it

>>18120544
It has always been this poor. As you grow up you begin to appreciate more complex, layered aromas. And no, not everybody grows up, most people stay stuck at 14 yo-16 yo behavioural levels (loud cars, tattoos, fast food, shallow music): the bottom of Mazlow's pyramid.

>>18120619
Who the FUCK actually likes fries from mcsloppy's?

>>18120739
>tfw on break and working at one
>tfw sitting in the back

>>18120544
what are you on about? the food hasn't changed in 40+ years.

The only thing i can eat there anymore is the chicken nuggest and the mcchicken.

>>18120544
I haven't eaten McDonald's this year and I intend to continue abstaining for the foreseeable future. Nothing there piques my interest, it is all garbage. A&W makes superior fast food in every aspect.

>>18122034
I do. If they're cooked fresh and right they're quite good. Try getting them on a highway McDonald's. They're way better than any local joint version you have because they experience constant high traffic and they're used to cooking fresh in high volume. Their fries are hot and tasty.

>>18122161
I wish we had a decent A&W around. The closest one is an hour and a half away, and it's grafted on to a gas station. I tried it, and the food was shit. Completely inedible.

>>18120544
Yes

>>18120544
The only food at McDonald's that was ever edible was breakfast, the workers have never cared and stopped pretending they ever did, the supply chain is wrecked and the only way they can keep cost down while inflation is happening is to cut quality even harder than before.
Fix your entire mentality.

mcdonalds was never good
I worked there 15 years ago and we'd serve decaf when coffee ran out

>>18123750
The wraps are pretty good.

>>18123863
Hit or miss. Sometimes the chicken (I get crispy obviously) tastes vaguely of burnt oil. And last time I got one, they dumped way too much mayo in there. However, I concede that when it's good, it's good

>>18123863
They've been gone for years

>>18120599
The best McDonald's I've been too in while was during a road trip last year. It was staffed by boomers, literally, old people. The big Mac I ordered looked like the ones in the ads and was the best tasting one I've ever had.

>>18120544
Again, inflation is causing it. If they have the means to, most young folks are staying at home and mooching off mom (we all know dad isn't around) those who are left are the ones who can't do that and so they're overworked and decide to cut corners or just not try anymore (what are they gonna do, fire one of the 4 employees who shows up regularly?) so food quality suffers.

>>18120544
>Does this new generation of zoomer workers give even less of a fuck than the previous did,
The 17 year old making you your Big Mac is not responsible for the shittier food.

>>18120544
nobody in this generation can remember how to follow a direction past a day

>>18120580
not a bad deal. i wanna get in on this shit

>>18120544
Your taste changes as you age, sometimes very quickly. Mcdonalds still tastes the same to me as it did 15 years ago, but as I'm aging I'm starting to like a lot of things that I used to absolutely DESPISE as a child, like mustard and pickles.

>>18120544
previous generation could at least live off what they made there unlike the zoomers, i wouldnt give a fuck either if i worked there today

>>18120544
Last time I ate there, the food was actually better than when I had it as a kid but that was over five years ago

I think the quality has been somewhat consistent over the years but then again I live in europe.

The NPCs haven’t caught up yet to how shit it’s become. Not to mention their prices are insane. If I buy something from a fast food place it’s usually just the sandwich because soda and fries tacked on make the price like $13, fuck that. The fast food experiment is over

>>18120544
McDonald's in the US has been shit for over 5 years dude. Almost every fastfood place has also became shit, plus the prices are fucking insane now. Unironically you should go to Europe or even to fucking Dubai and you will notice the massive difference in quality between them.

>>18120560
I love cooking with canola oil and I add it to all my salads for the heart health benefits! Plus it has such a great natural taste!

>>18120544
>didn't used to
Why does everyone keep making this mistake nowadays?

>>18120599
Is there still a way to tell which locations are owned by corporate as opposed to franchises? They used to list it on the store locator but I don’t see it anymore, corporate locations tend to be higher quality.

people who make the food are darker and browner

>>18128469
huh?

>>18129366
You heard him.

>>18120544
i had mcdicks for the first time in probably 6-8 months yesterday and holy shit
>spicy mcchicken sandwich was gross, slimy, artificial texture in the middle
>fries were heavily salted and somehow both crispy and soggy at the same time
>nuggers were dry and bad
and it cost fucking $13! i swear the same meal cost $7 or $8 last time i went. crazy how things have almost doubled in price in the last year

verdict: fast food is poison for idiots and i'll never come back

>>18120599
Staff is the issue
Go to a McDonald's 5 times in 5 months you won't see the same people working there.
True for most fast food now start checking your shit for spit and cum

>>18120544
It feels like we have this thread every day

>>18120739
All fast food places (except chik fa le) 1.
5 stars or below in a 50 mile radius.
Fast Food across the board has gotten worse. Service, food, price, etc
Better off orders from your local restaurants

>>18122204
>Their fries are hot and tasty.
Ronald please...

>>18124113
>most young folks are staying at home and mooching off mom (we all know dad isn't around
Are you 65 or some shit. Who writes like this?

>>18120925
>>18122014
>>18125647
What the fuck is this tastebud shit. Some new schizo?

>>18127537
Because 80% of 4chan is ESL now. People aren't even called out on their shit grammar anymore
>pic related

>>18120599
>My go to is nuggs, and they've changed something about them. They're drier and flavorless

Genetically modified meat

>>18129818
The fact he knows details about managers at two different mcdonalds and doesn't work there means he's at least 400 pounds.
Wish /ck/ wasn't home to lard ass neckbeards

>>18129831
To be fair to that anon, i got to know the managers at my local mcdonalds because i was a professional Karen, and never paid. In England if you wait longer than 400 seconds the meal is free. Anything missing from my order, i want the entire thing for free. Wrong drink? Free.

I made it into a game. I ordered from Uber eats yesterday, it was late by 15 mins, ofcourse i complained and was refunded. Thats the 2nd time i got a refund from uber in the last two weeks

These multibillion dollar companies wont notice.

>>18129844
You too are 400 pounds (stones in your fag language)

>>18129873
>t. McDonalds manager

I hope you like disciplinaries, you better hope you dont meet someone like me, i would make it my mission to destroy you.

>>18129883
Lol wtf now I know you're some fuck fat who Uber eats McDonald's and 'games' the system
You're a fucking loser

>>18129888
You're one of those wagies who think any refund is coming out of your personal account. Everyone hates a jobsworth

>>18129772
do Americans really? If I saw a 1.5 star rated restaurant here I'd expect it to close

>>18129801
I remember when Grammar Nazis existed.

>>18120544
It still tastes okay in my country, but now it's overpriced even with the coupons.

>>18120544
I liked the breakfast and the Mc fish. Oatmeal, hotcakes, and hash browns are a memorable favorite of mine and the fish takes me back to some of my youngest memories. I don’t know about quality but it’s probably not the same everywhere. I only go to McD once a year when I’m on vacation anyways

>>18129801
That mistake is actually very common with native speakers, arguably it is not a mistake.

>>18120560
>big sneed oil shills already in damage control mode

No, we will not consume your slop. Begone shill

>>18120544
Maccies in Bongland is now near inedible. I haven't had one sober in 2 years and I have no intention of ever having again

>>18120544
I ate at McDonald's recently and I don't expect amazing quality but that bun was so stale, and there was barely any Mac sauce... It was bad.

If you want quality you find local joint and stay out of corporates

>>18129786
Dads
We all know (you)r dad isn't around

>>18129797
It’s true, although in my opinion it’s more due to the deterioration of sense of smell the older you get and the more your sinuses get damaged by colds and flus.

>>18120560
Still not eating your goyslop lol