Mildly Infuriating

Stop going.

I live in Taiwan and the food market here is INTENSE.

My kid loves chicken nuggets from McDonald's. So when I was visiting America, I noticed that the size of the nuggets are about 20% thinner and noticeably shorter than what we have locally. It wasn't always like this. I still lived in the US during early pandemic.

In Taiwan, there are so many restaurants and food stalls and online delivery and Line messaging app group buys that everyone is trying to get a tiny slice of the consumers food budget. It's because the barrier to entry is so low. Less than 1500USD, you can get a food stall and materials to start a food cart.

What that means is that restaurants who pull this shit gets quickly found out and the restaurant is gone pretty quickly.

I don’t get Chick-fil-A.

It’s as expensive as takeout from a real restaurant, for a sandwich with plain dry bread.

The chicken is… fine. Consistent, other than shrinking over the years. Tomato and lettuce are fresh; that’s the highest praise I have.

Shakes are runny. But fine.

Yet people queue like it’s Disney World. Why?

I just don’t get it. Why wouldn’t I go to, like, Raising Cane’s or Chicken Express or Steak and Shake for a better sandwich for less? Or some other place (or my own homemade sandwich) for something actually healthy?

The price must be lower, right?! right?!

Don't you love how not only is everything so expensive, but they're also all worse quality 😁

It's a good thing tbh. The world used to laugh at America for our portion sizes

I agree with you but that first pic is a bit deceiving. Like it's pushing the meat towards the camera more while squeezing the back to make it look bigger. Trust me, I'm an expert and making meat look bigger in a picture than it actually is!

Your life will be far better if you just decide to stop fast food 😂

There's a non-chain burger place in my town that explicitly states that they are not fast food at the order counter.

Best burgers I've ever had in my life.

They are pretty massive burgers!

Maximum stakeholder value!

If you dig through archive.org and retireve the nutritional information PDFs over time, you can see the kj levels dropping.

This is probably a good thing honestly. Track your calories for a few weeks and you realize super quick how out of control portion sizes are.

Snaps pic of chicken sandwich , I’ll be needing this for later😈

I challenge you to learn to make this at home. Stop eating fast food.

diarrhea lettuce... you are brave soul for not yoinking that out

Funnily enough, the "small" fries you get at McDonald's in Germany are the same size as the US medium ones.

Have you considered that your hand has just grown larger?

The Hy-Vee near me, used to make the best fried chicken sandwich in town. Possibly some of the best fried chicken I've had from anywhere. I would regularly get a fried chicken sandwich. It was good because it was a fresh chicken breast, coated and deep fried right there. It wasn't some Sysco frozen patty. And it was priced pretty well too to be honest.

New Management (I think at the corporate level) from my understanding, it's not fresh chicken anymore. I would guess it's maybe a third the weight it was, the price has gone up, and it is most definitely a frozen patty.

The one section that used to do like Cafe options, stop doing spicy tenders. And no longer lets you get anything from the cold section.

So I've stopped going. And I'm not the only one. Because the Hy-Vee also did burgers. But the burgers are also smaller and when I swing by and I see that there's a lot of burgers both chicken and beef just sitting there no one touching them. Quantity and quality went down price went up.