Even this is dated. The last time I was at MickeyD’s a few months ago, they wanted $9.50 for the burger alone.
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Even this is dated. The last time I was at MickeyD’s a few months ago, they wanted $9.50 for the burger alone.
My last Big Mac was in 1978. No particular reason for the boycott, it’s just a record I enjoy maintaining.
My Psycholoy Perfesser in College used to say, “The only thing nutritious in a Big Mac is the air between the buns!”
And he has been proven correct, time after time.
McDonalds sucks and yet people still eat there.
I remember the Big Mac costing more that $0.50 in 1980.
But the point is valid even if the numbers are WAY off
The other BM index has been rising at an increasing rate since Biden took office.
TEN BUCKS for a freakin’ Gig Mac?
I think not…..
12 for the meal when I checked not to long ago
Is it just me or was the quality of a Big Mac back then better, too?
I don’t ever remember them tasting like cardboard the way they do today.
I quit eating there in the 80’s. I did the milkshake experiment and that was the final straw.
I’ve eaten worse.
If you’ve ever eaten any kind of military field rations, so have you.
The Big Mac was closer to $1.50 in 1980. A basic burger was closer to 50 cents.
https://www.kiplinger.com/slideshow/spending/t050-s001-how-much-did-things-cost-in-the-1980s/index.html
Today half the states have a minimum wages higher than $7.25. Even in those states that haven’t raised it not many people work for $7.25, even teenagers.
The Big Mac is a little more expensive today but that chart exaggerates bigly.
My memory matches Math Guy’s pretty closely. I’ve seen data that shows a Big Mac costing fairly consistently about 1/2 an hour of a McD line worker’s pay, which is usually minim wage.
Now do the calculations in terms of pre-1965 US coins (90% silver). Things aren’t getting more expensive, the currency is just getting more worthless.
By definition, fiat currency has zero value.