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Just a paper bag now. At this point they’re gonna bring back the supersize but it’ll just be a large lol
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Meh, pretty ok with this. America needs a serious downsize on processed food.
In Belgium, when you go to a ‘frituur’ and you order 2 small fries you get this amount of fries:
Wasn’t even in Belgium but in France near the border and there was one of these shops setup in a kinda temporary thing on the highway. Still felt a bit peckish after the tiny triangle sandwich so ordered a small fry, was greeted with not much less than pictured here haha. Had to share them to get through it.
Thats like five guys
They really go overboard.
Like even the smallest portion, you can eat with 4 persons and all be full.
Similarly, any chip shop in the UK outside of greater London. I’ve taken to ordering a medium chips for my wife and I, because a large is just Too Many Chips.
In London, however, they serve a tragically small amount of chips in many chippies. Fuck London.
a large is just Too Many Chips.
I’ve yet to encounter such a phenomenon.
I think I’ve gotten too old for a large. The spud, coupled with a beers leaves me feeling uncomfortably bloated.
Sounds like a classic australian fish & chip shop. “Minimum fries” gets you a bag the size of your head.
Lots of them, but man they’re all little nubs. That would annoy me.
As it bloody well should be. More than one order of fries of any size should be a life-altering amount of potato
That’s like 5 Guys burgers in the US
Calm down with the inaults
its called that because you need 5 guys to finish 1 meal!
Yeah I was in Belgium last year and them OG fries were the best. Really good quality mayo too.
Here in colombia when you order any size fries from McD’s they are only a small amount. Doesn’t matter if you order large or small. Always a small amount. It makes me sad because their fries are really good even though they’re fake.
How are the fries fake?
Bag of potatoes, a knife, oil, a pot and thermometer. Now you can have a snack that is a million times better and cheaper.
Double fry the potatoes for that authentic fish and chip style fries.
And your whole house can smell like a chippy!
Use the overhead fan. Also if you filter and store the oil once it’s cooled down it won’t smell at all.
I know, I don’t eat like this usually lol. I’m just doing night shift and it’s only fast food and convenience stores open right now😆
This is another reason why night shift workers are unhealthy. Sorry. Normally we think it’s the lack of sun or vitamin D…
What do you do with 2 litres of oil then?
I fry other things, and know the oil struggle, but for fries, I’ve been using the air fryer recently with success. (America’s test kitchen recipe works)
Make churros. Mix same amount water and flour with a bit of salt. Press out with a churro maker, fry for 2 minutes, cool, sprinkle sugar and serve with hot chocolate
You can reuse it several times by running it through a cheese cloth. Otherwise just put it in a jar/pitcher/empty oil bottle.
Get a dedicated appliance which also stores the oil. Put the whole appliance away, including the oil, after use. Been doing this for years and you can store oil like this forever
You should be filtering the oil and eventually it does get burnt out. But yeah it’s super easy to maintain a basic deep fryer.
Cocktails. Just need some bottles.
Air fryer and you don’t need any oil. And they come out as crisp as if they were fried in oil, and they’re healthier.
Air fryer really changed the way I cook.
Frying is the transference of heat through oil or fat. Air “frying” is just heating.
Fresh potatoes still need a layer of oil over them in order to be crisp in the airfryer.
Drink it
I agree. Don’t waste it, just drink it.
It’s the next Big Thing: Oil Cocktails!
It’s call use a smaller pot and less oil. You don’t need 2 litres every time you fry…
Restaurants also reuse oil a bunch by simply filtering out the big particles.
One the oil has cooled down and run through a filter you can store it again for later.
I’m cooking for several persons. Even with just 2 litres I have to do batches if I make fried tofu or Pakoras.
Okay so you have use for 2 litres. Why did you ask what to do with two litres of oil?
Did you mean after? Let it cool and filter and store it for the next meal.
You don’t actually need that much oil if you use a parchment paper origami box
This is always my concern. Actually frying something takes minutes, but heating, cooling, straining, and storing significant volumes of oil just doesn’t justify the convenience. If I want fried food, I’m going to a restaurant.
I bought a deep fryer for $100ish. Makes it easy. Turn it on, come back 10minutes later, cook food for 4 minutes and then eat. It is a bitch to clean though but depends on how thorough you want to be.
My ex had a nice one that he used about once a week. Made his kitchen smell like fast food after a few months. I’d like to have one except for that
I do it on a little table outside my back door. It definitely stinks up the house otherwise. My fryer has a little lid that you can put on it after the oil cools. You can reuse the oil a bit depending on what you’re cooking.
That literally solves none of the complaints.
It heats, cools, you can buy one with automatic filtering, and it stores the oil. That’s literally all the complaints they had?
Bought a deep fryer a couple years back, once you’re done with it, and let it cool down. You can turn a knob and it will filter itself and empty into a storage container. Once the oil has gone bad, I have a Home Depot bucket with a lid that I dump it into, once that is full I take it to the dump. Once the filtered bits are dumped in the compost, everything else goes in the dishwasher.
I fry in peanut oil, I have 2 air fryers but some things need to be deep fried.
If you want it to be really good, use beef tallow instead of oil.
Go away RFKjr
He said beef tallow, not bull semen.
Just because RFK jr is a brain-damaged POS doesn’t make vegetable oil automatically the better choice.
They are talking about the Minnesota Coronary Experiment, which suggests that using vegetable oil reduces cardiac disease, but leads to earlier death.
Rejecting science because it happens to be included in the garbage that an idiot believes would make you an idiot as well.
Edit: While re-reading what I wrote, I realize I’m also taking about the scientist who ran the study. He believed that his study would show that vegetable oils are healthier than animal fats. When the results proved the opposite was true, he hid the data.
You’re reading too much into my stupid quip. I honestly don’t care which frying medium is “healthier”, you’re still frying shit. “Steam burns you more than boiling water”… bitch, they both hurt.
They’ll never have that limp, soggy, and oversalted McDonalds feel like that.
Yeah they will be far far superior. Especially if you blanch and double fry the potatoes. Salt levels you can determine yourself too. Make it as salty as you want.
I acknowledge there are lots of regional differences, but that is absolutely not a large fries here in the southern US. Here, a medium(regular) fries comes in a cardboard envelope style container and they overfill it so there are fries all over the bag.
They do it to make us feel like we are getting our money’s worth, but in reality, potatoes are cheap as shit for them. Here, a large McDonald’s fries is almost a meal in itself. Eating a supersized McD’s meal here is almost enough to make you throw up.
Guessing OP’s picture is from Europe or a Micky D’s inside of a theme park.
I’m in the US and my fries come as pictures. San Francisco Bay Area
I ate at a McD last week in NV and the fries were in the expected cardboard carton and not as pictured.
Yeah. These are from the San Francisco Bay Area as the other commenter said lol
That’s wild to me, but good info to know.
Soon:
Is this a miniature or one of those things where they make actual tiny food?
Anything is edible if you believe it.
OK, Art Vandelay.
This is the original. Polymer clay.
Nah, it is just a really big hand
Ai generated?
It sucks how ai cheapens ALL art like this. There has to be a word for when something is mistaken for AI.
yeah sorry… I also don’t know it anymore… I just didn’t know it was AI or real anymore… its horrible.
“Slop rot”
Thought of it when listening to npr mentioning the last two year’s Webster dictionary words of the year. Brainrot (2024) and Slop (2025).
I like it
This is the original, 2011.
I went to the website and apparently it’s a miniature, the artist has been doing this way before the A’I’ craze: https://www.aiclay.com/philosophy
I found this image dating back to 2014, it’s probably even older, so not AI generated.
wait until they can feed you paste but make you think it tastes good.
This is how I feel about certain expensive meal replacement supplements.
soylent mignon is made out of rocks!
“That’ll be $39.99 with our special in-app-only deal.”
Plus $20 handling fee
$59.99 without the app
plus tip
Plus value added tax, city tax, and over the counter delivery fee.
“You want a tip? Here’s your tip: ‘Fuck You, Clanker, I’m eating!’”
“What is this? Fast food for ants? It needs to be at least…three times bigger.”
I don’t get the point of fast food chains anymore. Never really ate there, but I always had the idea it was a cheap place where to eat.
This past year I’ve been once in burger king, where I spent about 10€, and I tried KFC for the first time, where I spent some 15€. I did not eat enough even at such a high price.
With 15€ i can go to an actual restaurant, why would I go to a fast food place?
Cheapest burger and fries will send you 7 euros back. One can buy Doner for that price which will include potatoes, tons of salad and meat, sauce (sometimes even 3 of it) and a piece of bread. Kebap is the new fast food and it is all round better than any fast food chains of today.
I don’t get the point of fast food chains anymore.
It’s all in the name. You can get through a fast-food drive through in about 5-10 minutes. Dining in and cooking tends to take thirty min to an hour.
With 15€ i can go to an actual restaurant, why would I go to a fast food place?
Because you’re fighting traffic on your way home to feed your spouse and kids.
Not where I live, no. And wouldn’t I rather take them to an actual restaurant? I mean, if we leave the house to go eat somewhere I’d rather take the family to a nice place and eat something good.
Dining in and cooking tends to take thirty min to an hour.
Don’t know how much faster the fast food is, when I’ve been to that burger king I tell you I have been fighting with that automatic ordering machine for 10 good minutes before I actually succeeded.
If I have to go to the shop, order, get the food and take it back home I’m better off cooking at home.
I never used them, but I guess at this point if you really don’t want to cook nor to go out you’re better off with those applications which allow you to order food at your place from any restaurant.
I can understand eating out when you have no time to get back home, but then I have much better options where to eat at the same price or even cheaper.
They are so understaffed these days that they are no longer fast anymore.
I think the real reason they exist is because of addiction. They’ve got people addicted to 7,000 times the amount of recommended daily sugar, fat, and salt content.
They’re still trying to rake in that high despite it now costing 5x the price, at 1/3 the quickness and 1/2 the quality.
If they started from scratch today - I don’t think they would go far.
They are so understaffed these days that they are no longer fast anymore.
The food itself is pre-prepared and re-heated on the spot. Go when there’s not a rush on and you can get your food in minutes. Go during rush hour and you’ll still be in and out much faster than at a sit-down establishment (that’s also inevitably understaffed).
They’ve got people addicted to 7,000 times the amount of recommended daily sugar, fat, and salt content.
I’ve heard this line and I think there’s an element of truth to it. Food really does taste differently if you’ve been eating the high salt/sugar junk for an extended period.
But you can get junk food anywhere. You don’t need McD’s to make it for you. Gas stations have soda fountains. Grocery stores have microwaved meals full of preservatives and sweeteners. You can just make yourself a hamburger at home, it doesn’t have to come from a store.
It just takes time, a certain degree of skill, and a kitchen with functional appliances that you’re going to need to clean up after you’re done. McD’s just goes in the trash afterwards. Far faster to buy a burger than cook one.
It’s all in the name. You can get through a fast-food drive through in about 5-10 minutes.
Because you’re fighting traffic on your way home to feed your spouse and kids.
Go when there’s not a rush on and you can get your food in minutes.
Sorry but this is circular reasoning.
If you don’t have much time then you go when you’re able to. Which is lunchtime or after work. Which is the same for everyone else. Which is why you have to wait in line for half an hour. Which is why the “saving time” aspect doesn’t make any sense. It doesn’t matter if the food is ready made if you have to wait behind 30 other cars ahead of you.
A takeout order anywhere else will be ready when you get there if you call ahead of time and you can just go in and get it. No need to wait a single minute.
The truth is that fast food is made to be addictive, not convenient.
10-15 euros is a large amount of money where I live at, it would feed a family of five for a day.
You’re living in a country where nearly everything is accessible in 15 minutes of walking or less, and besides you cook your food, I guess your local resto serves cheaper food. However, I also guess there’s some inflation going on and/or higher cost of living, that’s why you see fast food restos as being more expensive, although they do exist partly because of convenience, especially if in a car and a drive-thru makes it faster to grab whatever lunch or dinner off from the order window.
Are the contents less by weight? I don’t doubt your frustration. But when I was a kid, the happy meals came in a cardboard box, but now they come in a paper bag (at least in Japan). Obviously to save money. Maybe they just cut the cardboard box to save money? FWIW I actually ate a large fries yesterday and they came in the traditional packaging, so this was surprising for me.
It seemed like less but I can’t deny that it could be placebo. It seemed like we got through it pretty fast though
Not sure what the rules are where you are, but one way is to check the menu for calories if they need to be listed.
Then you can tell exactly what the size difference is between a small, medium and large, assuming they aren’t lying about the calories, and that they actually fill it to the proper size listed per the calories.
In the UK they still use cardboard boxes but in France they use reusable plastic boxes. They also use reusable plastic cups for drinks.
wdym reusable? You take it back to the restaurant next time you go? You eat in and they collect it after you leave?
I think it only applies for eat in but not 100% sure.
Wtf, that’s a medium from like pre-covid.
Oh well, restaurants were neat, time to learn how to coom.
9 yo me could’ve helped a lot
… sigh …
Of all the degenerate things I’ve done as a horny kid, fucking my McDonalds meal is not one of them.
… but, its a fucking hilarious typo, so it stays, lol
Picturing that makes me grimace.
god damnit i had to read this a second time, 2 hrs later, to realize what you did there.
That sloppy bun with the mayo spilling over the sides
His tramp stamps were between the rolls, so I aimed.
“Oh, Hamburgler!”, he cried
McDonalds here in London is comical. I’m not even near the inner city (Greater London) and I’m surprised they get business these days.
The last time I wanted a burger I checked, and a meal was going for around £11+
I walked for five minutes and found a local place, paid about £7-8 for a proper good burger meal with better quality ingredients… They even asked me what kind of bun I wanted (went with brioche).The meat wasn’t as thin as a pencil either.
Same thing where I am, I could go to Wendy’s and get a meal for 15 dollars that won’t fill me up or I can go down the street and get a breakfast burrito the size of my forearm and a large drink that’ll last me until noon for 15 dollars. While I may be rather lanky in my arms that’s still a fucken forearm worth of food thatll hold me over till dinner.
Their competition is other expensive British food, so I could see the logic there.
Theres mcds in vietnam, selling their crap at american where you can walk 200 feet in any direction and get amazing food for like 60 cents.
I can’t discern the size of the fries based on this picture.
OP might have massive hands.
I ORDERED ONE LARGE FRY AND YOU GAVE ME A BUNCH OF FUCKIN LITTLE ONES
Wasn’t the large fries always a ripoff? I think someone showed once that it’s only marginally more fries than a small fry.
Historically, it was one of the cheaper items on the menu. In college (20 years ago) I could get a large fries for under $1. Back in the 80s/90s they were practically free. Like, loose-change free.
Also one of the tastier meal items given that they went so fast you could safely assume they’d be fresh, why the sandwich options could be sitting in the warmer for half an hour or longer depending on the speed of business.
I really wonder what they’d consider “small fries” then.
Two. Two fries is a small.
2 inches
