I get a quarter pounder with cheese, fries and a drink. It costs almost $15. I can go to a cafe where I’m waited on and served decent food for $20.

  • @HipsterTenZero
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    2614 hours ago

    the craving for absolute slop rears its ugly head every once in a while. I blame the ennui

    • @thrawn@lemmy.world
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      610 hours ago

      Yep. I love high quality food and spend a lot of time learning to copy from chefs I like. I’m very selective about ingredients (e.g. fish, only so much is flown in daily and accessible to normies), often make my own sauces, and have a pretty large collection of dinnerware and lacquerware for accurate plating.

      Yet like clockwork, several times a year I will eat multiple McRib patties in a single sitting. That shit has presumably the worst ingredients, the same sauce as every other year slathered inconsistently, and is presented in a cardboard box that has definitely gotten thinner. It is in no way worth anywhere near the price but I do it anyway.

      Sometimes slop hits the spot. Plus I can’t make my own heavily processed slabs of… whatever those things contain.