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I like how it makes the burgers look more "laid back", like some cool sunglasses-wearing skater/surfer dude leaning back, or a pin-up model whose pose invites you in. Standing up straight is for the man and that's not how I want my burgers to be. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man
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Price discrimination is basically corporate speak for giving discounts to those who wouldn’t or couldn’t afford to pay full price. And it makes perfect sense in this context - if you make $200k salary you probably don’t care enough about a $0.30 discount to fiddle with an app for 5 minutes. But if you’re living on a few dollars of food budget, you probably care a lot about that 30 cents and would fight for it. So mak…
The wealthiest person who I know well would absolutely fiddle with an app for 5 minutes to save 30 cents on a sandwich at McDonald's. He's cheap AF. But even if he weren't that way, making the app deliberately bad to eek a few more clams out of a subset of people is perverse. Deliberately erecting barriers between the products and those who want to buy them is not how business is successfully done at this level. They…
It’s not about sticking it to the rich guys, it’s about charging them an extra 30 cents.
For McDonalds, that 30 cents might be tripling the margin on that item.
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Surely all glue is edible, you just have to commit a bit more to some glues than others. It's like that saying about mushrooms: "All mushrooms are edible. It's just that some mushrooms you only get to eat once."
I recently watched a video about death cap mushrooms (the deadliest, supposedly), and apparently about 80% of people still survive (requires prompt medical treatment), not that they would want to repeat the experiment. Apparently, the mushrooms even taste good. Anyway, edible normally means "safe to eat," not just "possible to eat." (As you are no doubt aware). IIRC, Elmer's glue is considered safe to eat though not…
Surprisingly the doctors involved quickly identified mushrooms as the culprit, despite that the 75% died.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leongatha_mushroom_murders
It was a super interesting court case.
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Elmers glue is edible.
Elmer's white glue is "non-toxic" but today, it is made with synthetics. Since my youth in the early 80s, Elmer's has never been particularly appetizing or appealing to put in my mouth. I believe that the stereotypical "craft food" is actually paste, which is often based on starches like corn or wheat. Children are very likely to put paste in their mouths and try eating it, because it is indeed based on food products…
McDonald’s Germany has a Philly stack.
https://www.mcdonalds.com/de/de-de/produkte/alle-produkte/bu...
Japanese food prices are ridiculously cheap. Well that's true to pretty much whole Asia too. Even in HK which I consider more expensive than Japan a Big Mac is only 2.9€ (27 HKD). And that's McD, local food spots are even cheaper. If you have the money there is no better time to have a holiday in Asia. A Big Mac is 10€ in France... We are ripped off big time in the US and Europe for nothing.
We (it's a similar story in the UK - 14 EUR minimum wage) are indirectly paying a lot of extra taxes
Not forgetting 20% VAT of course
And our governments doing all they can to ensure property prices stay high and rise even higher (don't listen to what they say, look at the data)
I find these annoying. I guess they are going for organic/realistic rather than too perfect, but every other aspect of the photos - the aesthetically melting cheese, etc - follows the norms of fake fast food photography, so why bother?
A video posted by McDonalds Canada reveals how they stage the burgers for photographing them. They shift each layer backwards (bun, meat, etc) so that the ingredients of the layer are more visible when photographed. The top bun ends up being a few inches backward compared to the bottom bun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSd0keSj2W8
However, the buns on the Japanese menu are much more obviously askew than other countries menus, which is the interesting point I imagine the OP was getting at. Compare for example with the UK images which are much more symmetrical: https://www.mcdonalds.com/gb/en-gb/menu/burgers.html