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"Of course, it still is cheaper to make food at home. A chicken patty, a bun, and some lettuce and mayonnaise cost maybe a dollar or so overall. A small handf
by bl4ckm0r3 4y ago
"Of course, it still is cheaper to make food at home. A chicken patty, a bun, and some lettuce and mayonnaise cost maybe a dollar or so overall. A small handful of frozen fries, far less than a buck. You just have to take the time to put it all together, which we usually do."
really not sure where you can buy those items for a dollar, and if you can find them, not sure you should eat them.
- throwaway22032 4y agoI just bought 1kg of chicken breast in the UK for £6 from a local supermarket. I'm pretty sure it's cheaper in the US. And that's real chicken, not reconstituted shit. A kilogram of fries is like £1.
- throwaway290 4y agoFrom what I understand, British supermarkets are insanely cheap when it comes to food. You can't usually get even remotely similar prices in the US.
- refurb 4y agoThat hasn’t been my experience. Something were cheaper (converting GBP to USD) but it was usually only ~10%. Other things were more expensive.
- throwaway290 4y agoWhich store?
- refurb 4y agoI was just window shopping in a few towns in the UK. Local stores and places like Sainsbury. Comparing staple items to Safeway and other US stores. Prices may have change recently.
- throwaway290 4y agoSainsbury's is up to 2x the price for basic items (compared to Aldi, Lidl and Asda). Atomic Shrimp has interesting budget survival videos with 3 meals per day mostly from shopping value chain supermarkets, as well as direct comparisons between them.
- refurb 4y agoSimilar to Safeway in the US prices are much higher than budget grocery stores.
- throwaway290 4y agoSo, how much is the thread-starting 1kg of actual chicken breast for example?
- Broken_Hippo 4y agoTo be absolutely fair: A chicken breast is not a breaded chicken patty and isn't really a good substitute to a fast food sandwich. Part of the appeal of fast food is the lack of thought that goes into prep. Basic warm and serve items from the grocery store - prepared patties and prepared fries(chips!) - is the comparable solution. You'd have to likely cut, tenderize, and bread the breasts before shallow frying in a pan and heat up some oil to fry the fries/chips in. The patties and prepared chips can just go in the oven while you wait.
- throwaway22032 4y agoI literally just chucked 1kg in a dish with some oil on top and turned the oven on for a bit. I now have multiple servings. Do what you want, but be honest about it.
- sergers 4y agoprice per KG (less any sale) is about double that what you paid. and buying at small quantities can be even double that. if you were comparing price of mcdonalds chicken burger to a plainish chicken breast, the 2 arent the same at all, which the previous poster was commenting on. to turn that raw chicken breast to something close to McDs chicken burger requires quite a bit of time and additional ingredients. on the fries, i agree. you can buy a KG of shoestring fries for 2-3$, with some salt are the same as mcd fries for the most part if doing a raw ingredient comparison, buying at scale of 1KG is definitely cheaper.
- com2kid 4y agoThe price of oil to deep fry is not cheap. Deep frying consumes a lot of oil and if you don't do it often, it is not cost effective.
- pessimizer 4y agoAnd to have them taste as good as McD's, you'll at the least have to blanch and fry them twice with a freeze in between. If you cut your own fries, you should be doing this because it is awesome. https://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/mcdonalds-reveals-beloved-fries-made/story?id=28382592 https://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/mcdonalds-reveals-beloved-f...
- zeroonetwothree 4y agoAt my local store in CA (cheapest non-bulk prices, Costco is cheaper but more awkward perhaps, also shopping there takes 3x longer) it’s $6 for 1 lb of chicken breast and $3 for 1 pound of fries. So that’s around double your prices.
- Someone1234 4y agoYeah. The chicken patty in particular, it is incredibly hard to find frozen chicken patties that are cheap and taste even acceptable, let alone good. I want these under $1 tasty chicken patties.
- BobLaw 4y agoCostco - or whatever wholesale club is near you.
- Someone1234 4y agoCostco is a store, not a product. They sell Kirkland/own brand which aren't under $1/ea and other brands like Tyson which taste awful. What specific PRODUCT at Costco are you saying both taste good while costing under $1/ea?
- bombcar 4y agoThey have hot dog and bun which would average out under a Buck I think. Or you can get it hot with a drink for $1.50.
- marpstar 4y agoEven the cheap ones taste good if you deep fry them.
- bluedino 4y agoAn eight pack of buns is $1-2 Frozen pack of chicken Pattie's is cheap Mayo Head of lettuce is a dollar You can't make one sandwich cheap but you can make eight cheap
- texaslonghorn5 4y agoAmortized cost!
- SV_BubbleTime 4y agoAnd I can make 1000 even cheaper. But I don’t want 8 chicken San who he’s by the time the ingredients are going bad. This is just one of many things wrong with this article that I had high hopes would explain how to find the optimal pricing, but really just shirks that research off. > Then again, most successful major corporations are run by heartless conservatives. The companies run by bleeding-heart liberals all went out of business. Ok, maybe save me the time on the article and put winners like this at the top next time.
- cortesoft 4y agoIf you live alone, I don’t know if I want to eat 8 hamburgers before those ingredients go bad.
- HanaShiratori 4y agono one forces you to consume 8 frozen patties at once. Especially since they already are frozen, why not keep them in that state until you crave burgers next time?
- cortesoft 4y agoOk, that is the meat… but what about the buns, the lettuce, tomato, etc?
- Spivak 4y agoHaving a house with two small eaters we pretty much had to give up all fresh produce that we weren’t going to consume or preserve immediately because it goes bad too fast and isn’t worth the waste. There’s something to be said for the economics of moving enough volume to enable eating fresh.
- danuker 4y agoIn Romania, frozen chicken nuggets are about $4.2 per 300g. I'd split that in two portions.
- pessimizer 4y agoIn the US, a 20-piece Chicken Nuggets (320g) from McDonald's is around $7.25. Not a big difference.
- willcipriano 4y agoEddie Murphy has the definitive counter point to that argument: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e9nb8ffIYl0 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e9nb8ffIYl0
- astura 4y agoI just looked up the prices at Walmart and the cheapest I can find is $1.30 for just chicken+bun. These are bargain basement chicken patties, probably not very tasty. Of course, this is assuming you can eat the entire package before they goes bad. You also run into the problem of not being able to buy the same amount of patties and buns due to package sizes, and when you want to add lettuce you have to buy an entire head so you'll have to plan ahead to use the rest of the lettuce. I really wouldn't want to eat frozen french fries either, they are just really bad. Might as well make something more edible as a side like macaroni salad. I guess my point is that only if you're making food for a large family or are a really big eater then the supermarket is cheaper. Otherwise, don't feel bad for "wasting" money at McDonald's. I don't have a horse in this race though, I'm a vegetarian, I don't eat this stuff.