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A Big Mac in the US today is also much smaller than what it once was. It’s a Small Mac these days. A Burger King Whopper today is the size of a Big Mac of year

by wenc 2y ago

A Big Mac in the US today is also much smaller than what it once was. It’s a Small Mac these days. A Burger King Whopper today is the size of a Big Mac of years gone by. The King still does burgers better than the clown.

crazygringo 2y ago
No it's not. Big Macs have not changed size. Maybe things just seemed bigger when you were a kid, and smaller in comparison. (A while ago they temporarily had 3 "sizes" of Big Macs but that was a promo.)
- wenc 2y ago
  I’m in my 40s and have been eating Big Mac’s for more than 20 years and my baseline was not when I was a kid but from just 10 years ago. Big Macs have gotten perceptibly smaller while Whoppers have stayed the same. Maybe the weight is still the same (many ways to play that game) or whatever but there are tons of people who have noticed the shrinkage.
  - crazygringo 2y ago
    I mean, they haven't. I don't know why you think they have, but they haven't. You're mistaken. You've noticed wrong. Maybe you came across a claim about it on social media, but it's been entirely debunked: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/big-mac-since-1980/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/big-mac-since-1980/ And Whoppers have nothing to do with anything here. I don't know why you're comparing the two -- the Whopper is a single-patty quarter pounder, and it compares to the McD's quarter pounder. Not the Big Mac with its double patties and extra bread.
    - GreatLdisisp88 2y ago
      It is getting smaller. Your insistent it is not is weirdly just your specific opinion. I ate fornlike consistently over 30 years. Shrinkage is very observable.
      - crazygringo 2y ago
        It hasn't gotten smaller though, and it's not my opinion. It's fact. And I provided a link which goes into it in great detail how it's not. Do you disagree with Snopes? Do you think they're lying to you?

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A Big Mac in the US today is also much smaller than what it once was. It’s a Small Mac these days. A Burger King Whopper today is the size of a Big Mac of year

by wenc 2y ago

crazygringo 2y ago
No it's not. Big Macs have not changed size. Maybe things just seemed bigger when you were a kid, and smaller in comparison. (A while ago they temporarily had 3 "sizes" of Big Macs but that was a promo.)
- wenc 2y ago
  I’m in my 40s and have been eating Big Mac’s for more than 20 years and my baseline was not when I was a kid but from just 10 years ago. Big Macs have gotten perceptibly smaller while Whoppers have stayed the same. Maybe the weight is still the same (many ways to play that game) or whatever but there are tons of people who have noticed the shrinkage.
  - crazygringo 2y ago
    I mean, they haven't. I don't know why you think they have, but they haven't. You're mistaken. You've noticed wrong. Maybe you came across a claim about it on social media, but it's been entirely debunked: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/big-mac-since-1980/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/big-mac-since-1980/ And Whoppers have nothing to do with anything here. I don't know why you're comparing the two -- the Whopper is a single-patty quarter pounder, and it compares to the McD's quarter pounder. Not the Big Mac with its double patties and extra bread.
    - GreatLdisisp88 2y ago
      It is getting smaller. Your insistent it is not is weirdly just your specific opinion. I ate fornlike consistently over 30 years. Shrinkage is very observable.
      - crazygringo 2y ago
        It hasn't gotten smaller though, and it's not my opinion. It's fact. And I provided a link which goes into it in great detail how it's not. Do you disagree with Snopes? Do you think they're lying to you?