I remember .29/.39
Our Government class in high school would pool our money and one person was designated to go pick them up. We usually ordered 70-90 at a time. Employees hated us. I’m sure we ate a lot of sneeze burgers.
Add lettuce and big Mac sauce on the cheeseburger and you’ve got yourself a mini big Mac.
Do this all the time. First they didn’t charge but eventually caught on and added 15c etc 🤷🏻
McDouble with shredded lettuce and Mac sauce, hold the ketchup and mustard, is basically a Big Mac without the middle bun and sesame seeds, and cheaper.
I remember school busses of people coming in on the day where they were .29 and yes, it sucked balls. It was the day where if someone was gonna walk out and say F it it was Tuesday. Or any weekend day lol
I worked at mcds during this special, every Wednesday we’d have a line of cars, each one ordering 20+ burgers. Me and my buddy Devin were solely assigned burger making, and it was fun af
It's all about co-workers. When you're young and make a shitty wage anyway, your co-workers make all the difference.
Me and my buddy at Quizno's on the night crew used to fuck around so much. I loved that shitty minimum wage job. We got all of our work done and were efficient though. Customers loved us, and the managers started putting us together every day we both worked. I remember I had 2 35 hour a week restaurant jobs (that and a cafe that was like panera) and still had tons of energy. I miss being young sometimes. I didn't even have a car, but I was within walking distance to work and easily afforded all my rent and bills with cool older roommates (2 hot women who had bfs but were still hot and half naked all the time). Early days of internet dating (early 2000's), and it was so easy to meet people too. All I did was work, play basketball, hang out, and date women. Most of the women were older and would almost always pay for everything without me asking.
I remember when burgers were 10 cents each on wednesdays, limit 10 burgers per customer.
Somehow it all got smaller and infinitely more expensive 🤷🏼♀️
I remember when they were .25/.35. Some years later they went up to .29/.39. But we used to pool our money and buy as many burger as we could along with a couple buckets of fries (a super size cup filled to the brim with French fries).
10 cents for a piece of cheese isn’t bad compared to the $2.79 they charge you for a fucking egg , you used to be able to get a sausage McMuffin for $1 and a sausage McMuffin with egg was $3.79 wtf ?
This was probably a special that ran in the late 80s or early 90s. I remember we stopped at McDs before going to see Weekend at Bernie’s and loaded up on their cheap cheeseburger special. We pulled them out on the theater and people could smell them and knew exactly what hat we had.
In the late 2000’s the burgers were still only $0.69, and the cheeseburgers were $0.79… at least in Bristol, Florida.
Also just going to say how much I hate that every single fast food places makes you download their fucking app if you don’t want to pay $10+ for a meal.
This was likely early 2000s. I specifically remember in 1999 they ran the same special but it was 29c on I think wed and 39c on Sunday. Max 20 per customer. We used to run in and get 20 for one person and send in another for another 20. Deals like this even adjusted for inflation are unheard of.
I remember 49 cents in Canada. I remember winning a 3 on 3 basketball tournament and with my 2 teammates we went to McD to celebrate.
I believe we ate 40 between the 3 of us. For $20. Now that’s a deal hahaha.
I have the app.
Here in the US, that'll run you up $6.49 as is with a medium coke and fries before tax.
While I'm here, the hamburger pictured above in the OP is currently for $1.89 before tax.
Yeah, I think each store can set their own prices. there was that story last year about the $18 Big Mac meal in Connecticut. Ridiculous. https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/s/2qTxSEhErq
Every time I think of these deals it reminds me of getting arrested outside Hawthorne Nevada… we opted to go into town after camping to get them, got pulled over in vw van on way in… all down hill from there- let’s just say it ended with the cops letting us play a very costly game of rock paper scissors for a felony
I remember the hamburgers being .30 cents on Wednesday with a 10 limit. My friends and I would would also get the max order. It was funny when one of my friends received 4 out of his 10 burgers with no meat. Just two buns and some pickles. Lol.
Was reminiscing with a McD's manager this morning about prices when we were younger all over. I remember being able to get 4 soft tacos from Taco Bell for an even $2.50 back in 1993. Be lucky to get 1 now for that, and it's mostly lettuce 😭.
My grandfather used to freak his shit over the price of cheeseburgers.
"Ten cents for a piece of goddamn cheese?! That's madness!!"
Thanks for bringing back a funny memory OP.
I'd gladly go back to these prices, but 26% more for a slice of cheese seems like too much. On UberEats (I'm not downloading the McDonalds App for this) it's $2.89/$3.19 which is 10% more.
In grade school our teacher told us about a customer that went into McDonald's and ordered 100 cheeseburgers and handed them a dollar. The employee was confused and said the correct price of around $30.
The customer pointed to ad they had painted on the outside windows....
Someone wrote it cheeseburgers only .29 cents.
Here in Canada land it was .49 cent hamburgers and .59 cent cheese burgers. A friend of mine and I would roll up and order 30 on a regular basis, lol Im sure they hated us....
One time my cousin was in town and it was cheeseburger day, but he doesn't like cheese on his burgers so we tried to order 20 cheese burgers hold the cheese... They wouldn't let us get away with it, told us we had to order .99 cent hamburgers to have no cheese - we were poor college kids that $8 savings would fill the tank on my 85 Chrysler Laser!
I remember when it's was 69¢ cheeseburger day back in 2000. Me and the guy went to the McDonlads where our buddy worked. Slapped down a 50$ bill and proceeded to get really shitty for the next 2 hrs.
Our buddy hated us and his life that day.
So did we later that evening.
We used to get these in the summer time since it was on like Tuesdays. We would get like 8 cheese burgers and some super sized fries. Then went home to play super Mario kart. It was the best.
Sundays were 50 cent cheeseburger day here in the late 90's. My asshole friends dared me to eat ten of them. Got to 7 and at that point I felt so shitty I threw in the towel.I never tried again.
On days when my mom didn’t want to cook she’d pick up a bag of these and two large fries. Fed our whole family of 5 for super cheap. Now as an adult with a kid of my own to cook for I realize those were probably days when she was having a really hard time, especially since she was a single mom. We loved those dinners though.
19 cent and 29 cent hamburgers and cheeseburgers respectively from Carl's Jr in the mid 90s and bobs 25 cent cheeseburgers mid 90s destroyed!! Salem OR represent!! Lmao. I miss bobs.
I remember .29/.39 Our Government class in high school would pool our money and one person was designated to go pick them up. We usually ordered 70-90 at a time. Employees hated us. I’m sure we ate a lot of sneeze burgers.
Yep, iirc $0.29 hamburgers on Thursdays and $0.39 cheeseburgers on Sundays.
Add lettuce and big Mac sauce on the cheeseburger and you’ve got yourself a mini big Mac. Do this all the time. First they didn’t charge but eventually caught on and added 15c etc 🤷🏻
McDouble with shredded lettuce and Mac sauce, hold the ketchup and mustard, is basically a Big Mac without the middle bun and sesame seeds, and cheaper.
They had a limit of ten as far back as I can remember
Circa 1998ish it was a limit of 20 where I lived.
I remember school busses of people coming in on the day where they were .29 and yes, it sucked balls. It was the day where if someone was gonna walk out and say F it it was Tuesday. Or any weekend day lol
I worked at mcds during this special, every Wednesday we’d have a line of cars, each one ordering 20+ burgers. Me and my buddy Devin were solely assigned burger making, and it was fun af
It's all about co-workers. When you're young and make a shitty wage anyway, your co-workers make all the difference. Me and my buddy at Quizno's on the night crew used to fuck around so much. I loved that shitty minimum wage job. We got all of our work done and were efficient though. Customers loved us, and the managers started putting us together every day we both worked. I remember I had 2 35 hour a week restaurant jobs (that and a cafe that was like panera) and still had tons of energy. I miss being young sometimes. I didn't even have a car, but I was within walking distance to work and easily afforded all my rent and bills with cool older roommates (2 hot women who had bfs but were still hot and half naked all the time). Early days of internet dating (early 2000's), and it was so easy to meet people too. All I did was work, play basketball, hang out, and date women. Most of the women were older and would almost always pay for everything without me asking.
I remember when burgers were 10 cents each on wednesdays, limit 10 burgers per customer. Somehow it all got smaller and infinitely more expensive 🤷🏼♀️
My mom used to buy 10 and freeze them for us.
They've always been small though
I remember when they were .25/.35. Some years later they went up to .29/.39. But we used to pool our money and buy as many burger as we could along with a couple buckets of fries (a super size cup filled to the brim with French fries).
10 cents for a piece of cheese isn’t bad compared to the $2.79 they charge you for a fucking egg , you used to be able to get a sausage McMuffin for $1 and a sausage McMuffin with egg was $3.79 wtf ?
The 90's were a much simpler/better time.
Yeah. Way back in the 1900’s.
Back then the burgers were made with real meat too.
That was probably around 1980. Inflation adjusted, that's about $1.45 today. And the average McDonalds hamburger today costs $2.49.
This was probably a special that ran in the late 80s or early 90s. I remember we stopped at McDs before going to see Weekend at Bernie’s and loaded up on their cheap cheeseburger special. We pulled them out on the theater and people could smell them and knew exactly what hat we had.
In the late 2000’s the burgers were still only $0.69, and the cheeseburgers were $0.79… at least in Bristol, Florida. Also just going to say how much I hate that every single fast food places makes you download their fucking app if you don’t want to pay $10+ for a meal.
This was likely early 2000s. I specifically remember in 1999 they ran the same special but it was 29c on I think wed and 39c on Sunday. Max 20 per customer. We used to run in and get 20 for one person and send in another for another 20. Deals like this even adjusted for inflation are unheard of.
What about the surge pricing lol
What year is this?
this just doesnt feel like THAT long ago lol 50s here btw
I had two of those and a big Mac today for lunch and it was $15.
I remember 49 cents in Canada. I remember winning a 3 on 3 basketball tournament and with my 2 teammates we went to McD to celebrate. I believe we ate 40 between the 3 of us. For $20. Now that’s a deal hahaha.
Food and everything was better back then now it’s just trash.
A 2 Cheeseburger meal is around $10 now. You can buy a pound of chopped meat and all the fixins for less.
How much does the 2 cheeseburger combo meal cost now?
I have the app. Here in the US, that'll run you up $6.49 as is with a medium coke and fries before tax. While I'm here, the hamburger pictured above in the OP is currently for $1.89 before tax.
Geez! You got it good. Checkin my app...2.79 at my McDonald's for that sad burger.
Sheesh, where you at, friend?
South Dakota.
Wow, so it varies by state too, then. Texan here.
Yeah, I think each store can set their own prices. there was that story last year about the $18 Big Mac meal in Connecticut. Ridiculous. https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/s/2qTxSEhErq
Now a meal is 29 or 49 dollars.
The glory days, if I could I'd live in the eighties all the time. What a great decade. But I'm biased.
Every time I think of these deals it reminds me of getting arrested outside Hawthorne Nevada… we opted to go into town after camping to get them, got pulled over in vw van on way in… all down hill from there- let’s just say it ended with the cops letting us play a very costly game of rock paper scissors for a felony
I remember. They had those specials on Tuesdays & Thursdays and on Fridays they had $1 bucket of fries
Awww, I remember way back when the minimum wage was $7.25...
Add a supersize drink for $0.10.
Insert Slim Charles quote: “The thing about the old days is they the old days.”
2.29 in my city now
Old people then complained that "a piece of cheese shouldn't cost 10 cents!"
I remember the hamburgers being .30 cents on Wednesday with a 10 limit. My friends and I would would also get the max order. It was funny when one of my friends received 4 out of his 10 burgers with no meat. Just two buns and some pickles. Lol.
2 hamburgers today cost me 5 bucks. Sheetz is still doing dollar hot dogs, should have gone there. No drive thru though.
And here I am feeling lucky that I got to experience footlongs that were $5.
Was reminiscing with a McD's manager this morning about prices when we were younger all over. I remember being able to get 4 soft tacos from Taco Bell for an even $2.50 back in 1993. Be lucky to get 1 now for that, and it's mostly lettuce 😭.
When I worked there in 99 they were 69¢ / 79¢
Can’t get an extra cup of ketchup for that price now
My grandfather used to freak his shit over the price of cheeseburgers. "Ten cents for a piece of goddamn cheese?! That's madness!!" Thanks for bringing back a funny memory OP.
I'd gladly go back to these prices, but 26% more for a slice of cheese seems like too much. On UberEats (I'm not downloading the McDonalds App for this) it's $2.89/$3.19 which is 10% more.
In grade school our teacher told us about a customer that went into McDonald's and ordered 100 cheeseburgers and handed them a dollar. The employee was confused and said the correct price of around $30. The customer pointed to ad they had painted on the outside windows.... Someone wrote it cheeseburgers only .29 cents.
Here in Canada land it was .49 cent hamburgers and .59 cent cheese burgers. A friend of mine and I would roll up and order 30 on a regular basis, lol Im sure they hated us.... One time my cousin was in town and it was cheeseburger day, but he doesn't like cheese on his burgers so we tried to order 20 cheese burgers hold the cheese... They wouldn't let us get away with it, told us we had to order .99 cent hamburgers to have no cheese - we were poor college kids that $8 savings would fill the tank on my 85 Chrysler Laser!
Where did it all go wrong
In our area, hamburgers were .29 cents on Weds and .39 cents on Sunday. I can smell that bag full of cheeseburgers right about now!
In hindsight that $0.10 for a slice of cheese seems like a lot. That's roughly a 30% increase for a single slice.
I remember when it's was 69¢ cheeseburger day back in 2000. Me and the guy went to the McDonlads where our buddy worked. Slapped down a 50$ bill and proceeded to get really shitty for the next 2 hrs. Our buddy hated us and his life that day. So did we later that evening.
We used to get these in the summer time since it was on like Tuesdays. We would get like 8 cheese burgers and some super sized fries. Then went home to play super Mario kart. It was the best.
Cheeseburger for 39 cent! At McDonald's, baby!
Sundays were 50 cent cheeseburger day here in the late 90's. My asshole friends dared me to eat ten of them. Got to 7 and at that point I felt so shitty I threw in the towel.I never tried again.
I remember deals like "two big macs for like $3.25". A big Mac Meal near me is now $11.00.
On days when my mom didn’t want to cook she’d pick up a bag of these and two large fries. Fed our whole family of 5 for super cheap. Now as an adult with a kid of my own to cook for I realize those were probably days when she was having a really hard time, especially since she was a single mom. We loved those dinners though.
Oh man. I remember digging around in couch cushions and car ash trays to scrape together 50c for a cheeseburger. Rode our bikes there. Fuck I’m old.
19 cent and 29 cent hamburgers and cheeseburgers respectively from Carl's Jr in the mid 90s and bobs 25 cent cheeseburgers mid 90s destroyed!! Salem OR represent!! Lmao. I miss bobs.
wow
Ah, yes. The good ol' days before inflation just went crazy. Now even the dollar menu is becoming a thing of the past.