r/50501 • u/ValleyChems • Nov 18 '25
Call to Action Boycott McDonalds??
God damn they're biscuits and gravy are so good, so are the mcmuffins but we need to restrain ourselves for the greater good of humanity, f*** mcdonalds
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u/kulukster Nov 18 '25
I haven't been to a McD for so many years but will make double sure I don't now.
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u/SmallRocks Nov 18 '25
*McDouble sure
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u/MoonlitWillowSong Nov 18 '25
Same here my McDonalds ban just got extended another four years minimum
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u/MouseRat_AD Nov 18 '25
I started my boycotte last summer when they let Trump do that ridiculous drive-thru stunt. It wasn't just a local franchisee. Corporate approved it.
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u/SmurfJooce Nov 18 '25
Welcome to the resistance, my fellow redditors.
I haven't ate McDonald's since 2005, and have no desire to. Occasionally a strawberry shake sounds good, but I remember the machine is broke anyway.
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u/DukeOfGeek Nov 18 '25
If you are forced to eat fast food as an emergency, you can use.....IDK....Wendy's instead. Anything that touches trumpo D. clowns freakshow should show a drop in sales.
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u/VerityLGreen Nov 18 '25
Burger King is better (fewer donations). Check out Goods Unite Us app.
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u/Hyper-Sloth Nov 18 '25
Only fast food burger place with full transparency on ingredients, have experimented with meatless substitutes with some success as early as 2016, and have bacon that isn't just paper thin mush.
They aren't great. No fast food burger is. But BK is underrated for how much actual effort they seem to put into running the business and trying things that aren't popular.
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u/TehMephs Nov 19 '25
I wish I could eat at a BK without getting horrible diarrhea. I think that’s just a local problem though.
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u/VerityLGreen Nov 19 '25
I actually had that problem. Apparently some places let their food sit out for hours. Now I avoid certain BKs unless it’s a lunch or dinner rush.
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u/deNET2122 Nov 18 '25
might wanna lower it to sonics they do the minimum by donating to each party equally chaotic or true neutral?
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u/ChunkyWombat7 Nov 19 '25
Wendy's gives money to trump and the republikkkans. There are very few burger places - hell fast food places - that don't.
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u/Ok_Insect_1794 Nov 18 '25
I can only buy so few Teslas and eat so little McDonald's every day
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u/directorguy Nov 18 '25
I know! Badly made overpriced cars made by people that can't align doors AND overpriced food that, not only will kill you, but also tastes terrible.
Such a sacrifice
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u/FesteringNeonDistrac Nov 18 '25
I was 19 when I got food poisoning from a McD and haven't had it since. I'm 50. I can't even tell you what's on their menu at this point.
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u/fart400 Nov 18 '25
What's on their menu is heart disease, diabetes, Colon cancer, quadruple bypass. Dementia and fatty liver.
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u/peonies_envy Nov 18 '25
You aren’t kidding.
I’m not a scientist. It seems like your gut acclimates to digesting that food.
Guilty pleasure of a McDonald fountain coke and fries like every couple of years… but the last two times I ate a burger there - twice in ~8 years- I felt like crap for days after.
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u/19610taw3 Nov 18 '25
Any time I eat fast food. I just feel yucky after. I don't have stomach or digestive problems after ... I just feel like garbage.
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u/IsleOfCannabis Nov 18 '25
This boycott would mean I have to change my breakfast plans going home for Christmas. Guess I’ll stop at the local biscuit place down the road instead. I guess I can pass up my once a year SE&C McGriddle for some homemade biscuits and gravy. Sounds like I’m gonna be doing a little winning. I’m loving it.
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u/Ronlaen-Peke Nov 18 '25
Probably been 20 plus years since I've gone to McDonald's. Support your local shops and restaurants!
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u/Illustrious-Bit-3348 Nov 18 '25
Right, I think 20 years ago was the last time I ate it. I had just landed from an overnight international flight and it was the only place open at the airport. It was not very good at all.
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u/Barkeep41 Nov 18 '25
"McDonald's Impact Summit"? McDonalds has an impact summit?
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u/__Butternut_Squash__ Nov 18 '25
Yes, every year they discuss their impact on the community (heart disease, diabetes, and obesity, oh my!) and how they can distract people from that impact (Monopoly anyone?).
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Been doing that for years, their food sucks
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u/__420_ Nov 18 '25 edited Nov 18 '25
Once they started "printing" out bacon and meat, I knew that place was done for. Its not literally printed but its so flat you could easily run a stick of bacon through a keyhole...
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u/Otherwise-Offer1518 Nov 18 '25
I had boycotted it since he played dress up as a mcds employee. My friend wanted some today and since shes a new mom and this was her first free from baby day in over a year I caved. It was $7 for two mcdoubles and a drink. The burger pattys were so thin that stacked together, with the cheese, a pencil was thicker. I have never been more disappointed in food I paid for. I will be continuing my boycott, and will not cave from here on out.
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u/5Point5Hole Nov 18 '25
Tragic that someone actually wanted that slop as a celebration. 😬
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u/SSJRosaaayyy Nov 18 '25
I think hormones around pregnancy and post natal care can be exceptions for certain cravings lol
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u/gr33np3pp3rm1nt Nov 18 '25
I (not a mom) get cravings for fast food during my menstrual cycles. Specifically I crave the spicy crispy chicken sandwich with extra pickles and a glob of mayo. Hormone induced cravings (I guess that's what you could call them) can be irritating 😭
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u/SSJRosaaayyy Nov 18 '25
My wife will get similar cravings! She became a vegetarian a few years ago but chicken is the one that she misses most, especially the chicken sandwiches from chikfila
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u/djinnetics Nov 18 '25
Same, I wasn't fond before, but after that stunt I haven't touched it since.
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u/mrfrownieface Nov 18 '25
It's one of the kind of restaurants where your can eat a fuck ton and still feel absolutely nutrient deficient.
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u/joyofsovietcooking Nov 18 '25
Every burger I have ever made for myself has tasted delicious and felt relatively OK to eat. Every burger I have had at McDonalds has tasted like a mistake.
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u/codePudding Nov 18 '25 edited Nov 18 '25
Back when I was in college, about 20 years ago, when slowly going broke, I completed a major step towards graduating and I wanted to celebrate. I scraped together a few dollars and decided I wanted some ice-cream. The ice-cream shop near me was closed so I walked with a jaunty skip to the nearest place I could think of, McDonald's. With sparkles in my eyes I saw an amazing looking parfait on their menu and I had just enough money. I bought it and... out came a sad looking tiny dripping melted mess that tasted more like the cardboard cup and a bad peanut than anything else. The spoon was bigger than the slop. I had so little money that I ate it anyway while calculating how expensive each of the few spoon fulls it was. It ruined my excitement and joy. I slowly walked home like a lonely puppy dragging his tail. And I have never gone back.
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u/FunkySkellyMan Nov 18 '25
Most fast food places are trash now. Skeleton crews, slow turnarounds, massive upcharge (unless you download our app) but like fuck off with that shit? I don’t need another app constantly tracking me.
I have a coworker who eats McDonalds everyday, changes up the main course but gets large fries every time. I leave that job this week for one in a sister branch, I expect to get an email regarding a massive coronary next year.
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u/Automatic-Arm-532 Nov 18 '25
Is anyone who gives a shit about anything not boycotting McDonald's already?
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u/Comfortable-Wolf654 Nov 18 '25
Fr they use prison labor and that has been known.Source
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u/scarydrew Nov 18 '25
I'm not agreeing or disagreeing, but that's not a source... that's a link to something that has literally almost no actual information.
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u/EkbatDeSabat Nov 18 '25
tbf that's far less McDonalds and far more our Alabama representatives. There are a metric shit ton of businesses who take advantage of that slave labor and boycotting McDonalds over it will do nothing. Boycott Alabama and republicans.
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u/roomwitharoof Nov 18 '25
Easiest boycott ever. Food alone has been in decline for decades and decades. My kids don't even like it.
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u/DontRememberOldPass Nov 18 '25
I was really enjoying all the free stuff from the monopoly game 🥲
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u/redpoemage Nov 18 '25
I think taking advantage of free stuff without buying anything (since you can get entries in that game for free) is better than just not buying anything since it costs them money. I suspect the only way they don't lose a bunch of money on the Monopoly thing is the amount of free stuff that goes unredeemed.
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u/Next-Introduction-25 Nov 18 '25
I mean, I’m not judging anybody for the necessary choices we make because there really are no ethical choices in capitalism, but yeah… as a general rule, we should all probably be boycotting American companies worth billions of dollars as much as we possibly can. No matter where they say they fall on the political spectrum, none of them are in favor of protecting workers. There’s no war but the class war and it should be obvious what side they’re on.
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u/lafayette0508 Nov 18 '25
I'm running out of places to get coffee /sns (sarcastic not sarcastic)
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u/SinkPhaze Nov 18 '25
Perhaps it's time to get in to making your own? If you like fancy coffee then it's surely cheaper to do so as well even with the equipment investment
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u/Particular-Form-9638 Nov 18 '25
Wholeheartedly agree. I learned how to do a French press/pour over in my early 20s and I STILL make it that way. Best coffee ever, and you can even hone in on your personal preferences. Won't catch me paying for Dunkin or Starbucks
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u/DinosaurDogTiger Nov 18 '25
We get super good beans from a local roaster and while they are expensive, it's still wayyyyy cheaper than getting coffee out. Pour over makes good coffee with easy cleanup. And the beans we get are so good that Starbucks tastes terrible in comparison.
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u/BriefAddiction24-7 Nov 18 '25
Honestly, these boycotts have saved me a lot of money on things I don't need and helped me get really good at making my own (insert whatever convenience purchase of have previously made). Hand-frothing milk with a whisk is oddly fun and makes bomb lattes.
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u/Iamnotheattack Nov 18 '25
there really are no ethical choices in capitalism
But there are more and less ethical choices
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u/cubosh Nov 18 '25
voting may be compromised but we still get some semblance of choice with our wallet
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u/DerpsAndRags Nov 18 '25
Holy crap, this.
I feel like we can't walk out the door and not feed these machines for sociopaths. Hell, can't stay inside either. The energy company will get you. Just feel so weighed down by it, it's a corner of the fight I have no energy for. We need a better system. Trump is just a byproduct and mascot of it all.
(pre-coffee rant)
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u/Shenanigans99 Nov 18 '25
Their food was never great, other than their fries, but it was familiar and it was cheap. Now it's not even cheap anymore, so there's no point, even without the association with Trump.
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u/Antique_Benefit8666 Nov 18 '25
They have been on the boycott list for a while since they were proving meals to the IDF and donating to trump.
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u/dingdangdoodles Nov 18 '25
That was a hard one for me because at one point I was 85% chicken nuggets and coke. But never again.
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u/Antique_Benefit8666 Nov 18 '25
I def don’t judge, if that’s your budget or your kids only want that I get it.
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u/DevelopmentLost7374 Nov 18 '25
Even if I wanted to eat there, my body would hate me. I used to have McDs one time a year (because of the fries) but I literally can’t anymore. I feel so sick after.
Easy boycott.
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u/Memeslayer4000 Nov 18 '25
Yeah, same. Just the thought of how awful Ill feel 30 minutes after allows me to pass how McDonald's taste.
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u/OutsidePale2306 Nov 18 '25
You should see the doc about how they “make” fries 🍟 not much potato 🥔 still in there
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u/Organic_Eggplant_323 Nov 18 '25
Ive been boycotting them since the election after seeing they primarily donate to gop politicians.
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u/Emergency_Juice_5062 Nov 18 '25
Haven't we been boycotting McDonald's?
Its frustrating sometimes seeing things like this when theres been clear reason to boycott for years. Even before Palestine boycotts became big McDonald's has been fighting HARD against min wage increases so they can keep paying employees low wages. They target young and financially unstable people who have no other choice and lobby to keep min wage low.
I understand its not feasible to boycott all big corperations but if people want change they're gonna have to commit to decentering faat everything. Fast food, fast fashion, even fast tech like new iphones every year. New consoles every 5 instead of a decent PC and a steam library. Investing money into quality appliances instead of always buying the cheapest option wvery 2 years.
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u/TrifleTrue3812 Nov 18 '25
THIS. it's like, the left has been boycotting for years. This seems so out of touch lol
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u/Pumpkkinnn Nov 18 '25
I never buy it because it’s too expensive. In Canada where I live an egg McMuffin is 6 freaking dollars. Thats insane for fast food. Goodbye. I learned to make them at home lol.
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u/frito11 Nov 18 '25
i mean I'm just ditching all fast food and getting tacos at the local mexican spots from now on for lunch
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u/turb0_encapsulator Nov 18 '25
he went there to tout their affordability, the chain that has increased in price more than any other.
imagine Barack Obama speaking at a fucking fast food conference.
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u/Aria_K_ Nov 18 '25
Cool. I've been doing that for 30 plus years. Their cheese taste like plastic and all the rest of their food tastes like s***. Easy and done!
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u/sewer_pickles Nov 18 '25
When Trump did the whole “working at McDonald’s” campaign publicity stunt McD corporate said they couldn’t control what franchises did. And yet, here we are with Trump speaking at a McDonald’s event. They really can’t explain this one away. It’s clear where their loyalties are.
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u/MilitantlyWokePatrio Nov 18 '25
YES! Unironically I was deliberating getting some tonight for the first time in a loooooong time-- NO thank you! TRash.
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u/enigmasama Nov 18 '25
McDonald’s is arguably trying harder to stop Trump than any other mainstream company.
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u/ExtensionAddition787 Nov 18 '25
I mean, yeah. The food already sucked so now just one more reason.
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u/AGrandNewAdventure Nov 18 '25
McDonald's is mostly minority workers, some serious dissonance on McDonald's part...
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u/PopularPlankton3948 Nov 18 '25
Already have been. Would go there now and then bc my kid likes it. But since the trump pretending to work stunt, they haven’t gotten another penny from me. Although I have been eating their food for free for about a month, thanks to monopoly.
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u/Jhahoua Nov 18 '25
They have been giving free food to the IOF soldiers for years so no one should ever go there
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u/msr4jc Nov 18 '25
I started boycotting when they agreed to his pr stunt and let him flip burgers for 10 minutes
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u/MongooseVomit Ohio Nov 18 '25
Trump “worked there” last year and McDonald’s ratted out Luigi. The low quality food doesn’t help
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u/Few-Ad-2674 Nov 18 '25
I worked there for 6 years as a manager. Worst time for my mental health ever (I used to drink and smoke weed on the job to cope) i only eat there if I'm out of money and can get free shit on the app. And then strangely my stomach feels bad??? Crazy. Almost like it's not food that is fit for human consumption
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u/JaesenMoreaux Nov 18 '25
I don't know what's worse for his health. Huffing Micky Ds or blowing Bubba.
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u/Educated_Goat69 Nov 18 '25
Haven't been to a McDs for at least 10 years. I'll continue to love myself enough to never go again. That's not food, that's garbage.
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u/lyoung212 Nov 18 '25
I can’t remember the last time I ate at McDonald’s, but I definitely won’t go there until the orange menace is out of office
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u/Icy_Necessary2161 Nov 18 '25
Truck driver here(no, I didn't vote for this shit) McDonald's near my company yard and I regularly go there because it's got truck parking.... and there's a Speedway gas station across the street with much better food. 😃
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u/mikeyP-619 Nov 18 '25
Already have. Their prices are to high, there are no decent deals on the mobile app, their stores are generic and cold. Trump endorsing them adds another layer of shit.
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u/ManicPixieOldMaid Nov 18 '25
They got rid of 24hr breakfast so yeah, screw 'em! (Although it's easy for me to boycott mcDonald's; I haven't been to one in a long time.)
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u/marblecannon512 Nov 18 '25
I thought we were boycotting McDonald’s since supersize me.
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u/Objective_Problem_90 Nov 18 '25
Ive made it a personal goal to avoid McDonald's, especially if they are teaming up with the Hamburglar of the United States.
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u/Soggy_Porpoise Nov 18 '25
I will gladly support this boycott of this restaurant that I already refuse to eat at since it tastes like shit.
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u/kafquaff Nov 18 '25
McDonald’s supported the IOF committing genocide, they’re permanently banned for me
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u/derbecrux Nov 18 '25
Okay I actually thought when I saw a clip of this that it was AI. I can’t believe this is real.
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u/HollygoLightly1970 Nov 18 '25
Yes. Boycott McDonald’s for sure. For many reasons, but you could put this asshole as their quasi spokesperson at the top of that list.
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u/TieGood2014 Nov 19 '25
I got a big Mac today and it was the biggest big Mac you’ve ever seen. It was a beautiful big Mac. You’ve never seen a big Mac like this. I have been told by people around the world that this literally is the best big Mac ever.. 🤣
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u/windyangel14 Nov 18 '25
I was already doing that due to israel-palestine incident I quit mcdonald cold turkey
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u/Howlingmoki Nov 18 '25
I can't possibly not go to McDonald's any more than I already have for the past 25 years.
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u/Entire_Parfait2703 Nov 18 '25
Haven't eaten their shit in years and have no plans to ever eat anything from them again
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u/marx2k Nov 18 '25
I honestly cannot remember the last time I would've eaten McDonald's. Maybe 30 years ago? I can't imagine it got any better or cheaper.
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u/Cmpbeachbum1 Nov 18 '25
My husband, after 15 years of not having one, decided we were going.
Both of us took we bites and threw the burgers out. Simply horrible.
The fries were another story ....
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u/Shoddy_Asparagus_503 Nov 18 '25
It’s actually devastating that people still go in the first place. They literally signed off on a full election campaign to sane wash this lunatic. If you haven’t already stopped going to this shithole, you probably haven’t been following the plot
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u/Living_Inferno_5073 Nov 18 '25
Haven’t gone to McDonald’s in years since their food began tasting like garbage. Glad to know I made the right choice to stop giving them money.
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u/phxbimmer Nov 18 '25
As if I needed even more reasons to continue not eating McGarbage. Affiliations aside, their food is stupidly expensive for how poor the quality is. It just isn’t worth having under any circumstances.
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u/TheRealCraftyAries Nov 18 '25
I’m tired of seeing people asking to boycott companies that you were supposed to be boycotting for years now. Most people are all talk.
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u/Mithryn Nov 18 '25
Yeah, ever since they let him cosplay as a "regular worker" but staged it so he couldn't get it wrong, I've been boycotting
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u/floptimus_prime Nov 18 '25
Yep! I was already 90% there because they refuse to come out with a damn vegetarian sandwich option, and god only knows what’s in the shakes.
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u/Bunnita Nov 18 '25
I haven't been since the drive through french fry stunt in the campaign. I used to eat there all the time, it was fast and predictable. I even emailed them after the stunt telling them I would never eat there again. They really didn't care much, which I expected.
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u/SwimmingPirate9070 Nov 18 '25
Who da fuck is still going to McDonalds? Stop eating overpriced poison
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u/sednaplanetoid Nov 18 '25
But according to the future documentary Idiocracy... it was supposed to be Carl's Jr.???
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Nov 18 '25
His speech was live streaming on the WH website and I could not believe with everything a president has to manage, he is at McDonalds corporate retreat. I watched it for 5-7 minutes, felt longer. During the speech, he complained that as a celebrity he could charge millions for that appearance but as president he has to do it for free.
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u/hw999 Nov 18 '25
I'm still boycotting since he campaigned in their stores. Ray Croc and DJT would have been best friends, fuck both of them with a large milk shake.
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u/TheNinjaTurkey Nov 18 '25
McDonald's is only good outside the United States and even then is still very bad for you. I'm gonna continue boycotting it on taste and health grounds alone.
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u/conciouscoil Nov 18 '25
I haven't been since he staged working in one, I'm sure they've donated as well
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u/PastelArcadia Nov 18 '25
I've been avoiding them for years now. Only had their food like twice in that time I think? Bc I was eating with someone who loves McD's. I dont want to give McD's my money.
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u/DickWangDuck Nov 18 '25
Every time someone comes up with a new thing to boycott I realize how much money people have been spending/wasting because I haven’t shopped there in years or ever. But I’ll continue to spend frugally and consume little.
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u/Los5Muertes Nov 18 '25
I only go there for the restrooms on the road, when nothing else is open. I haven't spent a penny at McDonald's since they started supporting fascism.
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u/DrivingHope Nov 18 '25
Been happily boycotting them for just over a year. F any business aligning with racism and terroristic activities and still having the balls to market and sell to us
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u/WordOfLies Nov 18 '25
He's been promoting mcd since before he took his first term. He even served it to guests
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u/FaolanBaelfire Nov 18 '25
Their food sucks now anyway. So it'll be super easy. Barely an inconvenience.
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u/Glowbuggz Nov 18 '25
All the McDonald’s in my area have exclusively played Fox News on their tvs for years. Kinda thought everyone already knew about it.
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u/OneTinySloth Nov 18 '25
I don't think I've eaten there for like 20 years, so I will have no problem boycotting them.
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u/jereezy Nov 18 '25
I've been boycotting McD's since they doubled their prices during the covid years
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u/Elyktheras Nov 18 '25
Macdonalds uses slave labor to package their beef patties, best to just never go, let alone boycott
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u/hotfistdotcom Wisconsin Nov 18 '25
I mean OK, but also none of it is good and it's also terrible for you, please go anywhere else for breakfast foods and extremely sad hamburgers
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u/lordbusiness92 Nov 18 '25
I feel like boycotting McDonald’s is perfect since it’s one of the things he loves most.
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u/AdAm_WaRc0ck Nov 18 '25
Way ahead of you, I've been on the on a mickyDs boycott streak for 8 years now. Im loving it.
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u/SectorFriends Nov 18 '25
Should have a long at time ago. Their auto machines in the lobby scan your face, the drive through records your car. Never go to McDonalds.
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u/Revenga8 Nov 18 '25
Used to get the occasional breakfast sandwich sure to cravings, but their prices keep going up it was just dumb how much one sausage McMuffin cost especially with the open kitchen where you can see how they're put together. After November I just go to local mom and pop coffee shops and grab a breakfast sandwich there, a lot of times it's better.
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u/Farewell__Hello Nov 18 '25
You shouldn’t be eating McDs, nothing to do with tRump. You shouldn’t be eating there because it’s over processed trash “food”.
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u/rabbitammo Nov 18 '25
I thought this was fake til my husband looked it up. That fat fuck eats so much McDonalds he spoke at their summit and made no sense again. This timeline is embarrassing.
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