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Trump’s McDonald’s bill is big, but its prices have ballooned (www.theguardian.com)

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Donald Trump’s appearance in criminal court on Monday has raised many questions, constitutional and otherwise, but on the evidence of the first day I find myself most curious about the former president’s McDonald’s order. During jury selection last week, the Daily Mail reported on a $700 (£560) McDonald’s order put in by Trump staffers that included 27 orders of fries, 27 quarter pounders, a bunch of nuggets and no drinks. A McDonald’s employee complained anonymously that they didn’t leave a tip – in line with everyone who eats at McDonald’s – but still.

Anyway, this week, the Trump order was down to $500, although the Mail couldn’t confirm the itemised details due to management having cracked down on staff leaking. And while these orders were presented as “huge”, the fact is – a much commented on reality in New York – McDonald’s prices have gone through the roof in the last year and $500 doesn’t go far. (You’re lucky to get in and out for under $50 if you go in with two kids.) Which is shame because a quarter pounder with cheese with a cheeky cheeseburger on the side isn’t banal, it’s sublime.

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[-] GraniteM@lemmy.world 27 points 6 months ago

Is it any wonder that Trump is unleashing absolutely unbearable farts in the court room?

[-] Pulptastic@midwest.social 6 points 6 months ago

Legit?

[-] baru@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

MeidasTouch reported on it. It's a bit strange of a subject to dedicate a video to though.

[-] Pulptastic@midwest.social 4 points 6 months ago

Amy idea which one? I didn't see the word"fart" in any of his clickbait titles.

[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 6 months ago

I'm sure when prospective lawyers imagine working on high profile cases, the thing they dream of is "double quarter pounders with cheese for everyone!"

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

Cold soggy McDonald’s, at that.

[-] Dkarma@lemmy.world 25 points 6 months ago

McDonald's 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

[+] Fapper_McFapper@lemm.ee 20 points 6 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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[-] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 16 points 6 months ago

This is america, we fat.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 10 points 6 months ago

We're just storing excess calories in preparation for the resource wars

[-] Car@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 6 months ago

The gravy seals will be having the last laugh

[-] Professorozone@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

No, I'm with you on that one. I hadn't eaten there in a while and got a hankering. So I went to one, got a hamburger, fries and a milk shake. That was like 30 years ago and I've never been back. Even the milk shake was horrible. A MILKSHAKE! I don't understand what people see in that place. I'd be just fine if it went out of business.

[-] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

My dad had an irrational hatred of McDonald’s so even when we got fast food, we went to Popeyes or Taco Bell or wherever. In college, I lived off Burger King’s dollar menu. But if you don’t have a positive childhood memory of the McDonald’s taste, it just tastes like chemicals. And if you don’t already know what they sell, it sucks going there. I went with a friend once and I was like, “Do they have a list of items they sell or is it all just combos I have to deconstruct?” People were annoyed because I was taking too long to order and I was like, “Motherfucker, I’m reading the menu. I don’t know what they call shit here.”

I’m not above eating fast food. I get a hankering for other places occasionally, especially for breakfast. But to this day, every McDonald’s item tastes really funky to me.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago

There's a lot of accusations about the food. The food itself isn't extra-bad, though: it's beef, cheese, bread, pickles, onions and condiments. You may eat these already.

[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago

A McDonald’s employee complained anonymously that they didn’t leave a tip

Who the fuck tips at fucking McDonald's?!?!?

[-] downhomechunk@midwest.social 10 points 6 months ago

Not Mackey D's, but I placed an order for $100 of taco bell recently. They were still making it when I got there. It was the manager and 2 employees busting their asses to crank out the order as fast as they could while a line was forming at the counter and drive through.

The manager brought me the food and apologized for the wait. I handed him 3 x $5 bills as thanks. I genuinely appreciated the service and wanted to say thanks.

[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Calm today so I figured I'd try some lib-posting

[-] autotldr -1 points 6 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Back in 2019, the New Yorker called Trump’s insistence on ordering fast food to the White House for visiting college football teams to enjoy, a piece of “banality”.

Liz Truss in Washington DC, still desperately trying to suck up to the Americans in general and Trump in particular, disinvited the Guardian from her book launch this week, which the former prime minister may have intended as a personal slight since the whole thing was livestreamed anyway.

(As David Smith reported, the message came through to the Guardian office last Friday that, “due to space limitations, we unfortunately must rescind your in-person invite”, while elsewhere her team encouraged the public to attend.

Truss’s persona post her spell as prime minister seems to have doubled down on that very particular verbal style that marries demotic modes of expression with a fixation on small, random details it can be hard to work out how she arrived at.

It is gauche, I know, to visit the UK and complain about the weather, but I’m sitting here typing this with a hot-water bottle on my lap, nursing the cold I managed to avoid all winter and asking myself, not for the first time, what is wrong with this country?

As Trump’s criminal case continues to unfold, a depressing end to the week in the form of Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 conviction for sex crimes being overturned by the New York court of appeals.

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