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I agree - and might reveal that our diet these days is pretty amazing.

Someone elaborated on the cultural marvel that is the humble American hamburger: that a food made of ground beef, bread, pickle, lettuce, tomato, and a couple sauces - most are rapidly perishable items - can be made on demand, year-round, for the incredibly low cost of one dollar is absolutely amazing.

I would argue that a hamburger costing only $1 is very loosely using the ingredients you think it is.

You’d be wrong. Ingredient quality wise McDonald’s is fine. The issue is how much oil/salt they use

You'd be wrong in assuming I was thinking about McDonalds in the first place. You took it there, not me. There are plenty of other fast food chains with a $1 menu with subpar food. Why are you projecting?

I hate to say this, but McDonalds offerings appear to have gotten somewhat decent as of late, with regards to McDonald's/Fast Food in general. It's still trash... but I think it's closer to real ingredients than it has been for quite some time.

If we don't see a decade of economic downturn, in 1-2 decades McDonald's may turn into something decently healthy/acceptable, once again in the sense of still being fast food.

We could however see the dystopia of McDonald's only accepting fixed amount of meme doge tokens that go on to hyperinflate, and we'll all be able to shake our fists about how we were promised flying cars but got DogeDonalds

Maybe we’ll have the Demolition Man future where Taco Bell is the only surviving restaurant.

As long as we don't use the 3 seashells.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oagmlbhobnY&t=11s

This guy thinks the Big Mac should cost $200

> the incredibly low cost of one dollar is absolutely amazing.

It's remarkable indeed. However, this can be the case only because we don't pay for externalities (including high emissions of CO2, barbaric exploitation of animals). This model isn't sustainable.

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