Posted on 05/07/2026 10:03:29 PM PDT by Red Badger
The price didn’t just go up. The product went down.
This is shrinkflation on steroids.
The cost increased. The value didn’t.
BRIEFING
Grant here. Shrinkflation is everywhere nowadays. It's actually becoming so common that we seem to just almost be throwing up our hands and accepting it. Well, for the most part.... Because this latest video showing what an absolute rip-off the classic McDonald's sundae has become has people pretty darn heated. Let’s break it down.
A popular X video shows a woman holding her obnoxiously tiny McDonald’s hot fudge sundae. I mean, it's comically small. It looks like something you would give to a four-year-old child, not a grown adult.
And what's worse? It costs $4.
Yeah, $4 for a cup of vanilla soft serve with some crappy "chocolate" sauce on top.
SOURCE
The McDonald’s Hot Fudge Sundae used to only cost 99 cents
American shows what it looks like now, and they have resisted the price to $4
It looks much smaller, they don’t fill it all the way and it no longer comes with a pack of chopped peanuts
But it’s now 4x the price…. pic.twitter.com/h4w89HPXHo— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) March 30, 2026
DEBRIEFING
Really, at this point, you're better off heading to the store and buying a tub of vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce. Honestly, the quality would be better, and you could probably make like 10 sundaes instead of the measly little plastic cup of dairy goo McDonald's is trying to peddle.
This is shrinkflation on a whole other level, and it's an extreme that makes most of us think, "What's the point?"
What is the point nowadays of going out and getting a meal if this is the type of experience you're going to have?
We've reached the point where everything feels like a rip-off, and the only way we can start to move the needle back to normality is just to flat-out stop supporting businesses that are pushing shrinkflation to this extreme.
NOW YOU KNOW
Companies push shrinkflation because they can.
Usually, the ice cream machine is out of service.
Same with Arby’s, Wendy’s and Burger King when Corporate has a ‘special’ on Shakes or ice creams.
It’s the local franchisee that does this in order to not ‘participate’ ..........................
“Pint of Haagen das ice cream costs the same as it did in the late 1980s.....on sale.....same with Ben & Jerry’s.....and they often are on sale.”
Sold for less than $2 then. You can’t buy it for that, now.
I guess that's the view of a "double-size" coffee can these days.
I’ll have to look up that egg thing. Thanks.
BTW, same goes for canned oysters, clams, octopus and mussels. At Walmart they only those from China. Pass.
It is a big part of it. Double your costs and you have to make it up some how.
Another part of inflation is sending pallets of cash to Iran, the scams we hear of everyday now that are probably the reason for our nations high debt, printing more money, etc.
Socialist love it and are just waiting for the time they can swoop in and claim to help us escape failed capitalism that they caused the failure of.
If I can find it, I’ll ping a link.
Heading out and will check later.
That was wonderful’ It was a reduction in membership value when that away, to be followed by the combo pizza’s demise.
Have they replaced the Happy Meal with the Gay Meal?
Funny.
That would never happen if my dad had succeeded in buying McDonalds. He had restaurants coast to coast in business distircts. His CA manager called him, so he flew out and took a look. Made a reasonable offer.
He loved the idea of “Highway Restaurants, Inc”. which, as I recall, he registered in some way. . He was 100% dedicated to serving the best quality food at lowest possible prices. Slogan I heard a million times : “Put in manure, you get manure out”.
Multi billion dollar global business.
Obviously people go there.
But getting hot crispy fries is 50/50.
It is.
Love a Regular with no onions.
You must not remember a cheeseburger with fries and a small drink days with change back from a dollar.
Long time ago.
The air in the bag is to keep the product from getting crushed.
The ounces listed on the package are only the product.
Tillamook is better and cheaper
I remember when the burgers were 27 cents and the Big Mac and Q-pounder didn’t even exist. So yeah, I remember.
Loooooooong time ago
We never eat any farmed fish from anywhere,
And NOTHING from China crosses my door if I know it’s from China.
Ate a lot of Chinese food when we lived in San Francisco, never got sick from it. Maybe because we ate so much that our systems’ microbes learned how to deal with it. So why don’t the smart Chinese food scientists develop tasteless smart microbes that destroy the bad guys?
Or just drink a lot of straight gin when you eat Chinese food.
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