"Beloved" is pure marketing BS.
Yes! We stopped going to fast food places over 20 years ago, except when the grandkids beg us to go to McD's. It's all crap there.
My wife and I prefer to go to mom & pop restaurants, where the food is healthier and cheaper. For instance, a Japanese meal costs $20 for two, and we split it so it's $10 each, with large filling portions. Same with Thai, Chinese, Indian, Vietnamese and other restaurants. Filling meals under $10. Even western diners.
Here's where I show my age: When I was a teen, milk shakes were 18 cents, French fries were 17 cents, and burgers were 22 cents (deluxe cheeseburgers were 28 cents). Deli sandwiches, fully loaded on French rolls were 35 cents. My grandkids find it hard to believe me. Granddaughter offered me a Hostess twinkle last week and I laughed, 1/3rd the size when I was young and very expensive. I used to buy them for 12 cents in a two-pack.
Government caused inflation and smaller goods that cost more! $20 an hour minimum wage for fast food workers here in California mandated by Gov Newsom. And they thought prices wouldn't go up?
The McD's of the 80s was an order of magnitude tastier that they are today.
Go back in time and you wouldn't even recognize how juicy their burgers were and how crisp their fries were. And the milkshake machines were always working!
And not just McD's but everything. Systems that used to work fine in the past are now broken.
“It was always crap. The only virtue was cheap. And that was a very long time ago.”
I grew up in Oklahoma city and I remember around 1972 there was a burger joint named Griffs that had a small cheap burger for maybe 25 cents. I think a newcomer called McDonalds showed up around the same time with the same cheap burger.
My memory is probably a little flawed from that long ago. I enjoyed the movie about McDonalds creation staring Micheal Keaton.