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Alright, so McDonald's is rolling out more "Extra Value Meals." Sausage, Egg & Cheese McGriddles and 10-piece Chicken McNuggets are joining the party. Starting November 4th. Big whoop. McDonalds adds more Extra Value Meals to its menu for limited time
The Illusion of Value
Let's be real, "Extra Value Meal" is just marketing speak for "we know you're broke, so here's a slightly less depressing way to spend your money." They brought back the Extra Value Meal on September 8th, remember? The $8 Big Mac meal and the $5 Sausage McMuffin with Egg meal. I mean, come on. As if slightly discounted processed food is going to solve anyone's problems.
And the prices? $5 for a Sausage, Egg & Cheese McGriddles Extra Value Meal. $8 for a 10-piece Chicken McNuggets Extra Value Meal. They even have the nerve to say prices "may be higher in Alaska, California and Hawaii." Yeah, offcourse they are. Because everything is more expensive in those places. Groundbreaking stuff, McDonald's.
I'm old enough to remember when you could get a full meal at McDonald's for, like, three bucks. Now, it's "extra value" to pay five for a McGriddle. What a joke. What happened to the dollar menu? Did that just disappear?
National Fried Chicken Sandwich Day? Seriously?
Oh, and get this: on National Fried Chicken Sandwich Day (Nov. 9), you can buy a McCrispy Sandwich for $2 exclusively through the McDonald's App. So, now I need to download their app just to save a buck on a subpar chicken sandwich? Give me a break.
This is the world we live in now. Corporations pretending to care about your wallet while simultaneously nickel-and-diming you at every turn. It's insulting, frankly. It's like they think we're all idiots who can't see through their transparent marketing ploys. And honestly...
Speaking of apps, I'm still pissed about that time my food delivery app glitched and charged me twice for a pizza. Took me three weeks and countless emails to get my money back. Maybe I should write a strongly worded letter to the app developers... No, that won't do anything.
Buffalo Ranch? More Like Buffalo Garbage.
And don't even get me started on the "new Buffalo Ranch lineup." Buffalo Ranch Sauce, Buffalo Ranch Snack Wrap, Bacon Buffalo Ranch McCrispy Sandwich, Bacon Buffalo Ranch Deluxe McCrispy Sandwich. It's just a bunch of trendy buzzwords thrown together to distract you from the fact that you're eating processed garbage.
Bacon Buffalo Ranch Deluxe McCrispy Sandwich? That just sounds like a heart attack waiting to happen. Is this what we've come to? Are we so desperate for flavor that we'll just slather everything in Buffalo Ranch sauce? I guess so.
Then again, maybe I'm the crazy one here. Maybe people actually like this stuff. Maybe I'm just a grumpy old man yelling at clouds. But let's be real, McDonald's isn't doing this out of the goodness of their hearts. They're doing it to make money. And they're banking on the fact that we're all too broke and too lazy to cook our own food.