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The more things change, the more they stay the same.
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Clementine_3 said:
They used to be really good. When I was a kid they made the donuts at the shop and had a ton of varieties, fresh and yummy. Somewhere along the line they went to 'trucked in' donuts and all of three choices. Yuck.
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I guess I still live in Dunkin Country, so we get a ton of varieties. That said, I visit a Mom & Pop donut shop when I want donuts or bagels.
 
Dunkin Donuts has gone completely down the toilet over the years. I've been to many stores on the east US coast and they're all the same: Low wage, web-toed mutants that don't give one donut hole about product quality or service. Their coffee is literally hot brown toilet water brewed through a dirty gym sock and their 'central bakery' method of purveying goodies is garbage. Only reason I even walk into a dunkins now is for their pumpkin muffins, they're the best.

Starbucks is my poison. I enjoy strong black coffee, that's what they do best for .40 more. Forget the treats, as they're aimed more towards no trans fat and somewhat healthier food.

@dontpanicbobby do you remember the short-lived Krispy Kreme that was up in Medford? Really wasn't what I expected. Their signature donut was same Dream donut 7-11s sell, and their coffee was weird. Like single cup hotel room brewer kind of weird....

New England people.... Lol. I live in the same state where Dunkins started, they're not going away any time soon.
 
Spec2nirvash said:
Dunkin Donuts has gone completely down the toilet over the years.
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This got me thinking, and begs the question - was there ever a time when you could get a burger at McDonalds that actually looked as appetising as their advertising? Or was the real product always the thin piece of meat, sandwiched between pieces of flat, sad looking bread, with a bit of processed cheese thrown in?

But I think I already know the answer. It's cheap, and you get exactly what you pay for.
 
LV426 said:
This got me thinking, and begs the question - was there ever a time when you could get a burger at McDonalds that actually looked as appetising as their advertising? Or was the real product always the thin piece of meat, sandwiched between pieces of flat, sad looking bread, with a bit of processed cheese thrown in?

But I think I already know the answer. It's cheap, and you get exactly what you pay for.
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You do know that there is an entire industry based on food photography, right?
 
Giraffes 'threatened with extinction'

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Wild giraffe numbers have plummeted by 40 percent in the past three decades and the species is now "vulnerable" to extinction, a top conservation body said Thursday.

The population of the world's tallest land mammal dropped to below 100,000 in 2015, mainly due to habitat loss and illegal hunting, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) reported.

"These majestic land animals are undergoing a silent extinction," Julian Fennessy, co-chairman of the IUCN's specialist group on giraffes, said in a statement.​
 
^--- very sad. Pretty soon, the only place we'll see majestic animals like this will be in zoos. The tide of illegal hunting can't be stopped, it seems.
 
LV426 said:
This got me thinking, and begs the question - was there ever a time when you could get a burger at McDonalds that actually looked as appetising as their advertising? Or was the real product always the thin piece of meat, sandwiched between pieces of flat, sad looking bread, with a bit of processed cheese thrown in?

But I think I already know the answer. It's cheap, and you get exactly what you pay for.
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They never had a great burger. But, back in the sixties, it was always served lightening fast and was hot off of the grill. No frills but it cost a dime. It was a new dinning concept... grab and go that made it attractive. The world was just beginning to get on the fast track and you could get a meal out without dressing up and dinning in. They satisfied a need and did it well.

Their burger is still worth a dime in my opinion.:D
 
We had a Carrol's in the 'hood, McD's was a bit farther up the road. Carrol's was so much better, it was our fast food of choice back in the day. We also had an A&W, every once in awhile my dad would take us there...not often though. I think it was more expensive and the draw was the car-hops and eating in the car, I'm pretty sure he tired of cleaning soda and ketchup off the seats :D

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We had Gino's which also was a licensee for Kentucky Fried Chicken (It wasn't "KFC" back in the day). As a kid, going to a burger place was a rare treat (for us ... the parents not so much). I really don't recall going to McDonalds much (if at all) until I hit my teen years and then our preference for fast food was Burger King.

Now I don't touch the stuff.
 
olbriar said:
They never had a great burger. But, back in the sixties, it was always served lightening fast and was hot off of the grill. No frills but it cost a dime. It was a new dinning concept... grab and go that made it attractive. The world was just beginning to get on the fast track and you could get a meal out without dressing up and dinning in. They satisfied a need and did it well.

Their burger is still worth ONLY a dime in my opinion.:D
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FTFY :p
 
We rarely ate fast food when I was a kid; only on the rare vacation or emergency, or if someone wanted say Dairy Queen for their birthday instead of Chinese or something.

Seriously, we went out to eat maybe eight or ten times a year in my youth, we were that poor.
 
Dngrsone said:
Seriously, we went out to eat maybe eight or ten times a year in my youth, we were that poor.
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Oh. We didn't eat a lot of it either. We were that poor as well. It was a special treat when I was very young but then my mom got really sick for a looong lot of years so we ate more of it. My older sister learned how to cook and run the house pretty young. Sometimes my grandmother would come to help. We actually had hired help for a while because I slipped and cracked my head open, had to have stitches so I almost think social services got involved somehow. I'm not really sure about that, I was young but I know we couldn't afford to hire someone to stay with us. My mom was in the hospital when that happened and dad was working two jobs so wasn't home much. Whoops. So yeah, we got a decent amount of fast food for a time.
 
Eating out as a child was just a rare occasion. A restaurant experience only happened when we had family visiting... and that was rare too. We did not have the money or suitable clothing for that matter to dine out. We ate well at home however. Everything was fried.:eek:

We had an A&W before McDonald's. The rub there was you ordered and then waited. There was no wait at McD's. Griff's came to town about the same time as McD's and set up shop much like O'Reilly and Autozone... always within eyesight of one another. Griff's had better burgers but lacked the marketing to compete. It was a rare treat to eat at either. Not until I had my own wheels did I "grab a burger" and there were many choices at that point.
 
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