Hey, I want a coffee shake. What happened to that?
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And the minimum wage was $1.75. Gee, I wonder if there is some connection?
Inflation and debt are now good things these days, Keynes said so.
Suck it up America, you need more!
Hell, I miss the apple pies.
Look! 1972 inflation! Forty SIX cents! Twenty SIX cents! Must’ve raised the minimum wage by 1 cent that week! Oh the humanity!
Hey Corona, the roof of my mouth still hasn’t healed from a 2000 degree Hot Apple Pie I had in 1972!
Those things were flaming!
I remember back in the ’60’s Mickey D’s used to have a jingle on the radio advertising “only 47 cents for a three-course meal at McDonalds”
…think it was 17 cents for a cheeseburger, 15 cents for fries & 15 cents for a coke…..guess the cheese was the second course…
When I was a senior in high school (1979) I got a big Mac big fries and big coke for $2.08 and minimum wage was $2.00 per hour, raised to $2.25 in that period. Today’s (California) minimum wage is actually higher than that, meaning I had to work an hour to pay for my meal however today’s minimim wage earner doesn’t have to work quite an hour for the same meal. Therefore, food prices are actually down from then.
I can remember as a kid I would ride my bike to McDonalds and order 2 hamburgers, fries and a shake. One dollar would cover it.
Yum
Back then they cooked the fries in the good stuff!
Suckers born these days don’t know how much pleasure and enjoyment the leftists have removed from existence.
*Sigh*
Three gallons of gas for a buck was pretty swell too. And I remember getting drunk for about $1.35. Good ol’ days!
Back when I was a young whippersnapper I worked in a music store. We used to go to McDonald’s to get lunch. We would walk it as it was on the same side as the music store on a busy street. A young hippie female guitar teacher (we knew she was a hippie because she wore skirts but no underwear and lived in a house with 6 guys) told us McDonald’s was bad for us and she would cross the street to go to the health food store for her lunch.
Yup, you guessed it . . . she got hit by a car . . . thrown in the air (and therefore we verified that she wore no panties) and had a few broken bones. Lesson learned.
One of my friends got the crap slapped out of him by a girl at a local fast food place back in the early 70’s for ordering a fur burger and a side of thighs and he deserved it. We could get 3 cheeseburgers, a large fry and a coke for $1.05 at Dick’s Hamburgers back then which we did quite often back then.
You want coffee shakes? Drink about 15 cups of McDonald’s coffee. You’ll get ’em.
I can’t remember what tax was back then, but it damn sure wasn’t 8.5%!
What is the fine print next to the ‘Coffee’ listing?
“Do not place between legs and drive”?
Vietvet I did that at Sambo’s one night back in the mid 70’s when coffee was 25 cents a cup with endless refills and drank about 20 cups of coffee when I was out with my friends. Why, I don’t remember but I definitely had the coffee jitters.
Fur, the closest you can get is a Jamocha Almond shake at Arby’s. They’re outstanding.
I always preferred Burger King
Back then in Ohio there was no tax on fast food. Made it even more affordable, because I usually paid for McDonald’s with pocket change . . . seldom had folding money.
This is going to be my new mental video to get to sleep instead of them damned sheep…
Shamrock Shake was cool. And all the glassware you could collect – with the colorful characters on them.
I haven’t been able to eat there for years.
I agree BC, used to drink those often, unfortunately the quality has dropped on those too…
*sigh*
The McD chocolate-chip frappe isn’t bad.
The java-chip frappachino at Starbucks is excellent…but pricey!
Thanks for the trip down memory lane. My dad still says, “Remember when I could take the four of us to McDonalds for dinner… and get change back from my $5 bill?” (and that INCLUDED dessert!)
@upsguy, so you could buy yourself a big meal for an hours minimum wage work. CPI adjusted, 1972 $1.01 buys $5.75 today.
I think another problem is the EPA, FDA, and all the other alphabet unelected agencies that we are paying now that we didn’t pay to so much back then.
So you’re the guy responsible for the “Caution – Filling is HOT” warning.
And they used to have the yellow (egg) buns that were toasted, even on the cheap hamburgers. Now they have the tasteless, air puffed bread that adds nothing to the burger except a way to hold it without getting as much ketchup and grease your hands.
Then the fucking Ay-rabs raised the price of oil to $12.00 a barrel and away we go!!
I remember in 1967 getting a hamburger, fries, and a milkshake at local joint right by the McDonalds for 35 cents.
I believe the Big Macs were 35 cents when they came out and had a different white sauce.
Waaaaay back when it was safe to dine in as well. Now, not so much.
This is a good way to compare inflation and costs from time different periods.
When comparing minimum wage to a gallon of gas, even when it was $4.00 per gallon it wasn’t necessarily any more expensive than what it was at $0.25 cents.a gallon when considering what general labor was paid per hour.
Maybe I’m misremembering time periods, but you get the drift I’m sure.
Oh, yeah. Lard. They still do that at places in Kansas City, I hear.
BK burgers were bigger (5″) and, as I recall, were char-broiled back then rather than fried.
Plus, McD’s always seemed “prefabricated,” whereas you could watch your BK come out of the char-broiler on its chrome conveyor.
Back then, McD had “special sauce”. That was always fodder for juvenile humor. I swear they called it secret sauce a lot though.
Two all beef patties, special sauce. lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun.
McDs was considered lowest class back then since the meat was frozen and the end result bland. A factory-made meal.
The Whopper was better. The only thing I knew that had the egg bun was the Yumbo. BKs ham sandwich. It was great.
For .95, Hardees had a whole meal. Burger fries and drink, Another dime and you got an apple or cherry pie.
And in `73, tax in Dallas (state + city) was 5%. Easy peasy to figure out.
The BK that was built near me in `72 and the JiB sometime earlier – are still standing and selling food. I remember the gas station that was where that BK is.
Excuse me, time to take my Geritol…
If the menu board were priced in gold weight, not much would have changed.
How long did it take before you could leave the bathroom urinal?
🙂
Or silver.
Hell, I can remember when people used to pick up stray pennies!
P.S. – I still do. Old habits die hard, I guess…
As a kid (circa 1960’s) Dad would take us up town, just outside Watts in the ’58 Pontiac station wagon to McDonalds once a month for a special treat. As I remember the whole family’s costs were under $6 for four of us. After the ’65 riots we never went again.
Odd how you remember once old. Those times were ‘transitional’, everything started to change, people changed and I didn’t understand how my best friends could become almost as enemies in a few weeks? All in all those days were mostly happy-days.
There was no Berger King in those days (70’s) as I remember. I think BK was Carols back in the day?
Bubba, thanks for the memory. I remember those buns too.
That’s something to get all broken up over a health food store. Sorry, it’s sad, but I laughed out loud.
Showing my age here, but I remember when good ground beef was 3 lbs. for 99 cents. Also remember gas wars at 29 cents a gal.
I grew up in Ohio, too. They taxed restaurant food if you ate in store, but not carry out. We used to order to go and then sit down in the restaurant (remember Burger Chef? The best!). Always put the manager and even the counter worker into a tizzy as we brazenly skirted the rules and Ohio tax law. Har!
Gonna try that. There’s an Arby’s down the street.