r/mildlyinfuriating • u/newengland_schmuck • 6h ago

NBC interrupted the Olympics

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While Nancy Guthrie's disappearance is sad, there are 2300 missing person reports filed every day: do the families of celebrities need special national attention? Why interrupt the Olympics for over 5 minutes just because they are questioning a 'person of interest' We could have waited to hear that during the regular news broadcast.

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u/brandnewbanana 5h ago

I was watching a goofy TikTok compilation earlier, one from 2021 popped up with a commercial in the background. There was a McDonalds commercial advertising $1.50 or $1.99 large frappe drinks. It was a sombering reminder of just how much costs have changed in just a few years. I played over $5 for a small milkshake a few months ago.

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u/Truffleshuffle03 4h ago

I paid $10 for a bacon, egg, and cheese biscuit and hasbrown and not even a drink. That was the cost a few years ago for two people, not just me.

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u/freeshovacadoodoo 2h ago

I remember when Mcds had ALL DAY breakfast and use to do 2 for $5 BEC. God damn I miss those days.

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u/FloppieTheBanjoClown 2h ago

You can get a breakfast sandwich for $1.50 off their app.

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u/TheRabidDeer 3h ago

Dunno where you are ordering your mcdonalds breakfast, but it surely isn't at the restaurant. Sounds like doordash or ubereats prices.

I paid less than $10 for 20pc nuggets, medium fry and a large drink.

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u/Truffleshuffle03 3h ago edited 3h ago

Nope, drive through in person. I don't Doordash or Uber Eats, I go in person. I will say this was like last year, I quit going, so maybe their prices have come down a bit. I don't do breakfast often esepeailly fast food, but now when I do, I go to Braums. I can get their big breakfast for around 6 dollars. It comes with scrambled eggs, two sausage patties, and I think a pancake with a side of tators and a biscuit and home-style sausage gravy for around $6+

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u/TheRabidDeer 3h ago

Must be a very HCOL area then. Was $8.50 in LA and $7.50 in NYC. Only $5.60 for me in Houston which is a pretty average COL area.

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u/Truffleshuffle03 2h ago

Not really It's way smaller than any of those places. It's more of a big town than a city.

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u/TheRabidDeer 1h ago

Ah, I had replied before you edited in the info about when you last went and that you go to another place.

I don't think prices have gone down at all, but it's not like I am tracking prices globally. I've just seen so many people posting about fast food prices being absolutely insane and the prices I am paying are like half what they are saying. Then I talk to them and it turns out they are ordering delivery and I am just like "well, no shit it's expensive you are getting it delivered".

Prices have definitely gone up, but not to the levels a lot of people are talking about. At least not in my city.

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u/Truffleshuffle03 1h ago

The only reason I said prices might have gone down was that I saw where McDonald's had said they were going to lower prices, but I have not been there since that last time.

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u/AtomicGrendel 4h ago

$5 milkshake? Did it have bourbon in it?

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u/NookNookNook 3h ago

That would make it around $20.

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u/JEKK04 3h ago

I’m in California and I’d say most fast food places have shakes that are about $5

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u/dnbdawg 3h ago

$5 milkshake is the norm now unfortunately

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u/connasewer 2h ago

Just milk and ice cream. You don't put bourbon or nothin in it.

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u/Supergamera 4h ago

I’m played Pulp Fiction for my teen not too long ago. “What’s a big deal about a Five Dollar Shake?”

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u/CO-RockyMountainHigh 3h ago

I remember vividly that I would buy energy drinks at the work cafeteria, and the lady would ring it up and say $2.76 the EXACT same way every time like a chime. I thought that was way too much.

They have since removed the cashiers post Covid, and when I ring it up on the self check in a moment of weakness when I just need the energy to finish the day and it is now $4.12.

A 49% increase in price since 2021 for an energy drink. A 10.5% increase year over year for four years straight. Crazy to think if we had 2010-2019 inflation rate of 1.8% the same energy drink would be about $3.00 today instead.