/ck/ - Food & Cooking

agreed. had some mcdonalds and kfc after 15 years and both were bland and pointless

>>19936237
I'm 57 for the most part it has not changed at all, except the ridiculous amount of menu items.

also jack in the box had the absolute best deep fried apple pies ever made in the 70's. RIP.

but no it has not changed.

>>19936499
Imagine being almost 60 and still posting on 4chan.

>>19936500
Not that crazy, zoom zoom. He would have been here in his 30s if he's an oldfag.

>>19936500
you can never leave anon.

there's people older than me here.

>>19936237
If nothing else, we know for sure that McDonald's changed the grease in their fryers to be vegetable based instead of using beef tallow. Pretty much anyone who isn't some kind of animal rights activist agrees that french fries tasted better back when beef tallow was used.
Food 'science' and logistics both have changed over the decades to allow fast food to be produced relatively cheaper, though with inflation and other factors, you can argue with if the final price is lower or not. When I worked at Burger King in 1989, the biscuits were made from scratch each morning and real eggs used for that and everything else. By the time I left about six months later, the biscuits came frozen and the eggs came from a slurry in a box. The croissants were the best choice after that change because we got them delivered fresh each morning from a local bakery but other franchisees may have used frozen.

>>19936499
Have minorities increased and by what percent?

nostalgiafags are so annoying

>>19936515
they and you all need to fuck off. 4chan is a place for young people. old faggots are just as despised on the internet as they are irl

>>19936558
Imagine being such a smug, arrogant cunt. Why does that even mean, 4chan is a place for young people?

>>19936237
I have no idea. I haven't eaten fast food since the '90s.

>>19936662
90s? ew

>>19936237
It wasnt. It's always sucked.

>>19936515
>you can never leave anon.
I think a lot of people actually do leave, but when they are not around, they can't tell us that they left.

>>19936558
>4chan is a place for young people
grampa give my phone back

>>19936500
In 40 years from now this will be you, I don't know why you're acting so smug.

>>19936237
Before Chicken McNuggets went all white meat you'd get a mix of white and dark, which wasn't terrible by itself, but the dark meat nuggets would occasionally have random chunks in them with awful taste and texture. They knew it they were bad because they briefly offered all white meat nuggets as an upsell before they just made them all that way as the standard nugget. That's the only real difference I can think of from back then.

>>19936237
I'd rail her in the butt so hard

>>19936558
>4chan is a place for young people
No it isn't. The peak of imageboard culture was many years ago and they've been in decline for a long time now.

So there's roughly three epochs of slop decline
>things fried in lard or tallow are now fried in veggie shit
This is what ruined McD's fries.
>the trans fats must be removed
This is what ruined Pringles
>Pedro the paroled rapist who takes out the garbage now gets $15/hour
You are here, being forced into a more healthy (read: expensive) lifestyle because all the convenient comfort food costs twice as much for ingredients that are half as good.

>>19936237
there is a lot of things that are not like they were, even rallys fries barely taste like they have "seasoned" fries

but the worst to me is taco bell, they don't even offer the steak or chicken soft tacos and back in the late 80s they both were very different than the variations they make now and right before they finally axed them. (at least they still offer steak and chicken)
the steak and chicken had a sauce that it was in and the tacos were so tasty and sometimes dripping of that sauce! and they only offered HOT and MILD sauce packets

Thanks a lot for reminding me OP

>back in my day the slop was better. zoomies don't know what they're missing!

Fast food will generally be better back then compare to now or even in the future.

Companies are going try to half ass and skim on the quality to max profit at all cost.

>>19936237
Everything at mcd's tastes like fucking corn dont @ me

>>19937792
Corn is based, fag

>>19937777
checked because it's true. McDonald's was definitely better. Before the 90s, all the fries were cooked in beef tallow. Then after that, they started using vegetable oil, but they still put a beef tallow flavoring powder on the fries, and they still tasted great. Then after even more outrage from vegetarians, they removed even the beef flavoring powder in the 2000s, and since then they've sucked.

From what I remember, the burgers themselves used to taste better back then as well, but that might just be nostalgia. I do think Taco Bell in general tasted better back then, especially the chicken.

>>19937172
delete this

>>19936237
Never was a big fast food eater, but chicken McNuggets were great, when they came out, in '89 or '90. Burger King was pretty good, in the mid '80s. Pizza hut was still crap, but edible.

>>19936237
I haven't had a good McDonald's french fry since they stopped using beef tallow in 1990.

>>19936500
Lol oh dear, he doesnt know.

>>19937771
Taco Bell kept removing menu items until I gave up on it. They’re much more expensive, too. Also the quality has declined. They just mix and match a few bags of pre-prepared slop to create an illusion of variety while filling out the menu with cheap potatoes. You used to be able to eat cheap or pay a few bucks extra for something better that had chicken in it. Now it’s all overpriced slop with a few lower-priced items like bean burritos. I learned not too long ago all of their prep involves opening up bags or buckets and dumping them into bins. They cook their rice and fry their chips and potatoes, but that’s it. Lettuce and tomatoes arrive pre-chopped. Taco meat pre-cooked. Beans are reconstituted from powder to probably save on shipping. It is all almost entirely heat and serve, squirt out of bottles, grab and dump. .

>>19937749
>more healthy
lmao, it's got nothing to do with "health".
it's because replacing proper fats with corn syrup is subsidised by the american government for $20 billion direct a year.

>>19936500
4chan is purgatory for autistics. You are stuck here. Even if you take a break for years, you’ll be back.

T. 31 y/o 2006 oldfag

>>19936237
It was better. Even the presentation was better. I remember in 1997 when the Star Wars special editions came to theaters, Taco Bell did a promotion and the kids meals had full color holofoil cardstock boxes that was interactive because there were perforations you could punch out of ships and make an action scene with the box. Literally nicer quality than trading cards today. We’ve been on the decline for a while but there is no denying the world is less cohesive and luxurious than it was 25 years ago.
>>19936555
They have something to be nostalgic about, it would sincerely suck to be a post-1999 baby. Your entire conscious existence has been trapped inside hollowed out demon world.
>>19936558
70 percent of 18-25 year old men are virgins lol.
4chan is a boomer site kid, deal with it. I’m also going to fuck your ugly sister and you’re just going to watch me and masturbate you stupid little cuck.
>>19937727
Peak chan culture was probably around 2007-2010.

>>19937777
It's so much worse than you think.

>>19936237
00s aussie kid here im 33 now but yes i remember maccers pizza hut dominos and others used to taste alot better, red rooster still tastes the same but it was all so much cheaper, especially before inflation went nuts in 2001-2022

>>19939186
I meant more healthy in that it's not worth the expense to buy fast food/junk food so you end up cooking for yourself.

>>19936237
mcdonald's and kfc were better. grew up in the 80s eating that stuff all the time and whenever i try it now it tastes like nothing.

taco bell and wendy's, however, are a lot better than it was in the 80s.

>>19939605
Worthy of a /ck/ sticky

>>19936500
>he doesn't know

>>19936558
>cocky immigrants demand the natives cede their territory
you're no better than the beaners, niggers, and pakis you complain about, broccolihead.

>>19936515
No matter what happens you are always back
What are you going to do? Work out, get a job then have to spend all your time around normies who talk about climate change and regurgitate all mainstream topics?

>>19940527
Snuggle with a wife

>>19936500
>imagine the future

>>19936237
Wasn't that around when they stopped using tallow for fast food fries?

t. zoom zoom

Yes, they used to use lard and tallow for their frying oils. They also, in general, had better quality ingredients but over time had to cut costs because of jewflation, in order to keep prices low they had to destroy quality in incremental steps that weren't apparent over night but add up over decades of fuckery.

Looking at kids meal toys (if those even exist anymore) is a good indicator of this. They were still cheap before, but now it's literally like a pack of stickers or a fucking paperback book the side of your palm. They weren't the greatest back then but they were definitely better quality and had more thought out into them.

>>19936237
>food is plentiful and cheap
>this means poorfags get to eat high quality surplus food

>food is scarce and expensive
>this means poorfags get to eat slop and scraps

globalism was a mistake. if we didnt ship all our good stuff overseas, we could keep it in our own economy and raise the standard of living for the bottom members. remember when seafood was super cheap in the 1970s? its because we were the only ones with fishing fleets. Then our greatest allies gave our technology and bank loans to other countries so they could fish too and wow look at that, fish shortages. guess sea food is expensive lol lmao.

remember, the next time some political faggot tries to gaslight you into believing 'it isnt sustainable for the WHOLE WORLD to have western living standards, therefore you need to lower your living standards to save the planet', what they really mean is 'we want to give your food to china and india in exchange for private deals and favors for ourself. oh you? you get nothing in exchange.'

>>19940510
This image is ominous

>>19936237
I dunno, 90's BK nuggets did hit pretty hard but I can't tell if it's just nostalgia.

>>19936500

>>19936704
Based guy-who-knows-what-selection-bias-is. People most definitely leave.

>>19939605
Grow a garden or at least plant some fruit trees. If you have land and don’t at least have a couple fig trees you’re retarded.

>>19936237
Probably true but I've noticed it much more with chocolate bars, especially Reese's

>>19936237
90s is when a lot of places switched from tallow to sneed oils

>>19940838
The Bionicle toys were peak. I remember getting some and keeping them for years

>>19937792
>dont @ me
get the fuck off this site

>>19939605
ah yes, ifunny.co, the go-to place for dependable information

>>19936531
This. So if nothing else, McDonald's fries are objectively worse

>>19940838
Lard is seriously under-rated as a cooking fat, especially for cooking pork. I think people just get put off by how it smells when you're heating it up. Beef dripping is another, it's god tier for potatoes/fries. The absolute best was using the fatty run-off from a roast beef.

>>19936237
One of the things the 80s and 90s were good for was making low quality ingredients as tasty as possible and people just didn't really care about how healthy something was. You had the Archburger in McDonalds where you'd bite into it and the fat would pour out. Shit tasted great.

If you've read Discworld, CMOT Dibbler's Sausage-inna-bun was based off of the low quality street sellers from the 80s and 90s where they'd tempt you into low quality burgers and sausages by piling on fried onions which tasted and smelt great (cooked on the griddle with all fat and meaty fragments from the all the burgers cooked on it that evening) . These have all died out because if you pretend something is "gourmet" you can bump up the price by 50%.

>>19936500
>4chan is a kids website!
It doesn't even have emoji support

>>19936500
Kys zoomer

>>19936500
don't forget

>>19936500
32. 2008.
You're here forever, try to make friends.

>>19936237
No, they tasted the same. The real issue is they've all switched to soy oils to fry shit in. And no this isn't some retarded 'le oils are bad for you', it sucks because my body hates soy and it makes me feel miserable after eating anything with it.

>>19936237
Yes. The way Whataburger tastes today, is how Burger King tastes in the 90's.

>>19936552
>Have minorities increased and by what percent?
They're called majorities now.

>>19944194
Burger King would be so much better if they went into every store and threw away the microwaves.

Given up on my local store, tough microwaved burgers on stale buns

I remember when I was a lad that the onion rings were freshly made, not frozen and then deep fried. I could never get enough of them when I was younger. Also salad bars used to be a thing, but no more.

>>19936500
It is weird to think about, especially with the 'jaks posted constantly, I'd assume its mostly 20 somethings but that goes with most things.

>>19936665
this fucking response

>>19939605
Just eat 8 oranges? Prawblem solved.

>>19936558
millenial website

>>19936237
Depends on who you're talking about. BK was actually a contender, back then. Their burgers were actually good, and the whopper was actually BIG.

BK can't even match up with any of it's contemporaries, now.

both are true
they are getting away with cheaper alternatives
ur tastebuds are ageing

>>19944202
in 20 years they will be.

>>19936500
It's not hard to imagine. I've been browsing this site for fifteen years now. I'll probably be here for fifteen more, assuming it lives that long.

>>19936558

>>19936237
fast food has turned to cardboard, but the prices have increased to that of a sit-down restaurant with real ingredients.
i don't get it, what's the point of fast food places anymore? just the drive-through? the food is either bland disgusting crap or costs 35 dollars to feed two, and most of the time it's wrong. every time i go through one, usually out of a vague sense of convenience for the drive-through on my way home from somewhere, i always end up wondering what the point of the place is and realizing i could have done way better with what i had in my pantry, or just called pick-up for literally any better restaurant. i think it's been a few months since i've been to a fast food joint. the value proposition is just dead. how are they still surviving? are people that stupid?

>>19936237
to be fair we were all really high in the 90s

>>19947511
>are people that stupid?
The answer is always yes.

>>19939552
>tfw left from 2015 to 2019 but covid and floyd retardation put me back here
I got so blackpilled on normies then man

>>19936500
You laugh but remember this moment in 10 years. I thought the same thing.

>>19939582
Hello, David.

>>19936237
Yes. It’s Niggerdry to disagree.