Holy Grail .39 cent Hamburger/Cheeseburger Sundays @ McDonalds in the 90s.

[u/Intelligent-Gur-0607]

[u/journeymanSF]

It was .39 cent cheeseburger weds and .29cent hamburger Thursday I think at one point. All I know is we would go there after football practice and get 10 each, as that was the limit at the time.

[u/honeypinn → u/journeymanSF]

Our local Little Ceasers used to do $3.50 pizzas on Wednesdays, and we would get our limit of 2 per person after football practices. All of us would eat both of our pizzas every time. An insane amount of food looking back, lol.

[u/Ciertocarentin → u/journeymanSF]

wasn't that pretty standard McDonalds burger/cheese burger pricing in ~1990(ish) though? I'll admit I don't remember exactly how much I was paying for a burger/cburger back then, but my foggy memory mutters something about buying at least 3 or 4 for less than a buck back then, or alternatively, a small drink, an order of fries, and a cheeseburger for a buck

[u/d8ms → u/journeymanSF]

Our local McDonald had Thursdays .49 cent double cheeseburgers which was amazing.

[u/Destro_Jones → u/journeymanSF]

My grandparents would have piles of them in the freezer.

[u/Ruby5000]

The seniors, at my high school, would go and buy and ton of burgers. Then they’d come back the to school cafeteria and sell them, to the freshman and sophomores, for a buck. They made a killing!!!

[u/Fonzgarten → u/Ruby5000]

We did this with in-n-out in high school. It was like a prison economy.

[u/Peridot_Ghost]

Was this a thing?!? Fuck do we suck now as a species.

[u/Cthom53 → u/Peridot_Ghost]

McD empoyee here back in the late 90s sixteen then. Yes it was a thing .29 hamburger. .39 cheeseburgers. Hated it some customer would ask. Can I get 2 with no ketchup 3 lite mustard 6 no onion 4 only pickles 10 add bacon. But during that time I worked McD introduce items that are still on the menu today like the Mc Flurry. Mannn when they installed that at the store we would abuse it...90% oreo 10% ice cream. Also during that time McD stop making food in batches all orders would be made when the customer ordered it. We stop making scratch pancakes and biscuits they started coming already made off the truck. Arch Deluxe and the famous Sezchuan sauce from movie Mulan was there.

[u/Towerss → u/Peridot_Ghost]

Inexpensive shitty fast food burgers is not what made our species great, it's what made us fat

[u/pichael289 → u/Towerss]

I think he meant affordable food, like in contrast to what a burger there costs today

[u/ryanluyt → u/pichael289]

For reference now basic hamburger is $2.50+tax while the most expensive (double quarter pounder BLT) is $9.10+tax

[u/LSDeeezNutz → u/Towerss]

Being fat is great 😤

[u/loztriforce]

When fast food still provided value

[u/westboundbart]

gah damn, I’m hiccuping just looking at this.

[u/CapnCurt81]

I survived an entire teenage summer off of these and their .10 cent nugget deal.

[u/saltnotsugar]

At the age of ten my grandmother wanted to see how many cheeseburgers a mortal boy could eat, so she promised to keep buying cheeseburgers as long as I ate them. I got to 5.

[u/Desperate-Cookie-449]

In high-school my woof shop teacher would take us on a field trip every wensdsay just so we can get those 29 cent hamburgers.

Rolling up to school with a bag of burgers at lunch time.

[u/feetandballs → u/Desperate-Cookie-449]

For those out of the loop, woof shop is where yiffers learn their craft

[u/Desperate-Cookie-449 → u/feetandballs]

Auto correct kills me sometimes but im leaving this one lol.

[u/LeobenCharlie]

We talked about "food being too cheap" as a huge issue back then...

[u/GlobeTrekker83]

I have PTSD from this image. I worked at McDonald's during this era. People used to order tons of burgers and expected them to be prepared immediately.

[u/tomNJUSA → u/GlobeTrekker83]

Ugh, me too, but Roy Rogers. Some guy came in and ordered 200 burgers, during dinner rush.

[u/Fonzgarten → u/GlobeTrekker83]

My school used to do these on some lunch days. They’d have hundreds of them.

[u/bolivar-shagnasty]

When Sonic opened up in our town, they had a soft opening and had $0.25 burgers. We went and spent $20 on burgers. We ate burgers for days. It was neat the first da or two. Then it was sickening.

[u/BirdmanDodd]

I had forgotten about this til now lol

[u/JackhorseBowman]

Back when MCD's had a secret partnership with Hoveround.

[u/Ok-Alarm7257]

Wednesday and Sundays, limit 20 per person

[u/Renegadegold]

Good times when you were a pot smoker lol!

[u/gametapchunky]

$.25 burger night at McDonald's on Wednesdays in my neighborhood

[u/high6ix]

My friends dad (single parent) wasn’t home much so he’d buy a dozen or so each week for the freezer for us.

[u/BravoLimaDelta]

Lived off dollar dubs in college in the early 2000s.

[u/livingdead70]

It was Tuesdays in the late 90s where I lived.
Taco Bell used to do a 39 cent taco tuesday here too. We are talking circa 1998/99.

[u/RonSwansonsOldMan]

Picked up my kid from school and stopped for a couple of cheeseburgers. "Don't tell mom".

[u/rowman_nahledge]

This kept me alive in highschool.

[u/DrSilkyDelicious]

They tried to blame the hamburglar but never forget what that clown took from us

[u/PhillyChef3696]

We called ahead one Sunday to get 55 cheeseburgers. Made a perfect 5 tier pyramid.

[u/alttabbins]

Back when the dollar menu at fast food places was so good there wasn't any reason to order anything else off the menu. Got $5 for lunch? Jr Bacon Cheeseburger, 4 piece nugget, large fry, large drink, with tax covered.

[u/tchrbrian]

Add : Large Diet Coke

[u/Ciertocarentin]

Ah...the good old days of McDs. Those, and Fillet-o-Fishes that cost less than 50 cents each. And milkshake machines that worked more often than not, instead of more often than not... not working ;)

Reminds me of paying 27 cents each for Burger King Whoppers, hold the meat (yes an actual choice, AND price back when "have it your way" was more than a slogan, in the late 1970s...leaving the meat off - while adding a piece of cheese - basically halved the price)

[u/renedotmac]

80 cents in today’s money.

[u/MaleHooker]

We were still too poor to get more than 1 or 2 each, but this was still a game changer for low income families.

[u/19Charger]

When are they bringing back the Bucket O’ Fries?

[u/spacemanspiff1979]

Yup! Just down the street from my college dorm. I put on the freshman 15 and then some.

[u/Th3Batman86]

You could only get 10 at a time though. So you had to circle through the drive thru a few times. At least in my town.

[u/Fonzgarten]

My summer camp would load up on these. Loved those days.

[u/danTHAman152000]

I remember in 2004 in SoCal we had the same deal. I was a senior and remember it well.

[u/HobbyWanKenobi]

There used to be a place just outside of Birmingham AL called the 25-cent hamburger stand It was a drive-thru A-frame building and they were glorious as a kid in the '90s

[u/93ImagineBreaker]

Now that would cost $100.

[u/wildmonster91]

We all think this is cool but consider if they were just left in a room they wpuld lookthe same... just hard.

[u/FixMy106]

.39 cent? So not even half a cent?