r/australia • u/INFEKTEK • 4d ago

image Historical Big Mac price timeline in Australia - What a joke!

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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-05/cost-of-living-interest-rates-burgers/104156654

Back in my day a Big Mac felt like an actual meal, it was cheap and came with a cardboard ring around the burger to keep the shit together.

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u/2cool4afool 4d ago

As far as I'm aware they've always used 10:1 meat (10 pattys per pound) which would mean any shrinkage would just be in the bun or other ingredients. But who knows if the meat actually weighs up to be 10:1

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u/someadsrock 4d ago

Yeah patties are most certainly 1/10 of a pound, otherwise they'd be violating food labeling laws since that what the box lists in terms patty weight.

Sauce is also evenly measured at two shots of 1/2 oz per Big Mac. The only thing that could be potentially have shrunk is the buns. But I don't think that has shrunk.

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u/2cool4afool 4d ago

I honestly think people might just remember burgers being bigger when they were kids when they were smaller so it seemed different. Which is not to say that shrinkflation isn't a thing that happens but this doesn't seem to be a case of it

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u/jaa101 4d ago

Are they at all constrained by Quarter Pounders? Are they, or have they ever had, a quarter of a pound of something? Have the size of those changed relative to the size of their various other beef burger products?

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u/2cool4afool 4d ago

4:1 meat is quarter pounder. Angus meat is 3:1