OT: Mickey D's McNugget Logic Test
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Maybe some people don't want to get fat. Of course, eating McNuggets probably goes against that thought, but the object isn't to get as much food as possible for the least amount. At least not for some people.
Seems wasteful. Further, anyone who is eating 14 McNuggest is surely going to eat the other two anyway.
Might as well go hit the all you can eat "salad" bar, strap on the feed bag, and get it done proper.
You only ate 16 nuggets?
What are you, poor?
I can do 24, easy. Maybe 32 on a good day.
That reminds me of another fun college food challenge - the 30/30.
You have 24 hours to consume a 30 pack of beers of your choice and 30 White Castle cheeseburgers.
What your bowels decide to do to you afterwards is not the point. Completing the 30/30 is a rite of passage.
Well if you dont want to get fat, then you buy 4 or 8. But he's right - if you want 10, then you cant save $1.20 (plus tax) and get 2 more (even if you dont want them, give them to the birds/homeless).
I mean sometimes you see this but usually its like off by 10 cents or something. They figure you are too lazy to do the math to figure yout you could save a dime by getting 3 smaller orders. But this is about a 3rd cheaper per nugget. Thats a pretty big discount for fast food.
Have not done the McNugget thing in decades. Is it a sauce thing? Do you get 1 free sauce with 4 pack? 3 with a 10 pack? If they charge for the sauce, maybe the stats show that they make more sauce revenue off of 4 packs than 16 packs.
For the green crowd: 4x 4 packs probably generate more trash than a single 16 pack.
For the green crowd: 4x 4 packs probably generate more trash than a single 16 pack.
Had a similar exercise with my son and the shopkeep at the local comic book store. They sell football cards. If my son does his "job" on his tests for the week, we usually go on Friday and get a few packs of cards. My son notices they have the fat packs--50 cards in a pack--for $14.99. Regular packs--10 cards--are $2.49. So I say to the kid behind the counter. "Uh, excuse me, but why would anyone buy the fat pack? You can get 10 extra cards for the same price if you buy them in single packs."
The look of total bewilderment he gave me was worth the trip.
The look of total bewilderment he gave me was worth the trip.
You can buy 10 4 packs, get back in line, return 4 10 packs, and pocket the 72 cents arbitrage. Do that 10 times an hour & you've made the same as the kid who rings you up.
At Burger King you can get a 4 piece @$1.19 or 10 piece @ $1.49 or 20 piece @ $4.99 so the numbers are even more ridiculous the McDonald's.
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Roy obviously didn't read the thread. The Coke example is like many examples where buying larger amounts of a product can be done for a cheaper, per unit (weight, volume, number, whatever) price, which makes sense, since the product is often cheap and the packaging is where the cost is. However, in the McNuggets example, it's the smaller size version which is far cheaper per unit cost than the larger size - that's very unusual, at least per my observations over the years.
They're cheap and they taste pretty damn good.
I could list dozens of other fast food items that cost much more and taste 10x worse.
Aren't McNuggets made with chicken hearts and other nasty chicken stuff? Pretty sure I read that somewhere at some point.
Nope. It's made of:
Chicken - white meat chicken.
The chicken, which is cut from the tenderloin, breast and rib, gets ground with a bit of chicken skin and a marinade for flavor and to act as a binder.
What's in a Chicken McNugget?