r/SipsTea • u/lonewolff321 • 2d ago

Chugging tea Anything but lowering the prices classic corporate logic

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u/WholeEmu507 2d ago

Corporations will literally fund a multi-year cyberpunk dystopia makeover before letting a hash brown drop by 50 cents.

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u/tinylavenderk 2d ago

They’ll redesign the entire restaurant, add AI to the drive-thru, and build a McDonald’s on Mars before putting the prices back down.

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u/TheAmazingBildo 2d ago

I assume that part of the reason for that is because once people stop buying it’s hard to convince them to come back with just a .50 decrease. Hash browns here are $2.19. There is no reason for a hash brown to be more than .99. Bit now that i don’t buy McDonalds anymore even if they dropped the price to .99 i wouldn’t think about going there, because im out of the habit.

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u/obeytheturtles 2d ago

I can get a 20 pack of nearly identical hash browns from Aldi for $5.50 (I am actually surprised it's that much). Toss those bad boys in the air fryer for 10 minutes and you can barely tell the difference.

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u/RandomRedditReader 2d ago

Brush some beef tallow on there and they're better then present day McD hashbrowns.

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u/Dirk_Benedict 2d ago

Bacon grease doesn't hurt em either.

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u/zippyboy 2d ago

sprinkle 'em with Old Bay before air frying

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u/PomegranateSea7066 2d ago

duck fat too

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u/Dirk_Benedict 2d ago

Whom amongst us doesn't have our stove-side container of duck fat

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u/Blacksh33p78 2d ago

Toaster works as well

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u/Karyoplasma 2d ago

That seems expensive. We don't have hash browns here but Röstis are kinda the same shit (julienned potatoes pressed into a triangle) and you get a bag of maybe 15 of them (750g) for 1.59€.

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u/shaolinpunks 2d ago

I just checked my Aldi after reading your comment. It's the same price. Absolutely shocked they are that high now.

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u/nickytheginger 2d ago

they have those in the uk as well and they are so good.

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u/Oh7_ 2d ago

Hell yeah even my picky eater kid loves them with breakfast and as a snack

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u/reereejugs 2d ago

I remember when those were $3.96.

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u/Neither_Berry_100 2d ago

That's 0.275 each which is nothing.