[crazygringo]

> "dollar menu" items at McDonalds now cost $6

No need to exaggerate. It's called the "$1 $2 $3 Dollar Menu" now, and in my expensive urban area, the priciest item on it is $3.19 (McDouble).

It's definitely not an actual dollar like it was twenty years ago, but it's sure not $6 either.

[paxys]

That is meaningless when they can move items in and out of the menu as they please. The McChicken sandwich was a dollar menu staple ~10 years ago. I just checked the nearest McDonalds and it now costs $4.70.

[crazygringo]

All I said was don't exaggerate. The $6 is going too far.

McChicken is $3.19 on my $1 $2 $3 menu, and my location is an expensive one.

Some stuff has gone 3x. More stuff has gone 1.5x or 2x. Nothing at McD's has gone up 6x in the past twenty years.

[lightbritefight]

His example of the McChicken increased from $1 to $4.70 in 10 years.

That's a 4.7x increase, which is close enough to 6x in colloquial conversation to convey the same point.