Food Theory: McDonald’s Free Food is a SCAM!

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Have you heard, Loyal Theorists? McDonald’s is giving away FREE food for LIFE! All you have to do is enter their “Gold Card” contest! Unlimited Big Macs, Chicken McNuggets, and McRibs? That’s the dream! Well, maybe not. . . You see, there’s something DISTURBING that McDonald’s doesn’t want you to know. Today I’m revealing McDonald’s dirty little Gold Card secret!


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Credits:
Writers: Matthew Patrick and Brittany Leigh Turnbull
Editors: Alex "Sedge" Sedgwick, Koen Verhagen, and Warak
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[mbanerjee]

I seriously can't afford McDonald's anymore. If they want my money they are going to have to bring back the dollar menu.

[monkeyking]

fun fact, Burger king saved Robert Downey Jr's life (made him realize he needed to get off drugs) and he got a Burger king gold card for sharing his story

[OmegaZyion]

There's something inherently disgusting about giving free fast food for life cards to people who could afford to pay gourmet chefs to fix all of their meals and still have enough money left over to buy a small country.

[rylee]

The fact that this is only a month old and the prices are already way off. Working at McDonald’s myself I witness these prices go up almost $2 in a month it’s insane. 😭

[jannintime]

Food theory idea: Could a human being survive on only getting water by eating watermelons? There is a lot of water in watermelons (duh), but would there be any consequences for not drinking plain water and eating watermelons instead?

[charleswaldon]

It's getting scary how expensive it is to even go to McDonald's.. especially breakfast.. they are more pricey than the 3 nearest actually breakfast restaurants in the area. I am a little blown away by the amount of people still going.. McDonald's has to find its way back to affordability or become a stomach churning memory.. the quality is way down, and prices way up..

[diegoguerrero]

This video aged like fine wine. I was left shocked when I remembered that the breakfast platter used to cost $5.00. Its now $7.59, that doesnt seem like a lot but this video is only 10 months old!

[voidedgaming]

MatPat: mcdonalds expects you to die at 66
MatPat: the national life expectancy is 79
MatPat: that sure sounds like more than 3 decades to me

[ajjamsen]

Pretty sure MatPat is now blacklisted from ever winning any of these contests
"Crap! He's actually doing research and reading the small print!"

[DougieBoy]

What a world we live in where the richest people get the most for free (free food, free services, free products, free cars, free trips), where the people that need those things the most gets slapped across the face. Our society is so broken.

[Void_Dragon]

I just go on the app and see if they misprice anything. Last time, they accidentally put a bacon cheeseburger as "$0.00" so naturally I found that you can only get 20 of one item through the app as the cap.

[isaacbrown]

I'll be God damned if I ever pay almost $60 for a burger, I'll become the hamburglar at that point.

[juliajohnson]

My uncle once won a sports car from a sweepstakes, but he took the alternative prize: the money that the sports car was worth. He bought a practical car instead. Pretty smart and kinda what MatPat is suggesting in this video!

[chrislodico]

Not only is McDonald’s getting more expensive but I swear over the past few years the burgers seem smaller than they used to be too.

[shhhvr]

Me and my friend went to mcdonalds today, 18$ for two large fries and a 6pc

[aerialapexgamer]

I enjoy Mat’s voice a lot, of course, but it’s really nice hearing Dan’s voice in the small handful of episodes he’s in!

[HeyyBrey]

It cost my family of 4 (2 kids meals, 2
Entrees and a smoothy) $50 at McDonalds the other day.
We went to a dine in Mexican restaurant the other day and spent $35. Including the tip.
Yeah, we aren’t going to McDonald’s anymore.

[WhakaNiaMai]

My theory is that the version of the card they give to the people they usually choose are probably less limited because they are rich, famous, and from the list you shared, mostly old and probably hate McDs but like having the card as a novelty to flash around. It's just marketing. Those kinds of people no doubt limit their own McDonalds intake, if they eat it at all. They wouldn't give that to people who actually like McDonalds and could actually depend on the card to feed themselves and their families because they'd lose too much money.

[kanejanz]

The ice cream machine is never broken, it just needs to be cleaned from time to time and it’s programmed to not work untill the proper cleaning cycle has been completed

[raybryan]

The ice cream machine is never broken, They just don’t want to clean it