We really don’t do fast food *that* often but Matt and I were on our own for dinner the other night and had Wendy’s delivered. I ordered a Double cheese everything and that’s a sizable burger… but when he took it out of the bag, he looked at it. I looked at it.
From the size of that wrapped shape, at first we thought they got the order wrong and gave me single, or maybe a White Castle Slider had somehow mysteriously teleported into the bag, deftly switching places with the Double. Point being, it looked rather small.
Opening up the wrapper, I had to study it for a second but on close inspection, yes, there were two, square, thin, small patties in there. And I wasn’t imagining it, as Matthew recognized the size disparity as well.
Admittedly, it’s probably been several years since I had a Wendy’s burger. I’d say only a couple years but these days, every time I estimate that something happened “a couple years ago”, it turns out it actually happened 8 or 10 years ago.
If I think something happened 8 or 10 years ago. It was really about 30 or 40.
And if it seems like longer than that, it was really dinosaur times.
You know, they have Medieval Times, where you eat turkey legs and watch jousting and knights battling — maybe there should be some kind of Dino Times, where you can watch guys in dinosaur costumes battle. They have some pretty convincing costumes at some theme parks… maybe it’s Universal, can’t remember. But I’m really drifting here…
It’s been a while since I had a Wendy’s burger but when the hell did they downsize the product? I’ll bet the *price* didn’t go down, am I right? Anyone? Bueller?
Thankfully, the vanilla frosty and sugar cookie that accompanied the burger compensated for any miniaturization of the main course.
I guess I should still be happy over the fact that after decades of shortsightedness, of them having *only* chocolate frosties, someone finally wised up and said, “You know, Dave was a closet vanilla hater or something but let’s stop ignoring a huge chunk of the market and offer vanilla frosties too.
And in the distance, a cheer….
For the record, the Double — although small — was still every bit as good as I remember it. Kudos. I remember back when I was a regular patron of Wendy’s downtown. I think it was maybe…. ten years ago…? Yes, it was 1983 at the Academy and quite often, I would indulge in having a Triple. It was magnificent just about every time.
Around the same time, I remember a class mate saying he had worked at McDonalds, Burger King and Wendy’s at different times back in high school. Of them all, Wendy’s was the only one that shipped in fresh food every day. Impressive.
Hmmm…. “Welcome to Dinosaur Times!”
C’mon, who wouldn’t love that?
Um…epilog…. Turns out, when ordering on his phone, Matthew simply ordered the wrong item. Nevermind.
Alright, nothing to see here, go about your business!
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