An outraged customer accused McDonald’s of shrinking the size of its cheeseburger and claimed it was hardly bigger than his thumb and likened its size to that of a cookie.
The fast-food chain has been faced the same blame over the years but they told Daily Mail Australia they have never changed the meat patty. A spokesman said that they recently changed the cheeseburger bun as part of the innovation and investment process.
”The overall weight of our burgers remains unchanged… The new bun is the same weight, with slightly different proportions.
We haven’t changed the size of our beef patty since the first McDonald’s restaurant opened in Australia in 1971. We still use 100% Aussie beef patties that our customers know and love,” the statement read.
Kelloggs too has accused of similar allegations, after many consumers complained that Pringles had been shrunk. A Kelloggs spokesman told Daily Mail Australia, ”Back in 2016, we relocated the production of Pringles for the Australian marketplace to our plant in Malaysia, matching the size of their cans,”
”This was a change from 150g size cans to 134g cans. No further changes have been made since then.”
Both the companies have defended themselves but some people are not satisfied with the change. Many Reddit users posted the photos of both the ‘thumb-sized cheeseburger’ and the Pringle alongside complaints.
‘Haven’t been to maccas in a while, cheeseburgers are cookie sized now?!’ the original cheeseburger photo was captioned.
‘My secret shame is that for my once yearly journey to Macca’s I buy not one, but two Cheeseburgers due to this indignity,’ someone commented.
‘Oh, man. I haven’t seen one of these in 15 years. That’s easily half the size,’ one person said.
Most of the people in the comment section said they have stopped buying the brand and switched to a cheaper home brand alternative. Others claimed they had noticed a decrease in other burgers on the McDonald’s menu.
‘I noticed that too with a quarter pounder I had the other day,’ one wrote.
‘I remember when the fillet o fish had a full piece of cheese. They used to be bigger also I am sure,’ another commented.
In November 2018 a spokesperson for the company denied the allegation. ”The Big Mac has not changed in size,” she previously told Daily Mail Australia.
”In fact, it has not changed in weight, height or diameter. The only change we have made is making the packaging slightly smaller.”
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