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

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

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

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.

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. 😭

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..

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?

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!

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

2:07 editor thought he was real smooth fitting the entire Bee Movie Script in the McD's Gold Card 😂

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

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.

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!

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!

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.

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

Highly recommend you look into the history of lifetime supply prizes of various food items! I don't think I've ever come across one that was actually unlimited.

one thing I noticed is that in BIG TEXT on the front of McDonalds bags, it says "YOU COULD WIN FREE MCDONALDS FOR LIFE" then they add the asterisk on the end and on the side of the bag in tiny text it shows that the asterisk means "based on 2 meals a week for 50 years" which is definitely deceitful marketing at its finest edit: good to know he mentions the 2 meals a week thing

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.

Here is the weirdest Retirement Bucket List I have heard of. A retired couple probably got a nice motor home for this traveling. So what they were attempting to do was visit each McDonald's at least one time, but do normal tourist stuff at each location they visit also. It was years ago I heard of this and I forgot how many thousands of McDonald's they had visited. Realistically no matter how much money they had, just because of lifespan they would be unable to complete this...still they were trying so that is unusual.

I don’t think I’d EVER consider getting this MCGold Card. I stopped eating at MCDonalds after the SuperSize Me documentary came out & I have not missed going there since!