Hey all,
I’ve been following this enough to have saved a bunch (or spent a bunch), so I thought I might try submitting.
I was at MacDonalds in Perth City this morning and currently they have hash browns for $1 for a “limited time only”.
So get ‘em while they’re hot I guess.
I am almost 90% sure they have always been $1
Nice to see you kept some wiggle room there…
I am almost 90% sure that a person's perception of the price of a hash brown depends on what era they were aged 17-24 and always buying hash browns after a big night out :)
I am almost 90% sure that Statistics are made up on OzBargain.
with a 90% level of confidence and α value of 0.10, I'm still inclined to reject the hypothesis that Phocus was sure the Hash browns were always $1.
Hashbrowns were ~$2 the last time I bought one last year.
I hadn't eaten a Maccas hash brown in over a decade, until some time last year. Ordered one only because the people I was with were having Maccas breakfasts.
Expected to pay less than a dollar (maybe 60-80c). Was shocked that it was OVER a dollar. Can't remember what I paid… $1.30 sticks in mind, but I could be wrong. Must've been more…
Either way, I thought that was pretty expensive for a thin, flat disc of smooshed up potato (that was smaller than my palm). lol
I'm clearly still stuck in the 80s.
Yeah I remember when they were 70c and came in the hot apple pie style brown cardboard boxes.
They've since gotten shorter and pricier.
Man you might as we well wait for the $1 small fries
Yep - exactly what I was talking about in my comment above :)
You can get the same product in a supermarket for 50c. You have to cook it yourself though.
Am I the only one that got that?
Got a great chuckle out of that one!
For those who don't know a comedian (Russell Peters)
uses that line in a great comedy routine he is does.
Do yourselves a favour guys - Youtube him. VERY funny guy IMHO.
:o) :o) :o)
If you were paying $0.70 in the 80s, that is the equivalent of $1.80 last year.
Maybe they were an extra $1 with a meal. 80% sure
This is what happens to me. If you order a meal they will offer you extras for $1.
Last time i checked they were either $1.95 or $2.05 depending on the store.
Wow, that is insane.
1.95 in melbourne
They're aroubd $3 here in Brisbane. 90% sure you think it's the 90s still.
yeah $3 in Melbourne, until they had the $3 brekkie promo with $1 hashbrowens etc, but I thought that deal was over now.
Who owns that dodgy page?
No idea but I actually saw it on TV.
Apparently sometime in 2011, they were doing $1 for two hashbrowns. Now that's a bargain for fast food!
Do they use 'real' potatoes in them?
define 'real'
Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines it as
actually existing or happening : not imaginary
not fake, false, or artificial
important and deserving to be regarded or treated in a serious way
Might be one of those carefully worded "100% Australian potatoes" things where the potatoes that ARE in there ARE Australian, but the potato content is well below 100%.
On the other hand - why wouldn't you use real potatoes? They're pretty freakin cheap as food ingredients go.
I was told by someone who owned a takeaway not so long ago that the markup on potatoes (chips in this case) is HUGE.
That link has nothing to do with potatoes and nothing to do with Australian Maccas. It's also an indictment of the supplier and its factory more so than the Chinese fast food chains that are its customer. Wish people would stop posting this link, it's pretty much misinformation in this context.
From McD:
Our Hash Browns are made with three of the same potato varieties - Russet Burbank, Shepody and Ranger Russet used to make our French fries. On most occasions the Hash Browns are produced at exactly the same time as French fries, but on a different production line. Our suppliers, Simplot Australia and McCain Foods, use a number of farms to supply our needs. Simplot uses a number of growers who produce potatoes across the north coast of Tasmania, Australia. The manufacturing plant is at Ulverstone in Tasmania's north. McCain Foods uses potatoes sourced from the rich volcanic earth of the Ballarat region, and the sandy soils of Coonawarra to supply its Ballarat manufacturing plant. McCain also has a manufacturing facility at the foot of the New Zealand Alps in Timaru. This facility is supplied by growers from the Canterbury region.
Haven't peeled any potatoes personally, but they're probably real ;)
Still such a rip-off. If you buy a pack of frozen hash browns from the supermarket it only comes to around 20 cents per hash brown.
Obviously. We are talking about fast food, not 'find us the cheapest price of that item ever existed'.
You pay for the service of the McDonalds staff cooking it in their vats. And also for the pretty checkout girl to smile at you as you hand over your dollar
But I'm almost 3x older than they are. I'm not in creepy old man territory yet!
such potential for profit
Why are you not running your own fast food place?
My Macca's app says regular price is $2.10 with location set at William St, Perth store - http://i.imgur.com/CG9s8zY.png
they probably wouldn't update the app on the website if it's a limited time only offer
It also might be just that store. Some manager might have ordered 10 extra boxes of hashies accidentally and they need to get rid of them. Never know.
An even better deal would be offering hash browns for this price throughout the day.
You don't know how much I crave for hash browns during lunch or afternoon tea. Great opportunity here, MD's.
They went from $1 to $2+ pretty quickly.
Yup! I don't visit that often for breakfast now as a direct result. Maybe someone took their eyes off the financials and McD's hadn't raised their prices in too long but the hike happened way too quickly.
..$1.85/pc a bit rich for me, given the margin they'd have on these things. $1, on the other hand, has me interested again. Damn them and their marketing genius!
Hash brown in the toaster at work = $3 for a bag of hash browns
;o
cool didn't know you could just toast them :)
More 'Hash Yellow' than Brown when toasted. :)
Whoa. Do they cook properly and crisp up in a toaster? Regular toaster, I take it?
I'd buy bags of frozen hashies and live off them if that was the case. Firing up the oven just for one or two as a snack hardly seems worth it. Toaster = win.
Yes they do, just gotta dial it up a few extra minutes, Preferable that you also turn them as it makes one side soggy and the other side crispy otherwise.
Basicerno, fair to assume that the toaster's crumb tray also becomes an oil drip-tray?
@waterlogged turnip:
Okay, you've gone to far now, madam.
GO TO YOUR ROOM!
No hash browns, no soup, or 'french toast' for you.
Jesus.
@waterlogged turnip:
Alright…
As long as you promise that you won't actually lick the crumb/drip-tray…
Deal?
I'd probably prefer to eat brown #
That's some Dave Chapelle level shit right there
I just bought one this morning and it was $1.85.
Cheap as chips!
Just update your Hungry Jacks shake and win app and the brekkie freebie is nearly always a free hash brown with a $2 muffin thing. Seems better value to me.
Either that or a free coffee/juice.
Best app ever.
WOW hash browns haven't been $1 dolar since 2003. Wow this brings back much child hood memories
Wow, this comment brings back very recent memories.
I just put it down to a glitch in the Matrix…
I'd rather use the $1 to get their Hot Apple Pie. It's $1 and it's not usually advertised on the boards.
hot choko pie?
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/archive/money/are-there-cho…
How many times do people need to be told this is not true.
Hey, Pain Toad, who cares if there's choko in the apple pie? Choko soaks up any other flavour laid on it, + has brilliant texture. Win-win.
I just can't get over the idea of paying so much for pre-masticated potato!
can anyone in Sydney confirm this?