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goosejuicetoday at 12:53 AM2 repliesview on HN

Not in the US. See "portion distortion".

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1447051/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8667835/

Edit: hamburgers and hotdogs are pretty standardized though


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userbinatortoday at 1:56 AM

Unfortunately no mention of prices, so increase in portion sizes might be below inflation; and I suspect the former could be a strategy of compensation for inflation by making it seem less drastic ("yes it costs more, but we also made it bigger!")

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kulahantoday at 1:20 AM

Everyone knows what a quarter pounder is!

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