My core values

Have changed.

There was a time when $3 or on a very hungry day $4 of food from the Wendy’s value menu gave me a good lunch. And by good I mean I liked it, it tasted good (enough) to me, and it felt like you really were getting value for money. Burger, salad, fries, chili, Frosty… good! A group of us would go there for lunch from work at the Missouri Hospital Association fairly regularly.

But this weekend I tried Wendy’s drive thru for I think the second time in the past dozen years. The price has gone up, and the portions have gotten smaller: the Frosty came in a Dixie cup. But most importantly, nothing tasted very good. Not actually bad, just not very good.

I don’t know how much of the change is on the Wendy’s side, how much is due to being in NZ, and how much is in my head. Probably I’ve aged out, just like with nearly everything on TV. But anyway… not something I’ll do any more often than every few years.