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Wow: how much the Big Mac prices differ

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Say wine, snacks or haute cuisine and the gourmands at online food magazine FavorFlav know where to drink, how to eat it and what to cook. This time our cheffies serve you: wow: how much the Big Mac prices differ.

As if life isn't expensive enough already... In recent years, eating at McDonald's has also significantly increased in price. The times when a Big Mac cost less than four euros are truly long gone, although you can still find some places that are somewhat close. Bizarre: the prices of the flagship item of McDonald's are really very far apart.

That was investigated de Volkskrant, and the results are quite striking. Spoiler: the Netherlands comes out extremely poorly.

ON TO PORTUGAL
Because there, a Big Mac Menu costs only €7 — those are somewhat the prices I can still remember from the past. In the Netherlands, it has now become almost twice as expensive: €13.30 for a menu, putting us in second place. Only Switzerland is above us, where a menu costs €14.25. I found it striking that the price in the United Kingdom is still quite reasonable: €8.04 for a Big Mac menu, just slightly above Slovakia. I had expected them to be more expensive, so that's a pleasant surprise.

Below are all the prices, compiled by the Volkskrant:

volkskrant McDonald's

BIG DIFFERENCES IN THE NETHERLANDS
But even in our country, the differences are not small, as the Volkskrant investigated. I found these results even more surprising than the ones above, as Enschede came out as the most expensive city. Whut? I didn't see that coming; a Big Mac menu costs there €15.05. Not going well? No, then we should go to Rotterdam, because there they are ‘only’ €9.75 and thus the cheapest in the Netherlands. How can that differ by almost six euros? You would think that McDonald's has rules about this and that you can't just make up your own prices. McDonald's, I need answers from you.