In May 2024, a rumor spread rapidly on social media, alleging that the price of McDonald's Big Mac changed from $0.50 to $8 between 1980 and 2024, while shrinking by 40% in size. One viral X post ...

In 2000, the Big Mac was $2.24, according to The Economist’s Big Mac Index and consistently increased in price throughout the decade. In March 2002, it was $2.35.

A year later, McDonald’s introduced the Big Mac around the country, and it proved wildly popular, with well over 500 million eaten every year. Heck, one customer kept track and ate more than ...

The name “Big Mac” was actually coined by Esther Glickstein Rose, who was a 21-year-old secretary for the advertising department at the company’s Chicago corporate office in 1967.

You know it as the two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun. You nearly knew it as something other than the Big Mac.

The second part of the claim alleged a 40% decrease in Big Mac's size from 1980 to 2024. The debate on whether the size of the Big Mac has changed over the years has spread online extensively.