Customers insane hack to save $3 on McDonalds meal: The math aint mathing

A woman has discovered a simple way to score a Happy Meal at McDonald’s for nearly $3 cheaper than the original price.A Macca’s customer named Dani took to social media to ask if someone could explain why a $5.95 Cheeseburger Happy Meal from the fast food giant was cheaper than buying a small Cheeseburger meal for $8.85.“It’s exactly the same thing but you get a toy with the Happy Meal,” she says in a TikTok video.“The math ain’t mathing,” the 36-year-old, who posts on TikTok under the name @danisaidyes, says.At the drive-through at her local McDonald’s, the podcaster asks the employee how much a Cheeseburger Happy Meal would set her back.The worker confirms it is $5.95.Dani then asks how much a small Cheeseburger meal costs, and the employee replies that it is $3 more expensive.“But they’re like exactly the same thing but the Happy Meal comes with a toy,” she questions from her car.“Yeah, pretty much,” the worker replies, adding she ‘dies inside’ every time someone orders the more expensive option without realising the hack.

“I feel bad for them,” the employee tells Dani during the friendly interaction.Some social media users have since shared their own Macca’s hacks to outsmarting the system when it comes to paying for food, while others called Dani out for not “gatekeeping” the Happy Meal trick.“A McSmart meal is 7.95 and you get an extra side,” one person said.Another added: “I been on the McSmart meal for six months easy and now I’m seeing influencers talk about it.Watch them change it!?”“Mate! Should have gate kept this.

Watch the price of a Happy Meal go up,” another said.One person commented: “It jumps from $5.95 to $11.95 if I order a six nugget Happy Meal instead of three, so works out the same if you order two three nugget Happy Meals then you get another drink and fries for the same price!!! That’s my little hack.”“If you get a McSmart meal you get cheeseburger, small drink, small chips a...