# Things that surprisingly cost more overseas than in the US (or your home country) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 13, 2020, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-surprisingly-cost-more-overseas-than-in-the-us-or-your-home-country/917942 "2020-08-13T00:51:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-surprisingly-cost-more-overseas-than-in-the-us-or-your-home-country/917942/5 "2020-08-13T12:44:55Z")
Most McDonalds menu items are only slightly more expensive in Canada, except for Chicken McNuggets which are eleventy zillion times more expensive. I even started a thread about this glaring disparity: > [@Why are McNuggets (tm) so expensive in Canada?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-mcnuggets-tm-so-expensive-in-canada/610148): > > The other day, my wife wanted to buy some Chicken McNuggets. I almost had an aneurysm when I saw how expensive they were – $4.69 for 6 nuggets! After tax, that was almost a dollar per McNugget. And now, I just noticed in another thread that a pack of 4 McNuggets is on the “dollar menu” in the U.S. (at least in some locations). That’s one third of the per-nugget price that I’m paying in Canada (Toronto, specifically). Thinking back, when I was a kid I seem to recall that 9 McNuggets cost abo… Since then, Burger King restaurants in Canada have introduced cheap(ish) chicken nuggets, so the theory people expressed about different food standards in Canada doesn’t seem to be the driving factor. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-surprisingly-cost-more-overseas-than-in-the-us-or-your-home-country/917942)._