Resisting the temptation to opt for a large meal at McDonald's over a regular one can be tricky.
After all, it's often less than a pound for the upgrade, where you'll receive extra chips and a larger drink. However, those who are keen to know exactly what they're getting for their money might be curious as to how many extra fries and drink sips they will get out of that upgrade.
To find out the exact difference between the two meal sizes, the Manchester Evening News' Bethan Shufflebotham picked up a medium and large McNugget meal.
Both meals come with six nuggets - so Bethan weighed and counted the exact amount of extra fries and soft drink that you get for an additional 72p.
Bethan explained: "I started off by weighing both sets of fries in their original packaging, the medium coming in at 137g, and the large at 177g - a 40g difference.
"However, I worried that the cardboard may have affected the results, so I used the same bowl, zeroed the scales, and weighed again.
"This time the medium weighed 128g and the large 167g, suggesting the medium cardboard weighed 9g and the large 11g - just 2g difference between them, which is essentially a single fry."
Bethan then counted all the chips individually, finding around 70 and 100 fries in the medium and large portions respectively.
Weight-wise, there were around 40g fewer fries in the medium - this works out to around 24 chips less chips than the large meal's offering.
Now, onto the drinks, where Bethan was again ready with the scales to give you an exact difference in the amount your extra 72p gets you.
The medium liquid weighed 439g to the large 533g - a 94g difference. Bethan worked out that this would be about five additional sips.
Beth concluded: "This may seem like a rather tedious task for me to undertake, however, as the cost of living crisis continues to bite across the UK - every penny counts, right?
“That means that the difference between a medium and large McDonald's meal, based on this order, is 72p, 24 chips, and five sips of Coca-Cola."
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