• Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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    14 days ago

    It’s wild that these elites are shitting on people spending $27 on a meal…

    It’s not 2017, that doesn’t buy you much of a meal.

    The cheapest food in my town I can think of is still a solid $8-9. And that is for a very unappetizing sandwich. A small upgrade to a chain “Jersey Mike’s Sub” puts you back $11.15 before tax - no drink, no chips.

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      14 days ago

      Around me, the only meal you can get for under $10 is banh mi. I’m very grateful for those reasonable prices, but I’m also not exaggerating.

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      My work recently treated my group of coworkers to subs, but I don’t eat meat and didn’t have any. Instead, my manager said she’d reimburse me, and broke down the price of the sandwiches (which everyone else split) to calculate $7 per person. So I was given $7 Doordash credit.

      $7. On Doordash. The fuck am I supposed to do with that?

    • emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      I guess because you use the word ‘town’ that a shitty chain sub might actually be a true upgrade, but for anyone in even a smallish city, look around for little hole in the wall independent restaurants because I guarantee you can get much better food for much cheaper than the shit you’ll get at chain restaurants. Off the top of my head I can think of at least 5 sub shops and delis in my area that will give you a much bigger better sandwich than subway, for a little over half the price. Then there’s shawarma shops, Chinese take ours that will fill up the take out container so full that it’s too much to eat in a sitting, burger places where you can sit down and have a burger and a beer for the price of a McDonald’s meal and it’ll be twice the size, pizza joints with walk in specials where you can get a small pizza for the price of a slice at pizza-pizza, Caribbean restaurants where there isn’t even a fast food alternative, fucking lots of places. Don’t settle for some bullshit just because it’s familiar.

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      13 days ago

      Just don’t eat takeout/restaurant food then. Here in canada you can easily make meals for less than 5$ per portion, much less if you don’t eat meat.

      Hell just buying precooked food at the grocery store costs ~7$ for a high-quality meal. I can’t imagine anyone paying 27$ for a regular meal.