Carl’s Jr. $5 Burger used to mock this bullshit. It cost $3 and it was fucking amazing.
Coming out of left field here, but… scaling beef production is not very sustainable?
Like, unless it’s a rare treat, I feel like beef has to go artificial or prices keep going up, even if wealth distribution is worked out.
I mean, I agree, but beef consumption in the US has dropped in the past 20 years. And you can find similar price stories for all meal prices, regardless of ingredients.
When Bob’s Burgers started airing the burger of the day was $5.95. This used to be a reasonable price for a burger.
Burgers are fine-dining now. Still trying to find cheap food that’s nutritious and doesn’t contain too much fiber for medical reasons. Eventually that will be fine dining prices too.
Gentrification came for flavortown.
Rent is now $4000/mth. No loitering.
LOL where can you find $4k/month? My dentist said her office rent in W. Seattle was $11k/mo.
For commercial rent that nearly seems reasonable. Especially considering what they’re charging for dentistry, that’s like… 3 people without insurance? 🥲
My rent was $8,000 a month in 2009 for a strip mall restaurant that sat 40 people. It wasn’t in an expensive area either.
One of my parents said that steaks were 35 cents when they were kids.
I am not looking forward to my Walmart cheese & breadstick snacks costing $70 bucks for a set of five.
Also the Chicken Guy (Guy Fieri’s restaurant chain) in the mall near me shut down a few weeks ago. That was the most unhealthy food I’ve ever eaten. Good riddance. Also so arrogant to be right next to Chick-fil-A.
I can get a Whopper Meal (includes fries and a drink) for $8.50CAD ($6.13 in fashy bucks) with a coupon or on Whopper Wednesdays.
If you’re gonna be an elitist about ground beef of all things, you deserve to get scammed for $17.
American here, but this photo feels like a legit parody of American eating habits. If I were gonna make fun of us I would use this exact image LOL.
What 'Murica thinks flavour is: fat, salt, sugar, shit.
$10 Aud gets you a proper burger in Oz at a bakery or takeaway spot, you’ll pay $20+ Aud inc chips/fries in a pub/bistro, but either way you have to tackle them to stop them putting fucking pickled beetroot on it first, dark times all round indeed…
Holy cow, where do you live that Burgers are still $10 anywhere.
I had a double smash cheeseburger for 9€ on friday in germany.
160g meat
Is that cheap, by current standards? I’m in Australia, and so is the commenter I asked, but where I am it’s unheard of for burgers to be much below $20.
10€ is ~18AUD
There’s cheaper burgers, but I wouldn’t really call them burgers with the cheap frozen patties and bread. It’s definitely on the cheaper side though, as i’ve paid 14€ for a burger in the past.
So I guess it’s pretty much the same.
In-N-Out
Is the objectively superior choice
Nice animation, but their burgers, at least around here, are atrocious. Really the worst of the worst.
AI burger meat is my favorite.
Wow, so I did tha math. The official inflation rate factors up to just over 1.5 (50% increase) over the past 16 years. But this meme suggests a factor of 3.58!!! (258% increase)
The official inflation rate doesn’t include food or energy. It’s ridiculous.
The most funny thing was the “I can’t eat an iPad” reply, when someone from the Fed tried to explain these mental gymnastics
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704893604576199113452719274
Food and products have 2.3x’d since just before covid started.
It does include food and energy, but they also separately report a “core” inflation that excludes those items because food and energy tend to go up and down.
Or up and less up
