I see a lot of complaints about fast food being and other meals becoming much more expensive than usual. I know it’s true because grocery prices are absurd, but I genuinely don’t know what’s considered “expensive” with fast food.
I just instinctively know it’s expensive and never eat out. Like $8 for one small smash burger just seems absurd to me, but apparently that’s always been normal?
I’m old enough (not that old really) to remember libs looking down on poor people for eating fast food because it’s cheap and nasty and unhealthy.
Over time that’s shifted to libs looking down on poor people for eating fast food because it’s a wasteful extravagance.
Idk, 10-20 years ago getting fast food felt cheap. Now it’s like “what the hell did I get that added up to 20$?”
Like, you used to be able to feed several people for 20$, and now you can’t? Idk.
American fast food chains are always the worst quality for price here. The best are always the local chinese restaurants (although they are in no way authentic Chinese cuisine). The best of the best are the takeaways that are obviously fronts for money laundering. If they only take cash and change branding every six months, the food will absolutely slap and it’ll be dirt cheap
Pre-pandemic my wife and I were gourmands. we would have fun looking at different restaurant’s websites during the week and try a new one out every couple weekends. We had favorites, we were the couple our friends would ask about where to go in town. We were kinda proud of it.
we both (without ever really discussing it) just stopped. something since that time is just… gone. Is it the exorbitant cost? the tired and careless waiters? The reduction in food quality? The tired and hungry people around us?
We’ve both spent at least spent a decade apiece in service. Maybe we were paying for a dream. Maybe our treat was not dinner, but 1hr 30 minutes pretending we were other than we were, paying to pretend we had the money to waste. For the illusion of a good life.
Anyway its gone. I can’t even place my finger directly on what it is that is.
We’ve gotten baller making food from scratch. in the years since (it wasn’t great at first haha) we learned to make things at home that are better tasting and cheaper than what i can get from the finest place I’ve ever been.
and you cant beat the company.
anyway i have no point i guess. fuck all restaurants? yeah. Fuck em, they are not worth it. and this is coming from me! I’m the guy who loved them! That was my fucking bag!
Yeah. I already avoid restaurants, since I have a ton of allergies, and I just don’t feel like rolling the 1/20 ‘cross contamination’ chance. But like, I don’t really feel like I’m giving much up, since I save money and health eating in anyway.
