• zoostation@lemmy.world
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    Bottom tier food. Bottom tier company. I don’t know why anyone eats this level of trash anymore. Inflation has hit fast food harder than other types of restaurants, or groceries. It doesn’t make sense justifying paying these prices for this when you can get better food for comparable prices now. There used to be an expectation that this food would at least be cheap.

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      1 year ago

      This food was never cheap tbh

      The point was convenience - a hot and ready to eat meal that you can grab at any time and don’t have to prepare yourself.

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        1 year ago

        It used to be cheap. It wasn’t that long ago there was a dollar menu. Now a cheeseburger is $2.79.

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          You could always make a cheaper burger yourself. Yeah a pack of buns and and pound of burger would cost more, but per burger it was always cheaper.

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            I really don’t think you could’ve back in the dollar menu days. A double cheese burger for less than $1? Unless you’re buying you’re ingredients in a pretty bulk size (which if you’re regularly eating off the dollar menu, you probably can’t afford to do), I doubt you could have gotten much better than that

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        I used to get 3 double cheeseburgers and a large tea for $4.20 including tax. McDonald’s and Little Caesars were by far the cheapest meals I could buy unless you want to count ramen noodle packs. Groceries were way more expensive. Now both are expensive LOL.

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          You could get a pound of ground beef and a pack of burger buns and I think the one time I did the math it came out to 80 cents a burger.

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            So $0.80 for a burger or $0.99 for a double cheeseburger. I’ll take the double.

            Besides that, if you only had $5 to spend you could not have bought the supplies to make a single burger for $5. Have to buy at least a pound of beef, a whole pack of buns, etc. Even in your example I’d argue fast food was cheaper.

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              Well yeah, the last time I did the math was probably 2006 or something lol

              Though the prices I’m seeing currently are $7.94 for 2lbs, $2.88 for 8 buns, $2.48 for 24 cheese slices.

              $1.51 per 1/4lb cheese burger.

              tbh I have no idea how much this stuff costs without looking it up anymore, I just eat vegetables and beans now lol