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It's all the fast food joints. I'm in Canada and I took my wife and daughter to burger king the other day. 3 whopper meals and a couple of apple pies later and it comes out to almost $60 with tax, shit is insane
Should have come out to about $47 for 3 whopper meals with 3 apple pies after tax. You're paying someone to make and bring you food. It's a luxury.
Edit: I don't understand Lemmy sometimes. Are the downvoters disagreeing with my statement that restaurants are luxuries? Wild.
Do you have a point?
My point is that the person I was replying to was lying about the cost of the food. The original post is about the cost of fast food. I contend that as long as people treat fast food as a necessity and not a luxury (which it very much is) then the market will decide how much is too much money. Clearly people are still paying for trash food at elevated costs, then complaining about it later. I further contend that this doesn't do shit to incentivize McDonald's to lower their prices.
The original comment said they took their family to Burger King and then you made up that they had it delivered and that was why it cost what it did.
I'm not sure why you decided to make that up when it didn't fit the comment, nor why you expected a full itemized list in a copy to price compare against, but ok.
I guess they deserve to be paid extra for not making you walk into their kitchen and get the food yourself.
No I never said anything about delivery? Lmao I just looked up BK prices in Canada. They said 3 Whopper meals and 3 apple pies. They created the itemized list, not myself. Thanks for coming out.
It's a luxury to eat fast food now? Used to be that buying your kid a happy meal was a good, cheap solution to dinner, now it's a luxury? By the way 3 $15 meals plus tax does come out to over $55, I was off by 5, sorry I offended your corporate dick sucking sensibilities
"It’s a luxury to eat fast food" yes.
Yes, eating food cooked from a restaurant is a luxury. This concept has been lost along the way of the last couple of decades.
When I was a kid, that idea of "going out to eat" rather than having home-cooked food, was an occasional luxury instead of a regular staple of the diet. That was back in the last century.
Now we have an obesity epidemic. People need to remember that restaurant food, including fast food, is actually a luxury.
Gosh, I can't see how any of those things are connected...
Yes. Having someone prepare and bring you food, and then clean up after you is a luxury, not a right.
Lemmy trends young. They really do think fast food is "normal" food. You GenX as well? For us eating out was a special treat, not another Tuesday.
While I'd argue that fast food prices are through the roof, I'd also argue that it's a luxury. I simply won't pay until they come down.
Fast food joints are necessities for the working poor and not luxuries.
At their skyrocketing prices, poor people will starve. :(