The nearly indigent "free lunch fiend" was a recognized social type. An 1872 New York Times story about "loafers and free-lunch men" who "toil not, neither do they spin, yet they 'get along'", visiting saloons, trying to bum drinks from strangers: "Should this inexplicable lunch-fiend not happen to be called to drink, he devours whatever he can, and, while the bartender is occupied, tries to escape unnoticed."

FreeLunchFiend sounds like a fun username.

lol at "no such thing as a free lunch" being completely untrue lies made up by neoliberal ghouls

Today I learned: there actually used to be a "free lunch". They lied to us!

This is still a thing in Mexico, and to a certain extent in many Mediterranean countries in Europe. In Mexico, the more you drink, the more/better food you get. And in the Mediterranean countries you always get some snacks like olives or potato chips, plus some bread or cheese.

If you order a beer at a bar in southern Spain, they give you a free tapa.

Good deal.

Still a thing in Northern Italy, called Aperitivo.

The snacks vary from place to place, from olives and breadsticks up to pizza

in new orleans during football games on sundays, some bars will put out a spread of food for people. it's great food too because it's new orleans.

I've never been to a strip club, but my brother has said there exists strip clubs he's been to in Texas? I think that have buffets.

I have no idea wth is going on here but

The concept of a free lunch is critiqued in the phrase "no such thing as a free lunch", popularized in part by authors such as Robert A. Heinlein and Milton Friedman.[2]

Hahahahahaahhaa

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Someone already mentioned tapas in Spain but i wanted to elaborate. I spent the most time in granada but it was also the case in other cities, but in some places you go into a bar and order a half pint (for like 2 euros, about the same as a bottle of water in the convenience stores there) and they bring you a little plate od food. For your second drink, the food is different, better and more filling. For your third, fourth and fifth, sixth, whatever drink, the food keeps getting better. You could go sit down in the afternoob and walk out a few hours later with a full stomach and a nice buzz, it was great.