• useyourmainfinger@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    $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…

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        22 days ago

        I had a double smash cheeseburger for 9€ on friday in germany.

        160g meat

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          22 days ago

          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.

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        22 days ago

        I’ve heard Texans rave about that shit for years

        Imagine my surprise when it was the worst burger I’ve ever had, I spit it out. Truly Texans are dipshits

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          22 days ago

          I’m not Texan but I dunno what happened to you. It is definitely better tasting than in and out to me. I find inn’s stuff pretty mid with the worst fries ever.

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            21 days ago

            The fries I can accept (they don’t double-fry and don’t salt them unless you ask them to), the burger I can’t unless you’re in some weird ass bumpkin place as every location I’ve ever been to has produced a top-tier (for the price of fast food) burger. I’m not gonna pretend they hold a candle to the handmade ones I make or anything but they’re the best common-ish fast food place around (West Coast only TBF, they’re taking forever to spread, likely because non west coast people don’t have the burger fetish we do)

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      21 days ago

      While it’s never been a better time to be forced to learn how to cook, a lot of people are more stressed and more overworked than they’ve ever been and even in the pre-union days they often had someone cooking and cleaning for them(I’m glad that women have equal rights and autonomy now but the point remains). Fact is, for a lot of people I really understand the hesitation. I can cook just fine, and try not to eat out, but I will find myself just doing crackers/cheese/meat instead of cooking a full meal just out of a lack of motivation.

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    22 days ago

    But I want to know how Bitcoin could be doing so well, it makes no sense, what demand is there for a finite commodity to store their value?

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    23 days ago

    Being on a food TV show and becoming slightly famous therefor allows you to increase your prices and still keep all the seats filled. The best burger place near me has increased to $10 from $5 over roughly the same time period, in keeping with the increase in beef prices over that time.

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    21 days ago

    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.

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    21 days ago

    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.

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    22 days ago

    The CEO’s, shareholders and the 1% need to make more! There is no fucking way I am going to spend $17.00 for a fucking cheeseburger.

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    22 days ago

    Guess what will happen to food prices in the US when farmers cannot exploit cheap migrants anymore…

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    22 days ago

    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.

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    22 days ago

    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.