• queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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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

      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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        1 year ago

        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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            1 year ago

            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

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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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        1 year ago

        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