Posted on 05/03/2024 6:46:20 AM PDT by Red Badger
Heheh. It sure will.
One major thoroughfare in our area has all the fast food and chain restaurants on it.
We counted 6 Mexican style restaurants and it’s only about two miles long.......
I haven’t participated in the fast food realm but maybe a handful of times in 20 years.
I can cook a good meal at home ,three people $10.00.
Have leftovers for lunch or $45.00 for fast food that’s trying to kill us.
I remember when almost all the fast food places practically to the day came out with the almost meat sandwiches. Chemicals, no thanks
15$ can buy two rottisserie chickens at a grocery store, and a loaf of bread and mayo— covering sandwiches for 2 for a week.
So far, anyway. Check out prices of so called ready-made microwave meals... ridiculous. Apparently no one knows how to cook, which is no surprising.
You’re correct about surly (and dirty looking with no hair nets over their dreadlocks— yuck) service. One noticeable exception recently was a 5.29 double STEAK burger with cheese and small fries, cooked to order at Steak an Shake. Steak and Shake owned by an Iranian American who buys and sells real US steak in their burgers. Not mcdonalds veggie squeeze loaf.
This is my afternoon snack...have done it for years.
Rotisserie chicken = chicken shawarma...not traditional, but yummy as hell.
I got a text from a friend who ate at MacDonald’s every morning for breakfast for years - he said the usual breakfast he gets - Egg McMuffin, hash browns and coffee is now over $11.00. Yesterday was his last day for his breakfast routine. I suspect he is not alone.
I know in my own family, eating out is now a rare treat, reserved for birthday or special celebrations, and not a once or twice-a-week activity as it was before, it’s simply become too expensive.
Just put on a pot roast for dinner tonight...
My “meal” at McDonald’s comes to about $7 or so, a bit under I think. I get either the chicken deluxe for about $5.50 or so I thunk it is, and maybe small fry, or I get 2 plain basic cheeseburgers for around same price.
I always bring my own soda, which I buy on sale for about $.50 a can (back during Bush presidency, I would get them on-sale for $.25 a can- those days are long gone)- I have 2 freeze can holders which keep soda super cold, and just eat In The car to avoid the crowds inside the business.
But, I don’t/can’t eat out often- and definately can’t eat out at higher end resteraunts- heck, even going to Kentucky fried store is now way too expensive. Stopped there once awhile,back ordered 2 pieces of chicken, some fries, and a small soda, and the teller said “$22 dollars please” I said “seriosuly”? Zhe answered “I know, but there is a shortage on chicken right now” which I didn’t beleive as prices have remained pretty high ever since-
I said to her “cancel my order”, and drove to a supermarket and bought a whole chicken, cooked, for $6.00
Gotta be a Rockefeller the se days to eat out.
We were laughing at old menu prices not too long ago that were posted on the wall of a very old local restaurant. I asked my elderly relative if she remembered those types of prices.
She told me eating out was not even thought of when she was growing up, that was for “rich” people and her father didn’t have that kind of money.
Our local Wendy’s though I always get sick- nausea and the runs- tried eating at a few different ones, and they all caused it. Tried several times thi king perhaps it was just a fluke, but nope- I used to be able to eat there fine back in the day.
Spit is gluten and calorie-free.
We,avoid going out to higher end because of how they smother everything in spices, and use pretty heavy garlic on many things- neither of which we like. We just grew up eating bland farm raised meat and veggies- and enjoy that taste far better than heavily spices/seasoned tastes I guess
High pric and low quality- let’s see how long it takes for the MBAs at. McKinsey to break this code.
Had anybody been to Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers? Are they anything like Culvers?
Fast food can be tasty and convenient, but when it’s not one or the other, and the nutrition and price are added factors, it becomes difficult to justify the experience.
It used to be affordable, and you ignored the nutrition part, because you also got the taste and convenience.
I am reminded of the old movie DIVORCE: AMERICAN STYLE(1957) in which Dick Van Dyke orders and receives from McDonald’s ....”A double meat cheeseburger, fries and a coke. That will be 57 cents sir.”
In California at that!
I haven’t eaten out in months. No more unless, as you say, in an emergency situation.
When I was a teenager in 1972, a WHOPPER was 59 cents.
And I thought that was outrageous!..................
When I was a teenager in 1972, a WHOPPER was 59 cents.
And I thought that was outrageous!..................
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