Because it’s discounted down from $39?
Some people actually enjoy overpaying for stuff, because it’s a status symbol for them.
If they sold that same sandwich for $6, a lot of New Yorkers who have an elitist attitude might turn their noses up at it. But slap a $29 price tag on it and they have to have it.
Sack lunch or picnic from home. This has become our solution to price gouging. Takes a little extra effort but we have become to enjoy it.
Who cares?
NYC is a foreign country.
These are the ham and cheese sandwiches Alvin Bragg is indicting.
You can make better with the right ingredients.
You can make better for less with the right ingredients.
Sheesh, it’s not like making a ham and cheese sandwich and packing your lunch yourself is such a big deal. It takes less time that ordering it from a deli or restaurant and going to get it.
Because the cheese is imported all the way from Mexico, and is actually from dog milk. The ham is even more rare and imported from Saudi Arabia.
If we keep printing money and borrowing trillions of dollars, that sandwich will cost $100 before too long.
I recently bought a whole sprial cut Ham for 14$ . I cut it up and froze most of it. It tastes just fine after it thaws.
For $29 USD I think I still might be able to swing a whole mess of home-cooked liver and onionswith bacon, and if not a full two-four, at least the better part of one. Or, to go fancy, several family sized Polish-Kashub poutines and at least a half-dozen Warka. That’s good cultural food.
Thank God I don’t live in New York. Or Toronto.
No wonder they can’t pay on their student loans.
I’ll pass on it.
It’s all bread...
$29 ham and cheese sandwich a total rip-off — so why are NYers eating it up?
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For the same reason they all vote Democrat.
I went to our local Draeger’s Market on the San Francisco Peninsula yesterday. Fried chicken in the cold case was $25/pound. I couldn’t believe my eyes. It’s always been the most expensive market around here, but that was utterly ridiculous.
The Safeway a block down has a 10 Pound bag of chicken legs on sale this week for $0.69/pound.
Zabar’s was always a stop we made when we went to the city back in the 70s. At that point it was a modestly sized deli known for great quality meats, many of which they prepared themselves. At one point they made the Guinness book for carrying the most expensive coffee in the world and the line to get in the place got kind of crazy. If you didn’t have your order ready when they called your number you were kicked to the back of the line! About 10 years ago I went back and the place was half the block and 2 stories high. The product was still good but it had lost the appeal it had when I was a kid.
Times change, I guess. Anyway, if you can get people to pay $30 for a ham sandwich then go for it, as far as I’m concerned.
It is just like wearing a mask inna car, alll alone. It is an IQ test. If you are part of the Demo base, your IQ is probably <85.
Similarly, if you live in NYC.
Nuff said.
This actually demonstrates why my wife and I can live comfortably on Social Security. It just doesn’t cost much to live when you’re old. You don’t have the same needs you did when you were young my wife makes a killer ham and cheese sandwich for a Buck or so.
But honestly we rarely eat out. It’s not worth the cost nor hassle