stopped to get 3 pieces of chicken at KFC 2 years ago, with some fries- no soda- already had a soda- the woman told me “That will be $22.45 (or whatever the number was- it was 22 something)-
i said “Excuse me?”
She said “I know, prices have really gone up because of the pandemic-”
so i said “Cancel my order” and went and bought a $5.00 precooked whole chicken instead-
A Panera Pick-2 with a cookie is something like $18 now.
Bought a large pizza yesterday with peppers, onions and sausage; $22.50. I should have canceled the order but I was hungry, the Mrs. was expecting it and the pizza shop smell put me in a glutinous trance. But when I got it home, told the Mrs to enjoy it as it is the last one. Time to get on my brick pizza oven project.
Yikes - I stopped going to KFC for that very reason
The sad thing is they had as $1 sandwich or something and wedge fries that were cheap.
But that was about 2004. The America we remember.