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10 Great Ways To Spend The $0.16 You Saved On This Year's Barbecue
The Babylon Bee ^ | July 4, 2021 | Babylon Bee

Posted on 07/04/2021 9:40:50 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin

Happy 4th of July! Our benevolent and wise King Joe Biden has mercifully granted us loyal subjects a generous $0.16 savings on our cookout expenses this year. Wow! Thanks Biden! You may be having a hard time deciding where to spend your newfound wealth, but we're here to help!

Here are 10 great ways to spend your 16 cents:

1) Go ahead and splurge on that extra packet of ketchup: You've probably never experienced the pure decadence of applying extra ketchup to your fries. Here's your chance! Only one extra packet per guest though-- let's not go crazy here.

2) Apply it toward a down payment for getting the hole in your old leather shoe repaired: With only 499 more payments of $0.16, you'll finally get that pesky hole fixed! All thanks to our president!

3) Go back in time to 1906 and treat yourself to 16 pieces of penny candy at the general store: You haven't lived until you've experienced the childlike joy of penny candy from a century-old general store. We heard they even put opium and stuff in their candy back then. Nice.

4) You can finally round up that coffee order to help the children's hospital: Imagine how many lives you'll save.

5) Buy .00000045 of one Bitcoin: Start that retirement nest egg now! By the time you retire, maybe you'll have enough to buy 16 pieces of candy at a modern candy store!

6) Buy a second paper mask just to be safe: Actually, $0.16 won't be enough to buy a new mask. Maybe you can buy a used mask from a homeless guy. Protect yourself from the Delta variant!

7) Tell the wife to go into town and get herself something nice: You'll be husband of the year! Just make sure she doesn't go to Aldi. The carts cost $.25 so she won't get very far.

8) Put a single drop of gas in the tank: Then go on a trip to the end of your driveway!

9) Donate it to the Democrat Party to thank them for looking out for you: If you want to keep seeing great savings like this, you'll have to make sure Democrats keep getting elected.

10) Send it to the government to help pay down the national debt: Chip away at that pesky national debt-- that grew by $2 billion while you were reading this sentence.

Go forth and spend wisely, you lucky dog, you!


TOPICS: Agriculture; Business/Economy; Food
KEYWORDS: ag; babylonbee; business; food; sature
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1 posted on 07/04/2021 9:40:50 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Read the article, thought this is straight stuff that only the most honest journalistic outfit in the country could produce. Must be the Bee. Then I looked and it was.


2 posted on 07/04/2021 9:42:54 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: AndyJackson

One of my friends is treating herself to 1/4 of a doughnut from Dunkin’s. ;)


3 posted on 07/04/2021 9:47:22 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I’ll give this sixteen cents to my neighbor Steve so he can give me his “two cents” on 8 different topics.


4 posted on 07/04/2021 9:48:25 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Send it to the White House as a down payment for Joe’s dementia treatment.


5 posted on 07/04/2021 9:49:19 AM PDT by antidemoncrat (somRead more at: https://economicti)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Inflation.

It used to be "Brother, can you spare a dime?"

It's gone up six cents since then.

-PJ

6 posted on 07/04/2021 9:50:40 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (* LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Not quite enough for an extra slice of cheese we saw in that sumptuous “traditional” barbecue spread they showed us, but I bet you could get an extra squirt of Velveeta. Praise Dear Leader!


7 posted on 07/04/2021 9:56:22 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Send a check for $0.16 to Diaper Joe. He’ll spend $20 trying to get more $$$ from you.


8 posted on 07/04/2021 10:01:42 AM PDT by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I think I’ll donate the $.16 to the RNC with my thanks...
on second thought, naaaaaaaaa `too good for them!


9 posted on 07/04/2021 10:05:55 AM PDT by No!
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To: Billthedrill

LOL!

“According to The Minister of Plenty, Velveeta Rations will increase from 30 grams to 20 grams, today! Happy Fourth, Everyone!”


10 posted on 07/04/2021 10:11:00 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Visiting my mom in the Asheville area. I just got back from grocery shopping at Ingles & I could get 2-3 yogurt covered raisins. Yummy, thanks Joe😐


11 posted on 07/04/2021 10:11:11 AM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

“Put a single drop of gas in the tank: Then go on a trip to the end of your driveway!”

Oh, it’s better than that. Local gas here is $3.44 a gallon.

That’s .0465 gallons, and at 20 mpg that will take my truck

.93 miles.

If it’s already rolling.


12 posted on 07/04/2021 10:12:11 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods ( comment might be sarcasm, or not. It depends. Often I'm not sure either.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
One of my friends is treating herself to 1/4 of a doughnut from Dunkin’s. ;)

I remember when "dollars to doughnuts" was a description of a low-odds bet like Secretariat in the Belmont. Now it is just about even odds and if Slow Joe keeps up with the trillion dollar handouts it will be a extremely high odds bet where if you put up a mere dollar and got a whole doughnut you really won the lottery.

13 posted on 07/04/2021 10:20:17 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Police should refuse duty at NBA venues. Let them wallow in their desired chaos without police.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I ordered a thirteenth of a cup of coffee at Dunkin, but they wouldn’t give it to me unless I provided my own cup. So I declined.

I asked for extra ketchup at the local burger joint, and that came to 20 cents, but it really only cost me 4 cents, so I don’t feel so bad.


14 posted on 07/04/2021 10:32:37 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The government under democrats is a criminal enterprise.)
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To: blueunicorn6; SunkenCiv; Red Badger; Liz; LS

Yes, this is a Babyling Bouillon parody. But ElBiden administration DID release a press release “proudly proclaiming that price of ketchup, mustard, and pickle relish went down from last year.
Of course, NONE of their massed media parrots repeating the story reported that the price of meat went up from 8.50 a pound to about 16.00 to 22.00 a pound!


15 posted on 07/04/2021 10:36:41 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

We saw what you did there!


16 posted on 07/04/2021 10:38:36 AM PDT by egfowler3 (Trump Voter (Still a Deplorable, Clinger, Christian Infidel, American & vast right-wing conspirator))
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Armpit NAIR for Mooch-elle's fuzzies!


17 posted on 07/04/2021 10:46:07 AM PDT by laweeks ( )
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
If prices keep going up this could come back to haunt Biden.

But I suppose his team has already figured out how they can jiggle the statistics in future years to make it look like what everyone knows is happening isn't happening.

The hot dogs and buns will just get smaller and smaller.

18 posted on 07/04/2021 10:56:27 AM PDT by x
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

My bbq is brisket. I paid around $42 last year. It was $67 this year for the same size flat. The white house message is nothing but false propaganda.


19 posted on 07/04/2021 11:09:10 AM PDT by Real Cynic No More (Make America Great. Prosecute Dems who break the law!)
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To: Real Cynic No More

Just finishing my brisket. 18 hours on my smoker. Our local Kroger had brisket on sale for $2.99 a pound.


20 posted on 07/04/2021 11:17:22 AM PDT by Dacula
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