https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/03/06/286886095/almost-500-foods-contain-the-yoga-mat-compound-should-we-care-keep
Posted on 05/30/2024 4:24:19 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
Once viewed as a quick, affordable meal, fast food is increasingly seen as a luxury by many Americans due to rising menu prices, according to a new LendingTree survey.
The financial advice website recently asked more than 2,000 adults how they feel about -and how often they eat- fast food.
Nearly 8 in 10 said they now view fast food as a “luxury,” and 62% said they are eating it less often because prices have gone up, the survey found.
There was also a socioeconomic component.
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https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/03/06/286886095/almost-500-foods-contain-the-yoga-mat-compound-should-we-care-keep
My personal view of fast food.
Bad food for a bad price.
A luxurious meal should be tasty.
Fast food is not tasty anymore
My ladyfriend and I stopped yesterday at FIVE GUYS to get 2 Dbl Cheeseburgers w/ 5 toppings, and 2 Lg Fries. $43.17... I remember the same order at around $28 and change, a few years ago.
it always was!
in fact eating out ANYWHERE was and is a luxury, one that keeps many people poor.
Show me someone who eats out every day for a working lifetime, and I’ll show you someone who “would” have retired a millionaire otherwise!
Junk food at a luxury price is still junk food, and it doesn’t come as fast as it used to. A QP w/cheese and fries, WC sliders, etc. taste pretty darned good but don’t let the smooth taste fool you. If I don’t have the coupon, I don’t get in line.
Thank Sloe Joe, The Hoe and their anti-American thug administration!
I am astonished by the price of things. I absolutely don’t eat out much anymore, and I used to love eating out.
It is crazy now. And fast food is just as insane. Just going into a convenience store to buy a snack to munch on is crazy.
It first hit me some months ago when I purchased two ice cream sandwiches. It was nearly five dollars. I did that thing when the clerk said “That’ll be $4.50.” where your eyebrows shoot up in shock. And those weren’t even full size ice cream sandwiches...they were the “smaller ones”.
It is what caused me to change my tagline below to what it is now. You cannot buy just about anything without going down five dollars.
I fear we are going to enter Weimar Republic type hyperinflation soon.
Yep. Exactly.
Picked up Mcdonalds 2 cheeseburger, Med Fry, Med drink for a hungry teenager, just shy of $10. For what it is that you get, terrible pricing. Even the teenager said so.
Raising the debt ceiling automatically (politically) by trillions is causing this, blame the right source, the gummit. The uniparty over decades is specifically to blame, this time it was McCarthy and McConnell who gave all the cash allowance for Xiden to print and spend and thus causing the inflation we see today.
Only one way out of this folks, gut the federal gummit, get rid of 1/3 of the employees and balance the budget and deficit reduction by law.
> I fear we are going to enter Weimar Republic type hyperinflation soon. <
Inflation is slowly pushing us in that direction. What will speed things up is the ballooning federal deficit. The only way to avoid default on that debt is for the feds to deliberately allow hyperinflation.
Pay back real money with worthless paper money.
The only question is when.
> Only one way out of this folks, gut the federal gummit, get rid of 1/3 of the employees and balance the budget and deficit reduction by law. <
That’s the sensible approach. But no one in DC has the will to carry that out, including Trump. He did not veto a single major spending bill while in office.
As I see it, that leaves hyperinflation as the only option (my post #11).
Wanna nice sub at Jersey Mikes with all the trimmings? Now costs over $36 for a 12”, Extra Toppings: Extra Cheese, Extra Meat, Extra Bacon, Extra Pepperoni +$13.85
Total $36.45
Regular (6”) with same toppings $22.75, without extras $13.15
Where? California?
Wisconsin
This is the kind of news that’s strangling Slow Joe and his administration. Every day Americans are truly hurting, and when fast food is a luxury there’s real trouble. Go Trump!
At least with fast food it might also come with a show. I hear Jungle Fever is shown a lot.
And it is NOT going away anytime soon.
FJB and the uni-party!
80% consider it a luxury???
I am in the 20% that consider it garbage.
Just the way the Left wants it , “No Fast-food For You”
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