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Posted: 3/12/2024 2:59:55 PM EDT
[#1]
mmmk
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Posted: 3/12/2024 3:01:03 PM EDT
[#2]
How often did people eat out in the 50's, 60's and 70's? I wasn't around then.
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Posted: 3/12/2024 3:01:51 PM EDT
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I grabbed McDonalds the other day, first time in probably 2 years. I about had a heart attack. It was like $15 for nothing. What's odd though is the line to the drive through wrapped around the building, and the "bring your order out" parking spots were full. I can't imagine who all of these people were.
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Posted: 3/12/2024 3:02:06 PM EDT
[#4]
 I paid $11.20 for a BLT, bowl of 15bean soup with sausage and two pieces of cornbread, for lunch today. |
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Posted: 3/12/2024 3:04:06 PM EDT
[#5]
Quote HistoryQuoted: How often did people eat out in the 50's, 60's and 70's? I wasn't around then. I wasnt around then either. Prices today are ridiculous. |
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Posted: 3/12/2024 3:04:53 PM EDT
[#6]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I grabbed McDonalds the other day, first time in probably 2 years. I about had a heart attack. It was like $15 for nothing. What's odd though is the line to the drive through wrapped around the building, and the "bring your order out" parking spots were full. I can't imagine who all of these people were. Those folks ordered through the McDonalds app where there are many BOGO deals making it much more affordable. My naphew and I can both have a meal for under $15 combined through the app. |
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Posted: 3/12/2024 3:05:13 PM EDT
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Yeah its got to the point that we only do lunch on Saturdays
Last few times the wife and I went out alone to someplace nice the bill teetered 150 bucks Every time I just think gotdamn it wasnt worth THAT Signed a poor single income family bro |
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Posted: 3/12/2024 3:06:09 PM EDT
[#8]
The next fast food chain that catches the old spirit and meaning of fast food (cheap and fast) will make billions.
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Posted: 3/12/2024 3:06:45 PM EDT
[#9]
Wendy's $5 Biggy Bag enters the chat.
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Posted: 3/12/2024 3:07:03 PM EDT
[#10]
Chik-fil-a for 4 was $62.00.
Dinner for 3 at a Korean BBQ place was $150.00 Costco hot dogs for the win. |
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Posted: 3/12/2024 3:07:49 PM EDT
[#11]
Quote HistoryQuoted: How often did people eat out in the 50's, 60's and 70's? I wasn't around then. Im not sure as I wasn’t alive but in the 80’s and 90’s it was maybe a 1-3 times a month thing, tops. |
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Posted: 3/12/2024 3:08:59 PM EDT
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Quoted: I refuse to participate any longer. I already cut out eating out for dinner a year ago, but I was still stopping on the way to work for some type of breakfast and just to get out of the shop for an hour, go grab something for lunch. Nope. Not anymore. Leftovers/sack lunch and eat something before I leave the house from here on out. The hole-in-the-wall Mexican joint is now $20 for a burrito and drink. Yeah, I stopped a while ago. For the price of one meal I could buy a couple pork loins from Aldi, and eat for a week! |
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Posted: 3/12/2024 3:09:21 PM EDT
[#13]
Humble brag about being a poor? Son (47), wife and I ate out Sat. night. The service was great, the food excellent and the bill was $135. I left the waiter $30. The meal was well worth it.
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Posted: 3/12/2024 3:09:43 PM EDT
[#14]
Yard house last week for lunch,
Calamari appetizer Two glasses of IPA One soda Taco lunch Lunch salad With a tip, $84.00 OP not lying. |
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Posted: 3/12/2024 3:10:20 PM EDT
[#15]
Quote HistoryQuoted: How often did people eat out in the 50's, 60's and 70's? I wasn't around then. Lol, yeah. Let's set ourselves back 60 years. |
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Posted: 3/12/2024 3:10:51 PM EDT
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OP ain't lying wife and i were on a road trip a couple months ago and stopped at a McDonalds for old-time sake was like $26 for nothing special -- Quarter Pound combo meal and 3 hamburgers fries and a coke i could grill a delicious sirloin steak with the trimmings for that price |
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Posted: 3/12/2024 3:11:10 PM EDT
[#17]
YOLO
I can afford it |
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Posted: 3/12/2024 3:11:11 PM EDT
[#18]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I grabbed McDonalds the other day, first time in probably 2 years. I about had a heart attack. It was like $15 for nothing. What's odd though is the line to the drive through wrapped around the building, and the "bring your order out" parking spots were full. I can't imagine who all of these people were. 
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Posted: 3/12/2024 3:11:31 PM EDT
[#19]
I hear you and feel it too, but all the restaurants seem packed still.
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Posted: 3/12/2024 3:12:07 PM EDT
[#20]
What if I told you that you can still eat out even while at home?
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Posted: 3/12/2024 3:12:18 PM EDT
[#21]
Quote HistoryQuoted: How often did people eat out in the 50's, 60's and 70's? I wasn't around then. After church on Sundays. |
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Posted: 3/12/2024 3:12:25 PM EDT
[#22]
I beat the entire cost of eating in and out.
I quit eating. FU Joe! |
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Posted: 3/12/2024 3:12:32 PM EDT
[#23]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Lol, yeah. Let's set ourselves back 60 years. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: How often did people eat out in the 50's, 60's and 70's? I wasn't around then. Lol, yeah. Let's set ourselves back 60 years. People would be skinnier. |
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Posted: 3/12/2024 3:12:40 PM EDT
[#24]
Haha you think food is expensive, try mixed drinks.
My wife had a few the other night when we went to dinner. I told her that she just had $150 bucks worth of cocktails, and that Id better get lucky… |
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Posted: 3/12/2024 3:12:50 PM EDT
[#25]
Wife sprung for dinner last night at an upscale restaurant she had picked for our sons graduation dinner.
$97 + tip , for the two of us. I won’t be frequenting their establishment…. |
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Posted: 3/12/2024 3:14:08 PM EDT
[#26]
Sam’s club frank and a pop is 1.38.
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Posted: 3/12/2024 3:14:11 PM EDT
[#27]
Did everyone remember to leave their fast food worker a tip?
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Posted: 3/12/2024 3:14:24 PM EDT
[#28]
Couldn't do our weekly meal preps. Hit a local Korean chicken bowl chain. 2x chicken bowl, white meat, white rice, green onions: $25 w/ tax
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Posted: 3/12/2024 3:15:19 PM EDT
[#29]
Quote HistoryQuoted: How often did people eat out in the 50's, 60's and 70's? I wasn't around then. We didn't eat out very often when I was a kid, there weren't many options in my area at the time. |
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Posted: 3/12/2024 3:15:21 PM EDT
[#30]
I bargain hunt. Pizza bites at Papa Johns cost about $7 with tax and it's enough for one person. Quesadillas at mom and pop Mexican places are usually an appetizer and not that much. Other than that, eat at home. Learn to cook.
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Posted: 3/12/2024 3:16:20 PM EDT
[#31]
I’m over the cost of fast food. It’s gotten absurd and I’m tired of paying for it.
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Posted: 3/12/2024 3:16:33 PM EDT
[#32]
All depends where you go. Fast food has gotten ridiculous but I have never been a big fan of fast food so I could care less. I took my daughter out for a lunch date Sunday to a local pub & grub. We both had a cheeseburger with fries, she had 2 bottles of Dr. Pepper and I had 2 tap beers. Bill was $23...
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Posted: 3/12/2024 3:17:20 PM EDT
[#33]
We eat out once or twice a week. It definitely has increased in the last few years.
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Posted: 3/12/2024 3:17:50 PM EDT
[#34]
I hear ya! I splurge on Dominos every once and again. 2 for $6.99 is hard to beat
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Posted: 3/12/2024 3:18:03 PM EDT
[#35]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Wife sprung for dinner last night at an upscale restaurant she had picked for our sons graduation dinner. $97 + tip , for the two of us. I won’t be frequenting their establishment…. dang dude 
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Posted: 3/12/2024 3:19:41 PM EDT
[#36]
it really shouldn't be an everyday occurrence anyway.
I'll occasionally go out for lunch just to get the fuck out of the house and get like a $5 cheeseburger, no fries and bring my own drink. I consider it an indulgence and kind of wasteful. We almost always have some form of leftovers or stuff for lunch at home I also generally don't need to be eating lunch anyway. |
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Posted: 3/12/2024 3:20:06 PM EDT
[#37]
Got a $100 gift certificate to the Capital Grille. That's gonna cost me a few hundred $$.
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Posted: 3/12/2024 3:20:39 PM EDT
[#38]
I stopped eating out for lunch last year, just about anywhere you go for a sandwich and an order of fries is $20-$25
screw that |
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Posted: 3/12/2024 3:21:11 PM EDT
[#39]
Quote HistoryQuoted: How often did people eat out in the 50's, 60's and 70's? I wasn't around then. Family thing maybe once a week at the most. |
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Posted: 3/12/2024 3:21:26 PM EDT
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Our hole in the wall Mexican joint charges $3 for the 4" street tacos. No thanks. Maybe stop stacking 2x Tortilla's up and charge less.
My pastrami grilled cheese cost me 10 minutes to make and $2. I'll take that instead. Quoted: Cheapest place I’ve found is the deli at the grocery store. I try to pack my lunch though Our grocery store deli wants $7.99 for a 7-8" hoagie or small salad. |
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Posted: 3/12/2024 3:22:13 PM EDT
[#41]
Cheapest place I’ve found is the deli at the grocery store. I try to pack my lunch though
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Posted: 3/12/2024 3:22:20 PM EDT
[#42]
I decided to go out to the shitty local sports bar (we only have one bar/restaurant in town) last Friday just to get out of the house for a while. A cheeseburger with fries and two pint draft Miller Lite’s was $38 before leaving a tip. At least it was a good cheeseburger, I guess.
I can recreate that meal at home for about $7. |
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Posted: 3/12/2024 3:22:29 PM EDT
[#43]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I grabbed McDonalds the other day, first time in probably 2 years. I about had a heart attack. It was like $15 for nothing. What's odd though is the line to the drive through wrapped around the building, and the "bring your order out" parking spots were full. I can't imagine who all of these people were. Same where I live. Sunday mornings you see car after car load of kids with an adult going through the drive thru getting multiple sacks of "food". Has to be $50 or more. Nobody buys a gallon of milk and a box of cereal anymore? |
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Posted: 3/12/2024 3:22:54 PM EDT
[#44]
Fast food is stupid now
Expensive and shitty, find a cheaper sit down restaurant and it’s not much more and way better food |
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Posted: 3/12/2024 3:23:06 PM EDT
[#45]
Anything they're going to cook me at a restaurant, I can do better at home. I live 40 minutes from civilization so it's at least an hour and a half of driving to eat out.
Makes the decision pretty easy... |
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Posted: 3/12/2024 3:23:28 PM EDT
[#46]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Did everyone remember to leave their fast food worker a tip? Always do. ''Get a better education'' works well. I'm just running out of places to go to locally. |
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Posted: 3/12/2024 3:24:01 PM EDT
[#47]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I know it's just a Bee article, but that "free financing" deal would be a huge advantage for a lot of people. Many "unwise" (putting it nicely) folks put McDonald's meals on a credit card that doesn't get paid off at the end of the month and so they pay 22% interest on that happy meal. |
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Posted: 3/12/2024 3:24:29 PM EDT
[#48]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I hear you and feel it too, but all the restaurants seem packed still. Yep. I’m still trying to figure out how people are paying for all this. Credit? |
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Posted: 3/12/2024 3:24:48 PM EDT
[#49]
Now you understand your grandparents.
"I remember when you could buy lunch for quarter and still have enough left over to fill up your gas tank and drive around town!" |
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Posted: 3/12/2024 3:24:58 PM EDT
[#50]
I eat out a lot, and it’s a large percentage of my monthly spending. Basically my one real luxury splurge.
I do cook, but not enough. If I reduced my eating out to just a couple of times a week, I’d save a ton every month. |
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