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Long, long ago (2019) I could run to mickey d's and grab two mcchickens and a large drink for $3 US. I think those same terrible choices cost $8 now.
Fast food got stupid expensive in 2020 and never went back, and its made my wife and I healthier because we stopped buying fast food.
just got two chickens recently, $6 a pop. so what used to be $3 now costs around $18 with tax.
Yep, thats been my experience. Breakfast Sausage Burritos used to be like a buck. Now they are almost 5.
I used to go in when i had an extra 10-20 in my pocket and buy a sack of Sausage Burritos and all the picante sauce they'd give me, and eat them over the course of the week.. For that same money I'd be lucky to get 3 now. Its absurd.
Yikes
Everything did. I don't know about where you are, but here the cost of going for food in a pub or restaurant is so expensive that McDonalds is still the cheapest option.
Cheapest option is home cooking.
Totally agree. I was talking about eating out. But you're bang on. We hardly go out to eat anymore. Pre-covid it was normal we'd go out one a week. Not it's only time when we're away from home and want to treat ourselves.
Thats what we do now.
It may be the cheapest but its not good enough for what it does cost.
Totally agree. And when we're feeling lazy we get some frozen, shove in the oven, type food. I know it's not great but really it's no different to fast food but cheaper.
This is not quite the case where I am. Restaurants/pubs prices went up by like a dollar or two per sitting, while fast food went up by like 50%, to the point where if you've got the time a restaurant is as cheap or cheaper than the fast food option.
I have seen that myself. It costs about the same for a sit-down place as fast food costs, but you get bigger portions and better food.
I havent seen that. Here in the PNW, even formerly cheap sit-down restaurants have doubled their prices in the last few years. Red Robin's used to have burgers and bottomless fries for $9.99 and now those burgers are smaller "tavern style" and the fry portion is smaller and they want $18 for it.