My lunch costs has skyrocketed

[JEDI]

10+ yrs ago, I used to goto McDonalds for lunch.
$1 McDouble or $2 McChicken/medium fries combo (doesn't work w/McDouble)
can of coke (from home)

or bringing my own lunch:
1) 1/4lb lunch meat (turkey, ham, baloney, etc), wheat bread, mustard, lettuce and tomato.
a lb of Oscar meyer lunch meat costs between $2 and $5, depending on meat.

2) fruit (1 banana,apple or orange)

so ~$1 total for home lunch


nowadays:
$15 for all you can eat sushi (like today)
burp!

going to try all you can eat Japanese $10 later this week.
limited selection sushi (nothing much I like), teriyaki chicken/beef, tempura veggies (yum!), a rice section, and a noodles section.


if McDonalds kept the $1 McDouble, I'd probably would have kept on alternating between McDouble, McChicken/fries, and making my own sandwich.

but something psychological about it no longer at the $1 price point.
if it's more than a $1, might as well spend $15 on a buffet for lunch.

What the heck?
I don't understand it...

 

[Ruptga]

sucks to suck

 

[MongGrel]

Point of the thread not found.

You're eating at cheap all you can eat Sushi places instead of going to McD's for lunch ?

 

[Tweak155]

Pretty sure they still have $1 McDoubles around here, although I haven't specifically looked in a year maybe. They probably went up to $1.49 at most though.

 

[dainthomas]

I you can't spend $260 a year on lunch you might as well spend 4 grand.

 

[brianmanahan]

i ate a celebratory 5$ lunch today, but normally mine is about 2$ (cheap cafeteria at work plus k-cup iced tea)

 

[Humpy]

$2 McChicken/medium fries combo

~$1 total

 

[Capt Caveman]

OP is fat and stupid

 

[Carson Dyle]

but something psychological about it no longer at the $1 price point.
if it's more than a $1, might as well spend $15 on a buffet for lunch.

What the heck?
I don't understand it...

Neither do I. That makes absolutely no sense. If your brain works like that you might want to seek help. Most people's price consciousness is WAY more refined.

I'll go out and get a $6-7 sub at Jimmy John's for lunch, but will balk at a $10-11 Thai lunch combo. Do the former instead of the latter just once a week and that's $400 per year.

 

[Sonikku]

I was buying two McDoulbles for $2 just a month ago. Didn't kill my wallet. What kills me though is when the specialty soup shop sells one price for a styrofoam cup of soup (filled to the top) compared to a higher priced bowl of the same soup (filled part way but far from the top). I tested it once and found what they put in the bowl almost neatly fit into the styrofoam cup.

 

[Mai72]

Oh my god lunches are so expensive.

My parents owned a cafe in a very expensive city in Stone Harbor. Go look up Stone Harbor and Avalon, NJ. Multi-million dollar homes, etc... Anyway, it was very common for people to spend anywhere from $80-150 on lunch depending on how many people were seated at that one table. By yourself, you're spending $30 plus on lunch if you ate at my parent's cafe.

And this is the issue with the middle class. You guys are worried about spending $10 on lunch. Personally, I hate having to worry about money. But, I'm just like you guys and I hate it.

 

[shimpster]

i reckon its due to inflation

 

[ponyo]

Is this a brag thread? Are you bragging you spent $15 on lunch?

 

[twinrider1]

Currently in my area.....

 

[Ns1]

Currently in my area.....

your area is a rarity - they don't even advertise that deal on the main mcd page anymore.

hell, even the mcpick 2 for $5 has officially ended nationally.

 

[MongGrel]

Is this a brag thread? Are you bragging you spent $15 on lunch?

Is kind of how I read it.

Go figure.

 

[olds]

Have

 

[MongGrel]

Have

:biggrin:

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Pretty sure they still have $1 McDoubles around here, although I haven't specifically looked in a year maybe. They probably went up to $1.49 at most though.

McDoubles are still $1 around here and so are McChickens. I almost never go to McDonalds, but there are lots of places for cheap lunches. I wouldn't go for all you can eat sushi at any price.

 

[Indus]

This is the best burger I've ever had and surprisingly it was not in the USA.. It beat In-n-Out, Carls Jr, White Castle, McDonalds in the US, Burger King and many local diners.

 

[JEDI]

clarified

Neither do I. That makes absolutely no sense. If your brain works like that you might want to seek help. Most people's price consciousness is WAY more refined.

I'll go out and get a $6-7 sub at Jimmy John's for lunch, but will balk at a $10-11 Thai lunch combo. Do the former instead of the latter just once a week and that's $400 per year.

yeah, it's like once that $1 threshold has been breeched, the flood waters open and sky's the limit.

 

[Skeeedunt]

I, too, spend reckless amounts of money on food. You only live once, you might as well eat something that kills you.

 

[Sonikku]

i reckon its due to inflation

Pretty sure if inflation was a thing the minimum wage wouldn't be today what it was half a decade ago.

 

[disappoint]

Have

I would of pointed this out first but you beets me to it's.

 

[MongGrel]

I wouldn't go for all you can eat sushi at any price.

Some people seem to think that is a step up in life, for some odd reason.

Even if the sushi is crap.

Ramen.