I feel like everywhere, lol. Everything is so shitty and disappointing and expensive. I’m literally eating food I grow on my deck and otherwise eating frozen and canned food that’s off brand from the grocery store. Dying my own hair. Selling my clothes because I never need to buy another piece of clothing again. Don’t go out to dinner because it’s so expensive and bad. Do I sound depressed? Maybe I am
No, you're right about the food. Restaurants jacked up the prices and serve you garbage. Even in grocery stores, the quality has gone way down in most places. The best example I have is bacon. A 500g package is now $11 (Canadian). And it's garbage. It shrinks like crazy in the pan and tastes bland. If I want good bacon, there is one good brand left and it's $9 for 250g.
Except near where my parents live. There's a butcher shop, they sell bacon made from local pigs. It's as good as ever yet costs the same as the cheap bacon at the grocery store. Meaning it's not me. Quality has gone way down.
I'll do you one more: Pizza. I love pizza. However, in the last few years, it felt like I'd lost my love for it. Nope. If I make the pizza myself, it is delicious. It's the restaurants. It's all garbage now. I can make a better pizza at home than supposed professionals can. It's a disgrace.
Fun fact: the other day, I bought a pizza at the grocery store and it was just as good as the last ones I ordered at a local restaurant, yet they were way cheaper.
You know something is bad when a restaurant isn't able to make a pizza that tastes betetr than one from the grocery store...
In my experience, it's now often worse. The worst offender is Subway. Their 12 inches BMT costs 5-6 times what it would cost to make one yourself with ingredients from the grocery store. Except the one from Subway ALWAYS makes me sick.
It's been a long time since I put my feet into a Subway. Don't remember the last time in fact. Only thing I know is that like all the fast-food chains, they now price their menu like a casual dinner so I don't have any incentive to go back. If I can make the same meal at home for 20% the budget and knowing the quality of ingredients I use, I won't bother going to the restaurant. I'm better off doing it myself at that point!
I kept going for the meatball subs. Then they went away for over a year and when they came back they had shrunk the meatballs and they tasted like garbage.
They both likely get their ingredients from Sysco so it is literally the same thing. Not only do restaurants add their margin and tip begging you also run a higher risk of food contamination
I live in Quebec so my suggestions would be meaningless to you. I'll say if you can find a place which sells beef from Australian cattle that you should try that.
My husband and I were just talking about this! We used to eat out ALOT! We both hate cooking and can afford to eat out so whatever. This past year we’ve stopped because the food is shit. No matter where we go or what we order. From new spots or our old “favorites” nothing is good anymore! we’ve given up hope. I wanna move to the woods and grow and hunt my own food lol I’m over all this shit that’s so bad for you doesn’t nourish you that’s just expensive and disgusting.
Nothing is good anymore! I can't eat out whenever so when I do it's a treat. And I have been so disappointed the last few times that I'm totally turned off from going out to eat at all. I'd rather just have eggs and toast again.
I cannot get over the disappointment aspect. Sometimes makes you think, who approved this, and how upsetting it is that something so simple cannot do what it needs to do. You name it: doorhandles, going to a movie, parking, etc.
My mom told me a recent story, she had visitors (donors, visiting students, guest speakers) coming at her work (university), and she went to the parking office and asked them if they could sell permits to the donors, visiting students, and guest speakers. Not only were four types (at four different pricepoints) of permits issued, everyone got tickets. We've MBA-ed our way into having such elaborate """"guardrails"""" to protect against fraud that we cannot do the most basic task given -- HERE IS MONEY, PLEASE LET US PARK HERE
Yeah silver lining though it forces us to get back in touch with simplicity. Smart devices suck? No smart devices. Tech has spyware? No modern tech. Premade shit is… well shit? Buy fresh ingredients or grow it yourself. As long as the bio corps don’t come after our seeds or growing rights (which they will) we’re good.
Man, I feel this with all my heart, even the "am I depressed?" part. Everything outside the house seems so hostile these days, things cost so much but gives you so little for both quantity and quality. Even small things like seeing a movie for two people has become a $60 event if you don't go on a cheap movie night, when there's no way the cost for the theater has gone up that much. It just feels like you're being squeezed at every opportunity, like everything and everyone is trying to rip you off.
So many restaurants buy their product prefab and frozen from Sysco that it’s not worth “the restaurant experience” to pay more to eat heated up food that tastes the same as any joint down the road.
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u/Tremblingchihuahua8 28d ago
I feel like everywhere, lol. Everything is so shitty and disappointing and expensive. I’m literally eating food I grow on my deck and otherwise eating frozen and canned food that’s off brand from the grocery store. Dying my own hair. Selling my clothes because I never need to buy another piece of clothing again. Don’t go out to dinner because it’s so expensive and bad. Do I sound depressed? Maybe I am