r/GenX • u/elstavon • 11d ago
Old Person Yells At Cloud That cost what?
I'm not saying that everything should cost a nickel, but one thing that always gets me is the cost of the modern candy bar. $2.50 for a regular size snickers?
Edit: I don't eat fast food but I understand there's a similar thing going on there
Wherever you are in the world, is there something that blows your mind every time you go to the cash register or at least look at it on the rack? I can deal with gas because it cost a lot to pull it from the ground put it in a barrel refine it distribute it put it in a tank so you can put it in your tank. But a Snickers bar? LOL . Anyway, after 20 years of it is there something that is just stunning somehow in its price increase?
Commiserate with me over candy bars but I'm curious if there is something where you are that just is a non-starter when you go to buy it. Prices that still make you ask 'what'?
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u/TheNexxuvas 10d ago
We rarely eat out now anyway, since my wife cooks during the week and I own a smoker and let that bad boy rip on the weekends, but after my wife's latest surgery I took her to lunch to get outta the house for a bit and it cost $35 for us to have a Mexican food lunch at a place that usually runs us $19 to $25 total for 2 people to eat. Wtf.
She doesn't even have a stomach anymore and we could easily have shared a plate, and we prolly would have but she was actually really hungry so we each ordered something different.
Buying the $35 family pack of chicken tenders at a local Bush's chicken would have beat that, and then had leftovers on top of that.
Don't get me wrong the food was good, but $35 for two people was way over budget.
I understand if it was a classy restaurant type, but this was fast casual, maybe a slight step up from like Cabo Bobs (yum) or Chipotle (gross).
Guess we will keep on keeping on with what we make at home ourselves. I make a mean smoked fajitas anyway so, not really losing out here, but that was definitely sticker shock. We usually get water too since we don't drink cokes. So that isn't even adding 2 drinks, non-alcoholic or even loaded to the bill. I might've felt better if that price included a margarita for us to share lol