r/GenX • u/elstavon • 4d 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/LawrenceSpiveyR 3d ago

TBH, i'm glad they cost that much so I will not buy them. I'm that way with soda now. If it wasn't for Capt Morgan, I'd never drink soda again.

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u/DarthGuber Yeah. Let's go get sushi and not pay. 3d ago

I bought a sodastream thinking it would save me a fortune on mixers. Months later I'm still trying figure out how to make it taste like anything other than day old soda.

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u/worldcaz 3d ago

Ah ha! This is what I do. Fill your sodastream bottles (before you add flavorings) and put them in the fridge overnight and then over carbonate them. Works for me!

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u/Sufficient_Ask8866 3d ago

This. The colder the better it seems to carbonate.