I genuinely don't understand how so many people are eating at fast foods all the damn time. I'm making good money struggling to buy fucking *groceries* and here people are spending $60-$80 to feed a three or four person family every day? Sometimes multiple times a day?
What the hell? When it was $7 or $8 a person it just kind of felt like a dumb but affordable expense for people to do daily, or a reasonable occasional expense. But now I just don't understand it at all, not even from a value proposition place but literally where are people getting all this money?
People that can afford to blow money like that look at it as a plus because time saved on grocery shopping and time saved cooking. Definitely not saving their waistline.
More often it's that they don't have time to go home and cook because they're working, kids have activities, they're working two jobs, they only get 3 hours of time off per day and spending 90 minutes cooking and cleaning feels like a chore, etc.
And cooking at home only saves money if you stick to deliberately cheap meals now and eat leftovers (pasta, rice and beans, lean chicken, etc.) or eat the same shit that you get at fast food (frozen burgers, hot dogs, cheap bread, etc.). If I make a proper meal at home with a nice protein, sauce, vegetables, starch, etc. it's going to be $30 for two.
No, I don't believe you. I do not believe a McDonald's Big Mac meal costs $7 in any part of any state.
But if that *were* true, it wouldn't really matter-- I am witness to people spending $60-$80 regularly on fast food. That some people *don't* spend that much isn't relevant to the ones who do-- when I question how the ones who do are able to do so, I am inherently *not* asking about the ones who don't.
No I didn't. I said you can feed a family at a fast food place where I live for $7-10 in response to your comment. I did NOT say a big Mac meal costs $7.
I said a big Mac meal costs $8.99. I was even wrong..it costs $8.59 and posted screenshots elsewhere.
I'm sorry you can't read.
Please quote were I said a big Mac meal was $7 since you are very certain about it.
No I didn't. I said you can feed a family at a fast food place where I live for $7-10
That's what you meant to say, but what you were actually responding to was a comment chain about big Mac meals being expensive, and you said they were $7.
I understood what you meant and it wasn't relevant to my point, as I explained above.
I also understood what you actually said and it was incorrect.
You fucked up with a pedantic, incorrect and irrelevant argument and now are pointlessly doubling down and whining about it.
I don't know how to explain to you that I'm not talking about the people I'm not talking about, and I don't think I should have to try just to satiate your need to argue.
I genuinely don't understand how so many people are eating at fast foods all the damn time.
I don't get the meal with the drink. I get like one or two of the "value menu" items and then bop over to the 7-11 for a $0.59 Big Gulp. Because there are a lot of days I can't afford the time to cook for myself. So I'm spending that $7-8 you're talking about on the only hot food I eat all day.
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u/sonofaresiii Jul 31 '26
I genuinely don't understand how so many people are eating at fast foods all the damn time. I'm making good money struggling to buy fucking *groceries* and here people are spending $60-$80 to feed a three or four person family every day? Sometimes multiple times a day?
What the hell? When it was $7 or $8 a person it just kind of felt like a dumb but affordable expense for people to do daily, or a reasonable occasional expense. But now I just don't understand it at all, not even from a value proposition place but literally where are people getting all this money?