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Does nobody here find it a bit insane that 11 dollars is seen as an acceptable price for a sandwich these days?
Pretty sure a potato is going to cost $11 soon at this rate
We're going to have to put the Arrested Development banana meme out to pasture soon.
We were supposed to get another ~100 years out of that meme. Thanks, Trump.
I didn't know there was an xkcd for this. Nice! Thanks for sharing.
There is an xkcd for everything!
There really is holy shit, I wasn't fully convinced until this
https://thomaspark.co/2017/01/relevant-xkcd/
I expected to pay $5 for a good sandwich in 1995 and with inflation $11 sounds about right.
Double checked and yup: https://www.calculateme.com/inflation/5.00-dollars/from-1995/to-now
The main problem is that since wages haven't kept up the proportional value to the paycheck doesn't follow inflation which is why it isn't actually as simple as just looking at inflation.
I paid 2€ for a sandwich up to 2020. How is $5 expected in 95...
Now it's more like 4-5€ for a good one.
Depends on the type of sandwich and how good it is. I'm thinking of a full sized sub.
Yellow Sub has fantastic sandwiches and full size was around $5 back in the 90's and around $14 today. Back then the half was like 75% the cost of a full (twice the size) so I always got the full and had leftovers.
http://www.yellosublawrence.net/menu
I believe you mean "eleven dollars dollars".
You mean “dollars eleven dollars”.
Me. I think it's outrageous 😳
Dude I'm always so stunned by comments like this. I'm in aus and a zoomer, even after converting to USD decent sandwiches have cost more than this my entire life
Australia was a model for the rest of the world...
Even worse, it is half the size it was 5 years ago.
it's not even a foot long
I mean, if you're going out to sit down restaurant and getting a good sandwich, I don't think that's unacceptable at all. That said, my local sub shop has amazing subs for $6-8
Going to a sit down restaurant for a sandwich is very suspicious behavior. Like going to a bar and ordering a glass of milk.
Yeah same in the EU, every local sub place will be €5 at most
That sounds like a dream to me in Germany. Subway for two was around 20€ last year and the average Döner is at least 7-8€, though in my area it’s closer to 10€
If you're eating at Subway you're doing it wrong
That’s why my last price point is last year
Laughs in Eastern Europe's 20$/week spendings on food.
While making sandwiches for myself every day.
Oh, I pay about that in the grocery store, I just can’t get restaurant food for that cheap.
With or without drinks, and footlong or half-footlong? Been a while since I've been to subway, but I'd be very surprised to learn that the cheaper half-footlongs are already at 10€ (assuming your area's taxes, wages and raw material prices are similar to mine, which is not a given). IMO the footlongs are too big to count as "one sandwich".
Without drinks and foot long. Even if I don’t finish it in one sitting, I’ll basically always go for a bigger sandwich and have leftovers later, unless it’s something really saucy or likely to get super soggy.
Yeah, but that's one big sandwich. 10€ for a big sandwich is different from 10€ for a normal-sized sandwich.
It’s about the size of a dürüm, at least around me. If they stuffed it really full, it might feel bigger, but subway was never even close to as full as any Döner place makes theirs. I tend to judge the size of food by my companions because I have a bird stomach (I would be happiest having three bites of food every half hour all day long, because otherwise I get really full), and I’m the only one who saves part of it for later.
Yeah well, a döner isn't really a sandwich.
What common German institutions would you compare to the “local sub shop” my original comment responded to other than subway and Döner? They’re not exactly the same, but they’re really the closest thing I can think of.
Most bakers sell rolls or baguette pieces filled with salad, cheese/meat and often a slice of tomato. It's closer to a sandwich than a döner IMO, but you could also call them proto-hamburgers.
I would call that a sandwich, but not a sub. We make them at my bakery, but even with a half baguette, we put one slice of tomato, one slice of cucumber, one piece of lettuce, and two pieces of turkey/cheese or three pieces of salami/ham (along with generous Remoulade). I love bread and that’s still a wild bread to filling ratio, and it would be straight up immoral to change €10 for it imo (honestly, we charge €4-5 for it, and that still feels shitty). Plus they’re premade, which makes a difference for me in the feeling of it (you can order one new, but it’s annoying as shit for us because we then have to reclean the kitchen
Yes, but they probably don’t mean a sandwich using the standard size of bread slices that you find in a store. Something like Jimmy John’s Favorites subs or my local gyro place (technically not a sandwich but similar) are around that price and contain a lot more volume of food than a basic sandwich. Subway’s footlongs are about that size/volume but their quality is not worth $11 by any means. I think hamburgers also would be an exception to that price-quality-volume metric for sandwiches.
If I'm going to be spending eleven dollars for a sandwimch it better be two.
nah that's a reasonable price for a quality sandwich in Canada
now if you convert that $11 USD to CAD, then no, that's high
This must be old; it’s $15 everywhere near me now.
I remember when I thought $8 was steep. It wasn't even that long ago.