This feels like they're implying it's a luxury like a lambo when it's more so a luxury like an extra piece of cake. Just because people are realizing they shouldn't eat out every night doesn't mean it's "luxurious" to got to BK. It's an unnecessary expense, that's all.
this post was submitted on 29 May 2024
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Fast food isn't a luxury. A luxury is something extravagant, high quality, and highly enjoyable. Fast food is simply an overpriced disappointment.
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Or you know... Food in general is a luxury now.
I remember when avocado toast was why people couldn't buy a home, now it's just toast.
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This is what sparks the franchise wars that demolition man predicted.
Demolition Man was a cyberpunk dystopian prediction taken to the absurd in order to be palatable to the masses. Really, though, who's to say what eventual conglomerate will be on top. Tangential revenue streams and strange mergers could make tomorrow's winners. Either way, the rest of us lose.
How long before Wendy's is a lunch time stock market?
But rest assured, capitalism is the only successful model and every instance of socialism has failed in human history. /s
They "responded to the feedback" (ie tested the waters with a batshit idea on purpose), so at least a year or so before they more quietly broach the idea again.
There was an immigrant friend of the family who during the Bush era (this was during what I would call the 'height' of the Muslim panic), who basically made the argument to me that even with all the hate, all the war-mongering, all the bullshit, that the US was the best country in the world. When we pressed him for why, his argument was basically, "The McDonald's Dollar menu".
This is decades ago, but his argument was that in-spite of everything else, he knew that in Amercica, at least his children would not starve, because they would always be able to afford 'something', however unhealthy, from the dollar menu.
I don't think that America exists any more.
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My wife and I were running around doing errands and stopped for a quick lunch at Carl's Jr.
$25(!) For 2 people! At Carl's Jr!
Hardees/Carl's Jr. Has always been stupid expensive for fast food, at least in my area
Yeah we just go out to good food now and spend the same money.
Here's their current featured combo in the Los Angeles area before tax...
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Prices keep going up, quality keeps going down. Smart to avoid it.
You're supposed to be cutting quality in exchange for price and speed. If the prices are up there's no incentive to get it at all. If I wanted 100x the recommended monthly sodium intake all in a single meal I'm sure there are cheaper ways to find it.
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Well yeah, that shit's expensive.