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Used to be a 20$ bill could get you all you need at t bell.
We used to feed a family of 4 for $20 at Taco Bell
Taco Bell is fucking ridiculous now. A single grilled cheese burrito on its own is over $10. The other burritos are 3 to 4 bucks as well. The entire point of Taco Bell is that it's supposed to be cheap garbage food you order at 1AM on a weekend after smoking a bowl, and that's no longer feasible. Now it's expensive garbage food. Nevermind that they also got rid of half the menu.
I'm lucky that I live in a town with about 2 billion taco trucks that are all insanely better and cheaper than Taco Bell. Plus, Taco Bell tastes like a Midwestern white lady's version of Mexican food, which made it easy to avoid even when it wasn't so expensive.
I can't imagine living in a town without real Mexican food. We have taco trucks and authentic fast food style Mexican spots where I'm at too.
Nothing that Taco Bell has ever made comes close to the quality of a random shady looking taco truck.
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Went there recently, plain bean burrito used to cost me 1.29...now it's 2.85 AND they now charge extra .20 if you want extra onions.
Crazy prices now.
I miss Taco Viva
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Fun fact! This chart is just strait up wrong. McDonalds prices are up around 20% compared to wages that are up 28%.
I only trust Campbell tomato soup
If anything this tells me that that inflation number is bullshit.
What's bullshit are the cherry-picked numbers on the chart and the jumpy x-axis.
Edit: Article here quotes McDonalds as stating the Big Mac is up 21% since 2019. Sources elsewhere say the sandwich price is actually down since both 2014 and 2019, so who knows. If anything, I would expect Subway to have a higher point on the graph than it does.
Now do since 2014 like the chart
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My wife is charging me 140% more for dinner now, prices are getting insane!