I'm so happy we are quibbling over the price of a medium combo at Burger King and not something really truly important like . . . . about a million other things.
so you don't want to talk about McDonalds prices anymore? seriously, doesn't that get a bit embarrassing?
My first app was 'good shit in the crotch pot'. The next one was 'good shit in the oven'. I'm working on my 'good shit on the stove' next. My neighbor smokes weed and smokes all kinds of meat. Good on the grill too
McDonalds prices are way higher now than they were under the Trump presidency. I thought I had belabored the point. Would you like to talk more about how food prices (including McDonald’s) have skyrocketed during the Biden presidency? Here’s some more source material from ultra-MAGA Bloomberg: Grocery Prices Have Soared. That’s Spoiling Biden’s Economic Pitch.
Because for one, people just take anecdotes for fact, perhaps as this thread started. Also, you are exactly right. All McDonald’s could disappear tomorrow and society wouldn’t suffer at all. It wouldn’t necessarily be better unless McD’s was just a single part of a total food overhaul. The problem isn’t McD’s per se, it’s the food system writ large. The cost-benefit analysis is abysmal once the simplest of externalities are considered. The whole “Big Mac Index” was a joke by its originator although it turns out it does represent some very basic macro economic trends halfway decently. But a modest scratch below the surface and it’s basically without value. If economics were simply a single bad fast food price we could all live large by simply existing. But not being able to buy a home or property or pay twice as much for insurance or being bankrupted by treatable medical emergencies or being unable to conduct your life outside of a tiny lane of allowed behavior dictated by people who consider “others” literal evil or threats to their very existence and will do all to destroy those people, yah, those things make life suck. Just throw out a sandwich and a price and run out the clock on The Economy.
This is definitely a more complete picture: Grocery Prices Have Soared. That’s Spoiling Biden’s Economic Pitch.
It is. I am lucky this hasn't impacted me much but I can see where it is taking a toll on those living paycheck to paycheck. Wages have gone up, which helps. Food prices are high, good data can show that. Posting a lie about a $10 burger wasn't necessary.
No doubt it is much smarter (for a multitude of reasons) to cook at home, no matter how well to do your family is. The biggest cost you pay eating out is your long-term health. Save a few rare exceptions, eating out is likely taking years off your life. You can also put together a pretty healthy and green diet at home for the same cost. Healthy foods cost more, but the ROI is indisputable. All that said, the cost to eat at home has grown exponentially during the Biden administration and I have no doubt he will make it costlier with four more years. But he’ll forgive a failing musician’s $250,000 student loan tab though, so that said failing musician doesn’t have to switch careers. As long as you’re not white, working class, you might get by just fine with 4 more years of Joe. (or not)
My observation is that packaged and prepared foods has seen most of the inflation. It’s a strange and insidious thing. Produce, meats, dairy have inflation, but it’s more “normal” levels in line with CPI data. On a lot of raw products you wouldn’t even notice it. Whereas some packaged and processed goods are more akin to fast food, where they are up more like 50%. Why is this? Packaging costs, labor shortages and associated costs, delivery truck drivers, marketing costs for branding, “big food” needs to constantly expand margin and appease shareholders. It a bit of an insidious thing, but the very products poorer people and younger people tend to buy more of also have by far the worst inflation. But the free market solution to all this is pretty simple, stop buying junk food and/or look at alternatives! “Food” is cheap. I think housing is a legit crisis in some areas when it comes to affordability metrics, but food just isn’t unless we are looking at service. The commodities paint a different picture.
There is absolutely zero connection to reality in your posts. You are quite literally no different than this guy complaining that Obama didn't stop 9/11.
Very odd comment. What does race have to do with quarter pounder prices? The fast food thing I think cuts more across socioeconomic lines regardless of race. The curious thing about trying to make this political, is there is probably no current Biden policy you could point to that connects to any fast food inflation. On the other hand your guy wants to massively disrupt the agricultural labor supply. He’s literally running on deporting that labor force! What do you think that does to food inflation? If you love your imagined $10 quarter pounder I guess you’ll really love it when there are beef shortages and Quarter Pounders are going for $20.
I just read a blurb online that said that Florida has the greatest number of conspiracy theorists in the country so this tracks.
