This week, we scour campaign finance reports to reveal strikingly partisan preferences for various restaurants, with few more polarizing than McDonald’s.
I always thought fast food was incredibly expensive, but maybe that’s just me. When I was living hand to mouth during college and shortly after, I found that a big bag of rice and beans (even canned, although dried would have been even cheaper) went a long way in my food budget. Fast food was a luxury I almost never did.
In the mid 90’s a whopper was a buck. That’s a bit over $2 today with inflation. I think whoppers are like $7-9 now. Sure compared to rice and beans it was probably expensive back then too, but not what I’d call incredibly.
There was like a 20 year period where they had things like a dollar menu to get people in and it really could be cheap to eat fast food. Those days are gone.
I want to live in a world where people can eat beyond rice and dried beans within their budget.
It’s 2024. Eating a thin mash of bulk grains like you’re a medieval peasant isn’t a plucky story of resilience. It’s the story of a failed economic policy.
I always thought fast food was incredibly expensive, but maybe that’s just me. When I was living hand to mouth during college and shortly after, I found that a big bag of rice and beans (even canned, although dried would have been even cheaper) went a long way in my food budget. Fast food was a luxury I almost never did.
In the mid 90’s a whopper was a buck. That’s a bit over $2 today with inflation. I think whoppers are like $7-9 now. Sure compared to rice and beans it was probably expensive back then too, but not what I’d call incredibly.
There was like a 20 year period where they had things like a dollar menu to get people in and it really could be cheap to eat fast food. Those days are gone.
Just curious: what time period was that?
90s through maybe 2010.
I want to live in a world where people can eat beyond rice and dried beans within their budget.
It’s 2024. Eating a thin mash of bulk grains like you’re a medieval peasant isn’t a plucky story of resilience. It’s the story of a failed economic policy.