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@mfurls
PhD in epidemiology, and tenured faculty at an R1 institution, but this is my unofficial burner crap talking account so I will not be revealing my actual name
USA Katılım Ocak 2019
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A few months back I sat next to a guy on a plane from Wendy's corporate
He said they're struggling because fast food is now basically the price of fast casual and restaurants, so Wendy's no longer has an edge over Chipotle or even like, Applebee's
Wonder if they'll go under
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@MoosaTayler @thecranesbill @BotulismBarry @SeanMcCarthyCom I get two chicken tacos from chipotle and tell them to super overload the rice and beans, and it’s $7.50 and an insane amount of calories
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Lunch just costs $28 now. Are they not supposed to eat?
Mikli@CryptoMikli
Kevin O’Leary says Gen Z is financially cooked when people making $70K a year are spending $28 on lunch
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@BodoTheWaterGuy I mean there is a middle ground. Yes you can make your own lunch for $3-4/day, but you can also get two tacos from Chipotle for $7, or go to your local hospital cafeteria and get lunch for $5 or $6. Either option is way less egregious than door dashing.
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It's ok for the poors to brownbag it, but I'm a professional.
I deserve REAL food.
The entitlement of some people...
Todd of Mischief@AndToddsaid
I suppose I'll be accused of being a leftist for saying this, but working professionals shouldn’t have to brown‑bag it to succeed in a modern society. I don't mean that in the “everyone deserves a pony” sense. I mean it in the “my car doesn’t sound right” sense.
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@Aranwe9378 @renegademormon @_nomadic_soul Also on her other post she said she is eating ground beef, shrimp, berries, lamb, whatever, for $10/day for 4 people. I mean..you can barely make that cut with exclusively eating beans rice and potatoes. And homemade bread. Add a bag of oranges and it’s all over.
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@renegademormon @mfurls @_nomadic_soul But now the price just increased? Also still missing a real protein option and doesnt acknowledge egg and wheat allergies which are the most common food allergies
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The Internet: YOU CAN’T FEED FOUR PEOPLE FOR $10 A DAY!
Me: Here’s what I ate for lunch, it was $0.25!
NOBODY WANTS TO EAT LIKE A PEASANT!! YOU AMISH BITCH!
It was homemade bread and eggs.
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@oldfshndanne I don’t think the passenger was sick, I think they just realized he was Congolese and not allowed to enter the US
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Oh, holy fucking fuck. They dropped off the sick person in Montreal and flew the entire rest of the passengers on the plane to Detroit. They landed 3 hours ago. We are so fucked if that's ebola.
QUARANTINE THEM ALL IMMEDIATELY
toronto.citynews.ca/2026/05/20/air…
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@allie__voss We had a group of laborers working on some stuff at our house and when it was lunch time, they set up a portable grill, took raw carne asada out of their coolers, and GRILLED IT during lunch in our driveway, and then they ate carne asada tacos while my husband watched in envy.
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@renegademormon @_nomadic_soul Nobody is eating eggs and bread every meal for a whole month. This would not be considered nutritionally complete by anybody.
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@mfurls @_nomadic_soul All that’s left is the word problem.
Meg | The Feminist Budget Mom@_nomadic_soul
Here’s an example of my lunch, $0.16 worth of eggs and homemade bread that took maybe 0.40 cents for the whole loaf?? (I already ate over 2 other pieces lol), so let’s say $.25 for lunch. Would pair with a 20c banana but I already ate so much bread oops. I’m the one who eats the least expensive food and my kids eat the most expensive.
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There’s a whole universe of food options between instant ramen or pb&j and $28 DoorDash or sit down restaurant lunches!
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@MayMayd45 @TVreporter Do you want to sit in the seat that passenger sat in ?
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@TVreporter Here we go. Ebola isn't spread by breathing. Fluids only. Doesn't spread that easily.
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Breaking: Air France flight 378 from Paris to Detroit, diverted to Montreal — banned from entering US — due to reported Ebola concern. Passenger onboard says announcement was made and flight crew put on protective masks.
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@Viscountpost @RudeOnion If you have time to open DoorDash, decide what to eat, order DoorDash, wait for the delivery, then you have time to cook a meal
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@RudeOnion It's Schrodinger's Peasant though, because at eating homecooked food is for poor people, but at the same time, anyone who has time to cook at home is privileged and rich.
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Zoomer: "Cooking is too hard and takes too much time! Groceries are too expensive!"
Me: "Here's a budget recipe you can cook in a crockpot."
Zoomer: "And eat like some filthy POOR??"
#notallzoomers
GIF
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@gipper913 @Neko_Tet I once paid 10.99 for a loaf of gluten free bread from sprouts. I threw up in my mouth a little, I shouldn’t have bought it, bad decision
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@Neko_Tet You must be in a low COL area. The bread we buy here at the grocery (not bakery / fresh) ranges from 5 bucks to 6.50. Even at the low / budget end: a loaf of wonder bread is 2.50 and store brand is 2 bucks.
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You think a loaf of bread being $5 is normal?
Ben Klayer@the_satellite23
Loaf of bread = $5 Peanut butter = $4 Jelly = $4 18 pack of chips = $12 Bag of apples = $5 Total = $30 And you'll have lunch for an entire week or two. $2-4 average per day. Inflation isn't the problem. Your spending habits are.
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@cybelethebest @NoahFence36 @NoblestCalling I also feed my children organic blueberries and grass fed beef but I am aware that it is possible to do it cheaper, with equally nutritious foods, eg frozen blueberries instead of fresh, beans or chicken instead of beef. The most expensive path is not the only nutritious path.
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@NoahFence36 @NoblestCalling There’s a gradient here, of course it will depend on your preferences, your income etc, but my point is that some of the advice just totally precludes prioritizing nutrition and quality.
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I hate that a lot of the advice for coping with food costs comes down to lowering standards more and more. I get it, but I hate it. “Just eat more discounted Dollar Tree mystery meat past its sell-by date!” I’m trying to feed my babies organic blueberries and grass-fed beef over here, you can judge me all you’d like for that but good quality nutrition is a very high priority for my household.
doomer@uncledoomer
young americans arent demanding a $30 lunch everyday. theyre demanding dignity. you shouldnt have to eat hard tack on white bread to afford to live, youre an american. if a shriveled old goblin tells you to be happy with less, they are your enemy, and they are an enemy of america
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@LifetimeIP @JoelWBerry Rich people definitely buy new shoes, that part was funny. Even when I was poor, I bought new shoes. I’m not wearing anyone’s nasty old used shoes!
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@JoelWBerry I agree with much of this but I do not know one person who gets furniture from goodwill.
Rich people don't buy new Jordans or new shoes? Come on.
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A few years ago, I tried to help out a family member who was having trouble, alternating between renting and homelessness. He had a job, and I told him I’d help him with his finances.
When we met up, he was wearing a new pair of Jordans. When I delved into his spending, I found he was renting all his furniture, his TV, and a video game system from Rent-A-Center. He ate fast food every day.
I explained to him why that was such a bad idea. I told him how I get most of my furniture from Goodwill and garage sales. Told him rich people don’t wear new Jordans.
I even showed him how much his money would be worth in 30 years if he invested the money he was giving to Rent-A-Center.
His response? “Sorry, I need nice furniture and I need to look good.”
These are the people blaming the rich for their problems.
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@dumbbitchcap This is the kind of shitposting that keeps me from switching to blue sky
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You’re not poor because you buy lunch and don’t pack it. You’re poor because you’re dumb and lazy. It’s not your fault, it’s been this way since your mom didn’t get morning sickness when she was pregnant with you and then bragged to her friends that you “slept really well”. You just never had that many brain cells and even as a fetus you didn’t elicit enough of a disruption growing inside your mom to make her feel the slightest bit uncomfortable because you’re just kind of a potato. I hope this helps
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@Mike_Shimzy @Uncatfishable The pillowy bread is the best part! I love crunchy peanut butter when someone else is making it, but if I have to spread it myself I’m going Peter Pan smooth.
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@mfurls @Uncatfishable Seedless raspberry jam and crunchy peanut butter on pillowy bread is my personal favorite. When I get paid tomorrow, I'm going to go get that after work and bring it to work on Friday. 😋
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Do people realize that peanut butter and jelly and chips is what they give kids at school who can’t afford school lunch? That’s what they give prisoners in holding cells if you get to jail after food time. And you want working adults to eat that everyday willingly.
Ben Klayer@the_satellite23
Loaf of bread = $5 Peanut butter = $4 Jelly = $4 18 pack of chips = $12 Bag of apples = $5 Total = $30 And you'll have lunch for an entire week or two. $2-4 average per day. Inflation isn't the problem. Your spending habits are.
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@danae_hudlow @CMB1969 At first I thought $28 for lunch was absurd. But then I remembered it’s not $28 for a normal lunch, it’s $28 for a door dashed lunch. Which is about what it costs.
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@CMB1969 Good observation. Two points, though:
1) *cheap* meals out are definitely possible. The $28 or $20 per meal numbers floating around are CRAZY
2) I understand the tradeoffs are undesirable, but it should be normal and expected for young people just getting on their feet +
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When I saw Kevin O'Leary criticizing Gen Z for their $28 lunches, I was inclined to argue, because I'm a millennial who remembers being accused of financial insolvency due to avocado toast. But these posts saying "What else are we supposed to eat for lunch?!" have me rethinking.
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@Teheimar @TheMemeticist Hyper transmissible vs massively undetected require different intervention strategies. Trying to cover bases for both would be optimal, but difficult given limited resources.
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While plausible, it would not be bad to overreact and treat this as if ot is more transmissible. No time for intellectual discussions over how to save expenses. @TheMemeticist
Dr. Jacob Glanville@CurlyJungleJake
This Ebola outbreak graph looks bad (and it is), but I see a lot of people misinterpreting this graph as evidence for higher transmissibility. This graph appears to show a higher rate of early transmission than previous outbreaks, but what it really probably shows is that we missed the first 72ish days of the outbreak. The first data point is an undercount as it was the first detection days and they were still gathering numbers and spreading the word. The situation is very bad but I don’t think there’s supportable evidence for increased transmission rate at this point. It looks like we just missed the outbreak for two and a half months because the kits couldn’t detect Bundi.
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@Mike_Shimzy @Uncatfishable These people have not eaten a pb and j in a while and it shows. PB&Js are DELICIOUS
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@Uncatfishable ... I like PB&J sandwiches and I'm a working adult. I don't like these implications.
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