Date: August 11th, 2026 12:46 PM Author: Heady Stock Car Masturbator
and the staff know it too. if you are brazen enough to order something they'll look at you like "lol fucking idiot" and then toss your slop onto the table
Date: August 11th, 2026 1:12 PM Author: Laughsome forum
i went to a high end turd resto and got a kashmiri kebab over naan with a beer and it was $16 which is quite high for me but whatever, i only eat like one meal a day, in US this wld be $100
i didnt tip except for leaving a 10 coin which is like $.03 cents
Date: August 11th, 2026 1:17 PM Author: controlling a virtual character on a computer
For all the silliness of The Burrito Discourse, it actually is crazy what a massive disconnect there is between eating out in the US and Asia
You can eat out for super cheap in Asia. Meanwhile over here you are paying a comically enormous mark-up for anything. Even fast food is now ridiculously expensive. But people here are still eating out more than ever. It's like they're just resigned to it and think they have no other option
It's super fucking weird. Like the population has been legit brainwashed into this behavior as social conditioning. Something very weird going on with this
Date: August 11th, 2026 4:23 PM Author: Richard Ames
Honestly if not for women being in the picture, I think most men would be content eating chicken, rice, beans, and eggs and maybe going to a diner once a week. Monthly cost would be like $200.
Date: August 11th, 2026 4:33 PM Author: adventurous hairy legs
Only those not addicted to the goyslop. If you're not addicted to the goyslop, then grilled chicken + some roasted vegetables is a simple, healthy meal that most dudes would be fine with.
Date: August 12th, 2026 9:29 AM Author: Richard Ames
The crazy part is decent grocery stores now basically sell ingredients with most of the prep work done. I recently bought some pre-cut and seasoned chicken to make tacos at home and it was better than Chipotle for 1/10th the price (and it fed multiple people). It was like $5 and it could've fed me across three meals easily.
That's what's crazy. You don't even really need to know how to cook beyond heating a fucking pan at this point.
Date: August 12th, 2026 10:27 AM Author: pink locus
Same. Once or twice a month we go to one of the three of four places we like and trust. Take out maybe twice a month. Everything else at home. Dining out is generally a nightmare for a variety of reasons. If no wife I might never eat a meal outside my home again.
When I came back to USA and heard so many doordash, I was like cool.
Then I tried to order some McDonalds and it was going to be more than $20 for 1 meal and that's if I offered like a $2 tip which apperently wouldn't get a driver.
Date: August 11th, 2026 4:39 PM Author: Chest-beating clown pit
He's right though, at those quantities it doesn't make sense to not cook a pound a week freeze some portions and have an ever rotating supply of variety
Date: August 11th, 2026 4:31 PM Author: adventurous hairy legs
Fast food and other slop chips are expensive now because the commercial real estate rents have become insane. Moreover, since the Great Inflation, property values have increased massively, so now the property taxes are outrageous as well.
So for any of these slop shops to make it, they have to charge $16 for a burger and $20.99 for the fries & drink combo meal.
America has an addiction economy now where the main drug of choice is genetically modified goyslop created in labs. The fast food and everything else is meant to be addicting. There's no fundamental difference between the fent junkie on the street and the obese Guatemalan family you see who just got done gorging themselves on some Wendy's. These people have effectively given up on life. They're now just slaves to their passions (i.e. addicts).
Date: August 11th, 2026 5:01 PM Author: Arrogant electric furnace
there is nothing weird about it at all. the food industry realized people are fat lazy fucks and will pay the premium to not cook their own food. covid in particular opened the flood gates because once restaurants/fast food saw how much people were willing to pay for doordash fees they realized they could just raise the base prices by a shitload.
Date: August 11th, 2026 5:29 PM Author: Histrionic lay patrolman
It does sound weird but it's spot-on. Doordash changed the game. If it wasn't for them, all the quick-service restaurants would still be playing their old games of trying to win business with discounts.
The discounts have gone away because the restaurants have all realized they can make plenty of money by soaking Doordash whales.
Date: August 12th, 2026 9:38 AM Author: Richard Ames
I always found the right wing obsession with "we will not eat bugs" kind of crazy because it's like...yeah, obviously WE won't. But the human detritus that makes up a large and growing portion of the population will. They will eat whatever is foisted upon them.