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[โ€“] arcine@jlai.lu 0 points 1 day ago (18 children)

To be fair, avocado toast is an actual scam and can be made home for cheap, while rotisserie chicken is legitimately expensive rn no matter how you get it.

But also, it's still a lie. None of us that aren't rich douchebags are "splurging" on food ๐Ÿ˜‚

[โ€“] Routhinator@startrek.website 6 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Rotisserie chicken is cheaper than a raw roasting chicken that you you need to make the same thing at home.

Rotisserie chickn $13.99, uncooked roaster is $23

[โ€“] atx_aquarian@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (4 children)

pictured: currently $6.47 at a local store (in Austin)

[โ€“] Routhinator@startrek.website 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Yeah.. American prices haven't caught up with the rest of the world yet. As much as Trump has done to destroy your economy you're still not paying anywhere near the price of things elsewhere. Going to take more loss of power for the US dollar for things to align.

But, I'll bet that's still cheaper than a whole chicken, raw.. Right?

[โ€“] arcine@jlai.lu 2 points 1 day ago

Exactly what I though. Good luck trying to find a whole entire chicken for 6.45โ‚ฌ anywhere in the EU ; last time I checked LIDL, the cheapest they had was a little over 10โ‚ฌ

Yeah they're cheaper than raw chickens. The store tends to buy too much chicken and some expires and would have to be thrown out... Or they can roast it right away. It's kind of a famous economic parable at this point.

Also, it sounds like Trump is just destroying our economy less than your guys are lmao.

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