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Pretty sure a potato is going to cost $11 soon at this rate

I expected to pay $5 for a good sandwich in 1995 and with inflation $11 sounds about right.

Double checked and yup: https://www.calculateme.com/inflation/5.00-dollars/from-1995/to-now

The main problem is that since wages haven't kept up the proportional value to the paycheck doesn't follow inflation which is why it isn't actually as simple as just looking at inflation.

Even worse, it is half the size it was 5 years ago.

I believe you mean "eleven dollars dollars".

Dude I'm always so stunned by comments like this. I'm in aus and a zoomer, even after converting to USD decent sandwiches have cost more than this my entire life

Me. I think it's outrageous 😳

I mean, if you're going out to sit down restaurant and getting a good sandwich, I don't think that's unacceptable at all. That said, my local sub shop has amazing subs for $6-8

If I'm going to be spending eleven dollars for a sandwimch it better be two.

nah that's a reasonable price for a quality sandwich in Canada

now if you convert that $11 USD to CAD, then no, that's high

Yes, but they probably don’t mean a sandwich using the standard size of bread slices that you find in a store. Something like Jimmy John’s Favorites subs or my local gyro place (technically not a sandwich but similar) are around that price and contain a lot more volume of food than a basic sandwich. Subway’s footlongs are about that size/volume but their quality is not worth $11 by any means. I think hamburgers also would be an exception to that price-quality-volume metric for sandwiches.

This is definitely big city language. 11$ is an expensive sandwich.

I withdrew $11 dollars from the ATM machine using my PIN number to buy some DC comics which I converted to a PDF format to view on my LCD display e-reader.

$²11

Must be the Dairy Queen "$5 Buck Lunch" people

That gets me a loaf of bread, a smoked sausage, cheese and I'll even have money to spare for tomatoes.

I can have several sandwiches.

Yes, you can save a bit of money and make something better at home, it may well be recommended.

But, that $11 doesn't cover just the ingredients. It covers the time and effort you spent planning groceries, getting the groceries, 15 min making the hoagie, and perhaps packing it and bringing it to where you are. Consider how much you think your current job should be paying you and apply it to that whole process. All of that is what you're spending instead of the $11. And for a lot of people that's time well spent for sure, but it's still time and effort that's worth more than most give credit.

Yeah, but you better be ready to eat the same sandwich for every meal for the next 10 days or else your bread and lunch meats will go bad.

Bahn mi

Philly cheese steak

Toasted Reuben

Well, first of all, it’s a Philly cheesesteak sandwich with a Hawaiian name and it doesn’t even have pineapples or spam on it. I’d say that definitely counts as foolish.