The best sandwich costs $1.50 but it exists in Vietnam so you need to factor in travel costs. The longer you stay, the less it costs.
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£8.36 for a sandwich? Fuck off.
11 dollars for a sandwich? what are you putting in it? a ten dollar bill?
The fact that this number has crept up without meaningful wage increases is what I'm pissed about.
I can spend less than $11 and make a giant hoagie at home that's the ssme or better quality than the shop selling me a 6 inch sub for $11.
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.
My staff does all of that.
So you're the asshole extorting people for sandwiches at $11 a pop!
Best sandwiches are home made and cost a few dollars
I like those simple Tesco (UK grocery store) ham sandwiches. They're nice. Fluffy bread, ham nice and fresh. They're £1.50. I have to be fair! They do what it says on the box! Haha
Salt Hank sells a $40 French dip, sells out by noon
So there's a place I'd go to that used to sell these real big chicken sandos and at some point they raised the price like a buck or 2. Inflation happened and it's like what to them would be a kids meal portion size and for other places would be the normal. Price hasn't gone down. Flavor is still good. 🤷♂️
In my small little town, the local shyster opened up a deli on main street just before the start of covid. The least expensive sandwich on the menu was a $14 grilled cheese sandwich. Next step up were the $16 - $18 burgers. At the time, there was nothing in town to attract people to come here to eat, and those prices pretty much excluded the vast majority of the locals from being able to afford to eat there regularly. Anyway, my family and I went one time, just to give it a chance since we like to support local business as much as we can. Needless to say we weren't surprised when the place close down within the year.
So, I'm thinking that completely randomly chosen number probably doesn't specifically hold up universally everywhere.
Does nobody here find it a bit insane that 11 dollars is seen as an acceptable price for a sandwich these days?
Pretty sure a potato is going to cost $11 soon at this rate
We're going to have to put the Arrested Development banana meme out to pasture soon.
We were supposed to get another ~100 years out of that meme. Thanks, Trump.
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.
I paid 2€ for a sandwich up to 2020. How is $5 expected in 95...
Now it's more like 4-5€ for a good one.
Depends on the type of sandwich and how good it is. I'm thinking of a full sized sub.
Yellow Sub has fantastic sandwiches and full size was around $5 back in the 90's and around $14 today. Back then the half was like 75% the cost of a full (twice the size) so I always got the full and had leftovers.
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$11 dollars
Eleven dollars dollars?
Must be the Dairy Queen "$5 Buck Lunch" people
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There’s a really popular sandwich shop in my hometown. It regularly has a line out the door. I just checked their prices and it’s 10.75 for most options so I’d say this is spot on.
Reminder that if you make minimum wage in the US that sandwich cost a quarter of your daily income.
This is probably perfectly true if you live near Mike ginn and eat at the same shops he does. I paid $13.50 for a chicken sandwich today and it was pretty crap.
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