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[–] GhostedIC@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Apparently in the full context, this is in reference to some upscale grocery stores with an overpriced $30 "luxury" rotisserie chicken meal.

Not that this makes it much better. First, this seems like a small splurge compared to going to literally any restaurant for more than two people. Second, I had never heard of it before this article went viral and neither has anybody else I've seen in the comments... So this cannot be very common.

My conclusion is that this article is not for us. It's for rich people to help them feel less guilty about everyone complaining about their lives getting worse.

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[–] Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Whats next... splurging on ramen and spaghetti?

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[–] MonkeyDumpster@lemmy.org 9 points 2 months ago

these articles are just trolling at this point with these kinds of headlines...

[–] JollyBrancher@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You mean the rotisserie chickens that are $5-6, compared to lunch meat being at 10-12/lb? Splurging on that rotisserie chicken purchase?

[–] FrChazzz@lemmus.org 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That rotisserie chicken that I can stretch into like three to five meals, including making broth? That one?

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[–] SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

There is a reason we think boomers are out of touch.

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[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You mean the chicken that's $7.99 CAD, that feeds a single person 5-6 meals before taking the carcass / left over bits and making a soup out of it that feeds me for even more days at the cost of only rice and veggies?

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[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 months ago

GenZ complains about having so much debt and not enough income but they keep buying food! How can they expect to succeed when they waste their money so frivolously?!

..... That's what this headline reads like to me. How dare you buy food with the money you should be spending on the interest you owe to the owners of the country.

Wait are you telling me a chicken dinner and juice is more attainable than a home?? Could that be why?

There’s a reason young people are travelling and using their savings on entertainment, we know we will never own. Not until we take housing by force, so what’s the point of saving? I can’t even save enough to keep up with interest. So yeah when I’m old I’ll be poor and the government will have to deal with me

[–] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Splurging on checks notes healthy food?

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[–] nieminen@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Rotisserie chicken is one of the most affordable chicken options....

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[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yellow rice, beans, veggies and shredded rotisserie chicken. Meals for days.

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[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago

It’s depressing just how quickly and comprehensively Jeff Bezos has managed to destroy the WSJ. It used to be respected internationally, now it’s just a grubby little clickfarm.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago

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Presumably "a house costs more than a chicken."

[–] nek0d3r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 months ago

Reading the actual article, the lunacy and delusion is real. You don't even get three paragraphs in and they're using a sales engineer's thoughts to represent young people as a whole.

[–] BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In other news I'm learning depression era meals to make to save money. Made a fancied up Hoover Stew last week. It had a sausage in it instead of hot dog.

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[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Splurging on gut health! I mean... the nerve of these... these... (shuffles cards)... uppity whippersnappers!

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