A damn quarter pounder $10

I'm so happy we are quibbling over the price of a medium combo at Burger King and not something really truly important like . . . . about a million other things.

 

so you don't want to talk about McDonalds prices anymore?
seriously, doesn't that get a bit embarrassing?

 

My first app was 'good shit in the crotch pot'. The next one was 'good shit in the oven'. I'm working on my 'good shit on the stove' next.

My neighbor smokes weed and smokes all kinds of meat. Good on the grill too

 

I'll pass on the first one. Thanks

 

Dude post more often…
That’s some funny shit you got cooking over there!!

 

Because for one, people just take anecdotes for fact, perhaps as this thread started.

Also, you are exactly right. All McDonald’s could disappear tomorrow and society wouldn’t suffer at all. It wouldn’t necessarily be better unless McD’s was just a single part of a total food overhaul. The problem isn’t McD’s per se, it’s the food system writ large. The cost-benefit analysis is abysmal once the simplest of externalities are considered.

The whole “Big Mac Index” was a joke by its originator although it turns out it does represent some very basic macro economic trends halfway decently. But a modest scratch below the surface and it’s basically without value. If economics were simply a single bad fast food price we could all live large by simply existing.

But not being able to buy a home or property or pay twice as much for insurance or being bankrupted by treatable medical emergencies or being unable to conduct your life outside of a tiny lane of allowed behavior dictated by people who consider “others” literal evil or threats to their very existence and will do all to destroy those people, yah, those things make life suck.

Just throw out a sandwich and a price and run out the clock on The Economy.

 

Relax, that Quarter Pounder price is just transitory.

 

We just need this POS to go don’t need another one to come back.

 

Well I can certainly agree that this particular argument is more complete.

 

That's true, but that wold also be missing the REAL point. Food is getting expensive everywhere.

 

It is. I am lucky this hasn't impacted me much but I can see where it is taking a toll on those living paycheck to paycheck. Wages have gone up, which helps.

Food prices are high, good data can show that. Posting a lie about a $10 burger wasn't necessary.

 

My observation is that packaged and prepared foods has seen most of the inflation.

It’s a strange and insidious thing. Produce, meats, dairy have inflation, but it’s more “normal” levels in line with CPI data. On a lot of raw products you wouldn’t even notice it. Whereas some packaged and processed goods are more akin to fast food, where they are up more like 50%. Why is this? Packaging costs, labor shortages and associated costs, delivery truck drivers, marketing costs for branding, “big food” needs to constantly expand margin and appease shareholders. It a bit of an insidious thing, but the very products poorer people and younger people tend to buy more of also have by far the worst inflation. But the free market solution to all this is pretty simple, stop buying junk food and/or look at alternatives! “Food” is cheap. I think housing is a legit crisis in some areas when it comes to affordability metrics, but food just isn’t unless we are looking at service. The commodities paint a different picture.

 

There is absolutely zero connection to reality in your posts.

You are quite literally no different than this guy complaining that Obama didn't stop 9/11.

 

Very odd comment. What does race have to do with quarter pounder prices? The fast food thing I think cuts more across socioeconomic lines regardless of race.

The curious thing about trying to make this political, is there is probably no current Biden policy you could point to that connects to any fast food inflation. On the other hand your guy wants to massively disrupt the agricultural labor supply. He’s literally running on deporting that labor force! What do you think that does to food inflation? If you love your imagined $10 quarter pounder I guess you’ll really love it when there are beef shortages and Quarter Pounders are going for $20.

 

I just read a blurb online that said that Florida has the greatest number of conspiracy theorists in the country so this tracks.

 

That's why it hasn't impacted me much.