I feel like we are now in Soylent Green age.
Cook at Home - Ideal with friends - share costs - socialize have a great time - eat well. Period
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That feeling of regret when eating some mid fast food is the worst lol.
Fast food and major chains have gotten absurd. I used a gift card at Red Robin a couple months back. It was $19 before tip for a dry burger and bland fries. Two bucks more could’ve gotten me a seat and meal at a five-star local place just down the street. The value just isn’t there anymore. Eating local almost always tastes better, feels better, and costs the same or less. Why settle for mediocrity when better is right around the corner?
Obligatory: $25
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Frozen pizzas are better then fast food. Even the lowest tier.
And the higher end ones are just GOOD.
Its a similar price to fast food, I can just keep a few in the freezer and I can add some little extras to make them more to my taste or chuck some leftover stuff on them to use it up.
Little bit of garlic powder, some cracked pepper and some chilli flakes…
This is a baffling opinion. Frozen pizzas are almost always fucking dogshit.
Sometimes I grab a pizza from the refrigerator isle at my local Lidl. They’re definitely not fresh or gourmet quality, but for 2.90€ and 15 minutes in the oven, you really can’t complain
Hard agree. You can also break them in half or into quarters and cook them in smaller portions. This is how my partner and I save money on eating out. We usually eat out due to some combination of being tired or lazy, or craving salty, greasy food. This hits all the major potential bases but keeps us from gorging on pizza or wasting what we can’t eat.
“than”.
Eeeew what? I mean fast food is trash, but i’d rather eat the cardboard box than a cheap frozen pizza. And if you buy an expensive frozen pizza you might as well make one yourself that is cheaper and better
It’s called I’m at work, I’m in some godforsaken suburb on the other side of the hills, and I have 30 minutes.
I would just bring some bread.
Seriously, fuck paying more than my entire weeks food budget on something shit.
A lot of people are saying to learn to cook, but things aren’t that simple. Many people know how to cook perfectly well but order out anyway, either because they’re busy or because they have mental health conditions that make cooking incredibly stressful.
We need to change our economic system so that CEO bonuses aren’t inflating the prices of people’s food. This would make it easier for people to eat out more often if they feel they need to. It shouldn’t break the bank to get simple meals at a restaurant.
I have a small, poorly designed and lit kitchen. Next place I buy will have a much better kitchen.
Or order delivery, and buy the same thing from 3 different places because all of them sell the same cheap frozen / deep fried crap that turns cold amd soggy by the time it gets to you
That’s Taco bell in India. Never had such expensive, shitty food before.
I’ve heard that Indian street food can be so unhygienic that a YouTuber almost got seriously ill after eating it. There are tons of videos showing Indian street food vendors where the food looks unsanitary and even dangerous.
If you’re local you know where to go but your immune system is also used to the baseline contaminants that exist. To eat street food as a traveler you risk a few days-weeks of stomach upset but after you get through that you’re usually ok for while.
India isn’t special for it, same concerns exist in any country that doesn’t have reliable clean water or well enforced food safety standards. If the FDA, EPA, and USDA aren’t fixed soon this will soon be true in the USA as well.
My brother once had an ice cream from a street vendor in Cambodia. Many locals were buying there so he figured he’d be okay. He ended up in the hospital for 2 weeks.
In rural Burma, I had one single sip of green tea offered by a monk friend. I was tired and wanted to be a gracious guest so I happily accepted … only later did I remember that the water for green tea is not brought to a boil. That single sip of tea cost me 9 days of shitting-my-guts-out misery in a third-world country without access to western medicine. I normally travel with Imodium (Loperamide) but it was illegal in Vietnam, because it is technically an opioid.
I’ve heard that Indian street food can be so unhygienic
True. But at least it’s cheap. Taco Bell in India is as expensive as a full dinner at a good restaurant.
unsanitary and even dangerous.
I mean yeah… That’s what you get when you visit/live in an unregulated, corrupt hellhole.
How do you “ almost” get seriously ill?
more like it almost killed him.
the point is your parents forgot to teach you how to cook
oh yeah that might be, Jerkface, but I’ve learned myself.
However, while at work, I have to eat out, no way of bringing my own shit with me.
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Lately, instead of picking up a fast food buyer and fries for $13, I’ve been going to Chili’s. They have a $10.99 special that is a REAL bacon cheeseburger, excellent fries, and a drink, and it even includes a salad or a cup of soup. With tax and tip, it’s $15.
The last time I went to 5 Guys, it was $24.50, and it wasn’t nearly as good.
They have a $10.99 special
$11.
The last time I went to 5 Guys
I stopped going to Five Guys unless it’s a kid’s birthday request.
Last time we went to Five Guys, kids got hot dogs, one plain, one with bacon, Wife got a burger, we got a regular fry and a cajun fry to share at the table and 4 softdrinks it came to $75, note, I didn’t even get myself a burger I got a drink and ate the fries.
For $10 more dollars, we can all go to Hibachi, walk out of there stuffed and have enough left for another meal.
$15 bacon cheese $10 hot dog $7 Fries $4 bottle of soda
They’re just insane.
Yeah, I wrote them off long ago, but I was recently pressed for time and they were right there. I was shocked at the price. Other than the fries, everything else is average, with the worst, cheapest buns in the biz.
The fries are legit, though. Classic Boardwalk-style fries, especially with malt vinegar.
I’ve been trying to convince the wife to authorize a restaurant grade fry cutter.
It’s super easy to make the fries if you have the gear
People in comments saying to cook for yourself. I do cook for myself but geez grocery prices aren’t making it easy.
I cook for myself and it’s still not good
Our produce and ingredients suck here in the US. Lots of things taste funny to me, like chemicals or metal. There’s simply no regulation or oversight.
When I have food imported from Europe or even Canada, the difference is stark — I feel like I can actually digest.
“Prices aren’t making it easy”, covers at least a decade I am not looking forward to. I wager that a $65 Xbox controller will become a $200 item in a couple of years.
I’m not sure what your reasoning is here.
Grocery prices aren’t making it easy, so buy from restaurants that are even more expensive?
