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2 - 8€ range contains bangers
2-4€ at the butcher’s
5-8€ at the bakery
Different style, all deliciousWhat kind of a sandwich are we talking about? A monsteous long ass sandwich that would feed me for a week, or something to eat at lunch to hold me over until dinner?
They are the same thing.
I guess you could interpret those as being the same thing. To further clarify, the second sandwich in my inquiry would be eaten in its entirety during lunch.
And if you do them yourself, you can get a perfect sandwich for four dollars or less easily.
Are we talking about real bread with hard crust, or mass-produced packaged stuff?
The industrial product, not the real bread which we normally have. The packaged stuff is for sandwiches only.
Right. So I’m gonna have to call shenanigans on that $4 perfect sandwich claim.
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.
This is around right. It’s about $11 for a generous half sub at the beat sandwich shop I know, $20ish for the full sub, but it varies a bit depending on what’s in the sandwich.
It used to be like $5
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.
this man has never gave an honest attempt at making a good homemade sandwich on a budget. Seriously just getting any kind if fresh bread (you can get those at wal mart and i bet any local cafe that bakes their bread will sell loaves) and cheese is halfway there. Any basic condiment selection will be good enough. All of that is so cheap compared to the protein most likely.
Does nobody here find it a bit insane that 11 dollars is seen as an acceptable price for a sandwich these days?
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.
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 didn’t know there was an xkcd for this. Nice! Thanks for sharing.
There is an xkcd for everything!
There really is holy shit, I wasn’t fully convinced until this
I believe you mean “eleven dollars dollars”.
This must be old; it’s $15 everywhere near me now.
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 $6-8
Going to a sit down restaurant for a sandwich is very suspicious behavior. Like going to a bar and ordering a glass of milk.
Yeah same in the EU, every local sub place will be €5 at most
That sounds like a dream to me in Germany. Subway for two was around 20€ last year and the average Döner is at least 7-8€, though in my area it’s closer to 10€
With or without drinks, and footlong or half-footlong? Been a while since I’ve been to subway, but I’d be very surprised to learn that the cheaper half-footlongs are already at 10€ (assuming your area’s taxes, wages and raw material prices are similar to mine, which is not a given). IMO the footlongs are too big to count as “one sandwich”.
Without drinks and foot long. Even if I don’t finish it in one sitting, I’ll basically always go for a bigger sandwich and have leftovers later, unless it’s something really saucy or likely to get super soggy.
Yeah, but that’s one big sandwich. 10€ for a big sandwich is different from 10€ for a normal-sized sandwich.
It’s about the size of a dürüm, at least around me. If they stuffed it really full, it might feel bigger, but subway was never even close to as full as any Döner place makes theirs. I tend to judge the size of food by my companions because I have a bird stomach (I would be happiest having three bites of food every half hour all day long, because otherwise I get really full), and I’m the only one who saves part of it for later.
Laughs in Eastern Europe’s 20$/week spendings on food.
While making sandwiches for myself every day.
If you’re eating at Subway you’re doing it wrong
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.
Me. I think it’s outrageous 😳
I remember when I thought $8 was steep. It wasn’t even that long ago.
If I’m going to be spending eleven dollars for a sandwimch it better be two.
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
Australia was a model for the rest of the world…
Even worse, it is half the size it was 5 years ago.
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
Salt Hank sells a $40 French dip, sells out by noon
£8.36 for a sandwich? Fuck off.
In my mind a large “smos”, as is the ubiquitous sandwich variety here, is 2,70.
They’re now up to 5 or 6, depending on place, plus shrinkflation reduced it to a third of a baguette instead of half.
Nonsense!
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.
Are you suggesting that it was not foolish to pay $13.50 for that sandwich?
Foolish does not imply bad
But it would be foolish to spend that much, especially on a bad sandwich
As they say, hindsight always knows what’s good in the menu.
But in Australia all you’ll get for $11 is something pre-made in plastic.
Are you claiming to live near Mike then? The man said $11 was peak.
Foolish does not imply bad
Counterpoint: good bahn mi in SF is around 6 dollars
I will not pay 11 dollars for a sandwich ever. I have bread, i have meat and cheese… i’ll be fine
Are you in the US? If you are I hate to break it to you, but the cost of meat(yes cold cuts) alone will put you at close to $10. Cheese is right behind that.
I pay about 3.50 a lb for turkey at costco. Another 3 a lb for cheese and a 3 dollar loaf of bread from a local bakery will make me about 6-10 sandwiches. I also use slices of onions which I always have around to cook with dinner. Maybe some lettuce and mayo… still talking like 4 bucks a sando
The nearest Costco is 20 miles from me. Walmart would be the next cheapest thing. A lb of meat there is close to $7. Then there’s Shoprite which is usually around $8-$10 a lb. They’ve been sneaking up the last few times I’ve been there. Prices around me are cooked. With a family of 5, a lb of anything that isn’t frozen is gone in 3 days.
yeesh, is the cost of living really high in general where you are? My wage is shit but at least I can (barely) afford groceries.
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
