Fast food, becoming a ripoff ?

[DCBassman]

I'm with @Salty seadog on this, brown sauce!

 

[Salty seadog]

Give me recyclable glass bottles anyday.

I'm just pushing his buttons

 

[gbb]

Its going off topic (but it's my thread hehe)...i like English Mustard, generally only in a beef or ham sandwich.
A few months ago i brought a sauage and mustard roll out of a vending machine, but it had French wholegrain mustard in it, never had it before...how bad can it be ?

Fark me, it near made me spit it out. I scraped every ounce of the stuff out of the roll, still couldnt stand it, chucked the whole lot in the bin.

 

[MontyVeda]

Had a chippy tea last night... fish: £4.65 and chips: £2.30 = £6.95.

I remember when a bag of chips was 19p... but I also remember a chippy tea being a special treat we only had once or twice a year, probably because even then, a chippy tea for a family of five was a fair whack.

 

[PK99]

Had a chippy tea last night... fish: £4.65 and chips: £2.30 = £6.95.

I remember when a bag of chips was 19p... but I also remember a chippy tea being a special treat we only had once or twice a year, probably because even then, a chippy tea for a family of five was a fair whack.

When a bag of chips was 19p, how much was a pint of beer?

 

[MontyVeda]

When a bag of chips was 19p, how much was a pint of beer?

no idea... i was about 11

 

[Lozz360]

The last time I had a 'meal' in McD's was when I was at school (circa 28 + years ago, that makes me feel old) Happy Meals were £1.99. I just googled them and they are now £2.79. A d@mmed lies and percentage increase of 29%

I know I've been in once at least since one boxing day club run and that was the only coffee shop open.

It's only an annual increase of about 1.2% compounded for 28-years!

 

[PK99]

The last time I had a 'meal' in McD's was when I was at school (circa 28 + years ago, that makes me feel old) Happy Meals were £1.99. I just googled them and they are now £2.79. A d@mmed lies and percentage increase of 29%

I know I've been in once at least since one boxing day club run and that was the only coffee shop open.

28 year ago, 1992. The price of a pint was £1.29
ie a Happy Meal was equivalent to about a pint and a half

Now. The price of a pint is £3.79
ie a Happy meal is equivalent to 0.73 pints

https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/timeseries/czms/mm23

Inflation since 1992 is 100%
Your Happy meal should now cost £3.98
https://www.in2013dollars.com/uk/inflation/1992

 

[Oldhippy]

I don't use any of the fast food chain partly the food looks unappealing and mainly for the huge environmental impact they are responsible for.

 

[MontyVeda]

Most of the so-called 'fast food' places aren't that fast either... making us wait around for a good ten minutes for a burger.

This is fast food. You ask for it, Bill stacks it, you eats it

 

[gbb]

Had a chippy tea last night... fish: £4.65 and chips: £2.30 = £6.95.

I remember when a bag of chips was 19p... but I also remember a chippy tea being a special treat we only had once or twice a year, probably because even then, a chippy tea for a family of five was a fair whack.

I remember going to the chipshop in the late 1960s...a bag of chips was 6d or 2.5p

 

[NeverFromConcentrate]

I haven’t set foot in a McDonalds since 1992. But if a nutritious well cooked meal out costs less than a tenner these days I wonder about ingredient quality and working conditions...

 

[raleighnut]

I haven’t set foot in a McDonalds since 1992. But if a nutritious well cooked meal out costs less than a tenner these days I wonder about ingredient quality and working conditions...

Jeez. give me a tenner and I'll cook you a dinner that'l be delicious and feed at least 6 people, in fact I could probably do it for a fiver.

 

[PK99]

Jeez. give me a tenner and I'll cook you a dinner that'l be delicious and feed at least 6 people, in fact I could probably do it for a fiver.

Input cost of food is small and is swamped by Labour cost and overheads.

 

[NeverFromConcentrate]

Jeez. give me a tenner and I'll cook you a dinner that'l be delicious and feed at least 6 people, in fact I could probably do it for a fiver.

I think if you could open a restaurant where six adults eat for a tenner (and still make a profit) then you would not be short of business, at all!!!

At home I regularly eat for <1.66 per meal. We grow all our own veg and salad, have a sheep or two in the freezer and chickens for eggs etc, so personal consumption is really very cheap. But going out is another matter. Even the kings of fast food would find that price point difficult!