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What have you completely stopped buying because the price has gotten ridiculus? (lemmy.world)
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[–] 97 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Pizza. Getting pizza for the family shouldn't cost over $70. Hell, eating out and fast food are exorbitantly expensive.

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  • [–] 58 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    And yet the workers are still making shit wages. It’s absurd.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I now just buy the large ready-to-bake supreme pizza at Aldi and just enhance it by adding mozarella and other toppings at home. $8 plus maybe $2 worth of extra stuff I put on it. Just like sushi, I really can’t justify paying too much for it when eating out.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Costco pizza is legit too

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    You mean from their food court, or their Kirkland brand freezer ones? I have wanted to try the food court ones, but if I get it home and it's not good then I'm both frustrated and need to find something else to eat, so I always pass it up since I don't know if it's good or not...

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    The food court one. It’s $10. What have you got to lose other than $10?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    For me, time, effort, and of course the $10. I'm disabled so take a standard costco run, make it take 4x as long and physically difficult. Add taking a gamble on dinner as I leave and it's a make-or-break decision.

    I'll have to give it a go the next time I'm there. I've had their ice cream and it's very good, but that's not a meal :p

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    if you're worried about it, just buy a slice.

    they're weird so they slice it into 6 but that makes it a huuuge slice. well well well worth the $2 imo, it's certainly a loss leader for them (meaning the cost for them to make it is more than they charge you for it)

    legitimately the best pizza I had in the years I spent living in Georgia.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    the food court is a loss leader to get people to shop in the store, it works.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    yes this is true. I think the soda is probably a profit but less than standard restaurant markups and nowhere near enough to cover the cost of running the food court (making it functionally also a loss)

    also I'd imagine the chicken bake is upcycling the rotisserie chickens into less loss than if they were sold as rotisserie (and certainly more than if they threw them out)

    also I've said loss too many times to not also say :.|:;

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago

    Oh god for me it was frozen pizza. I fucking love frozen pizza as an easy dinner night and used to be able to find Dr Oetkers for $4 a pizza. That shit is $13 now.

    It kills me cause I still love it but I won't buy it :(

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (1 child)

    Pizza in my corner of the world is still a reasonable price. First, there's cheap but delicious Little Caesars -- that's a go-to that I'm not at all embarrassed to admit. Then my local pizza shop can get me a XL pie and cheesy bread sticks for less than $20 out the door. My family of three always has leftovers from that for lunch the next day for someone but not everyone.

    Any of the bougy "wood fired" blah blah blah boutique pizza grift stills costs a fortune here. But my little local pizza shop is a good NYC style slice, with normal pizza shop ingredients.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    First, there’s cheap but delicious Little Caesars

    This is how I know you are full of it

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago (1 child)

    Dude, if you were honest with yourself and the world, you'd agree.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago (1 child)

    It's not BAD. I don't mind it for the price. I would never claim that it's "delicious" either though. I'm from Detroit too. The Little Caesar's pizza at Little Caesar's Arena hits different. Albeit it's $30 more.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago (1 child)

    I, too, am originally from the Metro Detroit area. My Metro Detroit area chain pizza takes: Hungry Howies used to be better, I think (or I'm suffering rose colored hindsight). Jet's Pizza is still pretty good. Dominoes was never really good and despite their commercials, they've not gotten much better.

    Hot take: Buddy's Pizza is overrated greasy dog shit.

    I now live out of state, but I visit my family in SE Michigan every other month or so. I have a preference for Coney's too.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago*

    A lot of my grocery stores have pizza dough ready to go thats about $2.50 and can be frozen. So if you buy your ingredients and a pizza stone, you can have some REALLY good pizza any time.

    I like to put the sauce on, then toast the crust for about 4-5mins before putting the rest on. Keeps the crust crispy.

    Also, a dough ball isnt as hard to fit in the fridge.

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