Yeah when taco bell is $40 for two of us and going to the sit down Mexican restaurant is $40, I'm going to pick food that gives me leftovers every time.

I spontaneously went through a mcdonald’s drive through yesterday to pick up breakfast while i was in a hurry. I ordered one sausage biscuit with egg and cheese. $7.50

I was shocked and checked the receipt. The default sandwich was 5-something (which is ridiculous by itself) and the “cheese” was $1.50.

I think i’m just done with McDonald’s as an occasional thing.

I remember $0.39 cheeseburgers at McDonalds and $0.79 bean burritos at Taco Bell.

But this was when gas was $0.89/g and we didn’t live under fascism.

I stopped most fast food years ago. It's basically only an option in the rare situation that I need food "fast" and wont be home to eat it, and even then I avoid them more and more.

If I'm going home, I'll order delivery or take out from a real restaurant. More-better food for same-less money.

That's not even considering that I meal prep and cook at home even more, but even what little bit I still want to not cook myself... It's not going to be restaurant prices for worse food.

You have to use there apps and points and shit to get it cheap, but it can be cheap. They're basically in the business of wasting poor people's time and collecting their data these days

Just food in general.

I could conceivably budget for beef, but the price pisses me off so much I'll go for a pork steak instead.

I've found some places are still affordable, like small local establishements or even A&W, their trio of the day is still like only 10$CAD

I get burgers to go from sit down places cause they're better, full on burgers and not some slice of meat and filler measurable in the millimeters for the same price if not cheaper. I get a mushroom Swiss from IHOP for like $12 plus tip(yes typing culture sucks, but it's the system we live in and I'm not going to stiff a kid cause I don't agree with someone they have little control over). And I get legit big onion rings to boot!

Theres a perfectly good bbq resturant near me thats typically cheaper than mcdonalds.