Yeah except that's not even close to true. $5 in December 2015 is worth $6.85 in December 2025 (the most recent data available).
https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=5&year1=201512&year2=202512
Yeah except that's not even close to true. $5 in December 2015 is worth $6.85 in December 2025 (the most recent data available).
https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=5&year1=201512&year2=202512
subway footlongs are indeed $20 on the high end in major metro areas.
Also, make sure to bring your tape measure, shrinkflation is all too real..
Subway argued in court that "Footlong" is a trademarked brand, and does not mean it's 12 inches. Then they argued that the average consumer would KNOW this, and not be confused by these terms.
Footlong is a subway branded term for their bigger sub. Foot long is a generic term that means one foot long.
Yes, that's real. I'm not joking. They legitimately did this. Just like Fox News argued in court that their station is NOT a news network. It is an entertainment network, presenting purely opinion based stories. As such, they have ZERO obligation for their stories to contain even a shred of truth or fact to their stories. And "Fox News" is a branded term, not relating to, or presenting factual news reports.
On a related note, would anyone like to buy "Bigger Penis Pills"? I mean, it's just condensed sugar in tablet form. But I've branded it as "Bigger Penis Pills", and selling it for $100 per pill.
Okay, Subway trademarked the footlong, then they cut it in half if you order a 6 inch...
Did they fucking trademark the size of an inch too?
No. That was one of the things being sued over.
Didnt fox news have to change their name to fox entertainment?
Gasoline price is about the same and the price of noodles hasn't gone up much. But the price of rent and weed has skyrocketed, so...
🤷
New plan. Cars that run on noodles!
Wait, gas prices didn't go up. That makes no sense.....
Ok. Houses made out of noodles, and we'll all smoke gasoline!
I think we already all smoke gasoline anyways, it's called exhaust.. ☹️
and the price of noodles hasn't gone up much
From 8.3 cents per package to 33.3 per seems like a jump that qualifies as "much". And if you get it on scamazon it's 62.9 cents per.
This is based off the cost of a 24 pack of Maruchan chicken ramen packets.
I won't lie, I haven't really kept up too much with the price of noodles over the past decades, but I loosely recall them going for somewhere around 18 cents a pack back around 10 years ago.
Yeah, even those numbers don't sound wallet happy, but hey, at least we don't have to worry about pennies anymore, so of course everything rounds up right?
Fuck. ☹️
Depends on where you live. I can get an ounce of weed, 28g for you people with better measurement systems, for $22-50 and I have a large variety of strains to choose from.
Totally.
Now I see something for $50 and im like oh not bad.
Then im like WAIT THAT WAS 20 DOLLARS 7 YEARS AGO WTF!
I use 1930 as the base year. So the $20 USD bill is actually the new $1 bill.
Ye olde halfpence is now a nickel!
definitely someone a few hundred years ago
During thr gold-standard era, 1GBP was around 5USD, but a halfpenny was 1/480 of a pound, so a little more than a cent. The large-format cents issued up to 1857 were similar in size to the halfpennies of the late 1700s.
I want five dollar coins
This is something that bugs me. People back in the day could actually make useful purchases with coins. I want a 50c, 1d, 2d, 5d, and 10d coins. Loose the penny and maybe even nickels
We ditched the penny in Canada years ago. Nickels and dimes are near useless
Not totally, but it depends, inflation doesn't happen equally between goods, but in a general sense thats a bit high.
I still dream about 5 for 5.95 Arby's roast beefs
For our current level of inflation we should have dimes (the new penny), 50 cent pieces (instead of quarter), and coins for $1, $2, and $5. Then in bills we should have $10, $20, $50, $100, $500, and $1000.
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