top 50 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] 224 points 6 months ago (14 children)

splurging on rotisserie chicken

You mean those cheap chickens they sell at grocery stores that can feed you for days?

  • source
  • hideshow 14 child comments
  • load more comments (8 replies)
    [–] 183 points 6 months ago (18 children)
  • [–] 53 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    That doesn't account for the time value of money. The reality is even worse because the price of the house is continuing to increase as you push the purchase off into the future. (I haven't done the math, but it could very well be increasing faster than $5 day, so in reality foregoing the rotisserie chicken doesn't make you make progress at all, but only fall behind slower.)

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 6 child comments
  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    It's even worse, if you buy "cold" rotisserie chicken (literally the same just not kept warm under heat lamps so you have to warm it up if you want it hot) it was $2.77 last time I bought one at Walmart.

    Why the price difference? Don't know. It's stored in the open cover "cold food storage" they use it which are probably similar cost to run as the heat lamps. That said for a chicken sandwich or chicken noodle soup such a better deal.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 5 child comments
  • load more comments (2 replies)
  • load more comments (5 replies)
    [+] 92 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 82 points 6 months ago (8 children)

    It doesn’t matter what food you eat, it’s still too good for you. How long until the articles about “splurging” on instant ramen come out?

  • source
  • hideshow 8 child comments
  • load more comments (5 replies)
    [–] 63 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    You’ll never afford a house if you keep eating FOOD!

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • load more comments (1 reply)
    [–] 51 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    In five years when its even more dire WSJ will be posting about how millenials are splurging on sliced bread and milk.

  • source
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 48 points 6 months ago (7 children)

    The rotisserie chicken that costs $7 and is enough for two meals? That’s a “splurge”?

    Ok, well I guess I should stop splurging on shoes and water too.

  • source
  • hideshow 7 child comments
  • load more comments (7 replies)
    [–] 45 points 6 months ago

    "Millennials and Gen Z are splugering on clean water while trying to pay down their unbelievable debt from getting a 50 year mortgage on a cardboard box under the freeway overpass!!"

    -WSJ in 5 years probably

  • source
  • [–] 45 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Most millennials are approaching 40. get off our balls WSJ you old fucks did this

  • source
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 41 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    Headline in two years: Gen Z'ers are splurging on food instead of giving their money to the rich.

  • source
  • hideshow 6 child comments
  • load more comments (6 replies)
    [–] 34 points 6 months ago

    Splurging on the cheapest animal protein.. Wowee, really living it up in 2026!

  • source
  • [+] 32 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (6 children)
    load more comments (6 replies)
    [–] 32 points 6 months ago*

    Roast chickens are loss leaders and are often the cheapest chicken you can find in a regular grocery store.

  • source
  • [–] 30 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    If you buy a rotisserie chicken, a seven layer dip and some tortillas all you have to do is make rice and you have enough food for a family or a single person for a couple days for cheap.

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • load more comments (1 reply)
    [–] 27 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    If you saved that $5 instead of wasting it on food every day, then in 275 years you could afford the average house!

  • source
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • load more comments (4 replies)
    [–] 26 points 6 months ago (9 children)

    I make black bean based veggie patties; not because I'm a vegetarian, but because a can of black beans is cheap. I call them struggle burgers. I can't wait to be demonized for buying fucking beans. Fuck this timeline.

  • source
  • hideshow 9 child comments
  • load more comments (9 replies)
    [–] 25 points 6 months ago

    Rich dickheads not only want us to be deprived of the good things in life, but also to starve. I hate them.

  • source
  • [–] 25 points 6 months ago*

    Newspaper: Americans Eat Too Much Ultra processed food.

    Same Newspaper: Look at these little shits splurging on veggies and chicken.

  • source
  • [–] 23 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Gen Z are buying food, that is why they can't afford houses. What logic is that ?

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • load more comments (1 reply)
    [–] 22 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    "Splurging" on one of the most prolific loss leaders in grocery is certainly one way to say it. We're buying them because it's the cheapest way to eat

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • load more comments (1 reply)
    [–] 22 points 6 months ago (9 children)

    I could eat for free for the next 50 years and still not be able to buy a home

  • source
  • hideshow 9 child comments
  • load more comments (9 replies)
    [–] 21 points 6 months ago

    "Splurging“ on the absolute cheapest most preservative laiden meat available, cheapeer than fucking Spam, and Gut healthy jucis because they can't afford to go to a doctor.

    Fucking ghouls.

  • source
  • [–] 20 points 6 months ago (52 children)

    It’s kind of wild how everyday groceries get framed as luxuries. Sometimes people are just trying to eat something convenient and affordable, not make a statement about their finances.

  • source
  • hideshow 52 child comments
  • load more comments (52 replies)
    [–] 20 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    So we are not supposed to ....eat?

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • load more comments (2 replies)
    [–] 18 points 6 months ago

    Let them eat cake of our times.

  • source
  • [–] 17 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    The wall street journal aren't good journalists.

    They cater towards rich people and as such:

    1. Grant a sense of superiority through highlighting financial disparity
    2. Portray news in terms of how they would affect rich people, like tax breaks being good for the economy (the economy being billionaires for wsj)

    Nothing they write is objective

  • source
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • load more comments (3 replies)
    [–] 16 points 6 months ago (1 child)
    load more comments (1 reply)
    [–] 16 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Imagine writing billionaire propaganda and not being able to work out the cost effectiveness of rotisserie chicken.

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • load more comments (2 replies)
    [–] 16 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    What is gross is that rotisserie chicken is cheaper than a raw roaster.

  • source
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • load more comments (4 replies)
    [–] 15 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Walmart and Sam's near me have started rationing theit rotisserie chickens, they only make a certain number per day and when they are gone they don't make any more.

  • source
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • load more comments (3 replies)
    load more comments
    view more: next ›