Yeah, this. The 5-layer was introduced as a very low priced item even at the time.
Also, the $5 footlongs destroyed subway. Yeah, things are inflated now, but I remember the 5-layer quickly rose in price to like 2.99 after only a year or so.
I also remember dollar burgers being a thing and stopping and realizing how incredible they really were in human history that we got there at all (efficiency) and that they couldn’t and wouldn’t last.
Damn. Now that I think about it, the 2012ish “fight for $15” minimum wage for burger flippers and the corporate pushback political campaign and that rhetoric, the 2006/2017 metoo movement and the conservative political campaign and that rhetoric, and the 2011 occupy wall Street protests all sort of catalyzed into Trump. Jesus.
… It’s like… All of this, right now, is pushback and retaliation because society just wanted to be a little better.
And the 2020 tech workers rights improvements, where people were quitting together and actually pressuring employers, and now the corporate tech real estate pushback that we’re currently experiencing. Holy shit. All of the bullshit is just billionaires throwing around their weight and sinking their claws and teeth further in. Even the anti trans rights rhetoric now is PUSHBACK because that threatens to upend their house of cards of faith and hate by making people question stuff and realize it’s all billionaire bullshit. GOD. DAMNIT.
I dunno. There’s an amazing deli near here that sells sandwiches the same size as subway’s 8" footlongs. They still charge $5 and you get like a pound of meat on each one. Fuck, i was getting empanadas for lunch on my go out to lunch this week, i might go there instead.
And they have this gravy. That’s the thing is their gravy. They smoke and cure their own pastrami, maybe that gives an idea how good this shop is. I don’t know why they don’t lead with that their pastrami is amazing. I don’t know why I didn’t lead with that. Aaaaa I could be eating it right now
I feel like there is definitely something shady going on with the way we calculate “inflation” if a thing like buying a burrito is THAT far off.
Like, I know how inflation is calculated in theory. But what’s the use of it if we can’t use it for a god damn burrito and not be 4x-5x off.
Fast food is definitely worse than other things. But still. People buy that shit still. Maybe our weighted values are off just a bit.
The thing it is missing is the promotional price is not a great yardstick.
$5 footlongs were iconic because they were an incredible bargain, not idicative of the market rate of sandwiches.
It would be more fair with the Costco hotdog or grocery store rotisserie chicken, since those are always cheap. But even they are loss leaders.
Yeah, this. The 5-layer was introduced as a very low priced item even at the time.
Also, the $5 footlongs destroyed subway. Yeah, things are inflated now, but I remember the 5-layer quickly rose in price to like 2.99 after only a year or so.
I also remember dollar burgers being a thing and stopping and realizing how incredible they really were in human history that we got there at all (efficiency) and that they couldn’t and wouldn’t last.
Damn. Now that I think about it, the 2012ish “fight for $15” minimum wage for burger flippers and the corporate pushback political campaign and that rhetoric, the 2006/2017 metoo movement and the conservative political campaign and that rhetoric, and the 2011 occupy wall Street protests all sort of catalyzed into Trump. Jesus.
… It’s like… All of this, right now, is pushback and retaliation because society just wanted to be a little better.
And the 2020 tech workers rights improvements, where people were quitting together and actually pressuring employers, and now the corporate tech real estate pushback that we’re currently experiencing. Holy shit. All of the bullshit is just billionaires throwing around their weight and sinking their claws and teeth further in. Even the anti trans rights rhetoric now is PUSHBACK because that threatens to upend their house of cards of faith and hate by making people question stuff and realize it’s all billionaire bullshit. GOD. DAMNIT.
I dunno. There’s an amazing deli near here that sells sandwiches the same size as subway’s 8" footlongs. They still charge $5 and you get like a pound of meat on each one. Fuck, i was getting empanadas for lunch on my go out to lunch this week, i might go there instead.
A footlong is 12"? I’m confuse. Anyway, nice! Sounds like a great deal
And they have this gravy. That’s the thing is their gravy. They smoke and cure their own pastrami, maybe that gives an idea how good this shop is. I don’t know why they don’t lead with that their pastrami is amazing. I don’t know why I didn’t lead with that. Aaaaa I could be eating it right now