Retiree behaviors in the time of inflation (2014, retirees, wife)
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I would not expect $2, I just said $2 was the actual fair value of that minuscule ice cream, almost the size of a trial sample.
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Originally Posted by MTSilvertip
I almost hate eating out anymore. Not just the prices. The quality has really gone to pot.
Restaurants have been cutting corners to try and keep prices down, so now a lot of the food is pre-made packaged crap with no flavor at all.
I know it's impossible to find help right now, and what you can get is usually substandard, but really....
I was a chef in my younger years, and it isn't that hard to add some herbs or sauces like Worcestershire or soy sauce to really improve that manufactured crap and make it taste like food.
I ate breakfast at a local place this morning. They've gone from real ham to that pressed stuff, and it was overcooked and so dry I could barely cut it let alone eat it.
To me eating out used to be a treat. Now I have cut back to where I only do it if I have to.
Never did have the taste for Starbucks, and the last time I was in New York I had a burger that I'm sure was deep fried and the bun was dipped in as well.
Guess I'll just have to eat at home for the next 3 years.
Do you really think prices will come down after the next 3 years? I don't see that, I do not recall eating out ever got cheaper in the last nearly 40 years that I have lived in the US. The best to hope for is that the cost of eating out may freeze at the current level for the rest of the 2020s - but it is more likely it will keep rising further.
Wow, that is a lot for an ice cream cone. I pay $2.50 here...2 scoops in a waffle cone.
Then again..this is a tourist area and there's plenty of ice cream shops around here.
^^ Yeah, but is it really ice cream....or an edible substance. I don't even know if I want to see the ingredients and list of chemicals/compounds that are in it.
I feel it is decadence and moral and cultural decline.
I would not encourage anyone to participate in decadence and moral and cultural decline.
It was a fun 2 day trip and I thoroughly enjoyed myself including being decadent for a couple of days. It was the first time visiting NY since I was 5 years old. I haven't had an Italian pastry since I was a teenager. You should loosen up a little. Not everything is a life and death situation. I have no regrets and I don't think I caused the moral and cultural decline of civilization by overpaying for a couple of Italian pastries on a short trip to New York City
So, a couple of weeks ago, I was in NYC, and was walking towards an ice cream stand in Bryant Park, facing a dude walking from the opposite direction with little bitty twin daughters who were each licking a very junior-sized ice cream. It was a small waffle cone, with a single smallish scoop of gelato-style ice cream with embedded bits of something like a chopped up strawberry. A small appetizing item, I thought I'd get one myself if the price is right. I figured the fair price for it would be $2, but what with Manhattan and inflation, I figured it would be $4, overpriced but still okay. Then I got to the ice cream stand, and the cost of this small cone with a single small scopp of gelato was $9.99 plus tax. I did not get it. I mean, I have 10 bucks, and like ice cream as much as anyone, but I am not paying that. I'm just not, and that's it, even if I never eat anything prepared by someone other than myself again.
That's not inflation, that's the power of being one of a few sellers of a desirable commodity. I took my grandson to the zoo and they wanted $15 for an Icee, I have never paid over $2. They tried to explain it by showing me the 'lovely' souvenir cup it comes in which probably cost them 13 cents at the most.
^^ Yeah, but is it really ice cream....or an edible substance. I don't even know if I want to see the ingredients and list of chemicals/compounds that are in it.
At least it melts. Carvel uses so much guar that the ice cream doesn't melt and has about the same nasty consistency when warm.
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