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How is eating out such a ripoff in this country? Is it salvageable?

It’s just stupid money. In most foreign countries you ...
Stubborn cobalt organic girlfriend stead
  05/12/25
It's ridiculous and I no longer even enjoy it at all, really...
heady nudist fanboi
  05/12/25
Yep. It’s not enjoyable when they are robbing you blin...
Stubborn cobalt organic girlfriend stead
  05/12/25
is $15 a lot of money to you?
Coiffed Insanely Creepy Cuckold
  05/12/25
It’s a lot for a quarter pounder meal you fucking reta...
Outnumbered indecent heaven
  05/13/25
sorry you’re a poor
Coiffed Insanely Creepy Cuckold
  05/13/25
wasting $ on dumb prole shit is what actual poor people do. ...
Outnumbered indecent heaven
  05/13/25
rich people don’t bitch about $15
Coiffed Insanely Creepy Cuckold
  05/13/25
The quality of most “takeout” is fucking laughab...
maroon police squad
  05/12/25
I blame the delivery apps for that. They know they can get a...
Stubborn cobalt organic girlfriend stead
  05/12/25
wtf is cold steam?
Talented Pozpig
  05/12/25
the wait staff don't even try to be friendly anymore ime, no...
Silver dragon parlour
  05/12/25
Haha yeah. The level of contempt from the losers of striveri...
Stubborn cobalt organic girlfriend stead
  05/12/25
we're turning into Europe with worse phenotypes. Ruin lies a...
Silver dragon parlour
  05/12/25
Ahead?
red personal credit line candlestick maker
  05/12/25
...
Paralegal Mohammad
  09/30/25
I haven't noticed a difference. This may just be because you...
Judgmental boltzmann resort
  05/12/25
https://www.chilis.com/menu#3-for-me HTH
red personal credit line candlestick maker
  05/12/25
we turned it into almost a necessity, huge chunks of the pub...
Trip Potus
  05/12/25
If people don’t cook wouldn’t there be more rest...
Stubborn cobalt organic girlfriend stead
  05/12/25
there are more, way more, like a thousand percent increase s...
Trip Potus
  05/12/25
Then why aren’t they cheaper. This idea that demand ha...
Stubborn cobalt organic girlfriend stead
  05/12/25
it has, ubereats and doordash are entire segments of the eco...
Trip Potus
  05/12/25
cooking is for families. hardly makes sense for singles and ...
Coiffed Insanely Creepy Cuckold
  05/12/25
that's bullshit.
Silver dragon parlour
  05/12/25
price your time properly and I assure you it’s not
Coiffed Insanely Creepy Cuckold
  05/12/25
This assumes that restaurants are convenient and they are no...
doobsian plaza
  05/12/25
it isn't about time, you have plenty of free time in the eve...
Trip Potus
  05/12/25
“it isn’t about the one thing you will never get...
Coiffed Insanely Creepy Cuckold
  05/12/25
sitting on your ass waiting for cold slop to be delivered is...
Trip Potus
  05/12/25
that's why you shove some slop down your throat during your ...
Snowy concupiscible cuck becky
  05/13/25
You are an actual retard
Outnumbered indecent heaven
  05/12/25
What better thing do you have to do with your time
Galvanic Slap-happy Address
  05/12/25
lol
Coiffed Insanely Creepy Cuckold
  05/12/25
Seriously, who cares
Galvanic Slap-happy Address
  05/12/25
high grocery prices are making eating out more reasonable th...
Chrome Rigor
  05/12/25
i feel like this is why 'food trucks' run by guatemalans in ...
milky stage preventive strike
  05/12/25
In SoCal a burrito off one of those trucks is $15. They are ...
Stubborn cobalt organic girlfriend stead
  05/12/25
...
heady nudist fanboi
  05/12/25
mostly because of whiny, cheap shitlib jews like you
Motley National Security Agency
  05/12/25
Eating out is too much of a hassle. My four kids make it a c...
doobsian plaza
  05/12/25
serious alcoholics stop enjoying bars or even drinking altog...
Chrome Rigor
  05/12/25
Are you implying that I am a food addict and I have lost my ...
doobsian plaza
  05/12/25
one can take a single look at you and see you have plenty of...
Galvanic Slap-happy Address
  05/12/25
real estate.
Disturbing Primrose Liquid Oxygen Gas Station
  05/12/25
Jews
Vibrant Lodge
  05/12/25
...
Infuriating gold set quadroon
  05/12/25
QE. COL will continue to skyrocket i seriously have no...
Infuriating gold set quadroon
  05/12/25
much of it is likely because you have don't put enough thoug...
fuchsia jet-lagged abode boiling water
  05/12/25
yeah thats what it is if only we clipped coupons more aggres...
Infuriating gold set quadroon
  05/12/25
no not that. if you just pick good restaurants the eating ou...
fuchsia jet-lagged abode boiling water
  05/12/25
okay but none of that touches on the fact that shit is a lot...
Infuriating gold set quadroon
  05/12/25
agree that it costs $25 for a sandwich these days. which pis...
fuchsia jet-lagged abode boiling water
  05/12/25
ai programming robocops who would literally kill us
Disturbing Primrose Liquid Oxygen Gas Station
  05/12/25
Labor costs are to blame for much of this. They be rising. ...
Insane Shivering Church Coffee Pot
  05/12/25
We need to immediately ban these Jewish middlemen delivery c...
Stubborn cobalt organic girlfriend stead
  05/12/25
You’re retarded. I’ve been to Italy, Greece, and...
Hot Area
  05/12/25
Where are you eating in Italy that is very expensive? You ca...
Rose thriller theater stage
  05/13/25
He is actually correct. Those aperol+snack in milan are duri...
Green field
  05/13/25
lol stupid flame
Coiffed Insanely Creepy Cuckold
  05/13/25
Are you joking, this is the dumbest post ITT. Europe is laug...
Arrogant hall sweet tailpipe
  05/13/25
That's why people go to allinclusives in turkey, dubai, etc ...
Green field
  05/13/25
inflationpwned kike slop plus expected tip for parasite serv...
Appetizing soggy senate halford
  05/13/25
you have to go out in an exurb or rural area Go out in do...
Snowy concupiscible cuck becky
  05/13/25


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Date: May 12th, 2025 7:05 PM
Author: Stubborn cobalt organic girlfriend stead

It’s just stupid money. In most foreign countries you can eat much better for a fraction of the cost. Here even fast food is pushing $15/meal.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48925152)



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Date: May 12th, 2025 7:06 PM
Author: heady nudist fanboi

It's ridiculous and I no longer even enjoy it at all, really.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48925154)



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Date: May 12th, 2025 7:08 PM
Author: Stubborn cobalt organic girlfriend stead

Yep. It’s not enjoyable when they are robbing you blind.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48925161)



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Date: May 12th, 2025 7:07 PM
Author: Coiffed Insanely Creepy Cuckold

is $15 a lot of money to you?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48925156)



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Date: May 13th, 2025 8:27 AM
Author: Outnumbered indecent heaven

It’s a lot for a quarter pounder meal you fucking retard. How much money you have is irrelevant.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48926343)



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Date: May 13th, 2025 11:51 AM
Author: Coiffed Insanely Creepy Cuckold

sorry you’re a poor

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48926820)



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Date: May 13th, 2025 11:54 AM
Author: Outnumbered indecent heaven

wasting $ on dumb prole shit is what actual poor people do. sorry you're a poor.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48926826)



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Date: May 13th, 2025 12:43 PM
Author: Coiffed Insanely Creepy Cuckold

rich people don’t bitch about $15

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48927099)



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Date: May 12th, 2025 7:09 PM
Author: maroon police squad

The quality of most “takeout” is fucking laughable in 2025. Amazing nosedive in the last 10 and even 5 years.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48925164)



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Date: May 12th, 2025 7:14 PM
Author: Stubborn cobalt organic girlfriend stead

I blame the delivery apps for that. They know they can get away with shit if people are willing to pay premiums for cold steamy food.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48925178)



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Date: May 12th, 2025 9:40 PM
Author: Talented Pozpig

wtf is cold steam?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48925570)



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Date: May 12th, 2025 7:10 PM
Author: Silver dragon parlour

the wait staff don't even try to be friendly anymore ime, not that I blame them. but kinda weird to go out to eat and the service is like "this fuckin' guy 🙄"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48925166)



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Date: May 12th, 2025 7:13 PM
Author: Stubborn cobalt organic girlfriend stead

Haha yeah. The level of contempt from the losers of striverism towards those they perceive to have maed it in 2025 is through the roof. Nowhere is this misplaced bitterness more evident than in the service industry. It’s like they fucking hate you for them having to work lol.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48925176)



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Date: May 12th, 2025 7:15 PM
Author: Silver dragon parlour

we're turning into Europe with worse phenotypes. Ruin lies ahead.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48925179)



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Date: May 12th, 2025 7:16 PM
Author: red personal credit line candlestick maker

Ahead?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48925182)



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Date: September 30th, 2025 4:55 PM
Author: Paralegal Mohammad (Death, death to the IDF!)



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#49315542)



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Date: May 12th, 2025 8:02 PM
Author: Judgmental boltzmann resort

I haven't noticed a difference. This may just be because you moved to Scumfuck rural CT

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48925297)



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Date: May 12th, 2025 7:11 PM
Author: red personal credit line candlestick maker

https://www.chilis.com/menu#3-for-me

HTH

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48925169)



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Date: May 12th, 2025 7:12 PM
Author: Trip Potus

we turned it into almost a necessity, huge chunks of the public simply can't or won't cook so they will spend whatever is asked of them, America is an evil place

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48925172)



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Date: May 12th, 2025 7:28 PM
Author: Stubborn cobalt organic girlfriend stead

If people don’t cook wouldn’t there be more restaurants to address the demand? I feel like there is something more nefarious going on.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48925210)



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Date: May 12th, 2025 7:33 PM
Author: Trip Potus

there are more, way more, like a thousand percent increase since the 90's

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48925229)



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Date: May 12th, 2025 7:39 PM
Author: Stubborn cobalt organic girlfriend stead

Then why aren’t they cheaper. This idea that demand has exploded to the degree you are suggesting just doesn’t seem believable.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48925251)



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Date: May 12th, 2025 7:51 PM
Author: Trip Potus

it has, ubereats and doordash are entire segments of the economy that just didn't exist AT ALL a few years ago

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48925278)



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Date: May 12th, 2025 7:37 PM
Author: Coiffed Insanely Creepy Cuckold

cooking is for families. hardly makes sense for singles and even busy couples

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48925244)



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Date: May 12th, 2025 7:38 PM
Author: Silver dragon parlour

that's bullshit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48925250)



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Date: May 12th, 2025 7:43 PM
Author: Coiffed Insanely Creepy Cuckold

price your time properly and I assure you it’s not

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48925257)



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Date: May 12th, 2025 7:47 PM
Author: doobsian plaza

This assumes that restaurants are convenient and they are not.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48925265)



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Date: May 12th, 2025 7:53 PM
Author: Trip Potus

it isn't about time, you have plenty of free time in the evening to cook a meal, but in terms of portions and food waste cooking for one requires either enormous discipline or a tolerance for eating the same thing all week, just up it to two portions and the math flips immediately

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48925283)



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Date: May 12th, 2025 8:14 PM
Author: Coiffed Insanely Creepy Cuckold

“it isn’t about the one thing you will never get back”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48925329)



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Date: May 12th, 2025 8:15 PM
Author: Trip Potus

sitting on your ass waiting for cold slop to be delivered is not a better use of life than cooking good food

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48925332)



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Date: May 13th, 2025 12:46 PM
Author: Snowy concupiscible cuck becky

that's why you shove some slop down your throat during your commute home

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48927116)



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Date: May 12th, 2025 8:15 PM
Author: Outnumbered indecent heaven

You are an actual retard

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48925335)



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Date: May 12th, 2025 8:22 PM
Author: Galvanic Slap-happy Address

What better thing do you have to do with your time

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48925355)



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Date: May 12th, 2025 8:43 PM
Author: Coiffed Insanely Creepy Cuckold

lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48925414)



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Date: May 12th, 2025 7:13 PM
Author: Galvanic Slap-happy Address

Seriously, who cares

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48925174)



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Date: May 12th, 2025 7:35 PM
Author: Chrome Rigor

high grocery prices are making eating out more reasonable these days, especially at non-chain places. $15 sandwich w/ a side at a diner or deli v. $12/pound turkey etc. etc.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48925234)



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Date: May 12th, 2025 7:37 PM
Author: milky stage preventive strike

i feel like this is why 'food trucks' run by guatemalans in places like gas station parking lots have become more popular over time. they just quickly serve you your slop without complaint or attitude.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48925245)



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Date: May 12th, 2025 7:40 PM
Author: Stubborn cobalt organic girlfriend stead

In SoCal a burrito off one of those trucks is $15. They are not any cheaper than brick and mortar around here.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48925253)



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Date: May 12th, 2025 7:49 PM
Author: heady nudist fanboi



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48925268)



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Date: May 12th, 2025 7:41 PM
Author: Motley National Security Agency

mostly because of whiny, cheap shitlib jews like you

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48925254)



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Date: May 12th, 2025 7:46 PM
Author: doobsian plaza

Eating out is too much of a hassle. My four kids make it a challenge so I just don’t do it.

One of the most tedious things about work actually is the expectation of eating all the time, too. Like they’ll have a breakfast (I don’t eat breakfast), and then they’ll have a lunch (and I usually don’t eat at that time either), and then they’ll have a dinner that goes to 1030 or 1100 and the expectation will be that you drink booze (and I don’t drink).

But restaurants themselves are all flame. I don’t know the last time I had a good meal anywhere or actually enjoyed myself at a restaurant.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48925264)



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Date: May 12th, 2025 8:02 PM
Author: Chrome Rigor

serious alcoholics stop enjoying bars or even drinking altogether before long too, to be fair.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48925294)



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Date: May 12th, 2025 8:04 PM
Author: doobsian plaza

Are you implying that I am a food addict and I have lost my ability to get pleasure from the object of my addiction?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48925299)



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Date: May 12th, 2025 8:16 PM
Author: Galvanic Slap-happy Address

one can take a single look at you and see you have plenty of time to eat lmao

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48925337)



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Date: May 12th, 2025 8:03 PM
Author: Disturbing Primrose Liquid Oxygen Gas Station

real estate.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48925298)



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Date: May 12th, 2025 8:16 PM
Author: Vibrant Lodge

Jews

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48925338)



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Date: May 12th, 2025 8:17 PM
Author: Infuriating gold set quadroon



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48925341)



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Date: May 12th, 2025 8:17 PM
Author: Infuriating gold set quadroon

QE.

COL will continue to skyrocket

i seriously have no idea why there aren't pitchforks

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48925339)



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Date: May 12th, 2025 8:27 PM
Author: fuchsia jet-lagged abode boiling water

much of it is likely because you have don't put enough thought into your restaurant choices. you also seem to order food from the apps, thereby ensuring you will incur a 40% markup in fees

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48925371)



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Date: May 12th, 2025 8:31 PM
Author: Infuriating gold set quadroon

yeah thats what it is if only we clipped coupons more aggressively you can eat out at 1999 prices

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48925388)



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Date: May 12th, 2025 8:42 PM
Author: fuchsia jet-lagged abode boiling water

no not that. if you just pick good restaurants the eating out experience is worth it. they can be counter serve places even. if you're in a major metro there's going to be high quality food at all levels. you just have to know where to look. also, we cook at home. a lot. we're fairly good at it. so eating out is the exception, not the rule

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48925412)



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Date: May 12th, 2025 8:44 PM
Author: Infuriating gold set quadroon

okay but none of that touches on the fact that shit is a lot more expensive than it was. this trend will not reverse without mass economic hardship or an AI miracle

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48925421)



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Date: May 12th, 2025 8:51 PM
Author: fuchsia jet-lagged abode boiling water

agree that it costs $25 for a sandwich these days. which pisses me off. describe the AI miracle that would bring prices down

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48925458)



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Date: May 12th, 2025 9:16 PM
Author: Disturbing Primrose Liquid Oxygen Gas Station

ai programming robocops who would literally kill us

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48925523)



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Date: May 12th, 2025 9:00 PM
Author: Insane Shivering Church Coffee Pot

Labor costs are to blame for much of this. They be rising. Energy too.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48925495)



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Date: May 12th, 2025 9:27 PM
Author: Stubborn cobalt organic girlfriend stead

We need to immediately ban these Jewish middlemen delivery companies that put immense upward pressure on prices. If dorks are willing to pay $30 for a shittier version of the same sandwich delivered why should they not charge $22 in the restaurant?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48925553)



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Date: May 12th, 2025 9:35 PM
Author: Hot Area

You’re retarded. I’ve been to Italy, Greece, and France in the past year which were all historically cheaper than the US (esp. NYC) for food if you compare similar experiences. The food in Greece has become way more expensive with a weakening dollar and the Ukraine war waging on. Italy and France remain very expensive unless you are eating takeaway food.

I’m sure food is still cheap in shit-hole-istan, but I’m a white American and would not want to ever visit there.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48925564)



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Date: May 13th, 2025 2:45 AM
Author: Rose thriller theater stage

Where are you eating in Italy that is very expensive? You can get an aperol spritz for 4 euros (or 3) and it comes with half a sandwich.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48926097)



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Date: May 13th, 2025 12:43 PM
Author: Green field

He is actually correct. Those aperol+snack in milan are during set times i.e. 12-4 when people are looking to eat something else.. actul dinner isn't that much cheaper. More notably Spain and Italy are actually cheaper for restaurants than east Europe now..

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48927102)



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Date: May 13th, 2025 4:45 AM
Author: Coiffed Insanely Creepy Cuckold

lol stupid flame

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48926152)



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Date: May 13th, 2025 12:17 PM
Author: Arrogant hall sweet tailpipe

Are you joking, this is the dumbest post ITT. Europe is laughably cheap and higher quality.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48926958)



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Date: May 13th, 2025 12:14 PM
Author: Green field

That's why people go to allinclusives in turkey, dubai, etc you could literally eat $200/person equivalent(if you ate at restaurnts). Then take free sun umbrellas and unlimited booze..

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48926942)



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Date: May 13th, 2025 12:15 PM
Author: Appetizing soggy senate halford

inflationpwned kike slop plus expected tip for parasite serverscum

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48926948)



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Date: May 13th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: Snowy concupiscible cuck becky

you have to go out in an exurb or rural area

Go out in downtown Minneapolis and you're paying obscene prices plus "health and wellness charges" so the gay servers can fuck each other in the ass more.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724207&forum_id=2#48927103)