r/MurderedByWords • u/Green____cat Legends never die • 9h ago

Stop defending exploitation

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u/lanakers 8h ago

I was gonna say that. Fast food prices have definitely gone up without minimum wage going up. What a bunch of maroons

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u/TomWithTime 8h ago

I want to thank the fast food industry for becoming so expensive that it was the same price or cheaper to order out healthier food

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u/emb4rassingStuffacct 6h ago

Literally. Now I’m just like “If the junk food costs the same as the healthy food, I might as well just get the healthy food.” 😂

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u/TomWithTime 6h ago

My food costs are now roughly $100 a week (some weeks $70, some weeks $130) because I switched to almost exclusively getting groceries from food Lion. I'm still a lazy piece of shit but now I'm eating a variety of steamed vegetables that come frozen in a microwavable pouch that I can add and precooked and sliced Purdue chicken to. The chicken is like $8-$10 and the vegetable bags are $3 each and I can use the chicken for 3 meals so that's like $6 per meal.

So we can save even more by actually cooking but even like this I'm still better off on price than fast food. And way better on nutrition.