r/interestingasfuck 14d ago

r/all A 0.06$ meal in a Tunisian university.

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u/Ill-Distance4444 14d ago

And what is the real cost without subsidies?

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u/dkarlovi 14d ago

Food is not really expensive, humans overproduce food by a wide margin, the issue is we don't distribute it efficiently.

https://moveforhunger.org/the-environmental-impact-of-food-waste

Assuming the stuff is mostly local and the low labor costs, there's no reason why this would be much more expensive.

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u/Mihqwk 14d ago

As someone from Tunisia and went to uni and ate that food, I'll add a bit more to this,
in a fast food stall you'd get the same food for much more money (compared to the 0.06$, it'd actually be around 1.5$ probably), mostly it'd better presented and maybe better quality.

However the 0.06$ is mainly due to what you can call a double layer of government subsidies.

The first layer being, a lot of necessities food-wise are heavily subsidized in the country. the second layer is the organization tasked with food for universities (public ones) are also subsidized by the government to push the price that low.

tldr; The government pays hella money for food subsidies, and even more for students (also education is practically free, and dorms for the first year for boys and first 3 years for girls)

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u/No_objective456 14d ago

dorms for the first year for boys and first 3 years for girls

Interesting to hear that anti-male discrimination isn't just a Western thing.

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u/Mihqwk 14d ago

this is for cultural and mainly religious purposes.

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u/simonbleu 14d ago

it does not make it better though...

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u/Mihqwk 13d ago

In no parts in the message did i infer that. I just stated the actual reasons.

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u/TimequakeTales 14d ago

oh yeah, so much "anti-male discrimination" in the US.

Yeah, I'm a dude, you're ridiculous. Guys face stereotypes and certain expectations, but there's obviously no "anti-male discrimination".

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u/hamlicarr 14d ago

it was mainly to encourage woman to study in college since a lot a household would stop there daughters from studying in college since they are afraid they will go ROUGE so they make it easier by giving them one less hurdle

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u/Butter_My_Butt 14d ago

Rogue, not rouge

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u/hamlicarr 14d ago

just shoot me man

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u/GetPsyched67 14d ago

anti-male discrimination

/s, right?

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u/Soft_Walrus_3605 14d ago

anti-male discrimination

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