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11 dollars for a sandwich? what are you putting in it? a ten dollar bill?
The best sandwich costs $1.50 but it exists in Vietnam so you need to factor in travel costs. The longer you stay, the less it costs.
I can spend less than $11 and make a giant hoagie at home that’s the ssme or better quality than the shop selling me a 6 inch sub for $11.
Yes, you can save a bit of money and make something better at home, it may well be recommended.
But, that $11 doesn’t cover just the ingredients. It covers the time and effort you spent planning groceries, getting the groceries, 15 min making the hoagie, and perhaps packing it and bringing it to where you are. Consider how much you think your current job should be paying you and apply it to that whole process. All of that is what you’re spending instead of the $11. And for a lot of people that’s time well spent for sure, but it’s still time and effort that’s worth more than most give credit.
My staff does all of that.
So you’re the asshole extorting people for sandwiches at $11 a pop!
The fact that this number has crept up without meaningful wage increases is what I’m pissed about.
£8.36 for a sandwich? Fuck off.
Best sandwiches are home made and cost a few dollars
I like those simple Tesco (UK grocery store) ham sandwiches. They’re nice. Fluffy bread, ham nice and fresh. They’re £1.50. I have to be fair! They do what it says on the box! Haha
Salt Hank sells a $40 French dip, sells out by noon
Does nobody here find it a bit insane that 11 dollars is seen as an acceptable price for a sandwich these days?
Even worse, it is half the size it was 5 years ago.
it’s not even a foot long
I expected to pay $5 for a good sandwich in 1995 and with inflation $11 sounds about right.
Double checked and yup: https://www.calculateme.com/inflation/5.00-dollars/from-1995/to-now
The main problem is that since wages haven’t kept up the proportional value to the paycheck doesn’t follow inflation which is why it isn’t actually as simple as just looking at inflation.
I paid 2€ for a sandwich up to 2020. How is $5 expected in 95…
Now it’s more like 4-5€ for a good one.Depends on the type of sandwich and how good it is. I’m thinking of a full sized sub.
Yellow Sub has fantastic sandwiches and full size was around $5 back in the 90’s and around $14 today. Back then the half was like 75% the cost of a full (twice the size) so I always got the full and had leftovers.
Pretty sure a potato is going to cost $11 soon at this rate
We’re going to have to put the Arrested Development banana meme out to pasture soon.
We were supposed to get another ~100 years out of that meme. Thanks, Trump.
I didn’t know there was an xkcd for this. Nice! Thanks for sharing.
There is an xkcd for everything!
There really is holy shit, I wasn’t fully convinced until this
Dude I’m always so stunned by comments like this. I’m in aus and a zoomer, even after converting to USD decent sandwiches have cost more than this my entire life
Australia was a model for the rest of the world…
nah that’s a reasonable price for a quality sandwich in Canada
now if you convert that $11 USD to CAD, then no, that’s high
Me. I think it’s outrageous 😳
I believe you mean “eleven dollars dollars”.
You mean “dollars eleven dollars”.
If I’m going to be spending eleven dollars for a sandwimch it better be two.
I mean, if you’re going out to sit down restaurant and getting a good sandwich, I don’t think that’s unacceptable at all. That said, my local sub shop has amazing subs for $6-8
Going to a sit down restaurant for a sandwich is very suspicious behavior. Like going to a bar and ordering a glass of milk.
Yeah same in the EU, every local sub place will be €5 at most
That sounds like a dream to me in Germany. Subway for two was around 20€ last year and the average Döner is at least 7-8€, though in my area it’s closer to 10€
Laughs in Eastern Europe’s 20$/week spendings on food.
While making sandwiches for myself every day.
Oh, I pay about that in the grocery store, I just can’t get restaurant food for that cheap.
If you’re eating at Subway you’re doing it wrong
That’s why my last price point is last year
With or without drinks, and footlong or half-footlong? Been a while since I’ve been to subway, but I’d be very surprised to learn that the cheaper half-footlongs are already at 10€ (assuming your area’s taxes, wages and raw material prices are similar to mine, which is not a given). IMO the footlongs are too big to count as “one sandwich”.
Without drinks and foot long. Even if I don’t finish it in one sitting, I’ll basically always go for a bigger sandwich and have leftovers later, unless it’s something really saucy or likely to get super soggy.
Yeah, but that’s one big sandwich. 10€ for a big sandwich is different from 10€ for a normal-sized sandwich.
It’s about the size of a dürüm, at least around me. If they stuffed it really full, it might feel bigger, but subway was never even close to as full as any Döner place makes theirs. I tend to judge the size of food by my companions because I have a bird stomach (I would be happiest having three bites of food every half hour all day long, because otherwise I get really full), and I’m the only one who saves part of it for later.
I remember when I thought $8 was steep. It wasn’t even that long ago.
Yes, but they probably don’t mean a sandwich using the standard size of bread slices that you find in a store. Something like Jimmy John’s Favorites subs or my local gyro place (technically not a sandwich but similar) are around that price and contain a lot more volume of food than a basic sandwich. Subway’s footlongs are about that size/volume but their quality is not worth $11 by any means. I think hamburgers also would be an exception to that price-quality-volume metric for sandwiches.
This must be old; it’s $15 everywhere near me now.
Reminder that if you make minimum wage in the US that sandwich cost a quarter of your daily income.
$11 dollars
Eleven dollars dollars?
Must be the Dairy Queen “$5 Buck Lunch” people
This is definitely big city language. 11$ is an expensive sandwich.
I withdrew $11 dollars from the ATM machine using my PIN number to buy some DC comics which I converted to a PDF format to view on my LCD display e-reader.
What kind of ATM lets you withdraw exactly $11?
I remember back when ATMs had $5 bills. Don’t know if they ever had singles.
I haven’t seen anything less than $20’s in one for a long time.
Is there any DLC content for the new game?
Yes, but apparently it’s quite demanding so I’ll need some more DDR RAM Memory.
$²11
No, “dollars eleven dollars”.
So there’s a place I’d go to that used to sell these real big chicken sandos and at some point they raised the price like a buck or 2. Inflation happened and it’s like what to them would be a kids meal portion size and for other places would be the normal. Price hasn’t gone down. Flavor is still good. 🤷♂️
What kind of a sandwich are we talking about? A monsteous long ass sandwich that would feed me for a week, or something to eat at lunch in its entirety to hold me over until dinner?
They are the same thing.
I guess you could interpret those as being the same thing. To further clarify, the second sandwich in my inquiry would be eaten in its entirety during lunch.
There’s a really popular sandwich shop in my hometown. It regularly has a line out the door. I just checked their prices and it’s 10.75 for most options so I’d say this is spot on.
In my small little town, the local shyster opened up a deli on main street just before the start of covid. The least expensive sandwich on the menu was a $14 grilled cheese sandwich. Next step up were the $16 - $18 burgers. At the time, there was nothing in town to attract people to come here to eat, and those prices pretty much excluded the vast majority of the locals from being able to afford to eat there regularly. Anyway, my family and I went one time, just to give it a chance since we like to support local business as much as we can. Needless to say we weren’t surprised when the place close down within the year.
So, I’m thinking that completely randomly chosen number probably doesn’t specifically hold up universally everywhere.
