Would you call this real of balogna?

[Daniela1982]

You wonder why costs go up for you, yet expect fast food or eating in restaurant costs to be old skool? And now we also have the tipping controversy. When will people get with the present and out of the past?

Today's food at yesterday's prices

[Lliam]

It's real. I don't think restaurant owners are gouging. Their costs have truly gone way up.

Government policies have made goods and transportation extremely expensive.

It has deliberately made farming difficult for all but the largest corporations. With food shortages leading to higher costs, people like Bill Gates, corporations like Black Rock, and foreign governments like China are investing in agricultural land in anticipation of food becoming a high profit, growth industry. Monopolies will control costs.

Many processing and distribution plants have coincidentally gone up in flames recently.

Coincidental outbreaks of disease in poultry and other animals have led to the culling of millions of animals.

Small farms and people who grow their own food are shut down for one bullshit reason or another.

A lot more is going on. The goal is to make independent living impossible and life miserable so that people will be willing to become dependent on government programs. That is how people will be forced to accept 15 minute cities, eating bugs, and the WEF's stated mantra, "You'll own nothing and be happy."

We're headed for totalitarian domination by unelected globalist elites who plan to own every single resource and control every single human being.

[Massageman]

Everything we have to buy has gone up. And that government BS about 8.5% inflation is just that. Our food has gone up 11% in this year alone, ands we aren't even 3 full months into the year yet! And, I now make my own pork sausage, pickles, burger patties (stretched with TVP), slaws, salads (potato, calico, etc), my own. spice blends, etc. and am just starting to expand my garden space devoted to edibles.

The biggest problem is that my wife works in the healthcare field, and has seen nothing but LOWER payments for for her efforts. The insurance companies with whom she must deal takes in HIGHER premiums, but she gets reduced levels of compensation for her efforts. PLUS, now instead of being mailed checks, "e-checks" are paid through an electronic clearinghouse , and - you guessed it- she has to pay a fee to collect the money she is owed, so her net is even lower STILL!.

We save our points on our charge card payments, and get occasional meals out with the gift cards we get with the points we "earn". PS - we pay off our CC in full each month.

PPS - two O's in Bologna, although I usually just use a B and an S.

[SnowedIn]

I believe the costs that business and consumers are paying are real. I'm no longer convinced that the manufacturers and wholesalers are actually incurring those costs for raw materials as much as they are jacking prices up. But in the case that you point out, yeah. My wife manages a restaurant and the costs have legit gone up, just as they have for us at home.

[Daniela1982]

Yet people gripe about having to tip more. Consider what you tipped per pound of food back then to what people gripe about tipping today for a pound of food.

[SnowedIn]

I'm with you on this one. I don't like tipping culture/tipping economics but that's not the server's fault.

[Alex8736]

It is definitely insane how inflation has gone over the roof which is why i am grateful that I am a good cook and also go to farmers markets where the ingredients are much cheaper. As a realist I have always been really good at setting budgets on my needs vs my wants and managing my finances wisely

[exitseven]

It is true. I just bought new shingles for my house. I bought the treated cedar shingles. In 2020 I paid 20 bucks a box. I did one side of my house and was going to do the rest later. This year I paid 66. I can't believe how expensive everything is.

[Guy13]

Everyone should be reducing portions, rationing, and dropping 20-30 lbs. It seems like a good thing to me.

[Daniela1982]

I can't say that I don't need to lose 5 pounds myself.

[Red_Arrow]

With the examples given, a person would have to reduce their portions to 1/4 of what they ate a year ago to pay the same amount, and a year from now they would eat 1/4 of what they eat this year, which is 1/16 of what they ate a year ago. You would not be dropping 20-30 lbs. You would be dropping dead.

[Daniela1982]

@Red_Arrow I got your number. We are far from the prices of a McDonald's hamburger in 1968 - 10 cents.
https://youtu.be/qiXLsl9Rww4

[Red_Arrow]

1968 was over 50 years ago. I am talking about only a couple of years.

[Daniela1982]

@Red_Arrow And what do you pay for a new truck today compared to then? 1972 Chevy Chyenne 1/2 ton $4,000. 2023 Dodge Ram 1500 - $55,000. That is the price of 2 houses back then.

[Red_Arrow]

I don't know about truck prices, but in general car prices have not increased to 16 times the price of two years ago, which is the increase that we are talking about over the two years I mentioned.

[Anonymous]

Real but it's all part of the next state of plan 2030, the dark stages in which you'll surrender what you own as well as the start of subtle genocide

[Daniela1982]

They will have to get our guns first. Wait for it!

[Opinion Owner]

They tried already and failed but they found a work around, food 'shortages' and an energy crisis so you pay everything you have to survive or choose to die of either starvation or hypothermia

[Daniela1982]

That won't happen. All the countries we have helped over the years will come to our rescue with food aid. If you believe that you also believe there are no trolls on G@G.

[Opinion Owner]

It's an act of the WEF so it'll be happening globally simultaneously, no one will be in a position to help
The pandemic was a manufactured beta test of the plans, how much will people put up with, will they wait hours for food as the other big facet will be the banishment of freedom of movement hence the green agenda and battery powered cars as a front, they'll let the roads crumble, trainlines and bus routes will closed down, walking will see you questioned by roving patrols of law enforcement to make sure you stay in your confined area

[Likes2drive]

Everything keeps going up until the demand goes down or they come up with new ways to produce food cheaper, I guess we will eat less and not as many obese people then

[FreyaRed]

I don't care. Market will regulate itself

[Shamalien]

“The budget will balance itself”

😂

[NostalgiaSenpi]

Yup.