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I can make that for less than a dollar
I went to Niagara falls the other day and they were selling $10 pizza slices, my wife got one. I went to the grocery store across the street, bought a large roll from the fresh baked ones. Got cheese ends and ham ends at the deli aisle, and grabbed salad cup. It cost me about $8 but I got a much better, massive sandwich compared to what my wife ate.
$10 for a slice of pizza? And you paid it? What in the world? No wonder food prices keep going up.
No they keep going up cause we have shitty governments who side with corporations and don’t give a shit about us
We were at Niagara Falls earlier this year and we did the same thing. Food prices there are insane.
What is a cheese end? The end of the block of cheese that is sliced off?
Ham ends too, what are these terms?
Canadian, probably? Niagara is on the usa/Canadian border
Grocery stores sometimes sell packs of mixed cheeses and deli meats from the ends or trims.
That’s a great idea and I would like to see it here, but America has no real laws preventing billions of dollars of food waste, so companies never do anything like this.
Shoprite here in Pennsylvania does that all the time. TBF the shit is nasty and still costs about as much per pound as proper deli meats and cheeses.
Tourist hot spots are insane. I was having a cup of coffee in a small cafe at St. Mark’s Square in Venice and it was 6.50€ for the coffee and a 12€ cover charge. Rip-off.
Weigh it again!
Jk
Don’t they make the sandwiches to your specification in the UK?
Edit: I’m stupid, I read that as Subway.
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And even Pikes Place SB’s isn’t as good as a local cafe.
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Starbucks coffee’s got nothing on $1 McDonalds coffee.
what’s different about pike place?
It’s the original one.
It’s not actually. That’s the second store they claim is the first. The real first was on Western. Coffee is the same though, you’re right, better to go to the roasterie
Is the coffee actually different there?
Tastes the same to me.
No. It’s a local myth that it is.
I don’t think that’s a local myth. That sounds like a tourist trap myth.
It’s local. I’ve had tons of people tell me it’s better there.
It isn’t.
Interesting, I’ve never heard that. I don’t know any locals that would voluntarily go there unless they have out of town guests.
No. It’s a local myth that it is.
So now I have to travel around the world to Seattle or something to get good Starbucks? I don’t believe you, nice try!
pikes place
Speaking of mildly infuriating 😆
They charge that much because the market will bear it. 🤷🏻♂️ That’s on us consumers.
Yeah, support a local sandwich shop.
Probably won’t be much cheaper but it’ll be ten times the quality.
My family ran a local sandwich shop for years. Here’s the problem.
If this is downtown, the local sandwich shop isn’t even there, in part because Starbucks helped price them out of being able to rent. Every supermarket now has a sandwich counter too, so local sandwich shops don’t do well in shopping centers either. Fast food has slightly improved their quality over the years so that’s more competitors at the low end. And Subway, period.
You’re paying for the convenience at Starbucks and in some cases convenience is valuable. If you don’t care about time and can go out of your way to a local sandwich shop, you get better food for less.
Luckily the downtown in the city where I live doesn’t allow chain restaurants so I have many options for decently priced food.
That’s a great law if you can get it. Big parts of the NorCal coastline are like that and going there feels like traveling back to a better time.
I was in an area like that once. It felt weird. Like I stepped into some alternative earth history where the franchises and chains all had different names. It was basically the same items for sale however.
Also how else is the roof of your mouth going to get tougher without starbucks sandwiches?
There’s a “your mom” joke in there somewhere but it’s not coming to me.
Idk…local independent shops aren’t necessarily cheaper. There is a local coffee shop somewhat by me and it’s more expensive than Starbucks. Independent places don’t have the advantage of mass scale like the big name fast food and chain places do. When I go independent, I often find myself paying more money for less convenience. So it’s not even just convenience that you’re sacrificing
Yeah that can be true. Not all local businesses are competitively run.
While it’s true they don’t have the same economies of scale as large corporations, they also don’t have the same overhead. Starbucks coffee stands support a skyscraper full of bureaucrats somewhere. And Starbucks corporate has a stock price to worry about. Local shops don’t have all that crap, and can often get away with charging less. My dad just charged 15% below the corporate shop down the block, as a rule, and it was still profitable.
Coffee will be better as well. Starbucks burns their beans so they can guarantee the same “quality” flavor at every location.
This I can actually weight in on a bit. They have their recipe under full version control and plant operations can only adjust it slightly without HQ doing an override. Not their air waste handling however, that is under local control.
Nobody goes to Starbucks for good coffee, they go because it’s the same everywhere. Sometimes I want to go get a great coffee somewhere they know how to pull a decent shot, and sometimes I want brownish sugarmilk.
Not entirely true, the stores that unionized have better tasting coffee in comparison to regular sb
How would that even make sense? They’re still getting their beans from the same source and preparing drinks in the exact same way.
Yeah I also heard the unionized stores don’t have bathrooms because everybody shits rainbows.
lmao
“Have a day.” - Starbucks
Now that’s something to give you a big ol’ case of the fuck yous.
Enough meat, one slice too little of cheese. But why is there no butter nor salad on it?
As a supertaster and inveterate picky eater, that actually looks pretty good. Could use some mayo and/or mustard though.
Youre nuts.
A little mayo, sure. But not for 8 bucks.
As a normal customer with the lowest standard, that actually looks pretty disgusting. Could eat a shoe with some mayo.
Disgusting? It’s a few slices of ham and cheese. It’s basic, but you find ham and cheese to be disgusting?
Too much ham, no mayo or dressing, and nothing green like lettuce.
I mean you could see what was on it before you bought it, that’s on you dog. All you did was prove people will pay that much for a shit sandwich.
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4 slices of meat 2 slices of cheese + 2 slices of bread -------------------- £8What’s not to get?
Retirement
It’s actually 2 slices of meat cut in half.
It actually does appear to be 4 full slices folded over
Oh, you’re probably right. I’m on a phone screen.
I paid 6$ CAD for brie and ham with pepper jelly from the grocery store
That’s genuinely shocking.
It’s not shocking for me. They don’t make real coffee, how would they know how to make food?
I wouldn’t know : I never support them.
They don’t make real coffee
The coffee at Starbucks is real, I’ve seen it in person
Why do people still give them money?
I get the sentiment, but most places don’t have even halfway decent coffee shops. Everyone gives starbucks shit (rightfully so), but the fact is if you walk into a random cafe in America, it will most likely be inferior to starbucks. The level of quality in American coffee is just abysmal. And if you’re traveling, you won’t know if the cafe you take a chance on is a hidden gem (spoiler, it never is). I was in Austin one time and I found this hipster place that had great reviews on google. The interior was really nice, nice place to work, spacious, etc. The coffee tasted like dog water. It wasn’t mediocre, it was trash. I’m sure Austin has great cafes, but unless you live there how will you know? Starbucks is a consistent mediocre coffee.
The coffee may suck but the whisky is great!
I guess living in Seattle has spoiled me.
Reviews are a bit of a shit show with everyone being used to Starbucks as the “standard” now. I still give the local places a shot when I travel. I find them rarely worse than Starbucks for a latte and quiet often better. Plus, you know not giving money to Starbucks and their horrible anti-union leadership…
I’ve been to a Starbucks once in my life and that was in August of 2012. I have never been back since I never plan to go back. I absolutely do not understand the appeal.
It brings that consistent Seattle blandness everywhere it goes.
Neal Stephenson said it best in Snow Crash :
"In olden times, you’d wander down to Mom’s Café for a bite to eat and a cup of joe, and you would feel right at home. It worked just fine if you never left your hometown. But if you went to the next town over, everyone would look up and stare at you when you came in the door, and the Blue Plate Special would be something you didn’t recognize. If you did enough traveling, you’d never feel at home anywhere.
But when a businessman from New Jersey goes to Dubuque, he knows he can walk into a McDonald’s and no one will stare at him. He can order without having to look at the menu, and the food will always taste the same. McDonald’s is Home, condensed into a three-ringed binder and xeroxed. “No surprises” is the motto of the franchise ghetto, its Good Housekeeping seal, subliminally blazoned on every sign and logo that make up the curves and grids of light that outline the Basin.
The people of America, who live in the world’s most surprising and terrible country, take comfort in that motto."
It’s a little game I play whenever I am abroad to go check out a chain place to see how different it is. Very anecdotal
7-11 is all over the place. Prices and what they have will vary by country.
Starbucks is consistent on high end drink items both in price and what they make.
Dunkin is pretty much the same everywhere except you can’t seem to get drip coffee in some countries.
MacDonalds is the same with maybe one local item. Kinda cool getting a beer in Germany with some French fries.
Same. Been to a few places in southeast Asia and Starbucks is pretty much the same everywhere there. So I can step off a street full of stalls selling all sorts of food items that I would class as “extremely adventurous” into a store with recognisable sweet/savoury cafe food options. I can relax in consistently dark-hued wood decor with a consistent assortment of tables/couches/chairs/charging points, and a consistent range of coffee drinks that each have enough calories to sustain a local family for a week.
Now I have to re-read snow crash. Such a great book.
All these beefy Caucasians with guns. Get enough of them together, looking for the America they always believed they’d grow up in, and they glom together like overcooked rice, form integral, starchy little units. With their power tools, portable generators, weapons, four-wheel-drive vehicles, and personal computers, they are like beavers hyped up on crystal meth, manic engineers without a blueprint, chewing through the wilderness, building things and abandoning them, altering the flow of mighty rivers and then moving on because the place ain’t what it used to be. The byproduct of the lifestyle is polluted rivers, greenhouse effect, spouse abuse, televangelists, and serial killers. But as long as you have that four-wheel-drive vehicle and can keep driving north, you can sustain it, keep moving just quickly enough to stay one step ahead of your own waste stream. In twenty years, ten million white people will converge on the north pole and park their bagos there. The low-grade waste heat of their thermodynamically intense lifestyle will turn the crystalline icescape pliable and treacherous. It will melt a hole through the polar icecap, and all that metal will sink to the bottom, sucking the biomass down with it.
My main reason to go to McDonalds on a business trip is, that you can eat there on your own without looking lonely.
Thanks but no, I can’t eat anywhere without looking lonely.
Snow Crash is one of the greatest books ever written.
It is consistent, has bathrooms, and they don’t bother you if you sit there for a while. I have been avoiding them but you asked and I answered.
Starbucks is a union busting piece of shit organization, regardless of their piece of shit food, fuck Starbucks.
