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Reminder that if you make minimum wage in the US that sandwich cost a quarter of your daily income.
*in America.
Divide by 4-5 for asia.
$11 dollars
Eleven dollars dollars?
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.
No, “dollars eleven dollars”.
$²11
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.
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.
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
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
If I’m going to be spending eleven dollars for a sandwimch it better be two.
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.
Me. I think it’s outrageous 😳
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
I remember when I thought $8 was steep. It wasn’t even that long ago.
I believe you mean “eleven dollars dollars”.
You mean “dollars eleven dollars”.
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.
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.
If you’re eating at Subway you’re doing it wrong
That’s why my last price point is last year
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.
2 - 8€ range contains bangers
2-4€ at the butcher’s
5-8€ at the bakery
Different style, all deliciousAnd if you do them yourself, you can get a perfect sandwich for four dollars or less easily.
In my mind a large “smos”, as is the ubiquitous sandwich variety here, is 2,70.
They’re now up to 5 or 6, depending on place, plus shrinkflation reduced it to a third of a baguette instead of half.
Nonsense!
Counterpoint: good bahn mi in SF is around 6 dollars
This is probably perfectly true if you live near Mike ginn and eat at the same shops he does. I paid $13.50 for a chicken sandwich today and it was pretty crap.
Are you suggesting that it was not foolish to pay $13.50 for that sandwich?
Foolish does not imply bad
Are you claiming to live near Mike then? The man said $11 was peak.
Foolish does not imply bad
this man has never gave an honest attempt at making a good homemade sandwich on a budget. Seriously just getting any kind if fresh bread (you can get those at wal mart and i bet any local cafe that bakes their bread will sell loaves) and cheese is halfway there. Any basic condiment selection will be good enough. All of that is so cheap compared to the protein most likely.
It used to be like $5
Big assumption I’m going to regularly pay someone else to put fillings inside of bread for me.
If I’m paying for food out, it’s gonna be something I can’t or really don’t want to make myself. Not a fucking sandwich.
When it was more affordable, some of those paid sandwiches were pretty good. I’d rarely get as intricate with the ingredients when making a sandwich at home, I’d especially skip the salad almost always because it’s way too wasteful to buy a head of salad for one person.
When you work every day, it is easier to just order a sandwich.
I refuse to make those every day
I get whatcha saying, but there was this place I used to go that would make this awesome Torta Oaxaqueña (various Mexican food in a hamburger-like bun) that I don’t think I coulda ever made myself.
That’s fair. My mind just went to Subway as the extreme example
aw yeah true, I miss the Subway of the 90s, the food was noticeably better and worth the money. Over the past 20 years they just kept taking shortcut after shortcut and now it takes like stuff you could take out of the freezer yourself.
Most people aren’t thinking of subs when they say “sandwich”.
Well, that definitely explains why some people do think of subs when they say “sandwich”!
Jersey Mike’s Big Kahuna Cheese Steak is $13.49 so this is demonstrably false
Well, first of all, it’s a Philly cheesesteak sandwich with a Hawaiian name and it doesn’t even have pineapples or spam on it. I’d say that definitely counts as foolish.
Yoooo, does anyone make a spam pineapple cheesesteak? Asking for a friend that is also me that would destroy that.
You could be the pineapple spam cheese steak slinger
I’m fixin’ to here in a minute. Spam musubi is one of my very guilty pleasures.
I’ve never heard of such a thing so you could be the first, I guess.
Please don’t forget to name your firstborn after me if it works out.
Sure, you bet. 100% guarantee.
Ayooo good point
If you enjoy the big kahuna, try it with the chipotle mayo they put on the 43. I think everyone actually knows this but I still recommend it every chance I get.
Jersey Mike’s seems to be the pinnacle of sandwichsmithing these days.
Firehouse is also decent.
I will not pay 11 dollars for a sandwich ever. I have bread, i have meat and cheese… i’ll be fine
Are you in the US? If you are I hate to break it to you, but the cost of meat(yes cold cuts) alone will put you at close to $10. Cheese is right behind that.
I pay about 3.50 a lb for turkey at costco. Another 3 a lb for cheese and a 3 dollar loaf of bread from a local bakery will make me about 6-10 sandwiches. I also use slices of onions which I always have around to cook with dinner. Maybe some lettuce and mayo… still talking like 4 bucks a sando
