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Does nobody here find it a bit insane that 11 dollars is seen as an acceptable price for a sandwich these days?
I believe you mean “eleven dollars dollars”.
You mean “dollars eleven dollars”.
Me. I think it’s outrageous 😳
Even worse, it is half the size it was 5 years ago.
it’s not even a foot long
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 $6-8
Going to a sit down restaurant for a sandwich is very suspicious behavior. Like going to a bar and ordering a glass of milk.
Yeah same in the EU, every local sub place will be €5 at most
That sounds like a dream to me in Germany. Subway for two was around 20€ last year and the average Döner is at least 7-8€, though in my area it’s closer to 10€
If you’re eating at Subway you’re doing it wrong
That’s why my last price point is last year
With or without drinks, and footlong or half-footlong? Been a while since I’ve been to subway, but I’d be very surprised to learn that the cheaper half-footlongs are already at 10€ (assuming your area’s taxes, wages and raw material prices are similar to mine, which is not a given). IMO the footlongs are too big to count as “one sandwich”.
Without drinks and foot long. Even if I don’t finish it in one sitting, I’ll basically always go for a bigger sandwich and have leftovers later, unless it’s something really saucy or likely to get super soggy.
Yeah, but that’s one big sandwich. 10€ for a big sandwich is different from 10€ for a normal-sized sandwich.
It’s about the size of a dürüm, at least around me. If they stuffed it really full, it might feel bigger, but subway was never even close to as full as any Döner place makes theirs. I tend to judge the size of food by my companions because I have a bird stomach (I would be happiest having three bites of food every half hour all day long, because otherwise I get really full), and I’m the only one who saves part of it for later.
Laughs in Eastern Europe’s 20$/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 I’m going to be spending eleven dollars for a sandwimch it better be two.
I remember when I thought $8 was steep. It wasn’t even that long ago.
This must be old; it’s $15 everywhere near me now.
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
$11 dollars
Eleven dollars dollars?
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This is definitely big city language. 11$ is an expensive sandwich.
No, “dollars eleven dollars”.
Must be the Dairy Queen “$5 Buck Lunch” people
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.
Reminder that if you make minimum wage in the US that sandwich cost a quarter of your daily income.
£8.36 for a sandwich? Fuck off.
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.
2 - 8€ range contains bangers
2-4€ at the butcher’s
5-8€ at the bakery
Different style, all delicious11 dollars for a sandwich? what are you putting in it? a ten dollar bill?
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.
And if you do them yourself, you can get a perfect sandwich for four dollars or less easily.
Are we talking about real bread with hard crust, or mass-produced packaged stuff?
The industrial product, not the real bread which we normally have. The packaged stuff is for sandwiches only.
Right. So I’m gonna have to call shenanigans on that $4 perfect sandwich claim.
Have you? Do you want a sandwich, or something proper? For a sandwich, four bucks is generous. If you want something with rye, sourdough, and a crispy crust, well, that is a Butterbrot, not just a sandwich.
Counterpoint: good bahn mi in SF is around 6 dollars
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.
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
Jersey Mike’s seems to be the pinnacle of sandwichsmithing these days.
Firehouse is also decent.
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.
*in America.
Divide by 4-5 for asia.
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
The nearest Costco is 20 miles from me. Walmart would be the next cheapest thing. A lb of meat there is close to $7. Then there’s Shoprite which is usually around $8-$10 a lb. They’ve been sneaking up the last few times I’ve been there. Prices around me are cooked. With a family of 5, a lb of anything that isn’t frozen is gone in 3 days.
yeesh, is the cost of living really high in general where you are? My wage is shit but at least I can (barely) afford groceries.
I’m in A Philly suburb. Philly itself is cheaper than a lot of big cities but it’s still a big city. My area is solidly middle class. Houses aren’t that bad where I live but they’re starting to average 500k for 2 stories which is insane to me. CORRECTION: My parents paid 85k for the first house we lived in back in the beginning of the 90s. They sold it for 183k. The second house we rented was $1700 a month but is up to $2600 a month. Single story 3 bed 1 bath ranchers are going for 350k which is also insane.
Oh and here’s a receipt from my shopping for today. Just the old cuts are marked.
Technically, a half pound of shitty cold cuts and a half pound of low quality cheese and a loaf of basic ass bread, they could probably 3/4 it for sandwiches if they were degenerates and added no vegetables or condiments further than the packets that they guilt saved from their last visit to Arby’s/Taco Bell.
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
