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Old 04-11-2024, 2:10pm   #41
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I'm not eating any pizza that comes with cute names. Did you get a soy latte to wash it down?
If GSC3 still had his balls, I would have to say you just emasculated him. If not with this post, the previous one mentioning his appliance affecting his choice of toppings was pretty lethal.

Well stated!
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Tacos, thank to fjbeconomics, are now like $35/each.


Took wifey to Stacks Pancake House today. A stack of 4 ordinary buttermilk pancakes is now more than $10.
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Took wifey to Stacks Pancake House today. A stack of 4 ordinary buttermilk pancakes is now more than $10.
Down here, broward county, min wage is $12.00, you cannot get a fast food lunch for under $12.00, same meal 3 years ago was under $8.00.

Any table service lunch will run you $20.00 including taxes and tip.

This will not slow, nor end, as labor costs and benefits costs will continue to be key factor for inflation.
Not a single restaurant or retailer has a reason to keep pricing steady while their competition raises pricing.
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Charred, not burnt.


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Charred food is food that is partially burned.
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Down here, broward county, min wage is $12.00, you cannot get a fast food lunch for under $12.00, same meal 3 years ago was under $8.00.

Any table service lunch will run you $20.00 including taxes and tip.

This will not slow, nor end, as labor costs and benefits costs will continue to be key factor for inflation.
Not a single restaurant or retailer has a reason to keep pricing steady while their competition raises pricing.

Here's the way I look at it. The federal government made it profitable to offshore many US industries, taking those jobs with them. Thanks to the Department of Education, today's children are graduating high school barely able to read or do math. Put the two together and you have a situation where people are now trying to make careers out of working at fast food restaurants. What else are they going to do? Even if there were jobs out there, today's youth certainly aren't qualified for them.

So you have people approaching thirty years of age, with mountains of college debt from their BA in Underwater Transgender Basket Weaving, living in their parents basement, driving a clapped out Honda with 250,000 miles on it, who cannot survive on their own but somehow manage to have the latest in cell phone technology and neck tattoos to proudly announce their ignorance to the rest of us.

Yeah, flipping burgers is about all they have left. And, dammit, they want to make six figures for doing it.
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From a gourmet site..

https://www.bonappetit.com/story/wha...rred-and-burnt
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Bon Appetite? That magazine is written by gays for gays. Probably more Teslas in the parking lot than at the dealership. And every one of them have soy double latte stains on the seats. Building full of manbun-wearing, limp wristed, poofters writing about the joys of a bottom-friendly vegan lifestyle.
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Bon Appetite? That magazine is written by gays for gays. Probably more Teslas in the parking lot than at the dealership. And every one of them have soy double latte stains on the seats. Building full of manbun-wearing, limp wristed, poofters writing about the joys of a bottom-friendly vegan lifestyle.
People obsessed with homosexuality are often closet homos.
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People obsessed with homosexuality are often closet homos.
I will have to bow before your superior knowledge about that considering that you are a Tesla owner, and I am admittedly not. Everything I know about gays I learned from the Biden's bringing "decency" back into the White House. Apparently, "decency" requires a whole lot of KY jelly.
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I will have to bow before your superior knowledge about that considering that you are a Tesla owner, and I am admittedly not. Everything I know about gays I learned from the Biden's bringing "decency" back into the White House. Apparently, "decency" requires a whole lot of KY jelly.
I'm as gay as fellow Tesla driver Tom Brady.
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I'm as gay as fellow Tesla driver Tom Brady.
Wow, I had no idea he was gay.
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Down here, broward county, min wage is $12.00, you cannot get a fast food lunch for under $12.00, same meal 3 years ago was under $8.00.

Any table service lunch will run you $20.00 including taxes and tip.

This will not slow, nor end, as labor costs and benefits costs will continue to be key factor for inflation.
Not a single restaurant or retailer has a reason to keep pricing steady while their competition raises pricing.
Inflation is mostly caused by the government controlling (expanding) the money supply.

Rising prices (in this case) are a reaction to the government-caused inflation.
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Old 04-11-2024, 6:10pm   #55
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Down here, broward county, min wage is $12.00, you cannot get a fast food lunch for under $12.00, same meal 3 years ago was under $8.00.

Any table service lunch will run you $20.00 including taxes and tip.

This will not slow, nor end, as labor costs and benefits costs will continue to be key factor for inflation.
Not a single restaurant or retailer has a reason to keep pricing steady while their competition raises pricing.
Florida Min wage for tipped employees are $8.98
for students $4.25
for small businesses with sales under $110k $4.00
for agricultural $7.25
for government and non profit employees exempt

Lots of places still have pretty decent specials. Mc D's has sandwich, fries and drink for $6.49 and I don't think they ask for a tip at the register.
I've seen several driving by with signs advertising $15 to start.

I can see a lot going down in the next few years. With rents rising as they are, these places are in a tough spot.
How long will they last with $6 black coffee and $7 iced tea?

Same with all the apartments/condos going up, everywhere, will be interesting.
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If anyone is ever in Alpharetta Ga, Go to Joe's Italian off Mansell road. Best pizza and calzones in Ga.
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Wow, I had no idea he was gay.
He is a Tesla owner and therefore he must be gay.
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Wow, I had no idea he was gay.
And yet somehow with his flaccid balls I'm not surprised.
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Took wifey to Stacks Pancake House today. A stack of 4 ordinary buttermilk pancakes is now more than $10.



Maybe you can go dutch next time baller.
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