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To be fair, avocado toast is an actual scam and can be made home for cheap, while rotisserie chicken is legitimately expensive rn no matter how you get it.
But also, it's still a lie. None of us that aren't rich douchebags are "splurging" on food ๐
In what universe is rotisserie chicken expensive? Like, unless you exclusively eat grains, potatoes, carrots and beans, there's essentially nothing cheaper, chicken is by far the cheapest animal protein in most of the world.
I do exclusively eat grains, potatoes, carrots, and beans ! (and other vegetables, fruits, and legumes)
Eating even the cheapest chicken I could find at LIDL (a little over 10โฌ) would at least triple my food budget.
I think also Americans live in a different world pricing-wise, I have seen some people respond to me with some prices I didn't think existed.
So I guess the universe where it is expensive is called "Europe".
Ok, so then say "eating chicken is immoral", not "eating chicken is expensive" if you're vegetarian, and don't play dishonest arguments using price.
If you buy bell peppers in an EU supermarket they hover around the 4โฌ/kg, which is very similar to the prices of whole chicken. Rotisserie is marginally more expensive per kilo, because it's one of those convenience items that supermarkets don't sell for a profit but for convenience to attract clients. Local supermarkets such as Mercadona sell rotisserie chicken de-boned for 6โฌ-ish/kg.
This post is not about vegetarianism and its morality (which I support), it's about the literal cheapest meat being considered a luxury. 6.5โฌ per kilo for a cooked meal is literally some of the most affordable you can find, try feeding 2-3 people without cooking yourself. Do you consider strawberries (5โฌ/kg at cheapest) a luxury?
Eating chicken IS expensive ! It also happens to be immoral, but that's not relevant here. Vegan is cheaper unless you live in some sort of hellscape where only hyper-processed food is available.
It really depends where you live. Strawberries should be a luxury in places they don't grow locally ; I can't give a worldwide opinion on the price of strawberries.
Fruit in general should not be a luxury, but fruit from far away or fruit that require a lot of resources to grow should be.
I did not argue whether vegan is cheaper, I argued that chicken is not expensive. 4โฌ/kg raw and 6.5โฌ/kg cooked for European prices is not expensive food, end of the story, you really cannot honestly argue against that. If you're seriously arguing that, you should apply for a job at the Wall Street Journal, you'd be a wonderful corporate lackey and worker basher.