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Pretty sure a potato is going to cost $11 soon at this rate

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.

I believe you mean "eleven dollars dollars".

Me. I think it's outrageous 😳

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

Even worse, it is half the size it was 5 years ago.

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

If I'm going to be spending eleven dollars for a sandwimch it better be two.

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.

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

I remember when I thought $8 was steep. It wasn't even that long ago.

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.

This is definitely big city language. 11$ is an expensive sandwich.

$²11

No, “dollars eleven dollars”.

Are you suggesting that it was not foolish to pay $13.50 for that sandwich?

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.

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.

Jersey Mike’s seems to be the pinnacle of sandwichsmithing these days.