It doesn’t matter what food you eat, it’s still too good for you. How long until the articles about “splurging” on instant ramen come out?
this post was submitted on 16 Feb 2026
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Stop buying (checks notes) food!! 🥑😤
You can afford instant ramen?!
For $5 I could get a 3 ish pound bird, eat good for two days and boil whatever I don't eat with a $1 bag of mirapoux and salt, and have the best rice you've ever had for a fucking week! So assuming generously the rice cost $1.5, then I am making essentially 7 or more meals for $7.50.
But yeah, we splurging....
In five years when its even more dire WSJ will be posting about how millenials are splurging on sliced bread and milk.
If Gen Alpha would just be happy with water they could own a home!
Hoarding all their functional kidneys instead of buying a starter home for eight million dollars.
Apparently in the full context, this is in reference to some upscale grocery stores with an overpriced $30 "luxury" rotisserie chicken meal.
Not that this makes it much better. First, this seems like a small splurge compared to going to literally any restaurant for more than two people. Second, I had never heard of it before this article went viral and neither has anybody else I've seen in the comments... So this cannot be very common.
My conclusion is that this article is not for us. It's for rich people to help them feel less guilty about everyone complaining about their lives getting worse.
Yellow rice, beans, veggies and shredded rotisserie chicken. Meals for days.
Whats next... splurging on ramen, spaghetti, and hotdogs?
What a way to live
That doesn't account for the time value of money. The reality is even worse because the price of the house is continuing to increase as you push the purchase off into the future. (I haven't done the math, but it could very well be increasing faster than $5 day, so in reality foregoing the rotisserie chicken doesn't make you make progress at all, but only fall behind slower.)
If you buy a rotisserie chicken, a seven layer dip and some tortillas all you have to do is make rice and you have enough food for a family or a single person for a couple days for cheap.
Splurging? They're like $8 and can feed a family of 4.
If you're writing stories like this do us all a favor and just burn yourself alive.
If they were interested in doing favors for humanity, they wouldn’t be working at WSJ
splurging on rotisserie chicken
You mean those cheap chickens they sell at grocery stores that can feed you for days?
and gut-healthy juices
so they don't have to have healthcare. Don't forget that this is owned by Murdoch, a truly evil shit stain.
Costco rotisserie chicken is to die for. I mean, literally. Motherfuckers waiting in line for that shit and don't you dare walk in front of the line when they start putting them in the case, you'll get killed.
isn't this the free pastrami for jewish people guy?
“I’ve been eating Rotisserie Chickens at Costco everyday, one a day, for the last 25 years. It all started when Costco came to New York in the 90s, the first one was in Staten Island.”
But then he goes off the deep end about “LED light poisoning”
https://oldjewishmen.substack.com/p/the-story-behind-the-viral-costco
Filled with chlorine
The other other white meat.
Baby!
Who let Justin Bieber in?
I was thinking more Fat Bastard, but text isn’t great for conveying Scottish accents in general, let alone the single word response.
Look at this fancy rice they're eating.
Walmart and Sam's near me have started rationing theit rotisserie chickens, they only make a certain number per day and when they are gone they don't make any more.
People often think of Sam's Club and Costco as sort of equivalent, but they're not and that kind of thing is one of the reasons why.
The rotisserie is just to get you in the door. They sell it at a loss, but know you're going to buy a bunch of stuff once you get there. I guess ppl are now just going in to buy 1 or 2, 50lbs bags of rice and beans and dipping out.
Stupid Millennials! You're supposed to magically develop bodies which survive off instant noodles and works until it's 70! /s
You mean the chicken that's $7.99 CAD, that feeds a single person 5-6 meals before taking the carcass / left over bits and making a soup out of it that feeds me for even more days at the cost of only rice and veggies?
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Presumably "a house costs more than a chicken."
"Man, however, is not a being whose exclusive purpose in life is eating, drinking, and providing a shelter for himself. As soon as his material wants are satisfied, other needs, of an artistic character, will thrust themselves forward the more ardently. However, if there's some rotisserie chicken available, you absolutely should grab that immediately, because that's a rare treat."
- Peter Kropotkin: The Conquest of Bread, ch. 9
" Man shall not live by bread alone, but if you grab some of that damn good rotisserie chicken, mm-mmm, that's some good stuff." Jesus, Matthew 4:4
these articles are just trolling at this point with these kinds of headlines...
Oh, you fuckers!!
Is this why I can't get any rotisserie chickens at Market Basket anymore?
FUCK!!
LOL!
(I recently discovered avocado toast.. it's quite nice! Job well done.)