Back in my day a beefy five layer was 89 cents. I could walk into a tacobell with 2 dollars and walk out full with some change
My family has sworn off Subway after 3 footlongs and chips cost us FORTY-FIVE FUCKING DOLLARS recently. I can make sandwiches at home, assholes.
While they pay their employees absolutely nothing. Where the hell is the money going, because it’s certainly not going into quality ingredients.
A few years ago when I had to get a gym mat for my daughter, it was cheaper to cobble it together myself from twenty $5 footlongs. Nowadays I’m better off buying an actual gym mat!
Shareholder profits/401ks.
That’s EVERY major chain. They all deserve to burn in the hottest pits of hell now.
Fuck capitalism is the ideology of the heartless swarm…
Now the average Taco Bell outing is $10-12 for me. And that’s if I only order the value menu stuff. It’s considerably cheaper than any other fast food option, but still too expensive.
Those damn security cameras
But you’d be hungry again in an hour after it went right through you.
I don’t think that part has changed.
I think you are thinking of Chinese food. Taco Bell sticks with you for a bit. Or at least it used to.
Or it will give you a malaise feeling, preventing you from eating the rest of the day.
Tacobell makes zero sense. Like a Gordita Crunch is $6 by itself, but I can get a box with one, including a taco, burrito, and a side, with a drink for $7.
The Gordita should be like $3-$4 at most. It used to be a double decker taco was like $1.99 and a normal taco was like $1.69, so why buy a taco.
Bundling is a form of price discrimination.
The anti-soda people deserve to pay more because they hate America
I officially can’t tell when people are being serious or sarcastic!
get a box with one, including a taco, burrito, and a side, with a drink for $7.
I do NOT understand the boxes, but I appreciate them.
My local store even offers cheesy/sour cream potatoes as the side.
I can buy in bulk and make it a bit cheaper. But I’d have to make a week’s worth, and I still can’t quite nail their pita bread.
Jack in the Box’s Munchie Meals also do this. Like a regular ultimate cheese burger combo is $15 now, but the boxed meal that comes with the same combo AND two tacos is only $12.
“First they took the Baja sauce away and I did nothing”
I was very unhappy when they discontinued Baja Gordita/Chalupa Supremes. They were the superior flavor.
I was very upset when they got rid of Verde sauce. But then they replaced it with a better one that has avocado in it so I stopped caring. Just wish they didn’t charge 25¢ each for it…
You can buy the Verde sauce in grocery stores.
For me, none of their grocery store sauces taste like they do on the items from the drive thru. I don’t think they’re the same sauces, honestly.
Yeah but like I said I like the avocado sauce better now
The $20 dollar bill is the new $5 dollar bill.
1982
Grand Master Flash - The Message
"…You’ll admire all the number-book takers
Thugs, pimps and pushers and the big money-makers
Driving big cars, spending twenties and tens
And you wanna grow up to be just like themDon’t push us cause we’re close to the edge…
Yo back in 1982, rappers bragged about driving big cars and spending 10 dollar bills.
$10
50 is the new 20.
As in, today’s 50-year-olds can afford the lifestyle 20-year-olds could afford a couple generations ago.
Thanks to credit cards.
I’ve been keeping track of my own “Taco Bell Index” since tacos were 59¢.
Same but with the Dorito shell.
“You can take my freedom, but you will never take MY GORDITAAAA!!!”
By all means vote, but if you don’t want Taco Bell charging that much then stop buying at that price. You are also voting with your wallet. I don’t understand people complaining about how the prices of things are unacceptable while they demonstratively do accept them.
That idea only works if there are cheaper options available or going without is possible. If there’s no place to get cheaper food you still have to eat. In my experience food is expensive everywhere.
Fast food should be the first thing you drop, it’s honestly sad that these companies aren’t dying out as their prices match actual restaurant price, for way worse quality (sometimes)
Yeah I mean once they match actual restaurant pricing I stopped going to them in favor of getting much better quality restaurant food instead when choosing to eat out. It’s the easy answer if your going to be spending that kind of cash either way.
People who don’t have a lot of money tend also not to have time to cook delicious meals for themselves.
Fast food isn’t cheap, I could go out and get 1 meal for 15 - 20$, or i could buy a bunch of lunch meats, rice, beans, and noodles and live off that for a week to 2.
Can be delicious, probably better than MickieD’s, but damn do you u get a lot of it for your dollar.
Sit down restaurants might just be SysCo wrappers these days, though.
Fast food people are addicts. Addicts cannot be reasoned with.
So like… don’t eat?
Like eat groceries
Because the prices of those don’t go up? By your logic, people shouldn’t buy anything that costs more than it used to.
Do you purposefully misinterpret one comment and then do the same when someone answers your question?
What is there to misinterpret?
if you don’t want Taco Bell charging that much then stop buying at that price. You are also voting with your wallet. I don’t understand people complaining about how the prices of things are unacceptable while they demonstratively do accept them
The comment I am responding to states that inflation is caused by consumers’ choice to keep buying. Thus, if one doesn’t want food to be expensive, one should not buy food, problem solved. What am I misunderstanding? Can you explain how can I make food cheaper by not buying it?
Second question. What happens after I voted with my wallet and now taco bell is cheaper again? Can I buy it then? Or will that make it expensive again?
So Taco Bell has a monopoly on food, yeah?
Are we 3 levels deep of you doing this on purpose now, or are you serious?
I’m serious that I find the comment extremely stupid. Like Taco Bell is the cheapest fucking trash that can be called fast food, and we’re pretending it’s people’s fault that it’s getting unaffordable? Is Taco Bell the new avocado toast?
My grocery bill for good, fresh food, nothing processed, is $80/week. Just over 10 bucks a day. That’s for everything I eat in one week, except tap water.
People get so triggered when you don’t do things like waste money on chips and soda or other nutritionally void items. Yet that’s where so many American’s grocery bills are bloated
Good for you. Still, food prices, including groceries, increased by unusually large amounts multiple times in the past 5 years. I don’t think the only problem with food affordability is the lifestyle of people who are not you. You are kind of suggesting that only restaurants are expensive, and groceries aren’t, which is simply not true.
In 2020, food prices increased 3.4 percent, including prices for food at home (3.5-percent increase) and food away from home (3.4-percent increase).
In 2022, food prices increased by 9.9 percent, faster than in any year since 1979. Food-at-home prices increased by 11.4 percent. Food-away-from-home prices increased by 7.7 percent.
In 2023, food-at-home prices increased by 5.0 percent. Food-away-from-home prices increased by 7.1 percent.
Food-at-home prices increased by 1.2 percent in 2024 and 2.3 percent in 2025, lower than their historical average pace of growth (2.6 percent per year). Food-away-from-home prices rose by 4.1 percent in 2024 and 3.8 percent in 2025, still faster than their historical average (3.5 percent per year).
In 2026, prices for all food are forecast to increase 2.9 percent, with a forecast interval of 2.5 to 3.2 percent. Food-away-from-home prices are forecast to increase 3.5 percent, with a forecast interval of 3.3 to 3.8 percent. Food-at-home prices are forecast to increase 2.4 percent, with a forecast interval of 1.8 to 3.0 percent.
https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-price-outlook/summary-findings
No, because it’s always cheaper than eating out.
My bad I forgot Taco Bell is the only option for food
in the 2000’s kebab was 2,50€. Now it’s 8,50€ and cheap disgusting meat.
8.50€ for the most basic version, without fries or drink. Fuck a kapsalon is like 15€ now in NL.
It doesn’t matter if it’s cheap or expensive meat they both feel the same when I fuck it.
But surely you eat it after you add your homemade sauce
The cheap disgusting meat situation is really the worst part of it all.
Better than nothing, but just barely. The general election is past the point at which you can choose the progressive candidate. If you’re able to choose between a progressive and a fascist in the general, congrats, you’re in an area where progressives have been able to get enough support.
If your choice is between an establishment centrist and a fascist, yeah, please vote for the non-fascist, but your support to get a progessive on the ballot might’ve been fucking nice to have, yeah?
VOTE BLUE as the only option against fascism, but if you’re only voting in the general election, you are supporting fascism. Vote in the primary. Give your support outside of voting - canvassing, protesting, even standing up for progressivism online - whatever you can do.
Meanwhile in France…
France doesn’t have a large population of the country jerking off their gun and ammo collection every night praying for a chance to use it.
The same population that was out shooting people during BLM protests are the same ones opposing action now.
You guys need to start shooting back.
Guess what? The same laws apply to you. What does the 2nd amendment say again?
I’m blown away at how fast food companies are still operating with these prices. At that price point I can get an awesome meal with better quality.
We need voting snacks. Australia has a voting hotdog as well as pastries with goofy puns (it’s also a holiday, but that’s not the point I’m making rn).
If we want people to vote then we need to spike their blood sugar Every Time and make a goddamned tradition out of the thing. Give me a voting hot dog, a voting knish, a voting donut. I’d look forward to it every two years.
I would not be able to contain my rage if somebody said this in front of me
Average Treatlerite.
- Good
- Cheap
- Fast
Choose 2.
lmao, most fast food chains are none of that
Fast food as in “you’ll be fasting without food.”
A meal at a similar restaurant will usually cost much more and in more time.
This was not directed at the consumer but the company.
Taco Bell, et. al have lost the formula they’re trying to do good and fast but not cheap. They forgot who they are.
Considering how cheap stp is in surprised more fast food isn’t putting it to bump up their meat that would drastically cut down cost without a huge noticeable difference specifically with the taco bell beef.
People are agree because it’s no longer cheap but the price doesn’t warrant what you’re getting cause it’s still fast food lol
With food, choose 1.
