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Re: Blue Apron's 90% Drop Makes It Third Worst U.S. IPO This Decade

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Post by heipei »

As much as I love certain aspects of the US, companies like Blue Apron just serve as a reminder of the absolutely twisted and unhealthy relationship that Americans seems to have regarding their daily meals.

I know people who eat out multiple times a week (with their spouse), every week of the year, and other people who eat out every day during lunch. I guess it's somewhat understandable if you're single and maybe even working at one of the places where they have catered lunch, but if you have a family at home and have to actually pay for restaurants yourself it's a huge item on your monthly expenses.

And that's just the economics of it. Let's not even talk about how having catered meals for nearly every occasion distances you from the act and ritual of preparing a meal together with your family, taking the time, sitting down and enjoying it.

Re: Blue Apron's 90% Drop Makes It Third Worst U.S. IPO This Decade

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Post by WJW »

dsfyu404ed wrote: post #17
jpeter wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What food has the most calories per dolar?

>What food has the most calories per dolar? For DIY food my wild guess would be butter. My somewhat educated guess for prepared food would be something off the value menu at McDonalds/Burger King/Wendys.

I thought someone measured twinkies to be the best... That was a few years ago though, we may have found something by now that's even better. (or worse, depending how you look at it)

Re: Blue Apron's 90% Drop Makes It Third Worst U.S. IPO This Decade

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Post by lordnacho »

dsfyu404ed wrote: post #17
jpeter wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What food has the most calories per dolar?

>What food has the most calories per dolar? For DIY food my wild guess would be butter. My somewhat educated guess for prepared food would be something off the value menu at McDonalds/Burger King/Wendys.

Pizza, esp with sausage on. It's basically just fat, and costs very little to buy.

A Big Mac is actually only 500 cals, a double Whopper 1100.

Pizza can end up being 6000.

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Post by mondo9000 »

jpeter wrote: post #12
ryanmercer wrote: post #4

"Company with absurdly expensive food that still requires considerable preparation gets rejected by non-tech workers". Federal minimum wage is $7.25 and median HOUSEHOLD income is around 59k so let's look at their pricing: the cheapest plan they offer is $39.96 a week for 4 servings a week ranging to $143.84 for 16 servings a week for $143.84. That means 1-day's kcals for someone on a 2k kcal diet is $25.68 to $39.96…

What food has the most calories per dolar?

Soybean oil from CostCo https://efficiencyiseverything.com/the-highest-calorie-per-d...

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Post by ryanmercer »

jpeter wrote: post #12
ryanmercer wrote: post #4

"Company with absurdly expensive food that still requires considerable preparation gets rejected by non-tech workers". Federal minimum wage is $7.25 and median HOUSEHOLD income is around 59k so let's look at their pricing: the cheapest plan they offer is $39.96 a week for 4 servings a week ranging to $143.84 for 16 servings a week for $143.84. That means 1-day's kcals for someone on a 2k kcal diet is $25.68 to $39.96…

What food has the most calories per dolar?

That's going to depend but if you mean something that isn't highly processed stuff like rice, beans, wheat, potatoes.

Check out subs like

- https://www.reddit.com/r/EatCheapAndHealthy/

- https://www.reddit.com/r/7dollardinners/

- https://www.reddit.com/r/EatCheapAndVegan/

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Post by ken »

dsfyu404ed wrote: post #17
jpeter wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What food has the most calories per dolar?

>What food has the most calories per dolar? For DIY food my wild guess would be butter. My somewhat educated guess for prepared food would be something off the value menu at McDonalds/Burger King/Wendys.

My first guess would have been rice. Rice is super cheap. According to [1], it's oils and flours, followed closely by rice and sugar.

Butter is around $5/lb for 32 x 100-Kcal servings, so it's only around 640 Kcal/$. That would put it pretty far down the list, below milk and eggs, and on par with lentils.

[1]: https://efficiencyiseverything.com/the-highest-calorie-per-d...

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