71–80 of 356 posts
This map needs to be scaled by rent cost/sqft for commercial real estate in the county. Otherwise, the results are really just a pass-thru of rent in the burrito price.
Since when does San Diego have cheaper real estate than Wyoming?
Wow. Most of these are really close together. The US clearly eats way too much fast food.
Not sure if you've been to the USA but it's not like many Americans have a choice. As an American from a smaller town it's something that depresses me a great deal. Basically every restaurant is an instance of a chain. Outside of the cities it's rare to find an original small business. Especially because the only place to get food is sometimes a parking lot "food court" or mall, and I guess only the franchisers can a…
A small minority of Americans live so remote (either in blighted urban or rural areas) that they don’t have a choice in cooking.
They are missing the Seattle Lower Queen Anne Taco Bell/KFC combo store that is known to be the most expensive Taco Bell in the nation. https://locations.tacobell.com/wa/seattle/210-w--mercer-st-.... Anyways, you hear horror pricing stories about this one store.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Framing it as "being picky" is really not helpful. As somebody on the spectrum, my (fortunately very few) food sensitivities aren't a mere matter of preference... they're the result of me experiencing visceral, nauseating revulsion at specific tastes/textures/smells. If it's the only option, I will absolutely skip a meal entirely rather than deal with it. I would probably have to be at the point of literally (not fig…
Not giving them junk food doesn't equate to ignoring food sensitivities. If someone is tolerating chicken nuggets, there's a whole host of healthier food with similar textures, tastes and smells.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not sure if you've been to the USA but it's not like many Americans have a choice. As an American from a smaller town it's something that depresses me a great deal. Basically every restaurant is an instance of a chain. Outside of the cities it's rare to find an original small business. Especially because the only place to get food is sometimes a parking lot "food court" or mall, and I guess only the franchisers can a…
We have long had access to unlimited recipes and YouTube videos showing how to cook quick, easy, tasty meals. And we have online shopping. A small minority of Americans live so remote (either in blighted urban or rural areas) that they don’t have a choice in cooking.
I'm curious if you think it's because Americans are too lazy or undisciplined or stupid or something to find and cook food? Is it hard to believe there's structural issues making it harder there than in other places? I mean even if you just open a map the geographical obstacle should be pretty apparent... It's an enormous country.
This map needs to be scaled by rent cost/sqft for commercial real estate in the county. Otherwise, the results are really just a pass-thru of rent in the burrito price.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you want to know the burrito price, you open the app/website and look at the burrito price... you don't go to a "Taconomics" website comparing taco prices across a continent. As it stands, there are a number of uncontrolled variables that mean this is not an effective analysis of "How economical is your local Taco Bell?"
Yah but if you want to click around on a neat lil web page this is great.
- For comparisons to cost-of-living, see "Big Macs and the Cost of Living Crisis" (abc.net.au) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41169538
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Idk, I'm getting a $6 combo with a drink and 3 items filled with potatoes, beans, cheese, tomatoes, lettuce, sour cream in one of the most expensive metros in the US. Not too bad.
That's not bad if you don't remember ordering those same items off of the 99¢ menu for the first ten years of your adult life