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Lol that’s insane. I could eat a year for some of those prices

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I’m gonna guess you meant a month

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Nah I could eat a year off $400. It’d suck but a jar of peanut butter and a loaf of bread can go about a week.

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I’ve eaten on about that before, but decades ago when food was cheaper. Nothing is satisfying, you are hungry all the time, constantly craving some nutrition you no longer even know how to acquire or what it is, but it’s absent from everything you eat.

Peanut butter and bread was too expensive. Peanut butter was a treat. Bread from bakery surplus cost two to three times as much as rice. For your example, at $400 a year you’re looking at $8 a week. If a jar of peanut butter is $3 and has 4800 kCal in it and bread is $1 a loaf and has 24 60kCal slices in it, then a jar of peanut butter and 5 loaves of bread a week only gets you 12000 kCal a week, which isn’t enough for a moderately active adult. And you’re going to be missing out on all sorts of nutrition.

At the time the best things to buy were eggs, beans, rice, and processed dry foods. Then you buy things that make eating them bearable and are also cheap in combination: whole or powdered milk to eat cereals, raw sugar, fat to cook into things, very cheap meats, cheese when it was cheap, and processed frozen foods that are similar in price to their constituents, which at the time were common because they are a way of storing food from a production season to sell in an off season. Then you get a few things to try to stave off cravings, like some long-term storage plastic-packed cuts of meat, or canned vegetables, or concentrated frozen fruit. At a low budget a can of food represents everything you get to eat for a day, or more. Fresh vegetables or fruit were completely unobtainable unless there’s a local surplus.

Now the structure of food markets is different and everything is priced based only on demand and not on supply, so frozen processed foods that were available then due to the product being made to take surplus or trimmings and then store them are now priced based on demand for the product. The only things that have stayed similar are the prices for eggs (usually), the cheapest meats (sometimes), staples (usually), and canned foods which are priced based on the cost of transportation and are still routinely too high for such a low budget.

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It is pretty shocking how much food five lbs each of beans and rice make. Cost, about $5. Super boring but hey

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That really depends on where they’re living

And also how you define survive

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Costco sells a survival bucket with 150 meals for $60. Add some rice and beans and good for a year.

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Hmmm yeah I think I had a bit of a math failure haha. A month is a bit more reasonable unless I wanna eat the bare minimum

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Or you can spend more on a Friday night in a pub in London just on beers alone.

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I can’t see the price of the empanada duo.

Is it $5?

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It looks like $56.

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I would be surprised if it’s less than $100

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$350

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Are those US dollars?!

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Yes or it might be pounds of magical pixie dust.

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Lol if you zoom in there is clearly something weird going on with the numbers. I would believe 0s were added to the prices. Even without the 0 at the end the prices would still be absurd but this is way too expensive to be believable. If it is real just burn the whole place down

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Alright I’m gonna be the dude who replies to myself but I did some research and these prices are probably real. What’s crazy is they appear to be significantly lower than last years prices. Another important thing is that the formal menus mention the dishes being sized to serve 4 people. That makes it slightly more okay but also still ridiculous. This has to be inside the paddock or VIP areas though as I dont think they would even offer caviar to the peasants in the general admission.

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It’s the hard rock vip area, it is indeed not the peasantry. The people in this area don’t even ball at these prices because they don’t care about price tags, whatever it is they’ve got it.

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You can order those Bundt cakes from Mo for $7.

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I zoomed in and stared at the numbers for quite a while… What’s weird about them? The only thing I can see are compression artifacts around them, but that’d be totally expected

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Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

Maybe Mr. Krabs is doing the prices

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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and here is an Invideous link!

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The people that go there don’t believe in price gouging. That’s why there’s price gouging.

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The people that go there don’t want to see the poor.

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