Looking at the amount of food you guys get for less than €5 makes me a bit angry lol

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Oh god it’s so bad, I’m about to apply for a job on campus and I really hope to get the job just so I can get back to eat at the campus restorant again!

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Food in Zurich can be so goddamned expensive. I spent the last few days of a trip there. Beautiful city, fantastic transportation, honestly, not a horrifically expensive hotel, but the food was brutal. We ended up doing a lot of snacking from the co-op supermarket.

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Sounds like the opposite of visiting Japan, where travel and lodging are expensive but amazing food can be had for under ¥1000.

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Glad to finally see something without a soft drink included - I like the soup much more.

What are those fried bits? They kinda look like small Gnocchi or something similar.

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I see 2 soft drinks there

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A soft drink is any water-based flavored drink [Wikipedia]

Water isn’t flavored and soup isn’t a drink.

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I thought the brown stuff was the soup

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Also, I checked Wikipedia and it includes water and says what I did about alcohol

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Is that soup? I thought it was orange juice.

I’ve always heard soft drink as the opposite of a hard drink, like one that has alcohol in it

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What are those fried bits? They kinda look like small Gnocchi or something similar.

Should be “Knöpfli”. Gnocchi are primarily made from potatoes or potato flour, sometimes combined with wheat flour and egg, Knöpfle/Knöpfli are more similar to the swabian Spätzle and common in Switzerland, it’s made from eggs, flour and water or milk.

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Aint Swiss wage is like double EU avg

This seems about double Germany we saw.

So kinda checks out?

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Don’t forget the lower taxes in Switzerland… So it is about equal :D

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That is ridiculously small for the price. Is it meant to make a profit or something?

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Yes probably is for profit as it is catered by migros, one of the largest supermarket chains here. Some floors in the office have some discount (11chf instead of 14), so maybe those companies pay migros to allow their employees get cheaper meals.

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In my experience that’s a pretty normal price, everything here (and especially food) is just super expensive.

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Welp. Guess I’m never visiting Switzerland so. That is a sad looking meal for 15 euros.

Out of interest, what’s the damage for a medium Big Mac meal there?

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Last I checked, a small Big Mac menu is somewhere around 12.50, I don’t think they offer a medium version.

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