Poor guy's so broke that he ran out of money for color.
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And a final panel!
And the last one isn't even full size. Is there nothing shrinkflation won't take from us?
I read some article about how subway franchise owners HATED $5 footlong because it was making them go broke. You could tell if you went in there by how aggressively they pushed the cookie on you.
Just the sandwich? You don’t want a cookie? Come on buy a cookie! How about a soda?
My subway was generous, and wrapped up a piece of their food safety glove with my sandwich. They wouldn't refund me, so I decided to be generous as well, and not ever go back to any locations.
The lack of toppings they put on those things made them worth far less than $5. 2 slices of meat and cheese and a bunch of lettuce? I can make a better sub for cheaper than that with stuff from the grocery store.
If you're tight on cash and getting fast food, I have doubts about how tight on cash you actually are
If you run out of people to judge, remember: you can always judge the destitute!
St. Luigi of Baltimore, forgive us our sins, deliver us from the greed of the wicked...
Cooking unfortunately isn't really taught anymore. As someone who graduated and knew nothing about how to even do basic cooking, like didn't know how to make pasta basic, I was basically in that spot. Luckily I found cooking videos and learned, but right after school it was a hard few years. If it wasn't peanut butter, top ramen, or Mac and cheese I didn't know how to make it - and it was incredibly intimidating
Cooking videos are probably the most prolific type on the internet after cat videos. But even then, peanut butter, ramen, or mac and cheese would be a lot smarter than spending your last fiver on a single sandwich.
You forgot about porn
I did mention cat / pussy videos :P
Also, it’s really hard to cook for one. I end up spending as much on food that goes bad before I can eat it as it would have cost me to get a $5 value meal.
Agreed. Amortized it much cheaper but when you have an empty kitchen with only a box of macaroni and cheese, getting groceries can feel very expensive.
There are cheap, single serving meals, such as:
- baked potato - extra lazy version is 6 min in the microwave, add toppings
- oatmeal - overnight oats, microwave (3 min, water shouldn't quite cover oats), etc
- sandwiches - lots of options; freeze extra bread and cheese
- eggs - scrambled, fried, boiled; eggs last weeks
I got through college cooking stuff like this. It was cheap, quick to make small portions, and didn't require many seasonings. I lived on sleek something like $45-50/month, which covered the vast majority of my meals.
It primarily requires planning your meals ahead. If you don't mind left overs it's even easier. If you eat meat, properly portioning it and freezing the excess simplifies it. Planning multiple meals a week that use the same or similar ingredients saves a bunch and prevents waste.
I know how to cook, but it's hard with 2 kids, and we both work A LOT all week. Weekends we are almost always busy as well, so meal prep and cooking most days is hard. I try to do simple stuff, but it's hard, and I know I can't be the only one. Plus, I consider this guy lucky since let me check my bank account right now, and oh, it's currently negative $300 until next friday... life is super hard these days, do what you can...
I made apple pie from scratch last weekend for the first time. Best feeling ever.
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Damn straight. I could feed myself for a day on $5 easy.
I could even stretch it to a weeks worth of meals, if shoplifting is allowed.
If shoplifting is allowed, you could go indefinitely...
They usually have a coupon code for $7.99 for any footlong, which isn't too bad.
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