Comment on $37 for a burrito

GrabtharsHammer@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  make that about a 2 dollar super burrito.

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• db2@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  And it’s probably awesome too.

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• thenextguy@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s interesting because there was a recent episode of Rob Words where he shows that $ came from the original symbol for the peso. And that the dollar was essentially the same as the peso initially.

  youtu.be/5Bf4ll1vuWw

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  • exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If you ever read about the pirate age in the Caribbean, they sometimes talk or “pieces of eight,” aka “pesos,” which are 1/8 of a Spanish Real (the dominant world reserve currency at the time).

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• frog@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Cool TIL. Thanks. I assumed these were Coachella prices.

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