An £8 sandwich in Starbucks
Submitted 1 year ago by STRIKINGdebate2@lemmy.world to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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Porka_911@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Zacryon@feddit.de 1 year ago
No. Steal the shit out of Reddirt. Idgaf.
STRIKINGdebate2@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Who cares? Aren’t most memes posted on here coming from other places? Nothing wrong with showcasing content from across the Internet.
dangblingus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Welcome to Lemmy/Reddit. Reposts are lazy and low effort. If it didn’t happen to you, why are you posting it? You don’t even get karma on Lemmy.
Globulart@lemmy.world 1 year ago
But this is a downright lie. It costs £5.10…
FederatedSaint@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m just disappointed they didn’t do the proper conversion from USD to GBP. Should only be about £6.50!
Globulart@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And in the UK is actually costs £5.10.
This is just a lie, and people are (ironically) eating it up!
Porka_911@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Exactly. A repost is a repost but this guy just Good Will Hunting and “pawned it off as his own”.
pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Also I feel like this is a stealth ad for starbucks, because that doesn’t look half-bad, and now we’re all talking about it
STRIKINGdebate2@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That looks dogshit for £8. What are you on about?
JokeDeity@lemm.ee 1 year ago
My guy…
mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
People here arent usually on reddit. So its nice to see things crossposted here
JdW@lemmy.world 1 year ago
No, you could not be more wrong. We did not leave reddit just for the admins, we also hoped to leave low effort posts and outright lies behind, there’s no karma here so what’s even the point of OP?
Globulart@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’d just like to point out that OP is either lying or has been scammed.
Starbucks have consistent pricing and the most expensive sandwich is £5.10, technically 5.25 for a plant based breakfast item, see here for full menu prices.
But people like getting angry at cost of living right now so this will get hundreds of upvotes despite being a lie.
viralJ@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Lying. They reposted from a Reddit post that shows an eight dollar Starbucks sandwich.
ccunix@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Still a stupid price for a crap sandwich. As I said in another reply, come to France and you will get the same thing for half the price. However, it will be nice (can you beat french bread? I think not)
thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 1 year ago
£5.1 is slightly less but stil outrageous for £0.30 of food
Neon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
£0.30 of food
how cheap is food on the other side of the channel?!
Snapz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Starbucks is a union busting piece of shit organization, regardless of their piece of shit food, fuck Starbucks.
Lemonparty@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I mean you could see what was on it before you bought it, that’s on you dog. All you did was prove people will pay that much for a shit sandwich.
cedarmesa@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Starbucks offer our sincerest thank you for apologizing for and defending our shitty business practices. Present this post on your next visit for a free biscotti.
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
I’ve clearly eaten too many lunches from food vendors (including SB) inside convention centers because I expected see maybe 2 slices of ham and 1 of cheese for $8 (in 2023 money). And maybe a lettuce leaf that is probably a recycled hot coffee sleeve dyed green.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Actually, you were right. This sandwich contains 2 half slices of cheese and 4 half slices of ham.
synceDD@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You literally bought it, stfu
Sharpiemarker@feddit.de 1 year ago
Because in Starbucks, you get to look at the sandwich before you buy it… oh wait that’s not right.
synceDD@lemmy.world 1 year ago
So u buy stuff without looking at them?? HAHAHA? Nice flex bro HAHAHA
boatsnhos931@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And they served it to you on a Dixie paper plate? I call bullshit but idk why I’m even posting here because you just reposted this in pounds instead of dollars LOL
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You’re paying extra for the love they put into it.
Vex_Detrause@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Don’t forget the chit-chat and the greetings. That itself is £7.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Sandwiches are complicated. They should cost like £100!
Pratai@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Why do people still give them money?
atyaz@reddthat.com 1 year ago
I get the sentiment, but most places don’t have even halfway decent coffee shops. Everyone gives starbucks shit (rightfully so), but the fact is if you walk into a random cafe in America, it will most likely be inferior to starbucks. The level of quality in American coffee is just abysmal. And if you’re traveling, you won’t know if the cafe you take a chance on is a hidden gem (spoiler, it never is). I was in Austin one time and I found this hipster place that had great reviews on google. The interior was really nice, nice place to work, spacious, etc. The coffee tasted like dog water. It wasn’t mediocre, it was trash. I’m sure Austin has great cafes, but unless you live there how will you know? Starbucks is a consistent mediocre coffee.
Astroturfed@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Reviews are a bit of a shit show with everyone being used to Starbucks as the “standard” now. I still give the local places a shot when I travel. I find them rarely worse than Starbucks for a latte and quiet often better. Plus, you know not giving money to Starbucks and their horrible anti-union leadership…
Pratai@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I guess living in Seattle has spoiled me.
Pulptastic@midwest.social 1 year ago
The coffee may suck but the whisky is great!
Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Dont buy food in a shitty ciffee shop… lol
rem26_art@kbin.social 1 year ago
this is the kind of sandwich i make while hungover, take one bite, and then go "oh god i forgot the mayo"
favrion@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Ew, mayonnaise?
Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Reminds me of Weird Al Yankovich’s masterpiece “White and Nerdy”.
sQuirrel21@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Just slap a label on it like with artisan bread and any hipster out there will grab it up yum…
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Wow. The fyre festival sandwich at least came with a salad.
Norgur@kbin.social 1 year ago
Only if you traded it for a blanket
Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I went to Niagara falls the other day and they were selling $10 pizza slices, my wife got one. I went to the grocery store across the street, bought a large roll from the fresh baked ones. Got cheese ends and ham ends at the deli aisle, and grabbed salad cup. It cost me about $8 but I got a much better, massive sandwich compared to what my wife ate.
Alchemy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What is a cheese end? Just the end of the block of cheese that is sliced off?
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
We were at Niagara Falls earlier this year and we did the same thing. Food prices there are insane.
Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Tourist hot spots are insane. I was having a cup of coffee in a small cafe at St. Mark’s Square in Venice and it was 6.50€ for the coffee and a 12€ cover charge. Rip-off.
MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 1 year ago
This is not a sandwich.
Aceticon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Maybe they should call it “Ceci n’est pas une sandwich” and charge £12 instead.
psmgx@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The Treachery of Starbucks
MonkeRider@lemm.ee 1 year ago
This is sandwich, but not for 8$ maybe 20 cents
MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 1 year ago
No, it’s just bread and cheese and ham.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s my wife! millions of boomers laughing
JCreazy@midwest.social 1 year ago
I’ve been to a Starbucks once in my life and that was in August of 2012. I have never been back since I never plan to go back. I absolutely do not understand the appeal.
dgriffith@aussie.zone 1 year ago
It brings that consistent Seattle blandness everywhere it goes.
Neal Stephenson said it best in Snow Crash :
In olden times, you’d wander down to Mom’s Café for a bite to eat and a cup of joe, and you would feel right at home. It worked just fine if you never left your hometown. But if you went to the next town over, everyone would look up and stare at you when you came in the door, and the Blue Plate Special would be something you didn’t recognize. If you did enough traveling, you’d never feel at home anywhere.
But when a businessman from New Jersey goes to Dubuque, he knows he can walk into a McDonald’s and no one will stare at him. He can order without having to look at the menu, and the food will always taste the same. McDonald’s is Home, condensed into a three-ringed binder and xeroxed. “No surprises” is the motto of the franchise ghetto, its Good Housekeeping seal, subliminally blazoned on every sign and logo that make up the curves and grids of light that outline the Basin.
The people of America, who live in the world’s most surprising and terrible country, take comfort in that motto.
kautau@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Now I have to re-read snow crash. Such a great book.
All these beefy Caucasians with guns. Get enough of them together, looking for the America they always believed they’d grow up in, and they glom together like overcooked rice, form integral, starchy little units. With their power tools, portable generators, weapons, four-wheel-drive vehicles, and personal computers, they are like beavers hyped up on crystal meth, manic engineers without a blueprint, chewing through the wilderness, building things and abandoning them, altering the flow of mighty rivers and then moving on because the place ain’t what it used to be. The byproduct of the lifestyle is polluted rivers, greenhouse effect, spouse abuse, televangelists, and serial killers. But as long as you have that four-wheel-drive vehicle and can keep driving north, you can sustain it, keep moving just quickly enough to stay one step ahead of your own waste stream. In twenty years, ten million white people will converge on the north pole and park their bagos there. The low-grade waste heat of their thermodynamically intense lifestyle will turn the crystalline icescape pliable and treacherous. It will melt a hole through the polar icecap, and all that metal will sink to the bottom, sucking the biomass down with it.
menemen@lemmy.world 1 year ago
My main reason to go to McDonalds on a business trip is, that you can eat there on your own without looking lonely.
Delphia@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Snow Crash is one of the greatest books ever written.
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s a little game I play whenever I am abroad to go check out a chain place to see how different it is. Very anecdotal
7-11 is all over the place. Prices and what they have will vary by country.
Starbucks is consistent on high end drink items both in price and what they make.
Dunkin is pretty much the same everywhere except you can’t seem to get drip coffee in some countries.
MacDonalds is the same with maybe one local item. Kinda cool getting a beer in Germany with some French fries.
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It is consistent, has bathrooms, and they don’t bother you if you sit there for a while. I have been avoiding them but you asked and I answered.
JokeDeity@lemm.ee 1 year ago
People giving money to Starbucks only tells them they can continue to charge what they want. I’ve never been a customer because coffee gives me the shits, but I’m constantly amazed to hear what people are willing to pay for a single beverage. Most Starbucks drinkers pay what I would pay for an entire meal drink included for their one drink.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 1 year ago
FWIW most of those Starbucks drinks have more calories than your entire meal.
art@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You don’t buy Starbucks food for the value. You do it cause there’s one on the way to work/school.
samus12345@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s $9.77 in Freedom Dollars.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 year ago
This is making the $7 footlongs at Walmart seem like a super great value.
UnD3Rgr0uNDCL0wN@lemmy.world 1 year ago
My work’s cafeteria had sandwiches like that. Something like £5-6 a sandwich. People dont buy food in there now unless they’re desperate. Colleague bought chilli con carne in there the other week as he didnt have time to prepare his own food. It was like gravel
IamRoot@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Weigh it again!
Jk
falsem@kbin.social 1 year ago
The parts I like are the attention to detail on the size of the bread being perfectly rectangular, the cheese slices being perfectly equally sized, and the consistently overlapping slices of ham that span the exact length of the bread. Then that all combines to form a shitty looking sandwich. Perfectly optimized sandwich designed by accountants.
cash@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
If you lived in LA, this would be a £12 sandwich. the sandwich economy here is out of control.
Vexer77@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s twice as much cheese & ham as the ones in the U. S., which cost about the same.
amio@kbin.social 1 year ago
"Have a day." - Starbucks
Now that's something to give you a big ol' case of the fuck yous.
21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
I’m still firmly of the belief that if you’re going to be having a cold sandwich for lunch than it should’ve been in your backpack and you should expect nothing but disappointment if you have somebody else make it.
3arn0wl@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s genuinely shocking.
thorbot@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s your own damn fault for trying to get food at fucking Starbucks
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah, support a local sandwich shop.
Probably won’t be much cheaper but it’ll be ten times the quality.
scarabic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
My family ran a local sandwich shop for years. Here’s the problem.
If this is downtown, the local sandwich shop isn’t even there, in part because Starbucks helped price them out of being able to rent. Every supermarket now has a sandwich counter too, so local sandwich shops don’t do well in shopping centers either. Fast food has slightly improved their quality over the years so that’s more competitor at the low end.
You’re paying for the convenience at Starbucks and in some cases convenience is valuable. If you don’t care about time and can go out of your way to a local sandwich shop, you get better food for less.
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Coffee will be better as well. Starbucks burns their beans so they can guarantee the same “quality” flavor at every location.
rockSlayer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Not entirely true, the stores that unionized have better tasting coffee in comparison to regular sb
CluckN@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah I also heard the unionized stores don’t have bathrooms because everybody shits rainbows.
MooseLad@lemmy.world 1 year ago
How would that even make sense? They’re still getting their beans from the same source and preparing drinks in the exact same way.
Pratai@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
And even Pikes Place SB’s isn’t as good as a local cafe.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Starbucks coffee’s got nothing on $1 McDonalds coffee.
thorbot@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Truth
breadsmasher@lemmy.world 1 year ago
what’s different about pike place?
grte@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
It’s the original one.
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They charge that much because the market will bear it. 🤷🏻♂️ That’s on us consumers.
pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Speaking of mildly infuriating 😆
100@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Nobody goes to Starbucks for good coffee, they go because it’s the same everywhere. Sometimes I want to go get a great coffee somewhere they know how to pull a decent shot, and sometimes I want brownish sugarmilk.