I can’t pinpoint exactly why, but this image feels AI generated to me. It’s like the typography and formatting is both paradoxically too professional and too sloppy in a combination you’d never see in real life.
$37 for a burrito
Submitted 15 hours ago by SanderZeldenthuis@nord.pub to [deleted]
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sheridan@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours ago
It’s the overly perfect chalkboard style lettering. It’s like it’s rounded sans serif but hand written in a way that’s too even.
obvs@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Yeah, the U.S. stole the “$” from Spain, but, for example, Mexico actually inherited its use from Spain.
A menu having “$” doesn’t necessarily mean the prices are in U.S. Dollars.
mastertigurius@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
People claim that Norway is expensive, but I have to object. Food prices in the US are shocking, and then you get the added shock of sales tax and obligatory tips at the end of the meal. I find it less stressful to eat out in Norway than in the US, even though the food and service here can often be disappointing.
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 14 hours ago
People above said this is probably just using the $ for pesos, which would make this about $2USD.
As for US food prices, it varies a lot depending on where you are. Where I live, fast food meals are usually $7-10 and nicer sit down restaurants are $10-20.
I visited Norway about 10 years ago, at the time the food there was more expensive for a lot less food. The drinks weren’t unlimited refills either. Beautiful countryside though.
pumpupthejam@piefed.social 12 hours ago
No unlimited refills? Pathetic. Cancelling my vacation and questioning whether or not Norway is a developed nation.
FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Part of the expense is the size of the meal. It’s not uncommon for a sit down restaurant to offer up an entire day’s worth of calories on one plate. At one of our local places I ordered clams and pasta. When it was delivered I knew this had started out as a full pound of dry pasta. 1600 calories before figuring in sauce. And don’t forget the unlimited sugar refills on that soda. Would you like an appetizer or dessert?
OwOarchist@pawb.social 14 hours ago
Food prices in the US are shocking
This isn’t in the US, though. This is (probably) Mexico.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 13 hours ago
How would you tell? This sign looks exactly the same as the deli in the mexican grocery store a few blocks away from me (I’m in California).
treadful@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
But is it the size of a toddler?
mangaskahn@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Well, it’s roughly the size of a two-year old child, if the child were liquefied. It’s a real bargain!
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I want only organic toddlers in my burrito!
Amro@piefed.social 11 hours ago
A man of the cloth isn’t cheap, of course
NONE_dc@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Chale ¿y que hace? ¿Vuela o qué?
SanderZeldenthuis@nord.pub 15 hours ago
no vuela pero te abre el chongo del culo
NONE_dc@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Lo debieron llamar “Burrito Roberto”
GrabtharsHammer@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Menus in Mexico use the $ as an abbreviation for peso, which would make that about a 2 dollar burrito.
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 minutes ago
db2@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
And it’s probably awesome too.
thenextguy@lemmy.world 13 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
exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 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).
frog@feddit.uk 10 hours ago
Cool TIL. Thanks. I assumed these were Coachella prices.